803 Quotes by Bill Bryson

Just because a word or expression has an antiquity or was once widely used does not confer on it some special immunity.

A physicist is the atoms’ way of thinking about atoms. – Anonymous.

The greatest possible irony would be if in our endless quest to fill our lives with comfort and happiness we created a world that had neither.

It is fairly amazing to reflect that at the beginning of the twentieth century, and for some years beyond, the best scientific minds in the world couldn’t actually tell you, in any meaningful way, where babies came from.

The animals we raise for food today are eaten not because they are notably delectable or nutritious or a pleasure to be around, but because they were the ones first domesticated in the Stone Age.

Put in the crudest terms, Australia was slightly more important to us in 1997 than bananas, but not nearly as important as ice cream.

Work expands to fill the time available for its completion,” still known as Parkinson’s Law.

It is only the brevity of lifetimes that keeps us from appreciating the changes.

Most people think they want Main Streets but won’t make the small sacrifices in terms of time, cost, and footpower necessary to sustain them. The sad fact is that we have created a culture in which most people will happily-indeed, unthinkingly-drive an extra couple of miles to walk thirty less feet.