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Bill Bryson Quotes

Total quotes: 8
“I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted or a life so full of stimulus that you are easily bored.”
— Bill Bryson, The Lost Continent
Tagged: Choices, Life, Happiness, Sadness, Boredom
“Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.”
— Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
Tagged: Home, Where You Live, History
“What's worse? To live a life so boring you are easily enchanted or a life so full of stimulus you are easily bored?”
— Bill Bryson, The Lost Continent
Tagged: Life
“He had experiences as rich and memorable as any young man has ever enjoyed, and was moved by none of them.”
— Bill Bryson, One Summer: America, 1927
Tagged: Life, Experiences, Memories
“Not long after I moved with my family to a small town in New Hampshire I happened upon a path that vanished into a wood on the edge of town.”
— Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Tagged: first lines of books, Hiking, Outdoors
“In my day the principal concerns of university students were sex, smoking dope, rioting and learning. Learning was something you did only when the first three weren't available.”
— Bill Bryson, The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
Tagged: university, Sex, College
“My first rule of consumerism is never buy anything you can't make your children carry.”
— Bill Bryson, The Lost Continent
Tagged: Life
“TV inventor John Logie Baird hates dealing with his board of directors. The chairman was particularly fat. So he designed his lab with a deliberately narrow entrance. He had to be shoved through. He was so humiliated, he never returned.”
— Bill Bryson, One Summer: America, 1927
Tagged: strategy
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