Mary Roach Quotes

LOL is rarely OL, or even really L. A real out-loud laugh - not the forced social variety, which is closer to barking than laughing - is uncommon among adults.

Mary Roach

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LaughRealVarietySocialUncommon

I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word 'natural' to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics. The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.

John Burroughs

FlowerMeBabyKeyPhysicsEarth

This whole celebrity racket, it's not really my bag. I don't really do that stuff, and I am not looking to get famous myself. I would love it if my characters get famous, my work was well known and appreciated. But I'm an actor, not a spokes model or a celebrity or whatever that is. I don't know how to be that.

John C. Reilly

WorkLoveMyselfI AmLookingBag

Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they're built to be buoyant. It's easy to demean them.

Matthew McConaughey

EasyHardBuiltWaysThemBuoyant

The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine.

John Scott

PowerExperienceEthicsInnocence

People think I must have pushy parents, but that's not the case.

Troye Sivan

ParentsPeopleThinkMustPushy

As a memoirist, I strive for veracity.

Mary Karr

StriveVeracity

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?

Michelangelo

BeautifulBlindSkinSpiritShoe

I get asked enough questions, I try not to ask too many questions.

Derek Jeter

QuestionsEnoughTryAskGetMany

The basic notion was the idea that the loudspeaker should have a voice which was unique and not just an instrument of reproduction, but an instrument unto itself.

David Tudor

VoiceUniqueJustIdeaBasicShould

For me, motivation is a person who has the capability to recruit the resources he needs to achieve a goal.

Arsene Wenger

MeMotivationGoalPersonAchieve

Luckily with '24,' for the most part, each moment is so intense, and your objective is all about that moment right then.

Annie Wersching

MomentRightIntenseYourMostPart

I'm a realist.

Penelope Keith

Realist

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