All Bill Bryson Quotes
- Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all. All
- Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven—corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye,… Account
- It is not as if farming brought a great improvement in living standards either. A typical hunter-gatherer enjoyed a more varied diet and consumed more… Average
- Even though sugar was very expensive, people consumed it till their teeth turned black, and if their teeth didn't turn black naturally, they blackened them… Artificially
- ...and it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that's really what history mostly is: masses of people… Degrees
- When the Duke [W.J.C. Scott-Bentinck] died, his heirs found all of the aboveground rooms devoid of furnishings except for one chamber in the middle of… Aboveground
- In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless. Adaptability
- It was one of those sumptuous days when the world is full of autumn muskiness and tangy, crisp perfection: vivid blue sky, deep green fields,… Astounding
- A cough so robust that I tapped into two new seams of phlegm. Cough
- To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to… Able
- In order to have quality journalism you need to have a good income stream, and no Internet model has produced a way of generating income… Generating
- Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do. Hardly
- I have made a career of bumbling around places, stumbling on landmarks and generally being quite haphazard and shambolic about the way I go about… Bumbling
- Although I was always very happy in Britain, I never stopped thinking of America as home, in the fundamental sense of the term. It was… All
- The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed. Dark
- I like to do books in which a lot of the research and the writing and the thinking revolves around something American. American
- I want things to be better all the time. And I tend to get angry about that. Books are an opportunity to vent. All
- Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome. All
- When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression. Brain
- Incidentally, disturbance from cosmic background radiation is something we have all experienced. Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive, and about 1 percent… Accounted