All Bill Bryson Quotes
- Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious. Ambitious
- It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavors look interesting and lively; that was merely… All
- When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him with mild but… Albert
- I was heading to Nebraska. Now there's a sentence you don't want to say too often if you can possibly help it. Heading
- The number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual existence depends has risen to approximately 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, which is several thousand times the total number… Approximately
- It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a… Alive
- There seemed to be a mystifying universal conspiracy among textbook authors to make certain the material they dealt with never strayed too near the realm… Among
- If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea of what popular… Anesthetic
- Life just wants to be; but it doesn't want to be much. Funny
- It was the kind of pure, undiffused light that can only come from a really hot blue sky, the kind that makes even a concrete… All
- A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would… Age
- Isn´t it strange how wealth is always wasted on the rich? Inspirational
- I come Des Moines. Somebody had to. Des Moines
- Physicists are atoms' way of thinking about atoms. Atoms
- I love everything about motels. I can't help myself. I still get excited every time I slip a key into a motel room door and… Door
- Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding. All
- I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a… Appalled
- On the dashboard of our family car is a shallow indentation about the size of a paperback book. If you are looking for somewhere to… Actually Moving
- ... it occurred to me that never again would he be seven years, one month and six days old, so we had better catch these… Better
- When I awoke it was daylight. The inside of my tent was coated in a curious flaky rime, which I realized after a moment was… All