Quotes by : Bill Bryson

If a potato can produce vitamin C, why can't we? Within the animal kingdom only humans and guinea pigs....

Perhaps it’s my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is....

People don't talk like this, theytalklikethis. Syllables, words, sentences run together like a watercolor....

And there was never a better time to delve for pleasure in language than the sixteenth century, when....

The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain....

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

From that original colony sprang seven names that still feature on the landscape: Roanoke (which has....

Take a moment from time to time to remember that you are alive. I know this sounds a trifle obvious,....

It may not look it, but all the glass on Earth is flowing downwards under the relentless drag of gravity.....

The little town of Dayton - not far from where Katz and I now sat, as it happened - was the scene of....