Bill Bryson Quotes About Cars

• Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think there is nothing at all ridiculous about eating dinner at midnight, and the Italians should never, ever have been let in on the invention of the motor car.

  Bill Bryson

  Inspirational, Sarcastic, Fun

  Bill Bryson (2010). “Neither Here, Nor There: Travels in Europe”, p.25, Random House

• On the dashboard of our family car is a shallow indentation about the size of a paperback book. If you are looking for somewhere to put your sunglasses or spare change, it is the obvious place, and it works extremely well, I must say, so long as the car is not actually moving. However, as soon as you put the car in motion ... everything slides off ... It can hold nothing that has not been nailed to it. So I ask you: what then is it for?

  Bill Bryson

  Moving, Book, Long

• Romans park their cars the way I would park if I had just spilled a beaker of hydrochloric acid on my lap.

  Bill Bryson

  Car, Lap, Way

  Bill Bryson (1991). “Neither here nor there: travels in Europe”, Harvill Secker

• Book tours are really kind of fun. You get to stay in nice hotels, you are driven everywhere in big silver cars, you are treated as if you are much more important than you are, you can eat steak three times a day at someone else's expense, and you get to talk endlessly about yourself for weeks at a stretch.

  Bill Bryson

  Fun, Nice, Book

  Bill Bryson (2010). “Notes From A Big Country: Journey Into the American Dream”, p.262, Random House

• Las carreteras son cada vez más anchas, más transitadas y menos peatonales. Y todo el desarrollo se basa en el automóvil, como los grandes centros comerciales. Todo parece diseñado en beneficio del automóvil y no del ser humano.

  Bill Bryson

  Shopping, Car, Friendly

• Cada veinte minutos en el Sendero de los Apalaches, Katz y yo caminamos más que el estadounidense medio en una semana. En la actualidad, el 93% de los desplazamientos fuera de casa, sea cual sea la distancia o el motivo, se hacen en coche. Por término medio, el total de los desplazamientos a pie de un estadounidense hoy en día -es decir, todo tipo de paseos: del coche a la oficina, de la oficina al coche, por el supermercado y los centros comerciales- suma 1,4 millas a la semana, apenas 350 yardas al día.

  Bill Bryson

  Distance, Home, Average

  "A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail". Book by Bill Bryson, 1997.

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