Quotes by : Mary Roach

It tastes like water spiked with strange.

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

It is the mind that speaks a woman's heart, not the vaginal walls.

It’s possible that the reason I've never experienced a ghostly presence is that my temporal lobes aren't....

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

The human organism is built for tension and relaxation, work and sleep. The principle of life is rhythm.....

cadavers' intestines hanging like a parade streamers off the sides of tables, skulls bobbing in boiling....

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

During World War II, when combat rations were tinned, meat hashes were a common entrée because they....

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