Quotes by : Bill Bryson

Widespread commercial distribution of ice was so new that 300 tons of the precious commodity melted at....

Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally....

The universe is an amazingly fickle and eventful place, and our existence within is a wonder.

This is a world where things move at their own pace, including a tiny lift Fortey and I shared with a....

It was the kind of pure, undiffused light that can only come from a really hot blue sky, the kind that....

Considerable thought was given in early Congresses to the possibility of renaming the country. From the....

She would only make me take my seat if I didn't act calm and Swiss about it all.

Pantaloons were often worn tight as paint and were not a great deal less revealing, particularly as they....

The author reveals a cultural change that took place when clergy were paid based on a tax on the land's....

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