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Kind Quotes by Bill Bryson
- The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to…
- An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows... We're…
- Book tours are really kind of fun. You get to stay in nice hotels, you are driven everywhere in big silver cars, you are treated…
- I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell…
- The real problem you get with humour is that you only have so many kinds of jokes within you, and you mine that vein a…
- Very little of what America does is actually bad, and I don't think it ever does anything anywhere that is intentionally bad. I mean, sometimes…
- A significant fraction of thru-hikers reach Katahdin, then turn around and start back to Georgia. They just can't stop walking, which kind of makes you…
- Most of the time I am sunk in thought, but at some point on each walk there comes a moment when I look up and…
- I still enjoy traveling a lot. I mean, it amazes me that I still get excited in hotel rooms just to see what kind of…
- After years of patient study (and with cricket there can be no other kind), I have decided that there is nothing wrong with the game…
- Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new…
- 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…
- 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…
- As the saying goes, it takes all kinds to make the world go around, though perhaps some shouldn't go quite so far around it as…
- If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To attain…
- Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.
- When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.
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