Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.
BILL BRYSONMy first rule of travel is never to go to a place that sounds like a medical condition and Critz is clearly an incurable disease involving flaking skin.
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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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 must say, so long as the car is not actually moving. However, as soon as you put the car in motion … everything slides off … It can hold nothing that has not been nailed to it. So I ask you: what then is it for?
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I know that communism never worked and I would have disliked living under it myself but none the less it seems that there was a kind of sadness in the thought that the only economic system that appeared to work was one based on self interest and greed.
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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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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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In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not.
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In the morning I awoke early and experienced that sinking sensation that overcomes you when you first open your eyes and realize that instead of a normal day ahead of you, with its scatterings of simple gratifications.
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There is no reason why we shouldn’t be able to split an infinitive, any more than we should forsake instant coffee and air travel because they weren’t available to the Romans.
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You don’t need a science degree to understand about science. You just need to think about it.
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Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.
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There’d never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition.
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There is always a little more toothpaste in the tube. Think about it.
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Correct me if I’m wrong, but you would think that if one nation ought by now to have mastered the science of drainage, Britain would be it.
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But what is life to a lichen ? Yet its impulse to exist, to be, is every bit as strong as ours arguably even stronger. If I were told that I had to spend decades being a furry growth on a rock in the woods, I believe I would lose the will to go on.
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