Bill Bryson cytaty

William McGuire „Bill” Bryson – amerykański pisarz, autor książek podróżniczych, popularnonaukowych oraz dotyczących języka angielskiego.

Jego rodzicami byli William, senior i Mary z d. McGuire. Przez dwa lata uczęszczał na Drake University w Des Moines. Od 1973 pracował w Wielkiej Brytanii. Jest związany z Durham University. Od 2003 mieszka w angielskim hrabstwie Norfolk. 13 grudnia 2006 został odznaczony Orderem Imperium Brytyjskiego za dorobek literacki. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. Grudzień 1951   •   Natępne imiona بیل بروسون
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Bill Bryson: Cytaty po angielsku

“99.99 percent of all species that have ever lived are no longer with us.”

Bill Bryson książka A Short History of Nearly Everything

Źródło: A Short History of Nearly Everything

“Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding.”

Źródło: I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away

“We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.”

Bill Bryson książka Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe

Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe (1991)

“Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality.”

Bill Bryson książka A Short History of Nearly Everything

Źródło: A Short History of Nearly Everything

“Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.”

Bill Bryson książka A Short History of Nearly Everything

Źródło: A Short History of Nearly Everything

“Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.”

Bill Bryson książka A Short History of Nearly Everything

Źródło: A Short History of Nearly Everything

“Life just wants to be; but it doesn't want to be much.”

Bill Bryson książka A Short History of Nearly Everything

Źródło: A Short History of Nearly Everything

“It is a curious feature of our existance that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it.”

Bill Bryson książka A Short History of Nearly Everything

Źródło: A Short History of Nearly Everything

“Isn´t it strange how wealth is always wasted on the rich?”

Bill Bryson książka Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe

Źródło: Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe

“Geologists are never at a loss for paperweights.”

Bill Bryson książka A Short History of Nearly Everything

Źródło: A Short History of Nearly Everything

“I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.”

Bill Bryson The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

Opening line.
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America (1989)
Źródło: The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid