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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

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

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

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

He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor.

Bill Bryson

American author

Appearance Insults

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

Let’s be frank, the Italians’ technological contribution to humankind stopped with the pizza oven.

Bill Bryson

American author

Places Italy

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

Stand on two phone books almost anywhere in Iowa and you get a view.

Bill Bryson

American author

Places On the flatness of Iowa

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

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

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Author: Bill Bryson

My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can’t make your children carry.

The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience

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.

When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.

He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor.

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.

Let’s be frank, the Italians’ technological contribution to humankind stopped with the pizza oven.

Boston's freeway system was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.

Stand on two phone books almost anywhere in Iowa and you get a view.

In New England there are three times of year… either winter has just been, or winter is coming, or it’s winter.

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.