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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
There Kelvin proved himself such a prodigy that he was admitted to Glasgow University at the exceedingly tender age of ten.
— 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
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
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
The average asteroid actually will be about one and a half million kilometres from its nearest neighbour.
— 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
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
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
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
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
Only twenty-six British universities have total endowments greater than the amount given annually to the Ohio State University football team. I
— Bill Bryson