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Bill Bryson Quote: “Everyone has a supremely low moment somewhere along the AT, usually when the urge to quit the trail becomes almost overpowering. The irony of my moment was that I wanted to get back on the trail and didn’t know how. I hadn’t lost just Katz, my boon companion, but my whole sense of connectedness to the trail. I had lost my momentum, my feeling of purpose. In the most literal way I needed to find my feet again.”
Bill Bryson Quote: “Facts are surprisingly delible things, and in four hundred years a lot of them simply fade away. One of the most popular plays of the age was Arden of Faversham, but no one now knows who wrote it. When an author’s identity is known, that knowledge is often marvelously fortuitous.”
Bill Bryson Quote: “A straightforward way of defining metaphysics is as the set of assumptions and practices present in the scientist’s mind before he or she begins to do science. There is nothing wrong.”
Bill Bryson Quote: “If we should be worrying about anything to do with the future of English, it should not be that the various strands will drift apart but that they will grow indistinguishable. And what a sad, sad loss that would be.”
Bill Bryson Quote: “Suddenly we were in Hawaii – tropical mountains running down to sparkling seas, sweeping bays, flawless beaches guarded by listing palms, little green and rocky islands standing off the headlands. From time to time we drove through sunny canefields, overlooked by the steep, blue eminence of the Great Dividing Range.”
Bill Bryson Quote: “I have long known that it is part of God’s plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth, and Mary Ellen was proof that even in the Appalachian woods I would not be spared. It became evident that she was a rarity.”
Bill Bryson Quote: “Baron Rothschild, whose obsessive quest for rare species led to the annihilation of several.”
Bill Bryson Quote: “Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.”
Bill Bryson Quote: “Is it raining out?’ the reception girl asked brightly as I filled in the registration card between sneezes and pauses to wipe water from my face with the back of my arm. ‘No, my ship sank and I had to swim the last seven miles.”
Bill Bryson Quote: “It sometimes occurs to me that the British have more heritage than is good for them. In a country where there is so astonishingly much of everything, it is easy to look on it as a kind of inexhaustible resource.”
Bill Bryson Quote: “Moreover, wool wasn’t sheared in the early days, but painfully plucked. It is little wonder that sheep are such skittish animals when humans are around.”
Bill Bryson Quote: “Worse still, it isn’t actually necessary to look to space for petrifying danger. As we are about to see, Earth can provide plenty of danger of its own.”
Bill Bryson Quote: “If a product or enterprise doesn’t constantly reinvent itself, it is superseded, cast aside, abandoned without sentiment in favor of something bigger, newer, and, alas, nearly always uglier.”
Bill Bryson Quote: “Nothing gives the English more pleasure, in a quiet but determined sort of way, than to do things oddly.”
Bill Bryson Quote: “And before long there will be no more milk in bottles delivered to the doorstep or sleepy rural pubs, and the countryside will be mostly shopping centers and theme parks. Forgive me. I don’t mean to get upset. But you are taking my world away from me, piece by little piece, and sometimes it just pisses me off. Sorry.”
Bill Bryson Quote: “Walpole invented a term, gloomth, to convey the ambience of Gothick; Wyatt’s houses were the very quintessence of gloomth.”
Bill Bryson Quote: “Life, in short, just wants to be.”
Bill Bryson Quote: “For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless, and then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.”
Bill Bryson Quote: “Illiteracy was the usual condition in sixteenth-century England, to be sure. According to one estimate at least 70 percent of men and 90 percent of women of the period couldn’t even sign their names. But as one moved up the social scale, literacy rates rose appreciably.”
Bill Bryson Quote: “The patients on Tuke Ward were a pleasant and tractable bunch and practised insanity with a certain elan.”
Bill Bryson Quote: “Our instinct may be to see the impossibility of tracking everything down as frustrating, dispiriting, perhaps even appalling, but it can just as well be viewed as almost unbearably exciting. We live on a planet that has a more or less infinite capacity to surprise. What reasoning person could possibly want it any other way?”
Bill Bryson Quote: “I am so well prepared financially that I have money in a range of currencies that no longer exist. I.”
Bill Bryson Quote: “I am quite certain that if the rest of the world vanished overnight and the development of cricket was left in Australian hands, within a generation the players would be wearing shorts and using the bats to hit each other.”
Bill Bryson Quote: “For five of fifteen smells tested, humans actually outperformed dogs.”
Bill Bryson Quote: “I’m definitely an American, because I grew up here. But I’ve lived very happily in Britain.”
Bill Bryson Quote: “And yet in Britain, despite the constant buffetings of history, English survived. It is a cherishable irony that a language that succeeded almost by stealth, treated for centuries as the inadequate and second-rate tongue of peasants, should one day become the most important and successful language in the world.”
