Author: 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.

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

Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do.

Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do.

- Bill Bryson

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

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

- Bill Bryson

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

- Bill Bryson

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