There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
BILL BRYSONYou can be a scientist and believe in god: the two can go hand in hand.
More Bill Bryson Quotes
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The one upstairs room in which the Duke had resided was packed to the ceiling with hundreds of green boxes, each of which contained a single dark brown wig. This was, in short, a man worth getting to know.
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It’s an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe’s supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously.
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Every dog on the face of the earth wants me dead.
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So, if people didn’t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no idea – or actually, we have lots of ideas, but we don’t know if any of them are right.
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Life just wants to be; but it doesn’t want to be much.
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I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It’s not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.
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The 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.
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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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South Dakota… is like the world’s first drive-through sensory deprivation chamber.
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They make you feel small & confused & vulnerable, like a small child lost in a crowd of strange legs. Stand in a desert or prairie & you know you are in a big space. Stand in the woods and you only sense it. They are vast, featureless nowhere. And they are alive.
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To my mind, the only possible pet is a cow. Cows love you. They will listen to your problems and never ask a thing in return. They will be your friends forever. And when you get tired of them, you can kill and eat them. Perfect.
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I understand now, in a way I never did before, the colossal scale of the world. I found patience and fortitude that I didn’t know I had. I discovered an America that millions of people scarcely know exists. I made a friend. I came home.
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Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain – which is to say, all of it.
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You don’t have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he’s just this magnificent human being.
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I see litter as part of a long continuum of anti-social behaviour.
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