Bill Bryson Quote: “His colleague Richard Feynman wanted to call these new basic particles partons16, as in Dolly, but was over-ruled. Instead they became known as quarks.”
Bill Bryson Quote: “A physicist is the atoms’ way of thinking about atoms. – Anonymous.”
Bill Bryson Quote: “Put in the crudest terms, Australia was slightly more important to us in 1997 than bananas, but not nearly as important as ice cream.”
Bill Bryson Quote: “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.”
Bill Bryson Quote: “Almost three-quarters of the forty million antibiotic prescriptions written each year in the United States are for conditions that cannot be cured with antibiotics.”
Bill Bryson Quote: “Whatever else it may be, at the level of chemistry life is curiously mundane: carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen, a little calcium, a dash of sulfur, a light dusting of other very ordinary elements – nothing you wouldn’t find in any ordinary drugstore – and that’s all you need. The only thing special about the atoms that make you is that they make you. That is of course the miracle of life.”
Bill Bryson Quote: “But I got a great deal else from the experience. I learned to pitch a tent and sleep beneath the stars. For a brief, proud period I was slender and fit. I gained a profound respect for the wilderness and nature and the benign dark power of woods. I understand now, in a way I never did before, the colossal scale of the world. I found patience and fortitude that I didn’t know I had. I discovered an America that millions of people scarcely know exists. I made a friend. I came home.”
Bill Bryson Quote: “As humans we are inclined to feel that life must have a point. We have plans and aspirations and desires. We want to take constant advantage of all the intoxicating existence we’ve been endowed with. But what’s life to a cell? Yet it’s impulse to exist, to be, is every bit as strong as ours – perhaps even stronger. Life just wants to be.”
Bill Bryson Quote: “It would be just my luck, of course, to be savaged by an animal with a flea collar and a medical history. I imagined lying on my back, being extravagantly ravaged, inclining my head slightly to read a dangling silver tag that said: “My name is Mr. Bojangles. If found please call Tanya and Vinny at 924-4667.”
Bill Bryson Quote: “Don’t ever do anything on principle alone. If you haven’t got a better reason for doing something other than the principle of the thing, then don’t do it.”
Bill Bryson Quote: “A cough so robust that I tapped into two new seams of phlegm.”
Bill Bryson Quote: “Every kid I knew had a father with a little stash of men’s magazines which the father thought was secret and which the kid knew all about.”
Bill Bryson Quote: “In 1935, not far from where we stood now, some fishermen captured a fourteen-foot beige shark and took it to a public aquarium at Coogee, where it was put on display. The shark swam around for a day or two in its new home, then abruptly, and to the certain surprise of the viewing public, regurgitated a human arm.”
Bill Bryson Quote: “Des Moines is like your typical American city; it’s just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city.”
Bill Bryson Quote: “According to Time Out magazine, at any given moment there are 600,000 people on the Underground, making it both a larger and more interesting place than Oslo.”
Bill Bryson Quote: “In Britain or Germany or America you might with great luck find a new strain of mountaintop lichen or some sprig of previously overlooked moss, but in Australia take a stroll through the bush and you can find half a dozen unnamed wildflowers, a grove of Jurassic angiosperms, and probably a ten-kilo lump of gold. I know where I’d be working if I were in science.”
Bill Bryson Quote: “When even camels can’t manage a desert, you know you’ve found a tough part of the world.”
Bill Bryson Quote: “At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as “the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing concerning reciprocity of amorant feelings by the object of the amorance.” That is jargon – the practice of never calling a spade a spade when you might instead call it a manual earth-restructuring implement – and it is one of the great curses of modern English.”
Bill Bryson Quote: “Life in Australia would go on, and I would hear nothing, because once you leave Australia, Australia ceases to be.”
Bill Bryson Quote: “You discard about a hundred billion red blood cells every day. They are a big component of what makes your stools brown.”
Bill Bryson Quote: “Noting the lack of crime or security in the Netherlands, the author asked a native who guarded a national landmark. He got the replay, “We all do.”
Bill Bryson Quote: “As my father always used to tell me, ‘You see, son, there’s always someone in the world worse off than you.’ And I always used to think, ‘So?”
Bill Bryson Quote: “Describing his experience with the sting of an extremely toxic jellyfish, he did something you don’t often see a scientist do: he shivered.”
Bill Bryson Quote: “The rooms were small and airless and cramped. To make matters worse, somebody in our group was making the most dreadful silent farts. Fortunately, it was me, so I wasn’t nearly as bothered as the others.”
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