The upshot of all this is that we live in a universe whose age we can’t quite compute, surrounded by stars whose distances we don’t altogether know, filled with matter we can’t identify, operating in conformance with physical laws whose properties we don’t truly understand.
BILL BRYSONThe best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience.
More Bill Bryson Quotes
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In order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result — eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly — in you.
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There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
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An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows…
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I ordered a coffee and a little something to eat and savored the warmth and dryness. Somewhere in the background Nat King Cole sang a perky tune. I watched the rain beat down on the road outside and told myself that one day this would be twenty years ago.
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I wanted to see what was out there. All over America today people would be dragging themselves to work, stuck in traffic jams, wreathed in exhaust smoke. I was going for a walk in the woods. I was more than ready for this.
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In three minutes, 98 percent of all the matter there is or will ever be has been produced. We have a universe
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I understand cricket – what’s going on, the scoring – but I can’t understand why.
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I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.
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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.
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Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you.
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It sometimes occurs to me that the British have more heritage than isgood for them.
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The first book I did – the first successful book – was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to do more.
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I had spent the whole of my savings … on a suit for the wedding – a remarkable piece of apparel with lapels that had been modelled on the tail fins of a 1957 Coupe de Ville and trousers so copiously flared that when I walked you didn’t see my legs move.
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Human beings would split the atom and invent television, nylon, and instant coffee before they could figure out the age of their own planet.
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When I awoke it was daylight. The inside of my tent was coated in a curious flaky rime, which I realized after a moment was all of my nighttime snores, condensed and frozen and pasted to the fabric, as if into a scrapbook of respiratory memories.
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