47 ordspråk av Bill Bryson

Bill Bryson

Bill Bryson föddes den 10 november 1946
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Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.

Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.

Nothing gives the English more pleasure, in a quiet but determined sort of way, than to do things oddly.

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 . . .

Most scientists are without exception adorably quirky, and one of the ways of making it more accessible was to try to get readers interested in the person.

The biggest attraction in Britain is Britain - the whole package. Our heritage is not just a collection of ornaments scattered across the country, it is Britain itself and makes us gloriously distinguishable from any other country.

When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.

. . . I happened upon a path that vanished into a wood on the edge of town.

I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting.

I like it [Australia] a lot, I think it's a terrific country; they really know how to live. The natural history of the place is endlessly fascinating.

the party animal of the atomic world?

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.

I am taking this very seriously and I am honored to be appointed. It's not every day that an immigrant more or less fresh off the boat gets invited to help run a national institution.

A Walk in the Woods

African Diary.

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