The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population.
Bill BrysonAll the things that are part of your heritage make you British - that makes this country what it is. It's part of your history. And here, unlike America, it's still living history.
Bill BrysonPhysics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.
Bill BrysonEnglish grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin, a language with which it has precious little in common.
Bill Bryson