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Bill Bryson Quotes

American - Writer | December 8, 1951 -

I'm not funny in person. I mean I'm really not. I'm one of those people who always screw up anecdotes.

Funny People Person Mean Always Up

I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that people do; disappointed in the things that people construct. I want things to be better all the time.

Time People Me Better Know Want

All the things that are part of your heritage make you British - that makes this country what it is. It's part of your history. And here, unlike America, it's still living history.

History America You Heritage Living

In the countryside, litter doesn't have a friend. It doesn't have anybody who's saying, 'Wait a minute, this is really starting to get out of control.'

Friend Wait Control Saying Starting

It is unthinkable to have a British countryside that doesn't have actual functioning farmers riding tractors, cows in fields, things like that.

Farmers Riding Fields Things British

I've been wanting to do a book about baseball for the longest time, and nobody will let me do it. It's the one thing from America I really miss.

Time Baseball Me Book America Will

I've been writing all these books that have been largely autobiographical and yet, really, they don't tell you anything about me. I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

Life Family Myself Me Writing World

I've never quite understood that feeling: that you arrive in a strange place, yet you want to have nothing but familiar experiences.

You Feeling Place Want Nothing

Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do.

Work World You Importance Large

You don't need a science degree to understand about science. You just need to think about it.

Science Think You Understand Need

There is the odd exception, like Albert Einstein, but as a breed, scientists tend not be very good at presenting themselves.

Good Odd Like Presenting Exception

I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a focused way.

Life World Make A Difference You Way

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