Bill Bryson Quotes About Worry
-
The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience.
→ -
What this means in practice is that if you are not a born worrier you have nothing to worry about (though of course you wouldn't be worrying anyway), whereas if you are a worrier by nature there is absolutely nothing you can do about it, so you may as well stop worrying, except of course you can't.
→ -
Australians are very unfair in this way. They spend half of any conversation insisting that the country's dangers are vastly overrated and that there's nothing to worry about, and the other half telling you how six months ago their Uncle Bob was driving to Mudgee when a tiger snake slid out from under the dashboard and bit him on the groin, but that it's okay now because he's off the life support machine and they've discovered he can communicate with eye blinks.
→
Related Authors
-
Charles Lindbergh Aviator -
Jon Krakauer Writer -
Simon Winchester Author -
Bruce Chatwin Novelist -
David Sedaris Humorist -
Malcolm Gladwell Journalist -
Ethan Gilsdorf Writer -
Robert Redford Actor -
J. Maarten Troost Writer -
Mary Roach Author -
Richard P. Feynman Physicist -
Kurt Vonnegut Writer -
Christopher Hitchens Author -
Nick Nolte Actor -
Emma Thompson Actress -
Douglas Adams Writer -
Terry Pratchett Author -
Ryszard Kapuscinski Journalist -
Paul Theroux Film writer