It isn’t easy to become a fossil. … Only about one bone in a billion, it is thought, becomes fossilized. If that is so, it means that the complete fossil legacy of all the Americans alive today.
BILL BRYSONThere is always a little more toothpaste in the tube. Think about it.
More Bill Bryson Quotes
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Most of the time I am sunk in thought, but at some point on each walk there comes a moment when I look up and notice, with a kind of first-time astonishment.
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There is always a little more toothpaste in the tube. Think about it.
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It is a curious feature of our existance that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it.
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Take a moment from time to time to remember that you are alive. I know this sounds a trifle obvious, but it is amazing how little time we take to remark upon this singular and gratifying fact.
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Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding.
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Nearly a quarter of American men were in the Armed forces. The rest were in school, in prison, or were George W. Bush.
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Christmas tree stands are the work of the devil and they want you dead.
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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.
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From an evolutionary point of view, sex is really just a reward mechanism to encourage us to pass on our genetic material.
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Americans now get in a car. On average the total walking of an American these days – that’s walking of all types: from car to office, from office to car, around the supermarket and shopping malls – adds up to 1.4 miles a week, barely 350 yards a day.
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In the countryside, litter doesn’t have a friend. It doesn’t have anybody who’s saying, ‘Wait a minute, this is really starting to get out of control.’
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I understand cricket – what’s going on, the scoring – but I can’t understand why.
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You are going to have a day without even the tiniest of pleasures; you are going to drive across Ohio.
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There is something about the momentum of travel that makes you want to just keep moving, to never stop.
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Don’t you believe it. Bacteria may not build cities or have interesting social lives, but they will be here when the Sun explodes. This is their planet, and we are on it only because they allow us to be.
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