Why, it's a perfect little city. If you have never been to Durham, go there at once. Take my car. It's wonderful. - Bill Bryson

and let's face it, the French Army couldn't beat a girls hockey team

Perhaps nothing speaks more eloquently of the variability of spelling in the age than the fact that a dictionary published in 1604, A Table Alphabeticall of Hard Words, spelled “words” two ways on the title page.

"I had recently read that 3.7 million Americans, according to a Gallup poll, believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another, so it was clear that my people needed me." — On his move back to America after living in England for twenty years.