Mary Roach Quotes

When you buy my books, you kind of know what you're in for. It's kind of self-selecting. If you have a delicate sensibility, and you're easily grossed out, you probably will never read one of my books.

Mary Roach

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

YouKnowKindWillNeverOut

I love Australia, and I especially love those rugby players.

Jennifer Coolidge

LoveAustraliaRugbyPlayersThose

As a kid, I wanted to be a pro tennis player. I was pretty good; at the tennis academies I attended, I always 'played up' against older age groups.

Matt Kuchar

GoodAgeTennisKidAlwaysUp

Of course drums weren't meant to be played other than sitting on the ground. When you're upside-down, your feet don't want to sit on the pedals.

Tommy Lee

FeetYouMeant To BeWantSitting

I wish I could remember how to write a play. I can't remember how they happened.

Tom Stoppard

WishRememberPlayWriteI WishHow

Some entertainers don't pay attention to what's going on around them.

Louis C. K.

AttentionPay AttentionPayGoing

As a rule, bond funds will not double your money overnight.

Louis Navellier

MoneyBondWillDoubleRuleYour

I don't like this romanticization of Indian people in which Indian people are looked at as spiritual saviors, as people who have always taken care of the land. We're human beings. But I think different cultures have developed different aspects of humanness.

Joy Harjo

SpiritualPeopleThinkCareLand

You come to work because the office is a resource: The office is a place where you can meet with other people, and the office has libraries of books and information on CD-ROM that might help you with your work.

Jay Chiat

WorkPeopleHelpYouInformation

I've been really, really fortunate to have a mother that has spent many, many long hours on her knees praying for me. And I guarantee you, I would almost bet everything I have that that has saved me more often than not. So it sustains me.

Jay DeMarcus

MotherMeLongYouMoreEverything

We believe that what we possess we don't ultimately own. God is merely entrusting it to us. And one of the conditions of that trust is that we share what we have with those who have less. So, if you don't give to people in need, you can hardly call yourself a Jew. Even the most unbelieving Jew knows that.

Jonathan Sacks

GodTrustYourselfPeopleBelieve

My father was Catholic, my mom Baptist, so we were raised Baptist but had a lot of Catholic upbringing: fish on Fridays, no birth control.

Dennis Haysbert

FatherMomControlFishBirth

I was so beautiful when I was young. And I took so few photos because I felt so skinny and ugly. I wish I'd just taken a few more shots.

Douglas Coupland

BeautifulUglyWishYoungMoreJust

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