Bill Bryson Quotes

The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don`t actually know what we actually know.

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.

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.

I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.

More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.

I don`t plan to write another science book, but I don`t plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting.

I have long known that it is part of God`s plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth.

Boston`s freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.

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

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.

The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world`s population.

My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can`t make your children carry.