Mary Roach quote: "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."

The Internet is a boon for hypochondriacs like me.
MARY ROACH

Most of us pass our lives never once laying eyes on our own organs, the most precious and amazing th...
MARY ROACH

I make lists to keep my anxiety level down. If I write down 15 things to be done, I lose that vague,...
MARY ROACH

There are fast chewers and slow chewers, long chewers and short chewers, right-chewing people and le...
MARY ROACH

Saliva has antibacterial properties. It also has things called nerve growth factor, skin growth fact...
MARY ROACH

Picking my topics is sort of a process of elimination for me. Most things don't work for me. I l...
MARY ROACH

My books are not really books; they're endless chains of distraction shoved inside a cover. Many...
MARY ROACH

Weightlessness was unbelievable. It's physical euphoria: Nothing about you has any weight. You d...
MARY ROACH

Eighty percent of flavor comes from your nose, including a set of internal nostrils. When you chew f...
MARY ROACH

When someone tells me, 'Oh, we have so many problems on Earth; space exploration costs too much ...
MARY ROACH

We exist in this weirdly schizo culture, where sex is everywhere in the media, and yet, at the same ...
MARY ROACH

Will I switch to E-reading? I won't, mainly because I love the look and feel of books - particul...
MARY ROACH

My husband recently made me try on a bikini. A bikini is not so much a garment as a cloth-based remi...
MARY ROACH

Chew on this: Human teeth can detect a grain of sand or grit 10 microns in diameter. A micron is 1/2...
MARY ROACH

In terms of sustainability and what we eat and what its footprint is on the environment and the cons...
MARY ROACH

I think by and large, humans prefer to think of themselves as minds from the neck up. We don't r...
MARY ROACH

I love words, but I also love finding out that there is a word for something that you've experie...
MARY ROACH

Every now and then, someone will tell me that one of my books has made them laugh out loud. I never ...
MARY ROACH

To me, NASA is kind of the magical kingdom. I was sort of a geek, and you go there, and there are ju...
MARY ROACH

Animals' taste systems are specialized for the niche they occupy in the environment. That includ...
MARY ROACH

Gravitation is the lust of the cosmos.
MARY ROACH

I don't write on topics that require a lot of urgency. But in 'Stiff,' I wanted to chang...
MARY ROACH

When I was 16, I had a job on the cleaning crew at a local hospital. I wore a pink uniform and clean...
MARY ROACH

I used to do my best thinking while staring out airplane windows. The seat-back video system put a s...
MARY ROACH

I had a bike accident a few years ago, and I went to the emergency room, and I had to have a gash se...
MARY ROACH

I don't fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation,...
MARY ROACH

Astronauts are like these mythic legends, but really, they are just regular people, people who wear ...
MARY ROACH

To keep your he-man jaw muscles from smashing your precious teeth, the only set you have, the body e...
MARY ROACH

LOL is rarely OL, or even really L. A real out-loud laugh - not the forced social variety, which is ...
MARY ROACH

One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others...
MARY ROACH

Meteorite hunting is not for wimps. The best places to look are also the coldest and windiest. You n...
MARY ROACH

Dead people never seem to address the obvious - the things you'd think they'd be bursting to...
MARY ROACH

Because there are now online databases of federally funded research, and these databases are searcha...
MARY ROACH

You won't see me writing about particle physics, or even planetary geology, or chemistry. I prac...
MARY ROACH

It is interesting to come across people who feel that a ghost communicating via a spell-checker is l...
MARY ROACH

If ergonomists have their way, future products won't be built for some hypothetical average pers...
MARY ROACH

All of my books tend to be about things going on in labs that you wouldn't really expect.
MARY ROACH

It is astounding to me, and achingly sad, that with eighty thousand people on the waiting list for d...
MARY ROACH

A space station is a rangy monstrosity, a giant erector set built by a madman.
MARY ROACH

There wasn't an anhydrous lacrimal gland in the room...
MARY ROACH

Masters points out that the heterosexuals were at a disadvantage, as they do not benefit from what h...
MARY ROACH

No one is excluded from the astronaut corps based on penis size.
MARY ROACH

The broader the topic, the easier it is, not only to fill a book, but to set the bar pretty high for...
MARY ROACH

When I was a kid, I hated everything. I was really skinny, and I'd have a milkshake with an egg ...
MARY ROACH

I can wear pleated pants now.
MARY ROACH

There are three kinds of people in this world: 1) People who make lists, 2) People who don't mak...
MARY ROACH

