Mary Roach Quotes
Top 89 wise famous quotes and sayings by Mary Roach
Mary Roach Famous Quotes & Sayings
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US government button specifications run to twenty-two pages. This fact on its own yields a sense of what it is like to design garments for the Army.
An anatomy lab is as choosy as a pedigreed woman seeking love: You can't be too fat or too tall or have any communicable diseases.
I'm not a quick wit. I'm only funny on paper. I mean, I'm not totally humorless! It's just that in person, I'm not quite the way I am on paper.
Astronauts are like these mythic legends, but really, they are just regular people, people who wear chinos.
The human organism is built for tension and relaxation, work and sleep. The principle of life is rhythm.
People don't appreciate their intestines until something goes wrong. But I always hope that people gain a little appreciation for their guts.
The broader the topic, the easier it is, not only to fill a book, but to set the bar pretty high for really great stuff.
He has a minor in explosives and the slightly bitter, misanthropic personality of someone who shouldn't.
The writing is always the easy part, provided I can get the good material. It's the getting of the good material that's a challenge.
When I'm done with a book, I always give it to someone with expertise in the topic and tell them to flag all of my stupid mistakes.
The feminist in me, who is small and sleeps a lot but can be scrappy when provoked, took umbrage at this description.
We were unable to obtain any lesbians, Pomeroy says, as though perhaps they hadn't been in season, or his paperwork wasn't in order.)
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.
It's hard to say where is the bigger hubris, in their convictions or in the arrogance of carrying them to a third decimal point
And ever since, the U.S. Army has gone confidently into battle, knowing that when cows attack, their men will be ready. For
I believe that not everything we humans encounter in our lives can be neatly and convincingly tucked away inside the orderly cabinetry of science.
I talk to a lot of people who, when you try to sum them up in a couple of sentences, seem like they must be insane.
Borman's dumping urine. Urine [in] approximately one minute." Two lines further along, we see Lovell saying, "What a sight to behold!
I guess I feel the same way about being a corpse. Why lie around on your back when you can do something interesting and new, something useful?
Literally thousands of e-mails over the course of a book go out to people I've never met, people who might end up being the focus of a chapter.
It is interesting to come across people who feel that a ghost communicating via a spell-checker is less far-fetched than a software glitch.
I'm one of those goobers who comes out of the polling place actually wearing the 'I VOTED' sticker on my jacket.
What's different? Sweat, risk, uncertainty, inconvenience. But also, awe. Pride. Something ineffably splendid and stirring.
Many space psychology experiments these days focus on ways to detect stress or depression in a person who doesn't intend to tell you about it.
Gravity disappears again, and we rise up off the floor like spooks from a grave. It's like the Rapture in here every thirty seconds.
To me, NASA is kind of the magical kingdom. I was sort of a geek, and you go there, and there are just these wondrously strange things and people.
Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.
I'm drawn to the taboos that surround the human body. I find it fascinating that we are repelled by many of the acts and processes that keep us alive.
Pet foods come in a variety of flavors because that's what humans like, and we assume our pets like what we like. We're wrong.
How about suicide rate. And what a shame to lose them after they've made it back. We keep them alive, but we don't teach them how to live.
I am of the opinion that the vulva of Your Most Sacred Majesty should be titillated for some length of time before intercourse.
Kinsey wanted Dellenback to film his own staff. There are three ways to read that sentence, all of them true.
The simplest strategy for bouts of noxious flatus is to not care. Or perhaps to take advantage of a gastroenterologist I know: get a dog. (To blame.)
If you get a colonoscopy, you should really insist they give you no drugs - then you do get to see what it's like to swim through your own intestines.
Fletcherizing is gross. I tried it once. I tried to go until it's all liquid, and it just creeps you out to be focusing so much on your chewing.
(The Soviet space agency did not traditionally give cosmonauts steak and eggs before launch; it gave them a one-liter enema.) Fahey,
Softball is the reason Washing Machines and Bleach are so popular. Don't think so? Just ask a softball Mom.
There are people who would love to spend their last ten years, or five years, or whatever it is, on the surface of Mars.
Aspirin and ibuprofen combat inflammation everywhere but the stomach and bowel; there they create inflammation.
The researchers concluded that during intercourse in the missionary position, the penis has the shape of a boomerang.