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Author: Bill Bryson
My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can’t make your children carry.
Bill Bryson
American author
Activities
Shopping
Consumerism
The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience
Bill Bryson
American author
Places
Television
Norway
Stand on two phone books almost anywhere in Iowa and you get a view.
Bill Bryson
American author
Places
On the flatness of Iowa
For those of us who are baseball fans and agnostics, the [Baseball] Hall of Fame is as close to a religious experience as we may ever get.
Bill Bryson
American author
Baseball
Sports
Hall of Fame
When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.
Bill Bryson
American author
People
Places
Iowa
Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think there is nothing at all ridiculous about eating dinner at midnight, and the Italians should never, ever have been let in on the invention of the motor car.
Bill Bryson
American author
Insults
People
Places
Boston's freeway system was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.
Bill Bryson
American author
Places
Things
Boston
Highways
He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor.
Bill Bryson
American author
Appearance
Insults
In New England there are three times of year… either winter has just been, or winter is coming, or it’s winter.
Bill Bryson
American author
Places
Science/Weather
New England
Let’s be frank, the Italians’ technological contribution to humankind stopped with the pizza oven.
Bill Bryson
American author
Places
Italy
If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar playing, you will have some idea of what popular Turkish music is like.
Bill Bryson
American author
Entertainment
Music
Places
Turkey