“Maine is wonderful. It can be very hard. I mean, if you look at the pr...” — Bill Bryson Quote

“Maine is wonderful. It can be very hard. I mean, if you look at the profile maps it doesn't look it, but somehow when you get out there it's really steep and hard.”

“An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows... We're reaching the point where a lot of the English countryside looks just like Iowa - just kind of open space.”

“It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.”

“A veces el mundo no está preparado para una buena idea.”

“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.”

“Science has been quite embattled. It's the most important thing there is. An arts graduate is not going to fix global warming. They may do other valuable things, but they are not going to fix the planet or cure cancer or get rid of malaria.”

“I'm lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part.”

“Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.”

“It's just hard to meet new people, in my position.”

“A lot of people don't realize you need to get the mental training in, too, because that's just as hard, too.”

“When I listen to these women, it makes what I thought were my hard knocks feel like little nudges.”

“Every song I've had, I've had to work so, so, so hard for every stream while the song is out.”