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.
Bill BrysonI'm not funny in person. I mean I'm really not. I'm one of those people who always screw up anecdotes.
Bill BrysonThe remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know.
Bill BrysonAt a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as "the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing concerning reciprocity of amorant feelings by the object of the amorance." That is jargon - the practice of never calling a spade a spade when you might instead call it a manual earth-restructuring implement - and it is one of the great curses of modern English.
Bill Bryson