Mary Roach Quotes

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

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• By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Woman

• You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Live
  • Death
  • Look

• But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Respect
  • Democracy
  • Link

• Millions of us track ourselves all the time. We step on a scale and record our weight. We balance a checkbook. We count calories. But when the familiar pen-and-paper methods of self-analysis are enhanced by sensors that monitor our behavior automatically, the process of self-tracking becomes both more alluring and more meaningful.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Time
  • Balance
  • Meaningful

• Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Why
  • Will
  • Debt

• When I was a kid, we got in a cipher and battled each other lyrically. We told jokes and made the hottest dance moves.

  

  Usher
  • Dance
  • Made
  • Jokes

• Be real with yourself in whatever area of your life and your game that you need improvement on. Once you figure that out, you just have to go out and work on it. For me, it's footwork. I constantly work on it, and it's a never-ending process.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Real

• The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing - a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed. The ancient world would have laughed at such a distinction.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • Discovery
  • Personal

• I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Work
  • Done
  • End

• Those who realize their folly are not true fools.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • True
  • Realize
  • Fools

• There are times when the writers ask us to improvise. Sometimes the animators are inspired by what you do, and sometimes you are inspired by what the animators do.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • You
  • Sometimes
  • Inspired

• I grew up on the stage, and there's no two ways about it: you only get one chance to do your bit.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Up
  • You
  • Chance

• In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Home
  • City
  • Violence

• If I'm staying in a hotel or I'm sleeping on my own I have the hairdryer on.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Hotel
  • My Own
  • Sleeping

• If I were an animal, I would be a fish or a bird. It's the peace and beauty of ocean, the silent language of it. It seems like a womb, protective. The sky too. I love all colors, but blue mainly, because it's transparent like the water and the sky.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Peace
  • Water
  • Animal

• There is no reason at all why there aren't enough people to guard New Orleans and to help stabilise Baghdad.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • People
  • Why
  • Help

• The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.

  

  Lorna Luft
  • People
  • Mother

• I did a lot of background and research on 'End Of Watch,' and I definitely used certain skills that I learned.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal

• I write about people in small towns; I don't write about people living in big cities. My kind of storytelling depends upon people that have time to talk to each other.

  

  Lee Smith
  • People
  • Time
  • Small

• It's fear of being afraid that frightens me more than anything else.

  

  Jerome Cady
  • Fear

• Even when I do roles that are really profoundly abusive, like, I would say, in 'Deadwood' - there's a guy who's a breeding ground for ignorance and hurtful behavior - the fact that people are so taken aback by that is a good thing because they're looking at themselves, and there's a part of me in there, too.

  

  Michael Harney
  • People
  • Good
  • Ignorance

• The Kwajalein waters are incredibly lucid: vision typically up to three hundred feet.

  

  Dennis L. McKiernan
  • Up
  • Vision

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

  

  Mary Roach