All Bill Bryson Quotes
- Still, I never really mind bad service in a restaurant. It makes me feel better about not leaving a tip. Bad
- The tearoom lady called me love. All the shop ladies called me love and most of the men called me mate. I hadn't been here… All
- I'm quite certain that if the rest of the world vanished overnight and the development of cricket were left in Australian hands, within a generation,… Australian
- I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure been more technologically… Advanced
- Strange as it may seem, wrote Richard Feynman, we understand the distribution of matter in the interior of the Sun far better than we understand… Better
- Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the… Benignly
- There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the… Credit
- Everywhere throughout New England you find old, tumbledown field walls, often in the middle of the deepest, most settled- looking woods- a reminder of just… America
- I wanted to quit and to do this forever, sleep in a bed and in a tent, see what was over the next hill and… All
- Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old. Cow
- No one knows, incidentally, why Australia's spiders are so extravagantly toxic; capturing small insects and injecting them with enough poison to drop a horse would… Appear
- The people are immensely likable— cheerful, extrovert, quick-witted, and unfailingly obliging. Their cities are safe and clean and nearly always built on water. They have… Always Built
- You may not feel outstandingly robust, but if you are an average-sized adult you will contain within your modest frame no less than 7 X… Adult
- Australians are very unfair in this way. They spend half of any conversation insisting that the country's dangers are vastly overrated and that there's nothing… Ago
- ...if you were designing an organism to look after life in our lonely cosmos, to monitor where it is going and keep a record of… Achievement
- 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