More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.
BILL BRYSON
Romans park their cars the way I would park if I had just spilled a beaker of hydrochloric acid on my lap.
More Bill Bryson Quotes
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More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.
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Time, you discover, has wrought changes that leave you feeling mildly foolish and out of touch.
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We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life’s dominant species that it is hard to grasp that we are here only because of timely extraterrestrial bangs and other random flukes.
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I can wear a baseball cap; I am entitled to wear a baseball cap. I am genetically pre-disposed to wear a baseball cap, whereas most English people look wrong in a baseball cap.
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I’m quite certain that if the rest of the world vanished overnight and the development of cricket were left in Australian hands, within a generation, the players would be wearing shorts and using the bats to hit each other, and the thing is, it’d be a much better game for it.
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Columbus real achievement was managing to cross the ocean successfully in both directions. Though an accomplished enough mariner, he was not terribly good at a great deal else, especially geography, the skill that would seem most vital in an explorer.
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