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Anyway, as should be obvious, his ability to write or not could have had absolutely no bearing on the capabilities of his children. — Bill Bryson

Until almost the 20th century, Central Park was home to a shepherd and a flock of 200 sheep. — Bill Bryson

Christmas tree stands are the work of the devil and they want you dead. — Bill Bryson

Traveling is more fun
hell, life is more fun
if you can treat it as a series of impulses. — Bill Bryson

the mightiest and most extensive mountain range on Earth was - mostly - under water. — Bill Bryson

The atoms that so liberally and congenially flock together to form living things on Earth are exactly the same atoms that decline to do it elsewhere. — Bill Bryson

When Daniel Boone is uneasy, you know it's time to watch your step. — Bill Bryson

I ended up with enough equipment to bring full employment to a vale of sherpas - — Bill Bryson

For us, the universe goes only as far as light has travelled in the billions of years since the universe was formed. — Bill Bryson

It was a lot more fun to get famous than to be famous. — Bill Bryson

The National Park Service actually has something of a tradition of making things extinct. — Bill Bryson

The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know. — Bill Bryson

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

We enjoy not only the privilege of existence, but also the singular ability to appreciate it and even, in a multitude of ways, to make it better. — Bill Bryson

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

Eating in Sweden is really just a series of heartbreaks. — Bill Bryson

The point to remember, of course, when considering the universe at large is that we don't actually know what is in our own solar system. Now, — Bill Bryson

Only one thing is certain: we live on a knife edge. In — Bill Bryson

I had no idea that the Scottish so loathed the English that their favorite team in the world is whichever one is presently playing England. — Bill Bryson

The red shift gives the speed at which galaxies are retiring, but doesn't tell us how far away they are to begin with. — Bill Bryson

The patients on Tuke Ward were a pleasant and tractable bunch and practised insanity with a certain elan. — Bill Bryson

Nearly 90 per cent of the planet's ice is in Antarctica and most of the rest is in Greenland. — Bill Bryson

Of all the disciplines in science, paleoanthropology boasts perhaps the largest share of egos, — Bill Bryson

It is remarkable to think that we have had electric lights and telephones for about as long as we have known that germs kill people. — Bill Bryson

Just reaching the centre of our own galaxy would take far longer than we have existed as beings. — Bill Bryson

Second, you are alive. For the tiniest moment in the span of eternity you have the miraculous privilege to exist. — Bill Bryson

It occurred to me that Australians are so surrounded with danger that they have evolved an entirely new vocabulary to deal with it. — Bill Bryson

Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football. — Bill Bryson

It is the patchiness of the record that makes each new find look so sudden and distinct from all the others. — Bill Bryson

We should have a definitive total for insects in a little over fifteen thousand years. — Bill Bryson

A year in Vermont, according to an old saw, is nine months of winter followed by three months of very poor sledding. — Bill Bryson

We are not only what we do, we are also what we imagine. — Bill Bryson

Hitler and Mussolini even went so far as to persecute Esperanto speakers. — Bill Bryson

What moves the planets and stars is the distortion of space and time. Of — Bill Bryson

In nearly every year for at least 250 years, deaths outnumbered births in London. — Bill Bryson

Comets develop their distinctive tails when their surface material begins to evaporate as they approach the Sun. — Bill Bryson

In Russia there are no native words for efficiency, challenge, engagement ring, have fun, or take care — Bill Bryson

I would sooner have bowel surgery in the woods with a stick. — Bill Bryson

Lucy constituted only 28 per cent of a half skeleton (and only about 20 per cent of a full one). — Bill Bryson

Nearly a quarter of American men were in the Armed forces [in 1968] . The rest were in school, in prison, or were George W. Bush. — Bill Bryson

What on earth would I do if four bears came into my camp? Why, I would die of course. Literally shit myself lifeless. — Bill Bryson

Moreover, all this applies only to units of time. Rocks are divided into quite separate units known as systems, series and stages. — Bill Bryson

I've been wanting to do a book about baseball for the longest time, and nobody will let me do it. It's the one thing from America I really miss. — Bill Bryson

Did all that really just happen or have I wandered into some kind of Dada exhibition? — Bill Bryson

Thankfully for us, water seems unaware of the rules of chemistry or laws of physics. Everyone — Bill Bryson

MACHOs (for MAssive Compact Halo Objects - really just another name for black holes, brown dwarfs and other very dim stars). — Bill Bryson

So the first dinosaur bone ever found was also the first to be lost. — Bill Bryson

It occurred to me, not for the first time, that if Britain is ever to sort itself out, it is going to require a lot of euthanasia. — Bill Bryson

For the moment we might very well call them DUNNOS (for Dark Unknown Nonreflective Nondetectable Objects Somewhere). Recent — Bill Bryson

