803 Quotes by Bill Bryson

I had to drive to Minneapolis once, and went on a back road just to see the country. But there was nothing to see. It's just flat and hot, and full of corn and soybeans and hogs. Every once in a while you come across a farm or some dead little town where the liveliest thing is the flies.

Cheapness is a great virtue.

Science has been quite embattled. It's the most important thing there is. An arts graduate is not going to fix global warming. They may do other valuable things, but they are not going to fix the planet or cure cancer or get rid of malaria.

From an evolutionary point of view, sex is really just a reward mechanism to encourage us to pass on our genetic material.

Houses aren't refuges from history. They are where history ends up.

The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population.

South Dakota... is like the world's first drive-through sensory deprivation chamber.

For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in the same summer.

The great failure in education, much of the time, is the lack of excitement and stimulus