I believe that not everything we humans encounter in our lives can be neatly and convincingly tucked...
MARY ROACH

The simplest strategy for bouts of noxious flatus is to not care. Or perhaps to take advantage of a ...
MARY ROACH

We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In betw...
MARY ROACH

All the clothes in my closet are Oakland, California, clothes. You can't wear those anywhere els...
MARY ROACH

I don't know of many people who've done sex research with an eye toward people saying sex is...
MARY ROACH

In my experience, the most staunchly held views are based on ignorance or accepted dogma, not carefu...
MARY ROACH

The paper does not provide the exact number of penises eaten by ducks, but the author says there hav...
MARY ROACH

Follow your instincts. Do the kind of writing you love to do and do best. 'Stiff' was an odd...
MARY ROACH

Where do you find a stomach on a Thursday afternoon in Reno? "Chinatown?" suggests someone. "Costco?...
MARY ROACH

But can you prove that, Dr. Crick?
MARY ROACH

We can study it, we can apply principles of peer-reviewed research, we can do it.' People say, 'Yes,...
MARY ROACH

Nobody ever sees the inside of their body, ... It's wild ... it's not nearly as orderly as you think...
MARY ROACH

Dead people never seem to address the obvious - the things you'd think they'd be bursting to talk ab...
MARY ROACH

Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
MARY ROACH

I get really excited about specific therapies, personalized therapies. Like, let's say, taking a...
MARY ROACH

If you could really guarantee that the money would be spent on something more worthwhile, I'd sa...
MARY ROACH

It's called the FATLOSE trail. FATLOSE stands for 'Fecal Administration To LOSE weight,' an example ...
MARY ROACH

I've always been a bit of a space geek. I wrote an article years ago about the neutral buoyancy ...
MARY ROACH

I have a nice little office, with a nice little window in it, but I do basically spend huge amounts ...
MARY ROACH

I'm one of those goobers who comes out of the polling place actually wearing the 'I VOTED...
MARY ROACH

Science is you! It's your head, it's your dog, it's your iPhone - it's the world. Ho...
MARY ROACH

Most of the people who are engaged in the subjects that I look into are pretty interesting. Whether ...
MARY ROACH

People are surprisingly off put just by saliva, the substance that you carry around in your mouth. Y...
MARY ROACH

Here is the secret to surviving one of these [airplane] crashes: Be male. In a 1970 Civil Aeromedica...
MARY ROACH

I'm looking forward to being a mom and a wife and a business owner.
MELANIE ROACH

You can't make people laugh for more than half an hour and be consistent.
HAL ROACH

The greatest comedies that were made by anybody were made in two reels; I don't care who it was.
HAL ROACH

Harold Lloyd was not a comedian. But he was the finest actor to play a comedian that I ever saw.
HAL ROACH

The important thing, once you get 'em laughing, is to keep 'em laughing until you're thr...
HAL ROACH

It was a thrill, ... It was even better that it was against the Red Wings.
ANDY ROACH

That was the team I always watched growing up,
ANDY ROACH

I think with the new rules here this season it helps a player like me out, as far as being able to j...
ANDY ROACH

It's great, just great, it's everything I thought it would be and even more, ... Playing at this lev...
ANDY ROACH

No, I don't. It depends on the goalie, I like to see what he likes to do, ... Some goalies play more...
ANDY ROACH

There were 18,000 fans at that game and you could hear a pin drop, ... It was amazing. Their whole c...
ANDY ROACH

Against the Czechs, it was Tomas Vokoun in net, I came in at pretty good speed and almost put the br...
ANDY ROACH

It's kind of funny, I never expected something that happened so far away to be brought up so many ti...
ANDY ROACH

The coaching staff has really been emphasizing getting to players quicker. Not necessarily to make a...
ANDY ROACH

The success of the second 'Austin Powers' caught us by surprise a little bit. We had decided...
JAY ROACH

(The Department of Pesticide Regulation) could appeal it. They could go back and change the regulati...
BOB ROACH

She's very confident. She's well-integrated with the other kids. She's a wonderful young lady.
BOB ROACH

I would like them to pay. Our fervent hope is that they feel pain.
BOB ROACH

The weather has got to change. You've got to hope it will stop raining before May and that things wi...
BOB ROACH

My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that w...
JAY ROACH

Perhaps the number is around 50 or 60 in Australia that are working in separate cells, ... The threa...
MICHAEL ROACH

Over the 2004-05 interval, looming bond market perils appear to pose the most serious challenges for...
STEPHEN ROACH

