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Mary Roach Quotes

I don't fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.

Mary Roach

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: March 20, 1959

Topics

Fear Loneliness Depression Beach

You try to do the best with what you've got and ignore everything else. That's why horses get blinders in horse racing: You look at the horse next to you, and you lose a step.

Jimmy Iovine

Best Step Ignore Racing Horse Look

If you really want something you just hang with it. We think our future's ahead and not behind.

Jerry Only

Future Think You Want Ahead Hang

It's rare - too rare, I have to say - for botanists to become doctors.

Andrew Weil

Say Become Rare Doctors Too

Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these people and suddenly to pause and petrify, stiff, still and glittering... and the objects in the room drew a little closer together.

Robert Musil

Time Together People World Pause

I still approach every film and role like it's my first.

Sridevi

First Film Role Still Like Approach

You don't really get to witness what athletes go through. Like, the sacrifices and stuff like that. It's by far the most amazing, beautiful thing.

Steven Adams

Beautiful Amazing You Go Through

What the human being sees, what is poured into his environment, becomes a force in him. In accordance with it, he forms himself.

Rudolf Steiner

Environment Human Him Human Being He

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Douglas Adams

Learning Yourself Flying Ground Miss

'Driving while black' was taught to me at a young age.

Colson Whitehead

Age Me Black Driving Young Taught

I watch a lot of NBA basketball, especially with the playoffs.

Coby Bell

Basketball Playoffs Watch NBA Lot

I remembered the 500 people that lived on a reserve outside my little town, behind a big fence.

Phillip Noyce

People Fence Outside Lived Big Town

My only market analysis was to look around and see that, in one way or another, most watches are inspired by watches that were made in the 18th and 19th centuries. If I wanted a watch like that, I'd much rather buy the real thing at auction than a replica.

Richard Mille

Watches Look Way Real See Analysis