Bill Bryson Quotes

I come from Des Moines, Iowa. Somebody had to. Author of

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[Clive Wismayer 🇪🇺🥪 @CliveWismayer]

As the RNLI has cropped up again, here is Bill Bryson’s quote:

“I had never really stopped to consider what an extraordinary thing the Royal National Lifeboat Institution is. Think about it. A troubled ship calls for help, and eight people – teachers, plumbers, the guy who runs the pub – drop everything and put to sea, whatever the weather, asking no questions, imperilling their own lives, to try to help strangers. Is there anything more brave and noble than that?”

I very rarely cry, which is a pity. As an adult I can count on the fingers of one hand the no. of times. I was watching the Netflix documentary on the Costa Concordia. A middle aged member of the crew was walking along a corridor. As the ship was on its side he was walking on doors, one of which swung open. He fell a considerable distance, breaking his leg. He could do nothing but wait & hope.

Two days later rescue divers, still thinking the effort worthwhile, entered the ship at great peril to themselves. Surfacing, they found him.

‘What’s your name?’
‘Mario’
‘I’m Francesco. Don’t worry. You’re safe now’.

He cried telling this story years later. I cried too.

[MrProcter @MrProcter]

@anon_opin "It tasted like something you might give a budgie to strengthen its beak" - Bill Bryson

[MrProcter @MrProcter]

Both books came on the same day! @markcooperjones and @jayforeman you are now in the company of @QuotesBryson !

[Arto Bendiken @bendiken]

I can here only echo that mixture of affection and exasperation for the English language so well captured in Bill Bryson's eminently readable The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way--a book that I look forward to handing to my kids in a few more years:

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[ritavhutchins @ritahutchins]

Writer Bill Bryson Tells Some Funny Stories, Reads From His Early Work https://t.co/FicOebfKIx via @YouTube

[Quoted Nostalgia @quotednostalgia]

@ECOWARRIORSS "It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and it's worst nightmare simultaneously."
- Bill Bryson

[Lucky Ninsiima @lucky_ninsiima]

“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.”
― Bill Bryson

Thank you Kasese 🤩
Till again 🫶🇺🇬

[Dr Ruth Vilayil @RuthV_MD]

I absolutely love how @billbrysonn nails the essence of #nonjudgment in cross-cultural #communication : "I’m not saying that these things are bad or boring or misguided, merely that their full value and appeal yet elude me." 🌍✨
#CulturalAwareness #OpenMinds @QuotesBryson

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@Mjg7777Mjg I'm not Bill, just a big fan. This is my book 😉 https://t.co/CTPj2sevE1

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[Raj @chennaikaran]

Bill Bryson explains cricket to his American readers.

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Les Dennis?

[WhatsOnStage @WhatsOnStage]

Les Dennis to star in tour of Bill Bryson's Notes From A Small Island https://t.co/i6SBImwKv2

[Enough is Plenty Z28.2- 📎 @skintnick]

@BeanMimosa Bill Bryson knows. @jjcouey knows ⬆️

[Alex.Kane @AlexKane221b]

This is why I love Bill Bryson

[Eduardo Alvarez @EdAlvarezB]

Stair safety from Bill Bryson's At Home

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

"What a wondrous place this was - crazy as f**k, of course, but adorable to the tiniest degree. What other country, after all, could possibly have come up with place names like Tooting Bec and Farleigh Wallop, or a game like cricket that goes on for three days and never seems to start?

"Who else would think it not the least odd to make their judges wear little mops on their heads, compel the Speaker of the House of Commons to sit on something called the Woolsack, or take pride in a military hero whose dying wish was to be kissed by a fellow named Hardy? ('Please Hardy, full on the lips, with just a bit of tongue.') `

"What other nation in the world could possibly have given us William Shakespeare, pork pies, Christopher Wren, Windsor Great Park, the Open University, Gardeners' Question Time and the chocolate digestive biscuit? None, of course."

Bill Bryson — Notes from a Small Island

Happy St George's Day! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

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"The tearoom lady called me love. All the shop ladies called me love and most of the men called me mate. I hadn't been here twelve hours and already they loved me.”

Bill Bryson

[Simon Lyons @ThePoliteEng]

@Potuama 💀 Been reading #BillBryson’s #AShortHistoryOfNearlyEverything with Cormac, & the level of human-caused extinction is stunning…!

📊 Latest reports are that over a million species are currently at risk of extinction…

😢 Cormac was literally shocked…so why aren’t adults?!

[Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis]

Bill Bryson has written a lot of insightful stuff in his long career but nothing comes close to this in terms of getting straight to the heart of the problem in ways that make us laugh and nod a bit sadly.