All Bill Bryson Quotes
- It is a curious feature of our existance that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at… Better
- What this means in practice is that if you are not a born worrier you have nothing to worry about (though of course you wouldn't… Absolutely
- Geologists are never at a loss for paperweights. Geologist
- To an American the whole purpose of living, the one constant confirmation of continued existence, is to cram as much as sensual pleasure as possible… American
- It was an odd situation. For a century and a half, men got rid of their own hair, which was perfectly comfortable, and instead covered… Afford
- It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously. Achievement
- Christmas tree stands are the work of the devil and they want you dead. Christmas
- So, if people didn’t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no… According
- I became quietly seized with that nostalgia that overcomes you when you have reached the middle of your life and your father has recently died… Became
- For anyone of a rational disposition, fashion is often nearly impossible to fathom. Throughout many periods of history – perhaps most – it can seem… All
- I sat on a toilet watching the water run thinking what an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning… Abandoning
- Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you. We… Almost Certainly
- That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back. Gone
- It was an especially wonderful time to be a noisy moron. Especially
- I ordered a coffee and a little something to eat and savored the warmth and dryness. Somewhere in the background Nat King Cole sang a… Ago
- When you sit in a chair, you are not actually sitting there, but levitating above it at a height of one angstrom (a hundred millionth… Actually Sitting
- Look at a globe and what you are seeing really is a snapshot of the continents as they have been for just one-tenth of 1… Been
- 99.99 percent of all species that have ever lived are no longer with us. All
- When you consider it from a human perspective, and clearly it would be difficult for us to do otherwise, life is an odd thing. It… Clearly
- Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen. Energy
- What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of… All
- Human beings would split the atom and invent television, nylon, and instant coffee before they could figure out the age of their own planet. Age
- Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering… All
- In three minutes, 98 percent of all the matter there is or will ever be has been produced. We have a universe All
- The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose Inspirational