All Bill Bryson Quotes
- Very little of what America does is actually bad, and I don't think it ever does anything anywhere that is intentionally bad. I mean, sometimes… Actually Bad
- Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls - you don't find a… Activity
- Yes, U.S. travelers dress better. The British are always so conspicuous in hot climates. They don't seem to wear shorts. American men seem to be… American
- You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a really good story… Babe
- Think of a single problem confronting the world today. Disease, poverty, global warming... If the problem is going to be solved, it is science that… Anyone
- Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think there is nothing at all ridiculous about eating dinner at… All
- For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that… Ability
- I could spend my life arriving each evening in a new city. Arriving
- Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can. Awfully
- Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines. Around Like
- English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin - a language… Air
- For most of us the rules of English grammar are at best a dimly remembered thing. But even for those who make the rules, grammatical… Achieve
- Those who sniff decay in every shift of sense or alteration of usage do the language no service. Too often for such people the notion… Alteration
- My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who devised a complex… Analysis
- The human diet consists of just nine plants: corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye and oats. Barley
- Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of all… Add
- My first rule of travel is never to go to a place that sounds like a medical condition and Critz is clearly an incurable disease… Clearly
- [The Royal Society] is quite simply the voice of science in Britain. It is intellectually rigorous, not afraid to be outspoken on controversial issues such… Afraid
- English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin, a language with… Based
- Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football. Asking
- Traveling is more fun - hell, life is more fun - if you can treat it as a series of impulses. Fun
- There is something about the momentum of travel that makes you want to just keep moving, to never stop. Keep Moving
- A significant fraction of thru-hikers reach Katahdin, then turn around and start back to Georgia. They just can't stop walking, which kind of makes you… Fraction
- The food is excellent. The beer is cold. The sun nearly always shines. There is coffee on every corner. Life doesn’t get much better than… Always Shines
- Most of the time I am sunk in thought, but at some point on each walk there comes a moment when I look up and… Amazing