803 Quotes by Bill Bryson

I love everything about motels. I can't help myself. I still get excited every time I slip a key into a motel room door and fling it open.

The taipan is the one to watch out for. It is the most poisonous snake on Earth, with a lunge so swift and a venom so potent that your last mortal utterance is likely to be: "I say, is that a sn--

Calais is an interesting place that exists solely for the purpose of giving English people in shell suits somewhere to go for the day.

I love everything about motels. I can’t help myself. I still get excited every time I slip a key into a motel room door and fling it open.

Someone needs to explain to me how it is that the richer Britain gets, the poorer it thinks itself. All.

I still enjoy traveling a lot. I mean, it amazes me that I still get excited in hotel rooms just to see what kind of shampoo they’ve left me.

Indeed, if you look around you on a bus or in a park or cafe or any crowded place, most of the people you see are very probably relatives. When someone boasts to you that he is descended from William the Conqueror or the Mayflower Pilgrims, you should answer at once: “Me, too!” In the most literal and fundamental sense we are all family.

The transit of Venus of 1769 finally allowed us to determine the distance from the Earth to the Sun: 149.59 million kilometres. A.

What sets the carbon atom apart is that it is shamelessly promiscuous.