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

I never want to fake it. That's my whole thing. — Peabo Bryson

Work expands to fill the time available for its completion," still known as Parkinson's Law. — Bill Bryson

Henry Ford had the additional distinction of being the only American mentioned favorably in Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler's memoir of 1925. — Bill Bryson

Everything you're telling me was just a story, and now it's real. — Kathy Bryson

There weren't any white people in this country who didn't know who Gladys Knight was. Or the Pips were, as far as that's concerned. — Peabo Bryson

Elvis is in the kitchen and he's making eggs Benedict! — Kathy 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

while - for a couple of minutes - it's actually — Bill Bryson

Taxonomy is described sometimes as a science and sometimes as an art, but really it's a battleground. — Bill Bryson

Well there's these things called books.... They are like TV for smart people. — Robert Redford

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

If there's one thing the AT teaches, it is low-level ecstasy - something we could all do with more of in our lives. — Bill Bryson

Don't pinch that guy's ass. He's a leprechaun. — Kathy Bryson

You can go outside and spit and have the same effect as doubling carbon dioxide. — Reid Bryson

I think it's only right that crazy people should have their own city, but I cannot for the life of me see why a sane person would want to go there. — Bill Bryson

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

As the biologist J. B. S. Haldane once famously observed: "The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose." The — 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 like being in a country where when cows attack, word of it gets around. That's what I mean when I say Britain is cozy. — Bill Bryson

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

I adore being with Roberta. I adore being in her spiritual light. I adore being close to her talent and gifts. — Peabo Bryson

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

Jesus, I smell like Jeffrey Dahmer's refrigerator. — Bill Bryson

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

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

The current best estimate for the Earth's weight is 5.9725 billion trillion tonnes, — Bill Bryson

I missed the good old days when phones were sturdy enough to be pounded for emphasis. — Kathy Bryson

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

Much as I resented having to grow up in Des Moines, it gave me a real appreciation for every place in the world that's not Des Moines. — Bill Bryson

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

It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously. — Bill Bryson

Somehow, from this Gilbert concluded that the Moon's craters were indeed formed by impacts - in itself quite a radical notion for the time - but — Bill Bryson

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

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

Look, if you draw a two thousand-mile-long line across the United States at any angle, it's going to pass through nine murder victims. — 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

I was heading to Nebraska. Now there's a sentence you don't want to say too often if you can possibly help it. — Bill Bryson

The remote valley of Lake Turkana (formerly Lake Rudolf) in Kenya is now one of the world's most productive sites for early human remains, — Bill Bryson

The disputes are entertainingly surveyed in Charles Elliott's The Potting-Shed Papers. — Bill Bryson

There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was. — Peabo 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

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

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

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

We may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously. Because — 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

You tell me the dead are coming through a crack in my barn, but I shouldn't worry? — Kathy Bryson

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

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

That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back. — Bill Bryson

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

I understand cricket - what's going on, the scoring - but I can't understand why. — Bill Bryson

Grabbing someone's ass doesn't count as capturing them! — Kathy 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

But my attitude about it is I have miles to go before I sleep. — Peabo Bryson

Without local newspapers there's no one to tell you when somebody's been fined for having rats in their kitchens. — Bill Bryson

You are totally at the mercy of nature in this country, mate. It's just a fact of life. — Bill Bryson

If you have a Stradivarius and nobody to play it, it's just a Stradivarius. Or is it even that? It's nothing. — Peabo Bryson

Female academics at King's in the 1950s were treated with a formalized disdain that — Bill Bryson

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

London isn't a place at all. It's a million little places. — 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

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

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

I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point. — Peabo Bryson

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

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

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

I knew I would lose my job when I accidentally set fire to my best friend's house. — Kathy 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

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

I had a hangover you could sell to science, — 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

There's no way to stand up gracefully when your pants are down around your ankles. — Kathy Bryson

He thinks you were trapped in a tree in the 1920s. How is that not crazy? — Kathy 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

I don't give a crap if you're a Tangent or a really smart llama. You're my friend and that's all that matters — James Dashner

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

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

Are you trying to seduce me or trick me? — Kathy Bryson

Annie Jump Cannon (left) and Henrietta Leavitt, whose unsung labours and incisive deductions made Hubble's breakthroughs possible. — Bill Bryson

Every kid I knew had a father with a little stash of men's magazines which the father thought was secret and which the kid knew all about. — Bill Bryson

Turns out there's a reason smoking is not allowed on construction sites. — Kathy Bryson

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

Des Moines is like your typical American city; it's just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city. — Bill Bryson

Report in The Economist as much as 97 per cent of the world's plant and animal species may still await discovery. Of — Bill Bryson

South Dakota ... is like the world's first drive-through sensory deprivation chamber. — 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

Shakespeare, it appears, was caught up in the affair because he had been a lodger in Mountjoy's house in Cripplegate in 1604 when the dispute arose. — Bill Bryson

And let's face it, the French Army couldn't beat a girls hockey team — Bill Bryson