46 ordspråk av Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson
 the party animal of the atomic world? |
| The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know. |
| The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of teo per cent of the world's population. |
| The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population. |
| There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age. |
| There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again. |
| To an American the whole purpose of living, the one constant confirmation of continued existence, is to cram as much sensual pleasure as possible into one's mouth more or less continually. Gratification, instant and lavish, is a birthright. |
| To my mind, the only possible pet is a cow. Cows love you. . . . They will listen to your problems and never ask a thing in return. They will be your friends forever. And when you get tired of them, you can kill and eat them. Perfect. |
| Up to a third of bundling couples found themselves presented with a permanent souvenir of the occasion |
| We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life's dominant species that it is hard to grasp that we are only here because of timely extraterrestrial bangs and other random flukes. |
| We have been chosen, ... by fate or providence or whatever you wish to call it. As far as we can tell, we are the best there is. We may be all there is. It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously. |
| What an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home, and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile attempt to recapture the comforts that you wouldn't have lost if you hadn't left home in the first place. |
| What an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home, and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile attempt to recapture the comforts that you wouldn't have lost if you hadn't left home in the first place. |
| When I was growing up I used to think that the best thing about coming from Des Moines was that it meant you didn't come from anywhere else in Iowa. By Iowa standards, Des Moines is a mecca of cosmopolitanism, a dynamic hub of wealth and education . . . |
| 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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