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

I suppose all our lives must be at the end of a long chain of improbable coincidences, — Bill Bryson

I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I've never been before. — Bill Bryson

From an evolutionary point of view, sex is really just a reward mechanism to encourage us to pass on our genetic material. — Bill Bryson

Nothing gives the English more pleasure, in a quiet but determined sort of way, than to do things oddly. — Bill Bryson

The World Wildlife Fund estimated in 1994 that the number of sharks killed each year was between 40 million and 70 million. As — Bill Bryson

Sometimes the world just isn't ready for a good idea. — 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. — Bill Bryson

There is no such thing, incidentally, as one kudo. — Bill Bryson

pharmaceutical industry hasn't given us an entirely new antibiotic since the 1970s. Our — Bill Bryson

People in New York go to Calcutta to get some relief from begging — Bill Bryson

Taking a scenic route in Southeast Iowa is like talking about a good Barry Manilow album. You have to make certain allowances. — Bill Bryson

I had a hangover you could sell to science, — Bill Bryson

I sometimes think I cannot write another passage about a disappointing meal ever again, because I've done it so many times. — Bill Bryson

There is only one place, an inconspicuous outpost of the Milky Way called the Earth, that will sustain you, and even it can be pretty grudging. From — Bill Bryson

Among the other enthusiastic dumpers were Russia, China, Japan and nearly all the nations of Europe. — Bill Bryson

Only twenty-six British universities have total endowments greater than the amount given annually to the Ohio State University football team. I — Bill Bryson

There Kelvin proved himself such a prodigy that he was admitted to Glasgow University at the exceedingly tender age of ten. — Bill Bryson

3.18-million-year-old australopithecine found at Hadar in Ethiopia in 1974 by a team led by Donald Johanson. Formally known as A.L. — Bill Bryson

Bill Tilden was the greatest - and most improbably great - tennis player of the age. — Bill Bryson

For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in the same summer. — Bill Bryson

It was full of lazy late-afternoon shadows and an impossible green lushness such as could only be appreciated by someone freshly arrived — Bill Bryson

There is always a little more toothpaste in the tube. Think about it. — Bill Bryson

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

Romans park their cars the way I would park if I had just spilled a beaker of hydrochloric acid on my lap. — Bill Bryson

Assumed to be australopithecines because there are no other known candidates. I — Bill Bryson

For the moment we might very well can them DUNNOS (for Dark Unknown Nonreflective Nondetectable Objects Somewhere). — Bill Bryson

Still, I never really mind bad service in a restaurant. It makes me feel better about not leaving a tip. — Bill Bryson

his facetious grace in writing," and much else. — Bill Bryson

The average asteroid actually will be about one and a half million kilometres from its nearest neighbour. — Bill Bryson

We can't see even into the Oort cloud, so we don't actually know that it is there. Its existence is probable but entirely hypothetical.1 About — Bill Bryson

He called it a mastodon (which means, a touch unexpectedly, "nipple-teeth"). — Bill Bryson

The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population. — Bill Bryson

We were idiots really, but awfully happy, too. — Bill Bryson

Glance at the night sky and what you see is history and lots of it - not the stars as they are now but as they were when their light left them. — Bill Bryson

The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose — Bill Bryson

The universe is an amazingly fickle and eventful place, and our existence within is a wonder. — Bill Bryson

Cressbrook Mill was operated mostly by orphans who were treated worse than abysmally. — Bill Bryson

Velleity, which describes a mild desire, a wish or urge too slight to lead to action. — Bill Bryson

Every day in every way I am getting better and better.* — Bill Bryson

Bulgaria, I reflected as I walked back to the hotel, isn't a country; it's a near-death experience. — Bill Bryson

It is unthinkable to have a British countryside that doesn't have actual functioning farmers riding tractors, cows in fields, things like that. — Bill Bryson

I come Des Moines. Somebody had to. — Bill Bryson

Am not at all sure how we should tackle such a crisis, but on the basis of what we know so far, I would suggest, as a start, quarantining Texas. I — Bill Bryson

They are, reluctantly or enthusiastically, accepting the idea that humans are as much an accident of nature as a product of orderly development. But — Bill Bryson

Every living thing, never forget, is a wonder of atomic engineering. Indeed, — Bill Bryson

before 1923 there was almost no lead in the atmosphere, and that since that time lead levels had climbed steadily and dangerously. — Bill Bryson

It really doesn't pay to go back and look again at the things that once delighted you, because it's unlikely they will delight you now. I — Bill Bryson

The older you get the more it seems the world belongs to other people. — Bill Bryson

I see litter as part of a long continuum of anti-social behaviour. — Bill Bryson

A foreigner could be excused for thinking that to know set is to know English. — Bill Bryson