By the time I had finished my coffee and returned to the streets, the rain had temporarily abated, but the streets were full of vast puddles where the drains where unable to cope with the volume of water.
BILL BRYSONThe food is excellent. The beer is cold. The sun nearly always shines. There is coffee on every corner. Life doesn’t get much better than this.
More Bill Bryson Quotes
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…and it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that’s really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things.
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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.
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As a rule of thumb, I would submit that if you need to call your floss provider, for any reason, you are probably not ready for this level of oral hygiene.
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That’s the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it’s gone, it’s too late to get it back.
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18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available.
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That’s 270 million people with 206 bones each – will only be about 50 bones, one-quarter of a complete skeleton. That’s not to say, of course, that any of these bones will ever actually be found.
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We are each so atomically numberous and so vigorously recycled at death that a significant number of our atoms-up to a billion for each of us, it has been suggested-probably once belonged to Shakespeare.
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I still enjoy traveling a lot. I mean, it amazes me that I still get excited in hotel rooms just to see what kind of shampoo they’ve left me.
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Ordnance Survey maps, tea and crumpets, summer showers and foggy winter evenings – every bit of it.
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When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.
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Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.
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This much may have happened many times before. But this ancestral packet did something additional and extraordinary. It cleaved itself and produced an heir.
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Boston’s freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.
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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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If you drive to, say, Shenandoah National Park, or the Great Smoky Mountains, you’ll get some appreciation for the scale and beauty of the outdoors.
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