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Bill Bryson Quotes: Because time moves more slowly in Kid World ... it goes on for decades ... It is adult life that is over in a twinkling.
         

Because time moves more slowly in Kid World ... it goes on for decades ... It is adult life that is over in a twinkling.


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I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.

I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.



There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.



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.

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.



That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back.

That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back.



Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.

Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.



Geologists are never at a loss for paperweights.

Geologists are never at a loss for paperweights.



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

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



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

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



Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality.

Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality.



Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead.

Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead.





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Do not look sad. We shall meet soon again." "Please, Aslan", said Lucy,"what do you call soon?" "I call all times soon" said Aslan; and instantly he was vanished away.

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Golf has probably kept more people sane than psychiatrists have.

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At 50, you need to laugh about your age. If you don't, everybody else will do it for you. Happy birthday, old chum!

At 50, you need to laugh about your age. If you don't, everybody else will do it for you. Happy birthday, old chum!



Eighty percent of what everyone's talking about never happens. I don't mean in terms of product development that's happening right now, I'm talking about the far-flung visions of the future.

Eighty percent of what everyone's talking about never happens. I don't mean in terms of product development that's happening right now, I'm talking about the far-flung visions of the future.



Pessimism is the product of a hostile social state. Its answer is the substitution of a friendly social state. If this can be done it will disappear.

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Channel 4 are a great bunch of people to work with and the crew are lovely. Working at ITV was like being in the court of Caligula.

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