All Bill Bryson Quotes
- It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a… Alive
- There seemed to be a mystifying universal conspiracy among textbook authors to make certain the material they dealt with never strayed too near the realm… Among
- If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea of what popular… Anesthetic
- Life just wants to be; but it doesn't want to be much. Funny
- It was the kind of pure, undiffused light that can only come from a really hot blue sky, the kind that makes even a concrete… All
- A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would… Age
- Isn´t it strange how wealth is always wasted on the rich? Inspirational
- I come Des Moines. Somebody had to. Des Moines
- Physicists are atoms' way of thinking about atoms. Atoms
- I love everything about motels. I can't help myself. I still get excited every time I slip a key into a motel room door and… Door
- Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding. All
- I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a… Appalled
- On the dashboard of our family car is a shallow indentation about the size of a paperback book. If you are looking for somewhere to… Actually Moving
- ... it occurred to me that never again would he be seven years, one month and six days old, so we had better catch these… Better
- When I awoke it was daylight. The inside of my tent was coated in a curious flaky rime, which I realized after a moment was… All
- Your pillow alone may be home to 40 million bed mites. (To them your head is just one large oily bon-bon). And don't think a… Age
- The taipan is the one to watch out for. It is the most poisonous snake on Earth, with a lunge so swift and a venom… Earth
- As a rule of thumb, I would submit that if you need to call your floss provider, for any reason, you are probably not ready… Any
- As the saying goes, it takes all kinds to make the world go around, though perhaps some shouldn't go quite so far around it as… All
- If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To attain… Ability
- To my mind, the only possible pet is a cow. Cows love you. They will listen to your problems and never ask a thing in… Ask
- I tell the kids that, even in a childhood marked by despair and deprivation, I knew that no matter what happened, I still had my… Advised
- Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness. All
- Our instinct may be to see the impossibility of tracking everything down as frustrating, dispiriting, perhaps even appalling, but it can just as well be… Almost Unbearably
- Taxonomy is described sometimes as a science and sometimes as an art, but really it’s a battleground. Art