I grew up with my little brother, and we were raised by my grandmother. I was an insider for real. I stayed in the house a lot, writing songs or playing video games, watching TV, or chilling with my girlfriend.


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I would make a genuinely terrible guide. I can't remember things. I would get half way through t...
BILL BRYSON
Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a ki...
BILL BRYSON
Those lanes will be constructed during the 2006 construction season. Traffic will remain on the exis...
CRAIG BRYSON
Three hundred types of mussel, a third of the world’s total, live in the Smokies. Smokies mussels ...
BILL BRYSON
I have made a career of bumbling around places, stumbling on landmarks and generally being quite hap...
BILL BRYSON
Language, never forget, is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciati...
BILL BRYSON
In my day the principal concerns of university students were sex, smoking dope, rioting and learning...
BILL BRYSON
No one knows, incidentally, why Australia's spiders are so extravagantly toxic; capturing small inse...
BILL BRYSON
In 1927, if you were stuck with idle time, reading is what you did. It's no accident that the &#...
BILL BRYSON
I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most ...
BILL BRYSON
I am taking this very seriously and I am honored to be appointed. It's not every day that an immigra...
BILL BRYSON
Nothing gives the English more pleasure, in a quiet but determined sort of way, than to do things od...
BILL BRYSON
Most scientists are without exception adorably quirky, and one of the ways of making it more accessi...
BILL BRYSON
When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his express...
BILL BRYSON
I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, a...
BILL BRYSON
the party animal of the atomic world?
BILL BRYSON
A bank robber in Los Angeles told the clerk not to give him cash, but to deposit the money in his ch...
BILL BRYSON
And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious eno...
BILL BRYSON
In three minutes, 98 percent of all the matter there is or will ever be has been produced. We have a...
BILL BRYSON
My first rule of travel is never to go to a place that sounds like a medical condition and Critz is ...
BILL BRYSON
Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think there is nothing...
BILL BRYSON
It will help more evenly distribute the east-west traffic in that area.
CRAIG BRYSON
English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and termin...
BILL BRYSON
The lower cost of Chinese goods means we can spend more on other goods and services.
JAY BRYSON
Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business...
BILL BRYSON
One of the brilliant things about Britain is the way you've managed to save old things but to ke...
BILL BRYSON
She was torn between her customer service training and her youthful certitude.
BILL BRYSON
The good thing about our schedule, you don't want to say the 'classics' don't matter, but we can sti...
BRYSON ROSSER
It is easy to overlook this thought that life just is. As humans we are inclined to feel that life m...
BILL BRYSON
As we parted at the Natural History Museum in London, I asked Richard Fortey how science ensures tha...
BILL BRYSON
This has been a long time coming for us. We first conceived of the project about 10 years ago, and t...
CRAIG BRYSON
Music is an important factor to a healthy way of living.
MAURICE BRYSON
Surround yourself with people who value your friendship, rather than those who posed the opposite.
MAURICE BRYSON
Don't be pigheaded over your successes, but rather educate and inspire others to follow in your foot...
MAURICE BRYSON
Love is magical, adorable, and challenging. To get the best out of it, you have to live it, feel it,...
MAURICE BRYSON
In general, a rising rate environment slows down growth, so most companies are not going to go as go...
JAY BRYSON
Don’t pinch that guy’s ass. He’s a leprechaun.
KATHY BRYSON
It was never just about the money.
KATHY BRYSON
She caught you. Therefore she gets your treasure.
KATHY BRYSON
Are you trying to seduce me or trick me?
KATHY BRYSON
No one ever said you can’t have world dominance and a little romance too.
KATHY BRYSON
You didn’t make her sue you, even if you did punch her at that wedding.
KATHY BRYSON
A leprechaun did not just kill off my car in a hailstorm.
KATHY BRYSON
Grabbing someone’s ass doesn’t count as capturing them!
KATHY BRYSON
Oh, you’re hardly one to talk. Look where ogling a man got you.
KATHY BRYSON
Everything you’re telling me was just a story, and now it’s real.
KATHY BRYSON
He's going to greet some freshman the same way.
MATT BRYSON
When you grow up in middle America you are inculcated from the earliest age with the belief - no, th...
BILL BRYSON
Unfortunately, the underlying details [of this report] suggest that it would be premature to break o...
JAY BRYSON
We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life's dominant species that it is hard to ...
BILL BRYSON
To my mind, the only possible pet is a cow. Cows love you. . . . They will listen to your problems a...
BILL BRYSON
My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.
BILL BRYSON