Quote by Bill Bryson Download Open image ““So the first dinosaur bone ever found was also the first to be lost.”” — Bill Bryson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I know about skeletons. Once I went to a museum and saw dinosaur skeletons. They are like jigsaw puzzles for scientists.” — Claire King Copy Share Image
“I confess that the idea of taking off one's boots in a howling squall to safeguard fossils that had survived since the Precambrian had… — Richard Fortey Copy Share Image
“if you focus on the large fossils, you miss most of the life that is present” — Peter Godfrey-Smith Copy Share Image
“It’s only half completed, I’m afraid – we haven’t even finished burying the artificial dinosaur skeletons in the crust yet,” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“I’m a dinosaur, he thought, lumbering through a world where truthtellers are despised.” — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
“One day they’d find the bones of a man, not realizing that the beast inside of his body was actually what killed him.” — Sarah Noffke Copy Share Image
“Fossils are one of the major lines of evidence that we use to understand ourselves.” — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
“Yes, I am of old family, and not illiterate. I am a fossil." "A which?" "Fossil. The first horses were fossils. They… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Most big companies don't like you very much, except hotels, airlines and Microsoft, which don't like you at all. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“But Welsh spellings are as nothing compared with Irish Gaelic, a language in which spelling and pronunciation give the impression of having been devised… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Pantaloons were often worn tight as paint and were not a great deal less revealing, particularly as they were worn without underwear. . .… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
If you go out on the Appalachian Trail, you have to bring so much more equipment - a tent, sleeping bag - but if… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“The dining table was a plain board called by that name. It was hung on the wall when not in use, and was perched… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“From almost nothing, France in four years built up an aircraft industry that employed nearly 200,000 people and produced some 70,000 planes. Britain built… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“A diarist named George Templeton Strong recorded in the winter of 1866 that even with two furnaces alight and all the fireplaces blazing, he… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
As a rule of thumb, I would submit that if you need to call your floss provider, for any reason, you are probably not… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“What made this particularly interesting is that John Howard is by far the dullest man in Australia. Imagine a very committed funeral home director… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
