Bill Bryson Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality.

  Bill Bryson

  Giving, Personality, Identity

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.130, Lulu Press, Inc

• So here I am, my affections torn between a postal service that never feeds me but can tackle a challenge and one that gives me free tape and prompt service but won't help me out when I can't remember a street name. The lesson to draw from this, of course, is that when you move from one country to another you have to accept that there are some things that are better and some things worse, and there is nothing you can do about it. That may not be the profoundest of insights to take away from a morning's outing, but I did get a free doughnut as well, so on balance I guess I'm happy.

  Bill Bryson

  Country, Morning, Moving

• No one knows, incidentally, why Australia's spiders are so extravagantly toxic; capturing small insects and injecting them with enough poison to drop a horse would appear to be the most literal case of overkill. Still, it does mean that everyone gives them lots of space.

  Bill Bryson

  Horse, Mean, Australia

  Bill Bryson (2001). “In a Sunburned Country”, Broadway

• 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

  Giving, Worry, Television

  Bill Bryson (1991). “Neither here nor there: travels in Europe”, Harvill Secker

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