Mary Roach Quotes

If ergonomists have their way, future products won't be built for some hypothetical average person but will conform to the biomechanical needs of whatever particular human body happens to come into contact with them.

Mary Roach

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FutureBodyPersonWillWayHuman

I would defy people to find a more beautifully developed character than Seven of Nine.

Jeri Ryan

CharacterPeopleFindMoreWould

We need to recognize that we can't allow people that are aberrations of nature to take away the joys and freedoms that we enjoy.

John Hickenlooper

NaturePeopleEnjoyNeedTakeAway

My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom.

Michael Ironside

FreedomPeopleMeBetterOverYears

Service is the only thing that's important about love. Everybody is worried about 'losing yourself' - all this narcissism. Duty. We can't stand that idea now either... But duty might be a suit of armor you put on to fight for your love.

Meryl Streep

LoveServiceYourselfFightLosing

For me, in Buddhism there is a plethora of specific teachings that one can seek out and find for the individual dilemmas you may have.

Steven Seagal

MeYouFindOutIndividualMay

We're living in a time when people are struggling to appear perfect.

Shirley Manson

TimePeoplePerfectLivingAppear

A question is a pursuit, an invitation to envision and explore a series of possibilities, to struggle and empathize and doubt and believe. The question moves, whereas our sense of what an answer is can often be static, a stopping point.

Tracy K. Smith

StruggleBelievePossibilitiesDoubt

Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

AngerWillAbilityPersuadeAdvance

So as long as I'm a human being and I'm not perfect, I'm able to say I'm having some growing pains. Because in order to sustain where you are once you made such a breakthrough that everyone is looking at you, now everyone is like, 'Ooh, is she gonna make a mistake?' Yes, I'm going to make a mistake. Yes, I'm still gonna do things.

Mary J. Blige

MistakeNot PerfectLookingLongYou

When I served in the Army, along the Iron Curtain we had a word for a person who absconds with information and provides it to another nation: traitor. We also had a name for a person who chooses to reveal secrets he had personally promised to protect: common criminal.

Mike Pompeo

NameArmyInformationSecretsPerson

I'm not a nutcase. I know that.

Minnie Driver

Know

My genre is the pop ballad with a touch of R&B.

Luis Fonsi

TouchPopGenreBallad

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