# The Lost Continent

- Author: [Bill Bryson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bill-bryson.md)
- Quotes: 10
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/bill-bryson/the-lost-continent

## Quotes

> When you come from Des Moines you either accept the fact without question and settle down with a girl called Bobbi and get a job in the Firestone factory and live there forever and ever or you spend your adolescence moaning at length about what a dump it is and how you can't wait to get out and then you settle down with a local girl named Bobbi and get a job in the Firestone factory and live there forever and ever.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bill-bryson/the-lost-continent/when-you-come.md)

> I watched a rerun on television of a 1960s comedy programme called "Mr Ed", which was about a talking horse. Judging by the quality of the jokes, I would guess that Mr Ed wrote his own material.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bill-bryson/the-lost-continent/i-watched-a-rerun.md)

> A sign in the yard of a church next door said CHRIST IS THE ANSWER. (The question, of course, is: What do you say when you strike your thumb with a hammer?)

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bill-bryson/the-lost-continent/a-sign-in-the.md)

> My father liked Iowa. He lived his whole life in the state, and is even now working his way through eternity there, in Glendale Cemetery in Des Moines.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bill-bryson/the-lost-continent/my-father-liked.md)

> Just down the road stood a little town, which I shall call Dullard lest the people recognize themselves and take me to court or come to my house and batter me with baseball bats.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bill-bryson/the-lost-continent/just-down-the.md)

> For forty years or so this was the world headquarters of conspicuous consumption.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bill-bryson/the-lost-continent/for-forty-years.md)

> I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted or a life so full of stimulus that you are easily bored. But then it occurred to me that musing is a pointless waste of anyone's time, and instead I went off to see if I could find a Baby Ruth candy bar, a far more profitable exercise.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bill-bryson/the-lost-continent/i-mused-for.md)

> I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bill-bryson/the-lost-continent/i-come-from.md)

> I assume he was descended from apes like all the rest of us, but clearly in his case it had been a fairly gentle slope.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bill-bryson/the-lost-continent/i-assume-he-was.md)

> I had to calm down because a state trooper pulled up alongside me at a traffic light and began looking at me with that sort of casual disdain you often get when you give a dangerously stupid person a gun and a squad car.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bill-bryson/the-lost-continent/i-had-to-calm.md)