46 Mary Roach Quotes for You to Enjoy

Mary Roach

American Author

Born: Mar 20, 1959

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I don't fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach. Mary Roach

Depression Death Loneliness Fear Few Pain Those Beach Like Years Senility After Holiday Much Imagine Presents

I used to do my best thinking while staring out airplane windows. The seat-back video system put a stop to that. Now I sit and watch old' Friends' and 'Everybody Loves Raymond' episodes. Walking is good, but here again, technology has interfered. I like to listen to iTunes while I walk home. I guess I don't think anymore. Mary Roach

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I love words, but I also love finding out that there is a word for something that you've experienced but didn't know there was a word for. Like 'toothpack' - that is a word for when you eat biscuits or cookies and you get that annoying layer of chewed substance on your molars that you kind of have to pick out. Mary Roach

When I was 16, I had a job on the cleaning crew at a local hospital. I wore a pink uniform and cleaned bathrooms and buffed the hallway linoleum. Oddly, I don't recall hating the job. I recall getting choked up at the end of the summer when I went to turn in my uniform and say goodbye to the ladies. Mary Roach

Gravitation is the lust of the cosmos. Mary Roach

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LOL is rarely OL, or even really L. A real out-loud laugh - not the forced social variety, which is closer to barking than laughing - is uncommon among adults. Mary Roach

Laugh Laughing Rarely Variety Uncommon Adult Forced Real Than Closer Which Social Really Barking Even Among

In terms of sustainability and what we eat and what its footprint is on the environment and the consequences of eating one thing versus another, obviously it makes a lot of sense to be eating insects. They're incredibly plentiful. They've got a very short turnover rate. You could be eating termites. Mary Roach

You Insects Sense Consequences Incredibly Plentiful One Thing Eat Eating Rate Could Environment Footprint Terms Obviously Another Makes Got Lot Versus Very Short Sustainability Turnover Thing

Animals' taste systems are specialized for the niche they occupy in the environment. That includes us. As hunters and foragers of the dry savannah, our earliest forebears evolved a taste for important but scarce nutrients: salt and high-energy fats and sugars. That, in a nutshell, explains the widespread popularity of junk food. Mary Roach

Food Animals Important Salt Our Fats Nutrients Nutshell Systems Evolved Hunters Scarce Environment Dry Occupy Junk Junk Food Taste Explains Us Popularity Niche Specialized Earliest Widespread Savannah

I don't write on topics that require a lot of urgency. But in 'Stiff,' I wanted to change people's hearts about organ donation. Whenever I get a chance, I try to talk about that. Mary Roach

Change People Try Organ Topics About Write Talk Stiff Lot Get Hearts Donation Whenever Wanted Urgency Require Chance

There are three kinds of people in this world: 1) People who make lists, 2) People who don't make lists, and 3) People who carve tiny Nativity scenes out of pecan hulls. I'm sorry, there isn't really a third category; it's just that a workable list needs a minimum of three items, I feel. Mary Roach

Saliva has antibacterial properties. It also has things called nerve growth factor, skin growth factor, histatins which help with wound closure. So when you see an animal licking a wound or even a mom kissing a child's boo-boo, there's some, there's some good science behind why one might do this. Mary Roach

Good Mom You Science Animal Skin Licking Wound Nerve See Some Properties Kissing Factor Also Saliva Child Behind Closure Which Might Help Even Why Growth Things

For the scientists, they're kind of puzzled and pleased that somebody finds their work interesting. It makes it fun for me. I feel like I've sort of turned over a stone that hasn't been turned over. Mary Roach

Work Me Somebody Pleased Kind Finds Feel Puzzled Over Like Sort Makes Scientists Been Stone Interesting Turned Fun

My books are not really books; they're endless chains of distraction shoved inside a cover. Many of them begin at the search box of Pub Med, an Internet database of medical journal articles. Mary Roach

Internet Books Distraction Inside Database Journal Box Cover Begin Articles Endless Pub Them Really Many Search Chains Medical

We exist in this weirdly schizo culture, where sex is everywhere in the media, and yet, at the same time, you don't sit down and have a conversation about what you did in bed last night with your friends. Despite the ubiquity of sex, it's still a taboo when it comes to day-to-day conversation. Mary Roach

Time You Conversation Culture Sex Sit Down Despite Everywhere Taboo About Day-To-Day Weirdly Bed Still Exist Friends Did Same Same Time Where Your Media Last Night Last Night

Every crazy fad from the 1800s comes back or they never go away. It's like fashion, like everything's already been invented, and somebody stumbles onto it and people will always, always be looking for an answer for some vague illness they can't get a diagnosis for. Mary Roach

Fashion Crazy People Will Somebody Looking Go Away Every Back Everything Some Invented Onto Never Fad Like Answer Always Diagnosis Go Been Get Illness Away Vague

When someone tells me, 'Oh, we have so many problems on Earth; space exploration costs too much money,' I say, 'I absolutely agree with you. But I still hope we do it.' Mary Roach

You won't see me writing about particle physics, or even planetary geology, or chemistry. I practically failed chemistry, and if I had to write a book in any of those areas, I don't think it would go well. Mary Roach

I have a nice little office, with a nice little window in it, but I do basically spend huge amounts of time in what you could consider solitary confinement. Mary Roach

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I'm one of those goobers who comes out of the polling place actually wearing the 'I VOTED' sticker on my jacket. Mary Roach

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