Best quotes by Bill Bryson on Time
Checkout quotes by Bill Bryson on Time
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‟ There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States - alcohol production - and just handed it to criminals - a pretty remarkable thing to do.
- Bill Bryson
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‟ I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth.
- Bill Bryson
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‟ In 1927, if you were stuck with idle time, reading is what you did. It's no accident that the 'Book-of-the-Month Club' and 'The Literary Guild' were founded in that period as well as a lot of magazines, like 'Reader's Digest,' 'Time,' and 'The New Yorker.'
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‟ I can't imagine there has ever been a more gratifying time or place to be alive than America in the 1950s. No country had ever known such prosperity.
- Bill Bryson
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‟ I want things to be better all the time. And I tend to get angry about that. Books are an opportunity to vent.
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‟ Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long coma. Time, you discover, has wrought changes that leave you feeling mildly foolish and out of touch.
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‟ 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.
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‟ 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.
- Bill Bryson