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Bill Bryson Quotes

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Boston’s freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains  (Bill Bryson Quotes) The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don’t actually know what we actually know  (Bill Bryson Quotes) There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age  (Bill Bryson Quotes) It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you  (Bill Bryson Quotes) I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything  (Bill Bryson Quotes) 18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available  (Bill Bryson Quotes) I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted, or a life so full of stimulus that you are easily bored  (Bill Bryson Quotes) I love everything about motels. I can’t help myself. I still get excited every time I slip a key into a motel room door and fling it open  (Bill Bryson Quotes) Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding  (Bill Bryson Quotes) ... it occurred to me that never again would he be seven years, one month and six days old, so we had better catch these moments while we can  (Bill Bryson Quotes) When I awoke it was daylight. The inside of my tent was coated in a curious flaky rime, which I realized after a moment was all of my nighttime snores, condensed and frozen and pasted to the fabric, as if into a scrapbook of respiratory memories  (Bill Bryson Quotes) As a rule of thumb, I would submit that if you need to call your floss provider, for any reason, you are probably not ready for this level of oral hygiene  (Bill Bryson Quotes) 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 others  (Bill Bryson Quotes) To my mind, the only possible pet is a cow. Cows love you. They will listen to your problems and never ask a thing in return. They will be your friends forever. And when you get tired of them, you can kill and eat them. Perfect  (Bill Bryson Quotes) Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness  (Bill Bryson Quotes) Taxonomy is described sometimes as a science and sometimes as an art, but really it’s a battleground  (Bill Bryson Quotes) Still, I never really mind bad service in a restaurant. It makes me feel better about not leaving a tip  (Bill Bryson Quotes) 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 twelve hours and already they loved me  (Bill Bryson Quotes) 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 wrong person  (Bill Bryson Quotes) 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 never see a hill again. All of this all at once, every moment, on the trail or off  (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 extinguishing it  (Bill Bryson Quotes) 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 and it dawns on you that when he went he took some of you with him  (Bill Bryson Quotes) That’s the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it’s gone, it’s too late to get it back  (Bill Bryson Quotes) 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 couldn’t wait to get going, but then, having gotten going, it seemed in very little hurry to move on  (Bill Bryson Quotes) 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 and will never visit  (Bill Bryson Quotes) Human beings would split the atom and invent television, nylon, and instant coffee before they could figure out the age of their own planet  (Bill Bryson Quotes) The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose  (Bill Bryson Quotes) ... and it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that’s really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things  (Bill Bryson Quotes) To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted  (Bill Bryson Quotes) Perhaps it’s my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can  (Bill Bryson Quotes)
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