Author Profile
Mary Roach
1959 • American • Author
63
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Collected Meditations
Showing 63 quotesPeople are surprisingly off put just by saliva, the substance that you carry around in your mouth. You swallow it. You have no objection to it. But then it leaves your body, and you're just revolted. So it - that - just that right there to me is a fascinating thing.— Mary Roach
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?— Mary Roach
If you could really guarantee that the money would be spent on something more worthwhile, I'd say, absolutely, scrap the space program, but it never works that way.— Mary Roach
There are people who would love to spend their last ten years, or five years, or whatever it is, on the surface of Mars.— Mary Roach