Mary Roach Quotes

I write with a sense of my future readers being ever on the verge of setting down the book and pronouncing it a bore. Fear and insecurity are great motivators.

Mary Roach

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FearFutureGreatInsecurityBook

Dubai has got very little oil; it is Abu Dhabi that has got the oil. Dubai has very small resources, and it is running out, so the government's plan has been to relieve Dubai of any dependency on oil at all by 2010.

Maurice Flanagan

GovernmentSmallPlanDubaiOilOut

When you go for business, you just see the airport, the offices, cities. You never see what 80 per cent of the population does in a country, so if you want to understand what Indonesia is made of, or the depths of China or India, you have to go and see.

Jean-Pascal Tricoire

BusinessYouCountryIndiaAirport

It's not OK to fail. It's that things can fail and absolutely will go wrong - just keep trying, keep trying, keep trying.

Tosca Musk

TryingWrongGoWillThingsFail

Football was a wonderful experience for me. It was a means of, oh, I don't know, sustaining for much of my youth. In times of trouble, I've always had football. I always knew I was a football player. And that was a comfort on many occasions.

Tommy Lee Jones

ExperienceFootballMeYouthComfort

I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them.

Tom Stoppard

OffendedLittleThingsTakeAgainst

I grew up in a very spiritual home in a Liberty City neighborhood of Miami, FL. I was raised in the church, and my mother was a very inspirational person in my life.

Robert Battle

LifeInspirationalMotherHomeCity

I once tried to make lace - which has been a great obsession of women - unsexy. And I achieved it.

Miuccia Prada

WomenGreatObsessionLaceBeen

We should fight to preserve a country where people such as Michael Moore get to miss the point as badly as he misses it. Michael Moore represents everything I detest in a human being.

Dennis Miller

FightPeopleCountryHumanPoint

I've realized that I really like spending time in the countryside and having a garden.

Doutzen Kroes

TimeSpending TimeGardenCountryside

I grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. For part of my life, I was living in Detroit, and I remember a friend of mine commenting she could always tell when I had been speaking to my mother because my New York accent had come back.

Deborah Tannen

LifeFriendMotherNew YorkMy Life

My acting career began at age three and my parents got me into it. I was in a McDonald's commercial.

Corey Feldman

AgeParentsMeCareerActingThree

What is the 'noble cause' for which you sent our country to war?

Cindy Sheehan

WarYouCountryNobleOurCause

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