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Bill Bryson Quotes

I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to Picture Quote #1

We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls Picture Quote #1

I come Des Moines. Somebody had to Picture Quote #1

I come from Des Moines. Someone had to Picture Quote #1

You can be a scientist and believe in god: the two can go hand in hand Picture Quote #1

The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed Picture Quote #1

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There is always a little more toothpaste in the tube. Think about it Picture Quote #1

Every dog on the face of the earth wants me dead Picture Quote #1

Life just wants to be; but it doesn’t want to be much Picture Quote #1

Isn´t it strange how wealth is always wasted on the rich? Picture Quote #1

It was an especially wonderful time to be a noisy moron Picture Quote #1

Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen Picture Quote #1

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I could spend my life arriving each evening in a new city Picture Quote #1

Cheapness is a great virtue Picture Quote #1

I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight out of the container Picture Quote #1

More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to Picture Quote #1

When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression Picture Quote #1

The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world’s population Picture Quote #1

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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 taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher Picture Quote #1

As my father always used to tell me, ‘You see, son, there’s always someone in the world worse off than you.’ And I always used to think, ‘So? Picture Quote #1

I tell the kids that, even in a childhood marked by despair and deprivation, I knew that no matter what happened, I still had my family, or at least the remnants of a family ripped apart by divorce and then glued back together in various odd arrangements through a series of ill- advised remarriages. It was good to know I had a solid foundation Picture Quote #1

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, materially obsolescent, and gloriously pointless all at the same time Picture Quote #1

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 thought that soon they would be dead Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 to be the most literal case of overkill. Still, it does mean that everyone gives them lots of space Picture Quote #1

I ordered a coffee and a little something to eat and savored the warmth and dryness. Somewhere in the background Nat King Cole sang a perky tune. I watched the rain beat down on the road outside and told myself that one day this would be twenty years ago Picture Quote #1

It is not as if farming brought a great improvement in living standards either. A typical hunter-gatherer enjoyed a more varied diet and consumed more protein and calories than settled people, and took in five times as much viatmin C as the average person today Picture Quote #1

Those who sniff decay in every shift of sense or alteration of usage do the language no service. Too often for such people the notion of good English has less to do with expressing ideas clearly than with making words conform to some arbitrary pattern Picture Quote #1

My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who devised a complex equation known as the Bayes theorem, which can be used to work out probability distributions. It had no practical application in his lifetime, but today, thanks to computers, is routinely used in the modelling of climate change, astrophysics and stock-market analysis Picture Quote #1

[The Royal Society] is quite simply the voice of science in Britain. It is intellectually rigorous, not afraid to be outspoken on controversial issues such as climate change, but it is not aggressively secular either, insisting on a single view of the world. In fact, there are plenty of eminent scientists - Robert Winston, for instance - who are also men of faith Picture Quote #1

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I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to (Bill Bryson Quotes) We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls (Bill Bryson Quotes) I come Des Moines. Somebody had to (Bill Bryson Quotes) I come from Des Moines. Someone had to (Bill Bryson Quotes) You can be a scientist and believe in god: the two can go hand in hand (Bill Bryson Quotes) The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed (Bill Bryson Quotes) There is always a little more toothpaste in the tube. Think about it (Bill Bryson Quotes) Every dog on the face of the earth wants me dead (Bill Bryson Quotes) Life just wants to be; but it doesn’t want to be much (Bill Bryson Quotes) Isn´t it strange how wealth is always wasted on the rich? (Bill Bryson Quotes) It was an especially wonderful time to be a noisy moron (Bill Bryson Quotes) Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen (Bill Bryson Quotes) I could spend my life arriving each evening in a new city (Bill Bryson Quotes) Cheapness is a great virtue (Bill Bryson Quotes) I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight out of the container (Bill Bryson Quotes) More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to (Bill Bryson Quotes) When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression (Bill Bryson Quotes) The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world’s population (Bill Bryson Quotes) 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 taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher (Bill Bryson Quotes) As my father always used to tell me, ‘You see, son, there’s always someone in the world worse off than you.’ And I always used to think, ‘So? (Bill Bryson Quotes) I tell the kids that, even in a childhood marked by despair and deprivation, I knew that no matter what happened, I still had my family, or at least the remnants of a family ripped apart by divorce and then glued back together in various odd arrangements through a series of ill- advised remarriages. It was good to know I had a solid foundation (Bill Bryson Quotes) 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, materially obsolescent, and gloriously pointless all at the same time (Bill Bryson Quotes) 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 thought that soon they would be dead (Bill Bryson Quotes) 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 (Bill Bryson Quotes) 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 to be the most literal case of overkill. Still, it does mean that everyone gives them lots of space (Bill Bryson Quotes) I ordered a coffee and a little something to eat and savored the warmth and dryness. Somewhere in the background Nat King Cole sang a perky tune. I watched the rain beat down on the road outside and told myself that one day this would be twenty years ago (Bill Bryson Quotes) It is not as if farming brought a great improvement in living standards either. A typical hunter-gatherer enjoyed a more varied diet and consumed more protein and calories than settled people, and took in five times as much viatmin C as the average person today (Bill Bryson Quotes) Those who sniff decay in every shift of sense or alteration of usage do the language no service. Too often for such people the notion of good English has less to do with expressing ideas clearly than with making words conform to some arbitrary pattern (Bill Bryson Quotes) My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who devised a complex equation known as the Bayes theorem, which can be used to work out probability distributions. It had no practical application in his lifetime, but today, thanks to computers, is routinely used in the modelling of climate change, astrophysics and stock-market analysis (Bill Bryson Quotes) [The Royal Society] is quite simply the voice of science in Britain. It is intellectually rigorous, not afraid to be outspoken on controversial issues such as climate change, but it is not aggressively secular either, insisting on a single view of the world. In fact, there are plenty of eminent scientists - Robert Winston, for instance - who are also men of faith (Bill Bryson Quotes)

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