I want him working more on his technique and not just going out there and putting a show on for the ...
FREDDIE ROACH

Never in modern history has the world's leading economic power tried to do so much with so little. N...
STEPHEN ROACH

An extraordinary deflationary shock in tradable goods has coincided with outsize disinflation in ser...
STEPHEN ROACH

I'd like to build what I call an oasis.
MAX ROACH

Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respectiv...
MAX ROACH

I didn't even apply. There was no warning.
MAX ROACH

They don't tell you why they chose you. And they won't say who was on the committee.
MAX ROACH

In those days, there was one secret to making good comedy. If it made the audience laugh, it was a g...
HAL ROACH

You can celebrate birthday every year and fights like this (with Morales) comes once in a lifetime,
FREDDIE ROACH

The lake has risen higher than I've ever seen in my lifetime, Everyone who wanted to got out.
RANDY ROACH

This program is a big deal. We try to get as many advisors there as possible.
KOLEEN ROACH

In my view, the perils of another burst asset bubble far outweigh the costs of another recession,
STEPHEN ROACH

I'm surprised they're not lining the streets right now.
BILL ROACH

I've got like 2 gallons of water left, so I hope people come back soon and open something up.
BILL ROACH

What's strange is I never really worried. I had this feeling I knew we could score.
CHUCK ROACH

Our post guys have been our bread and butter all year long. When they get going for us, it opens thi...
CHUCK ROACH

It was a tactical fight and they were our tactics. The fight went the way we wanted it to go even th...
FREDDIE ROACH

It's good because it gets him back in the gym, back into the mode of training for a big fight. ... G...
FREDDIE ROACH

It was nice having them in the gym, but ... Manny was performing for them more than for me. I wanted...
FREDDIE ROACH

I always resented the role of a drummer as nothing more than a subservient figure.
MAX ROACH

Nobody puts Roach in the corner.
ALEXANDRA ROACH

It's important to make a statement, but don't kill yourself over it. You have to make an eff...
ALEXANDRA ROACH

You could get in rehearsals, pre-production, anything that would actually contribute to the understa...
JAY ROACH

We collaborate on everything. I'm involved in the writing and pre-production. There's a whol...
JAY ROACH

A large number are pre-trial misdemeanor offenders and about 50 are released each week.
JOHN ROACH

My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie a...
JAY ROACH

We chose this opponent because he has a style similar to Morales', ... I think this fight will defin...
FREDDIE ROACH

But if that person has nothing to fear, nothing to hide, and is just being approached politely, that...
MICHAEL ROACH

I don't see anything bad happening to Florida at all. We may not know who will be serving Florida in...
MICHAEL ROACH

Chad is basically a kid who has all of the material that you need to be a star.
MICHAEL ROACH

The big thing you can do in Chapter 11 is stiff your creditors and get rid of all the airplanes you ...
MICHAEL ROACH

Europe looks at China as more of a strategic partner than a competitive threat so it has stayed more...
STEPHEN ROACH

It is a very small thing to be proud of, but I am.
DOUGLAS ROACH

He wanted me to help out because he spent a few weeks during the winter in Florida. The next year he...
DOUGLAS ROACH

That's just how I like it. It takes awhile, but it is worth it.
DOUGLAS ROACH

Absolutely, they are a hazard. People in smaller boats really need to keep a look out for submerged ...
DAVID ROACH

Your liability is such that you're going to be very careful. A driver that has passed our test will ...
DAVID ROACH

I tell recruits, if you come to Colgate, you're going to be taught by outstanding faculty, not gradu...
DAVID ROACH

We strive to do what is best for our student-athletes so they can succeed in the classroom and on th...
DAVID ROACH

Madison is the quintessential New England town. And it's because of our secluded wooded areas. Prese...
DAVID ROACH

They are a family. The question is whether the law will recognize that reality . . . or create a fic...
DAVID ROACH

Most of the people returning are business owners and salaried workers. Most of the hourly people are...
DAVID ROACH

They're calling us. We've been trying to flag them down, and now they're calling us.
DAVID ROACH

I think there is definitely a renaissance in the art community of Oakland. Oakland is starting to ha...
DAVID ROACH

The debate has to happen at the state level before it can be resolved at the federal level.
DAVID ROACH

They are coming out with costs too high. They are going after the premium customer, and they believe...
MICHAEL ROACH

Because I actually find the next take after they've controlled it a little bit and repressed the...
JAY ROACH

