All Bill Bryson Quotes
- I still enjoy traveling a lot. I mean, it amazes me that I still get excited in hotel rooms just to see what kind of… Amazes
- You can always tell a Midwestern couple in Europe because they will be standing on a traffic island in the middle of a busy intersection… Alleys
- Every dog on the face of the earth wants me dead. Dead
- After years of patient study (and with cricket there can be no other kind), I have decided that there is nothing wrong with the game… Carts
- Every living thing is an elaboration of a single original plan. As humans we are mere increments - each of us a musty archive of… Adaptation
- Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain--which is to say, all of it. Every last… All
- I do find London exciting. Much as I hate to agree with that tedious old git Samuel Johnson, and despite the pompous imbecility of his… Agree
- It isn't easy to become a fossil. ... Only about one bone in a billion, it is thought, becomes fossilized. If that is so, it… Alive
- Most big companies don't like you very much, except hotels, airlines and Microsoft, which don't like you at all. Airline
- In my day, the principal concerns of university students were sex, smoking dope, rioting and learning. Learning was something you did only when the first… Available
- Because time moves more slowly in Kid World ... it goes on for decades ... It is adult life that is over in a twinkling. Adult
- Four times I was honked at for having the temerity to proceed through town without the benefit of metal. Benefit
- Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being. Automobile
- He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor. Doe
- By the time I had finished my coffee and returned to the streets, the rain had temporarily abated, but the streets were full of vast… Abated
- There is always a little more toothpaste in the tube. Think about it. Inspirational
- It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before. Angle
- Traveling makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for preservation as they… America
- Columbus real achievement was managing to cross the ocean successfully in both directions. Though an accomplished enough mariner, he was not terribly good at a… Accomplished
- There is no reason why we shouldn't be able to split an infinitive, any more than we should forsake instant coffee and air travel because… Able
- A sign in the yard of a church next door said CHRIST IS THE ANSWER. (The question, of course, is: What do you say when… Answer
- Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new… Ago
- Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century. The world at… Amount
- I come from Des Moines. Someone had to. Des Moines
- I'm definitely an American, because I grew up here. But I've lived very happily in Britain. American