Билл Брайсон цитаты

Уи́льям «Билл» Макгуа́йр Бра́йсон — американский писатель, многие книги которого стали бестселлерами. Брайсон известен своими юмористическими книгами о путешествиях, английском языке и науке. Брайсон уроженец США, однако большую часть времени проживал в Северном Йоркшире . В 1995 году Билл Брайсон переезжает в США, но в 2003-м возвращается в Англию и на данный момент[когда?] проживает в Норфолке.

Когда Брайсон вернулся в США в 1995 году, он решил пройти Аппалачскую тропу со своим другом. О своих впечатлениях он написал книгу «Затерявшийся в дебрях» , по которой сняли фильм, вышедший в 2015 году.

Отмечен Descartes Science Communication Prize за свою книгу «Краткая история почти всего на свете». Wikipedia  

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Билл Брайсон: Цитаты на английском языке

“There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.”

Bill Bryson книга A Short History of Nearly Everything

Источник: A Short History of Nearly Everything

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

Bill Bryson книга A Short History of Nearly Everything

Источник: 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.”

Источник: 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 книга 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 книга A Short History of Nearly Everything

Источник: 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 книга A Short History of Nearly Everything

Источник: A Short History of Nearly Everything

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

Bill Bryson A Walk in the Woods

Источник: A Walk in the Woods

“I was heading to Nebraska. Now there's a sentence you don't want to say too often if you can possibly help it.”

Источник: The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America

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

Bill Bryson книга A Short History of Nearly Everything

Источник: A Short History of Nearly Everything

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

Bill Bryson книга A Short History of Nearly Everything

Источник: 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 книга A Short History of Nearly Everything

Источник: A Short History of Nearly Everything

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

Bill Bryson книга Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe

Источник: Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe

“Geologists are never at a loss for paperweights.”

Bill Bryson книга A Short History of Nearly Everything

Источник: 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)
Источник: The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid