803 Quotes by Bill Bryson

Isn´t it strange how wealth is always wasted on the rich?

Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century. The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed.

Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all.

Life just wants to be; but it doesn't want to be much.

I have made a career of bumbling around places, stumbling on landmarks and generally being quite haphazard and shambolic about the way I go about things.

There seemed to be a mystifying universal conspiracy among textbook authors to make certain the material they dealt with never strayed too near the realm of the mildly interesting and was always at least a long-distance phone call from the frankly interesting.

... it occurred to me that never again would he be seven years, one month and six days old, so we had better catch these moments while we can.

I see litter as part of a long continuum of anti-social behaviour.

I was heading to Nebraska. Now there's a sentence you don't want to say too often if you can possibly help it.