Mary Roach Quotes

Chew on this: Human teeth can detect a grain of sand or grit 10 microns in diameter. A micron is 1/25,000 of an inch. If you shrank a Coke can until it was the diameter of a human hair, the letter O in the product name would be about 10 microns across.

Mary Roach

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Blackheart Records being 25 years old represents staying power and the fact that we weren't able to get a record out through conventional means, so we had to create this record company to put out our records if we wanted to be a band that had records to give out to their fans.

Joan Jett

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I was a terrible reader as a kid. I mean terrible. Super slow and very unfocused. It took me forever to read a book, and I remember being well into high school and still needing my mom to sit down and read aloud to me so I could pass my English tests and such.

John Corey Whaley

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I'd say my biggest influences are writers like Andre Norton and, particularly when it comes to the Radch, C.J. Cherryh.

Ann Leckie

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The political gridlock in Washington leads us to conclude that policymakers don't have the ability to put the public finances of the U.S. on a sustainable footing.

John T. Chambers

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The only responsible way to write about anything is with honesty.

Stephen McCauley

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These are classic, perennial ideals we are dealing with.

Rob Morrow

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Preemptive war is what Israel did in '67 with Arab armies on its borders.

Molly Ivins

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It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

Judith Martin

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I felt really free, like I could do anything, because no one would know what to expect.

Josh Homme

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When you write non-fiction, you sit down at your desk with a pile of notebooks, newspaper clippings, and books and you research and put a book together the way you would a jigsaw puzzle.

Janine di Giovanni

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I am huge fan of Australian comedy. 'Strictly Ballroom' is one of my favorite movies. Definitely the British Commonwealth's sensibility is where I draw a lot of my influences.

Jonathan Krisel

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There's an innocence to Ozzy Osbourne. He's mingling, but he's somewhat detached.

Johnny Depp

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