All Bill Bryson Quotes
- 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
- We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life's dominant species that it is hard to grasp that we are here… All
- Because we humans are big and clever enough to produce and utilize antibiotics and disinfectants, it is easy to convince ourselves that we have banished… Allow
- The upshot of all this is that we live in a universe whose age we can't quite compute, surrounded by stars whose distances we don't… Age
- So here I am, my affections torn between a postal service that never feeds me but can tackle a challenge and one that gives me… Accept
- At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as "the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing concerning reciprocity of… Affective
- But I got a great deal else from the experience. I learned to pitch a tent and sleep beneath the stars. For a brief, proud… America
- Take a moment from time to time to remember that you are alive. I know this sounds a trifle obvious, but it is amazing how… Alive
- In the morning I awoke early and experienced that sinking sensation that overcomes you when you first open your eyes and realize that instead of… Across
- And before long there will be no more milk in bottles delivered to the doorstep or sleepy rural pubs, and the countryside will be mostly… Bottles
- And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any… Alone