All Bill Bryson Quotes
- The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population. Based
- There is the odd exception, like Albert Einstein, but as a breed, scientists tend not be very good at presenting themselves. Albert
- You may find that your parents are the most delightful people, but you don't want to live with them. Delightful
- We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a… Barely
- All the things that are part of your heritage make you British - that makes this country what it is. It's part of your history.… All
- An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows... We're… Awful
- Book tours are really kind of fun. You get to stay in nice hotels, you are driven everywhere in big silver cars, you are treated… Big
- Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of the generation that allowed that… Allowed
- Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long coma.… Absence
- Have you ever seen Glenn Beck in operation? It is the most terrifying thing. It's so bad that you think he's going to announce in… All
- I can wear a baseball cap; I am entitled to wear a baseball cap. I am genetically pre-disposed to wear a baseball cap, whereas most… Baseball
- I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that people do; disappointed… All
- I hadn't realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh's achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over open water before, but he… Achievement
- I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell… Comic
- I wish I could adjust my voice, but it's just what's happened to me. It's because I've lived abroad for a long time, and my… Abroad
- I'm not a natural story-teller. Put a keyboard in front of me and I'm fine, but stand me up in front of an audience and… Actually Quite
- If you drive to, say, Shenandoah National Park, or the Great Smoky Mountains, you'll get some appreciation for the scale and beauty of the outdoors.… Appreciation
- If you go out on the Appalachian Trail, you have to bring so much more equipment - a tent, sleeping bag - but if you… Always Go
- In the countryside, litter doesn't have a friend. It doesn't have anybody who's saying, 'Wait a minute, this is really starting to get out of… Anybody
- Maine is wonderful. It can be very hard. I mean, if you look at the profile maps it doesn't look it, but somehow when you… Hard
- Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big sprawling shopping malls. Everything seems… All
- Science has been quite embattled. It's the most important thing there is. An arts graduate is not going to fix global warming. They may do… Art
- The real problem you get with humour is that you only have so many kinds of jokes within you, and you mine that vein a… Anybody
- There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American… Advantageous
- To me, the greatest invention of my lifetime is the laptop computer and the fact that I can be working on a book and be… Airport