"I have made a career of bumbling around……" — Bill Bryson

"I have made a career of bumbling around places, stumbling on landmarks and generally being quite haphazard and shambolic about the way I go about things."

— Bill Bryson

225 Quotes by Bill Bryson

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I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each…
There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know.
I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night…
There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter…
Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.
I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies…
A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen…
America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we…
America is a very seductive place in terms of lifestyle and comfort, but it wasn't for me.
Anyone who has read my books will know that I don't tend to use guides when I am travelling. It's…
Cheapness is a great virtue.

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I hadn't realized until this week that in [Moses'] youth he killed a man, an Egyptian, and buried him under… — Sheila Heti
Most wives think of their husbands as bumbling braggarts with whom they happen to be in love. — Jackie Gleason
We are all bumbling along,side by side, week in, week out, our paths similar in some ways and different in… — Mary Lawson
Eisenhower's career demonstrated how it is possible to fool all the people all the time...'I may be stupid,' he once… — Gore Vidal
I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the… — David Geffen
America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs,… — Felix Dennis
You know that thing about Death Be Not Proud? Well, Fear Be Not Proud either. And Fear Be Not Elegant.… — Josh Lanyon
Americans hate their cable companies - for bumbling installers, on-again-off-again transmissions, peculiar channel selections, and indifferent customer service. The only… — Virginia Postrel
Maybe we like our politicians to appear like bumbling oafs. It certainly never did Ronald Reagan or George Bush any… — Rory Bremner
I had a girlfriend forever and I'm just recently sort of getting back into the dating world, so I have… — Jason Biggs

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