Mary Roach Quotes

A fine book, in the perfect setting, when there's all the time in the world to read it: Life holds greater joys, but none come to mind just now.

Mary Roach

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeTimeMindWorldBookPerfect

Had the United States not acted in Iraq, Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi would likely not have declared his weapons programs, submitted to international inspections and voluntarily dismantled its programs.

Jim Gerlach

LeaderUnitedWouldUnited States

I've really gotten over pedals. I can't keep up with this craze of boutique pedals that make you sound like everything but your guitar. I can't get my head around it.

Joe Bonamassa

GuitarYouSoundEverythingHeadUp

My God, the stage is the only place I know where to go.

Jerry Lewis

GodPlaceGoKnowStageWhere

But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space.

John Donne

SleepSpaceMeLordMournThem

When you're making an independent film what you don't have in time and money you have to make up with creativity and diligence.

Matthew Lillard

TimeMoneyCreativityYouDiligence

I want to continue to do some great work. I'm nowhere close to where I want to be. I'm a diverse person who's trying to use his art to make the world better.

Michael Jai White

WorkGreatArtWorldBetterTrying

I've been slightly obsessed with paper and notebooks. Among my most precious possessions is a small light-blue, breviary-sized volume - four-and-a-half inches wide, seven inches tall - made by a company called Denbigh.

Michael Dirda

SmallTallCompanyPossessionsPaper

Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me that sums up so much of what people felt after 9/11 - confusion even. And I think that's hard to capture in journalism.

Amy Waldman

PeopleMeConflictThinkJournalism

That's what I want to do when I finish fighting - build urban farms and learn how to become a farmer, because that's what I wanted to be when I was a little girl.

Rose Namajunas

GirlFightingLearnFarmerWant

Stand-up and boxing are very similar. You're the only one out there, you're going into a fight, and you're going in with a game plan.

Russell Peters

FightGamePlanYouBoxingOut

I've come to realize how much it really was a part of my upbringing, the Georgia part. We were away from town. It was just dirt and trees and spouses. And a lot of kids - my cousins, who were all like brothers and sisters to me - just a lot of kids at one time.

Alice Smith

TimeMeTreesRealizeCousinsDirt

Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance.

Wynton Marsalis

StyleSucceedSettleSubstance

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