Mary Roach Quotes

If you could really guarantee that the money would be spent on something more worthwhile, I'd say, absolutely, scrap the space program, but it never works that way.

Mary Roach

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MoneySpaceYouSayWayNever

As a continent, I think there are opportunities for Asia to accept imports of Wyoming coal.

Matt Mead

OpportunitiesThinkAcceptWyoming

Fate keeps on happening.

Anita Loos

FateHappeningKeeps

I have a lot of fake food in my apartment, but I'm picky about it. Old plaster food, like from the '50s is really nice, hollowed out paper-mache food from old plays - the new stuff just looks too good.

Amy Sedaris

GoodFoodFakeLooksNewNice

The best schools tend to have the best teachers, not to mention parents who supervise homework, so there is less need for self-organised learning. But where a child comes from a less supportive home environment, where there are family tensions perhaps, their schoolwork can suffer. They need to be taught to think and study for themselves.

Sugata Mitra

FamilyLearningHomeBestParents

I think of feminism as a socially just and imaginative world.

Suheir Hammad

WorldThinkFeminismJustI Think

We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.

Robert Byrd

MenLawNeverNationCruelLaws

You want to work with people who you like and have an easy rapport with.

Mike White

WorkPeopleEasyYouWantLike

The authority of a life for Christ always has greater influence than the authority of talking. A young person can possess all of the benefits of authority - influence, respect, and strength - just by following Jesus wherever he leads.

Mike Yaconelli

LifeStrengthRespectInfluence

I think I skipped a lot of music, like when I was 17 or 18. I didn't know about a lot of new bands because I was so immersed in older music.

Michael Kiwanuka

MusicThinkNewKnowBecauseOlder

While the Beatles always had George Martin around to clean up their act, the Rolling Stones had Andrew Loog Oldham to coarsen theirs.

Jon Landau

CleanAlwaysUpActClean UpStones

I grew up in Ditchling. It was an idyllic village at the foot of the South Downs. In those days, the village was full of artists and sculptors.

Donald Sinden

VillageUpDaysFootArtistsFull

If you wanna be your own boss, you gotta work your way up - have the skills.

Courtney A. Kemp

WorkBossYouSkillsWayOwn

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