Bill Bryson
American-British author
Lived from: 1951 -
Category: Writers (Contemporary)
Born: 8 december 1951
Quotes 41 till 59 of 59.
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Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome.
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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.
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Personally, I've never been attracted to danger. It's not my sort of thing. I am more attracted to pubs and cafes. The known, safe and comfortable world.
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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.
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Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do.
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So without an original or helpful thought in my head, I just sat for some minutes and watched these poor disconnected people shuffle past. Then I did what most white Australians do. I read my newspaper and drank my coffee and didn't see them anymore.
In a Sunburned Country (US) / Down Under (UK) (2000)― Bill Bryson -
Tell me, did they specify asshole on the job description or did you go on a course?
A Walk in the Woods― Bill Bryson -
The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience.
Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe― Bill Bryson -
The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know.
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There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
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There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again.
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There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States - alcohol production - and just handed it to criminals - a pretty remarkable thing to do.
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Three things alone are certain when you venture into a loft: that you will crack your head on a beam at least twice, that you will get cobwebs draped over your face, and that you will not find what you went looking for.
Im a Stranger Here Myself (US) / Notes From a Big Country (UK) (1998)― Bill Bryson -
Virginia? he said, as if I had asked him if there was anywhere local we could get a dose of syphilis.
A Walk in the Woods― Bill Bryson -
We couldn't place their accents but we thought the smaller one might be Australian since he seemed so at home down under.
Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe― Bill Bryson -
When I was growing up I used to think that the best thing about coming from Des Moines was that it meant you didn't come from anywhere else in Iowa. By Iowa standards, Des Moines is a mecca of cosmopolitanism, a dynamic hub of wealth and education...
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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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You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a really good story because he was this kid who grew up essentially as an orphan, you know, had a tough life, and then he became the most successful baseball player ever. But he was also a really good guy.
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You may find that your parents are the most delightful people, but you don't want to live with them.
― Bill Bryson
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