Mary Roach Quotes

Spacewalking is a little like rock climbing in that everything, including and especially oneself, must be tethered or docked at all times. If you forget to tether a tool, it's gone. Ditto yourself.

Mary Roach

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

YourselfYouForgetRockEverything

I've seen a lot of real out-of-line attitudes since I have been in the WWF and those people are still there or are getting a second or third chance or something like that.

Jerry Lawler

PeopleChanceRealSeenSomething

Rodgers & Hart had a few flops before they clicked. You know, it happens. I don't know anyone who always gets away with everything.

Maury Yeston

YouKnowAlwaysEverythingAwayWho

I find it very beautiful to work in different countries because I see the mentality differences there. It is so rich, one always carries forward something.

Michelle Hunziker

WorkBeautifulForwardRichFind

I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.

Louis C. K.

LiveGreatWorldYouSayUseless

My favorite thing to do in L.A. is to be in a car with friends listening to music. The perfect time is twilight, when the setting sun is filtering through the palm trees. Back in the day, we'd be listening to the Vandals, X, or Farside. Now it would be L.A.-based bands like Dum Dum Girls, Foxygen, or Ty Segall.

Liz Goldwyn

CarMusicTimeDaySunListening

Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.

Joyce Appleby

KnowledgeCreatingTryAvoidAttempt

I know that I'm going to die and that you're going to die. I can't do anything about that. But I can explore it through a metaphor and make a kind of funny, dark story about it, and in doing so, really exhaust and research as many aspects of it as I can imagine. And in a way, that does give me some closure.

Chuck Palahniuk

FunnyMeResearchStoryDieDoing

Too much comedy is filthy these days. There's nothing they won't say. I like Jimmy Carr, but I don't like the language he uses. I don't understand why he feels it necessary; I find it extremely offensive.

Bobby Davro

LanguageComedyFindToo MuchSay

I'm not misunderstood. I am brash. I make my living being brash.

Penn Jillette

I AmLivingMisunderstoodBeingMake

We will continue to work with agencies across the government to unleash the power of open data and to make government data more accessible and usable for entrepreneurs, companies, researchers, and citizens everywhere - innovators who can leverage these resources to benefit Americans in a rapidly growing array of exciting and powerful ways.

Todd Park

WorkPowerGovernmentDataPowerful

I know I'm not a marquee name, and I'm looked past by most guys.

Tim Kennedy

PastNameKnowMostMarqueeGuys

When I found out my mother wanted me to marry a rich man, I instantly didn't want any rich man.

Marianne Faithfull

MotherManMeRichWantOut

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