I love all reality TV - Strictly, 'The X Factor.' I really don't see why people are so s...
ALEXANDRA ROACH

In the last fight, the game plan went out the window,
FREDDIE ROACH

It was a good match today. Obviously, the key was winning the No. 2 doubles match. That was a real t...
DARRELL ROACH

Anytime we can beat Charlotte we feel pretty good about it.
DARRELL ROACH

I felt good, but I knew their (No.) 3 and (No.) 4 beat my (No.) 3 and (No.) 4.
DARRELL ROACH

She might be the only senior, but she means a lot to the team.
DARRELL ROACH

Close, close. It was a great season. I'm happy for the girls, but they are sad now.
DARRELL ROACH

Transformations don't scare me: it thrills me to become the polar opposite.
ALEXANDRA ROACH

The first principle is that the business should be successful: that it should make money. There is a...
MICHAEL ROACH

Hairpieces are brilliant for adding volume.
ALEXANDRA ROACH

I think the most important thing is to have fun, and not to take things too seriously. Once you star...
ALEXANDRA ROACH

I think you should just wear something you feel comfortable in. It's important to make a stateme...
ALEXANDRA ROACH

I can't wait until I'm able to afford really posh bags.
ALEXANDRA ROACH

Actresses are mental on the whole. But I think I'm pretty normal.
ALEXANDRA ROACH

I went to stage school with a neighbor to build confidence because I was quite shy.
ALEXANDRA ROACH

My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don't recogniz...
ALEXANDRA ROACH

That's where my passion was ignited, on the set of 'Pobol Y Cwm.' I loved it and I'v...
ALEXANDRA ROACH

I love leaving the house in a new outfit; I don't feel the pressure at all.
ALEXANDRA ROACH

I love vintage, but it's so expensive now.
ALEXANDRA ROACH

Be positive and laugh at everything.
ALEXANDRA ROACH

The one fight (in between) is good for us. Right after this fight, we'll take a week off and then go...
FREDDIE ROACH

Manny's Filipino audience loves to watch him, but I wanted it to be more private so we could better ...
FREDDIE ROACH

We had too many distractions going into the Morales fight. Now a lot of the bad people are away from...
FREDDIE ROACH

When we did make it public that we were not letting anyone watch any longer, the Filipino fans stopp...
FREDDIE ROACH

We love the Filipino crowds and it was great to have them there, but it got too much in the end. You...
FREDDIE ROACH

This is a transitional generation. A time when a job is becoming a career, they may be going from si...
MARGARET ROACH

It just popped out of her mouth one day!
MARGARET ROACH

The issue is not whether we should pay (longevity pay), it's whether one elected official should be ...
MARK ROACH

If they rebuild the city, there's just going to be tons of potential there.
MARK ROACH

The NASD ruling that all insurers [who are members of NASD] must be affiliated with a licensed broke...
KOLEEN ROACH

Bob always says that what we do is sell a promise to pay. If clients don't trust us, then what good ...
KOLEEN ROACH

We were now going to be recognizing individuals whose business assortment may not be the most profit...
KOLEEN ROACH

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of the Instrument.
MAX ROACH

I'm still in a state of shock.
MAX ROACH

he American drummer is a one-man percussion orchestra.
MAX ROACH

was in the process of assembling an army of attorneys, economists and IAM representatives with a wea...
ROBERT ROACH

Unfortunately, Middle Eastern people are going to be approached more often than not,
MICHAEL ROACH

We are but small butterflies in the garden of life.
CARSTON D. ROACH

I like to sing!
CARSTON D. ROACH

Cooking and baking is both physical and mental therapy.
MARY BERRY

My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.
MARY GARDEN

I decided to write about the myths of divorce.
MARY GARDEN

I deleted all the games from my computer. I spent days trawling the Internet. I started slowly.
MARY GARDEN

If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don'...
MARY GARDEN

Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, draw...
MARY GARDEN

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of ...
MARY GARDEN

In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always st...
MARY GARDEN

Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence...
MARY GARDEN

I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I cou...
MARY GARDEN

For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.
MARY GARDEN

In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was con...
MARY GARDEN

A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything...
MARY GARDEN

My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.
MARY GARDEN

It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was thei...
MARY GARDEN

Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse...
MARY GARDEN

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
MARY SHELLEY

If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any...
MARY ASTELL

I long for my garden to be complete. Working in it is one of my joys, but it will never be finished ...
MARY QUANT

Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.
MARY MARTIN

When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, a...
MARY KARR

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.

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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.

Mary Roach

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