Mary Roach Quotes

Mushy food is a form of sensory deprivation. In the same way that a dark, silent room will eventually drive you to hallucinate, the mind rebels against bland, single-texture foods, edibles that do not engage the oral device.

Mary Roach

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FoodMindDriveYouDarkSilent

Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood.

Jimmy Breslin

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The GSEs became powerful advocates for their own bottom lines, providing substantial financial support for political candidates who supported the GSE agenda.

Jerome Powell

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If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?

Anita Roddick

GoodHellDoingSomethingPublicAm

I feel French is very close to Urdu. Both languages are beautiful. Sadly, their beauty is lost in translation.

Amisha Patel

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I don't like the way young people write and talk about the old. I don't like their attitude, which, if they weren't young and therefore bright and vibrant, would be called outdated.

Ruth Rendell

AttitudePeopleYoungWayTalkOld

Failure to take note of the fact that the character of twentieth-century humanity differs from that of humanity in the fifteenth century, let alone before and at the time of the Mystery of Golgotha, is to sleep through the process of world evolution.

Rudolf Steiner

FailureCharacterAloneTimeSleep

My mom had me when she was 25, and I'm 28 now, and just to even imagine myself three years ago starting to have children and be married and have my career, it's pretty trippy, and I'm so proud and kind of in awe of her.

Rumer Willis

ChildrenMyselfMeMomProudCareer

I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.

Mike Tyson

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To write about the hijab is to step into a minefield. Even among those who share my cultural and faith background, opinions veer from those who despise it as a symbol of backwardness to those for whom religion begins and ends with that piece of cloth.

Mona Eltahawy

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Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.

Milan Kundera

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Frequent worshippers are also significantly more active citizens. They are more likely to belong to community organizations, especially those concerned with young people, health, arts and leisure, neighborhood and civic groups and professional associations.

Jonathan Sacks

CommunityHealthPeopleProfessional

Food is national security. Food is craft. Food is everything, when you think about it.

Jose Andres

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