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Bill Bryson Quotes

Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines Picture Quote #1

The human diet consists of just nine plants: corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye and oats Picture Quote #1

There is something about the momentum of travel that makes you want to just keep moving, to never stop Picture Quote #1

The food is excellent. The beer is cold. The sun nearly always shines. There is coffee on every corner. Life doesn’t get much better than this Picture Quote #1

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 shampoo they’ve left me Picture Quote #1

Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being Picture Quote #1

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It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before Picture Quote #1

Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century. The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed Picture Quote #1

I’m not funny in person. I mean I’m really not. I’m one of those people who always screw up anecdotes Picture Quote #1

You don’t need a science degree to understand about science. You just need to think about it Picture Quote #1

I can’t fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a focused way Picture Quote #1

A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world Picture Quote #1

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America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls Picture Quote #1

America is a very seductive place in terms of lifestyle and comfort, but it wasn’t for me Picture Quote #1

Anyone who has read my books will know that I don’t tend to use guides when I am travelling. It’s not a pride thing, but it is certainly a fact Picture Quote #1

I don’t know whether I’m misanthropic. It seems to me I’m constantly disappointed. I’m very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that people do; disappointed in the things that people construct. I want things to be better all the time Picture Quote #1

In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not Picture Quote #1

You may find that your parents are the most delightful people, but you don’t want to live with them Picture Quote #1

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We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb Picture Quote #1

Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of the generation that allowed that to be lost Picture Quote #1

Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long coma. Time, you discover, has wrought changes that leave you feeling mildly foolish and out of touch Picture Quote #1

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 world anything pertinent about myself or my family Picture Quote #1

Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big sprawling shopping malls. Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being Picture Quote #1

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Science has been quite embattled. It’s the most important thing there is. An arts graduate is not going to fix global warming. They may do other valuable things, but they are not going to fix the planet or cure cancer or get rid of malaria Picture Quote #1

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 lot. This isn’t just common to me; it’s anybody who’s funny Picture Quote #1

And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven’t yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food? Picture Quote #1

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 previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it. He had evidently included the pillow in his celebrations Picture Quote #1

On the dashboard of our family car is a shallow indentation about the size of a paperback book. If you are looking for somewhere to put your sunglasses or spare change, it is the obvious place, and it works extremely well, I must say, so long as the car is not actually moving. However, as soon as you put the car in motion... everything slides off... It can hold nothing that has not been nailed to it. So I ask you: what then is it for? Picture Quote #1

Our instinct may be to see the impossibility of tracking everything down as frustrating, dispiriting, perhaps even appalling, but it can just as well be viewed as almost unbearably exciting. We live on a planet that has a more or less infinite capacity to surprise. What reasoning person could possibly want it any other way? Picture Quote #1

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Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines (Bill Bryson Quotes) The human diet consists of just nine plants: corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye and oats (Bill Bryson Quotes) There is something about the momentum of travel that makes you want to just keep moving, to never stop (Bill Bryson Quotes) The food is excellent. The beer is cold. The sun nearly always shines. There is coffee on every corner. Life doesn’t get much better than this (Bill Bryson Quotes) 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 shampoo they’ve left me (Bill Bryson Quotes) Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being (Bill Bryson Quotes) It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before (Bill Bryson Quotes) Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century. The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed (Bill Bryson Quotes) I’m not funny in person. I mean I’m really not. I’m one of those people who always screw up anecdotes (Bill Bryson Quotes) You don’t need a science degree to understand about science. You just need to think about it (Bill Bryson Quotes) I can’t fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a focused way (Bill Bryson Quotes) A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world (Bill Bryson Quotes) America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls (Bill Bryson Quotes) America is a very seductive place in terms of lifestyle and comfort, but it wasn’t for me (Bill Bryson Quotes) Anyone who has read my books will know that I don’t tend to use guides when I am travelling. It’s not a pride thing, but it is certainly a fact (Bill Bryson Quotes) I don’t know whether I’m misanthropic. It seems to me I’m constantly disappointed. I’m very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that people do; disappointed in the things that people construct. I want things to be better all the time (Bill Bryson Quotes) In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not (Bill Bryson Quotes) You may find that your parents are the most delightful people, but you don’t want to live with them (Bill Bryson Quotes) We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb (Bill Bryson Quotes) Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of the generation that allowed that to be lost (Bill Bryson Quotes) Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long coma. Time, you discover, has wrought changes that leave you feeling mildly foolish and out of touch (Bill Bryson Quotes) 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 world anything pertinent about myself or my family (Bill Bryson Quotes) Maine is wonderful. It can be very hard. I mean, if you look at the profile maps it doesn’t look it, but somehow when you get out there it’s really steep and hard (Bill Bryson Quotes) Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big sprawling shopping malls. Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being (Bill Bryson Quotes) Science has been quite embattled. It’s the most important thing there is. An arts graduate is not going to fix global warming. They may do other valuable things, but they are not going to fix the planet or cure cancer or get rid of malaria (Bill Bryson Quotes) 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 lot. This isn’t just common to me; it’s anybody who’s funny (Bill Bryson Quotes) And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven’t yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food? (Bill Bryson Quotes) 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 previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it. He had evidently included the pillow in his celebrations (Bill Bryson Quotes) On the dashboard of our family car is a shallow indentation about the size of a paperback book. If you are looking for somewhere to put your sunglasses or spare change, it is the obvious place, and it works extremely well, I must say, so long as the car is not actually moving. However, as soon as you put the car in motion... everything slides off... It can hold nothing that has not been nailed to it. So I ask you: what then is it for? (Bill Bryson Quotes) Our instinct may be to see the impossibility of tracking everything down as frustrating, dispiriting, perhaps even appalling, but it can just as well be viewed as almost unbearably exciting. We live on a planet that has a more or less infinite capacity to surprise. What reasoning person could possibly want it any other way? (Bill Bryson Quotes)

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