Quotes by Mary Roach

Mary Roach

All good research-whether for science or for a book-is a form of obsession.

Book

Obsession

Research

All the clothes in my closet are Oakland, California, clothes. You can’t wear those anywhere else. The barometric pressure drops and then where are you?

California

Clothes

Oakland

Bodily fluids and solids are universally the most disgusting things we as human beings can come upon, but as long as they are inside us, it’s part of you.

Disgusting

Fluid

Long

Death. It doesn’t have to be boring.

Boring

Death

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.

Crazy

Fashion

People

Every mode of travel has its signature mental aberration.

Aberration

Signatures

Travel

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.

Fun

Interesting

Stones

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.

Disappear

Graves

Thirty

Here is the secret to surviving one of these [airplane] crashes: Be male. In a 1970 Civil Aeromedical institute study of three crashes involving emergency evacuations, the most prominent factor influencing survival was gender (followed closely by proximity to exit). Adult males were by far the most likely to get out alive. Why? Presumably because they pushed everyone else out of the way.

Airplane

Secret

Survival

Hormones are nature’s three bottles of beer.

Beer

Bottles

Three

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Aberration

Age

Airplane

Airports

Ambition

Athlete

Australia

Bars

Beach

Beautiful

Beer

Believe

Benefits

Birth

Blame

Book

Boring

Bottles

Brain

Cadavers

California

Cancer

Care

Cease

Challenges

Children

Clothes

Crazy

Cutting

Databases

Death

Delight

Desire

Diabetes

Disappear

Disgusting

Disrespectful

Doe

Dog

Done

Drug

Easy

Empathy

England

Eye

Fashion

Female

Fighting

Fluid

Force Fields

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Quotes by Mary Roach

Mary Roach

All good research-whether for science or for a book-is a form of obsession.

All the clothes in my closet are Oakland, California, clothes. You can’t wear those anywhere else. The barometric pressure drops and then where are you?

Bodily fluids and solids are universally the most disgusting things we as human beings can come upon, but as long as they are inside us, it’s part of you.

Death. It doesn’t have to be boring.

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.

Every mode of travel has its signature mental aberration.

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.

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.

Hormones are nature’s three bottles of beer.

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