Mary Roach Quotes

I've read plenty of amazing science pieces where the writers don't hang out in labs. I just have fun doing it. And I get rewarded for it; I get gushy, especially when kids tell me they expected to be bored by my books, but weren't.

Mary Roach

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ScienceFunAmazingMeHave FunOut

I always feel that I have missed some good fortune if I am away from home when my bees swarm. What a delightful summer sound it is! How they come pouring out of the hive, twenty or thirty thousand bees, each striving to get out first!

John Burroughs

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It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.

Johan Huizinga

LifeHeroImpossibleKnowNothing

There is so much that can be done, you see, the assembly is about improving our democracy.

Ron Davies

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I always say that I've been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that's what comes out when you get me on camera.

Martin Scorsese

MeCameraYouBadSayMood

When actors are the real deal, all that star whatever goes right out the window and you're there to tell a story.

Mireille Enos

WindowStoryYouRightRealOut

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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Some people have this crazy talent that makes you tap into a human side as well, even with all their fame.

Dito Montiel

TalentPeopleCrazyYouFameHuman

We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.

Davy Crockett

MoneyCharityCongressRightDollar

It was just my sense being on the ground, doing four unique independents a week and then finally seeing how, at the ROH event, fans react to us as a group. I really see the sport trending upwards.

Cody Rhodes

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I was a strange kid. I'm still strange. People didn't get me. And I didn't expect them to.

Brittany Howard

PeopleMeStrangeKidExpectGet

If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right thing nine out of 10 times.

Anselm Feuerbach

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I didn't know much about video games.

Anna Torv

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