Maine is wonderful. It can be very hard. I mean, if you look at the profile maps it doesn’t look it, but somehow when you get out there it’s really steep and hard. Bill Bryson Read Quote
I grew up, really, in the days before air conditioning. So I can remember what it was like to be really hot, for instance, and I can remember what it was like when your barber shop and your local stores weren’t air conditioned, so it was hot when you went in them and they propped the doors open. Bill Bryson Read Quote
More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to. Bill Bryson Read Quote
My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can’t make your children carry. Bill Bryson Read Quote
I can wear a baseball cap; I am entitled to wear a baseball cap. I am genetically pre-disposed to wear a baseball cap, whereas most English people look wrong in a baseball cap. Bill Bryson Read Quote
You don’t have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he’s just this magnificent human being. And a really good story because he was this kid who grew up essentially as an orphan, you know, had a tough life, and then he became the most successful baseball player ever. But he was also a really good guy. Bill Bryson Read Quote
When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression. Bill Bryson Read Quote
In order to have quality journalism you need to have a good income stream, and no Internet model has produced a way of generating income that would pay for good-quality investigative journalism. Bill Bryson Read Quote
I could give you a long list of things I like about Britain, but essentially what it comes down to is that I feel about Britain the same way I feel about my wife. I’m crazy about my wife – we just kind of suit each other. I wouldn’t say that she’s the most fantastic human being that’s ever lived, but she is for me. Bill Bryson Read Quote
