My Planet Quotes

“I make lists to keep my anxiety level down. If I write down 15 things to be done, I lose that vague, nagging sense that there are an overwhelming number of things to be done, all of which are on the brink of being forgotten.”
― Mary Roach, My Planet: Finding Humor in the Oddest Places

“Lou is one of a small group of bachelors whom we sometimes invite over for a meal at the last minute. It is never intimidating to cook for these men, as your culinary talents need only surpass those of Mr. Top and his ramen.”
― Mary Roach, My Planet: Finding Humor in the Oddest Places

“I have a list of party guests in my desk drawer that dates from around 1997. Every so often I take it out and add the people we’ve met, cross off the couples that have moved away, and then put it back in my drawer. I long ago came to accept that we’re never actually going to have this party; we’re just going to keep updating the list—which, for people like me, is a party all by itself.”
― Mary Roach, My Planet: Finding Humor in the Oddest Places

“He’s the winningest guy I know, and I mean that from the bottom of my heart, which is the part that comes before the top.”
― Mary Roach, My Planet: Finding Humor in the Oddest Places

“Beef went next. Because I used to write for a health magazine, I had heard about Mad Cow disease back when it was known by its scientific nomenclature, bovine spongebob empopalopathy.”
― Mary Roach, My Planet: Finding Humor in the Oddest Places