Mary Roach Quotes

What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history.

I find that the people who don't eat as much candy are really into heavy protein, like steak. I don't eat that.

Sweet treats are as much a part of our culture as they are our taste palettes, and it can sometimes seem as though sugary snacks are everywhere.

I'd try to become known as a world expert on 'something,' to take a small niche you can define.

Sometimes I just said, 'I don't want tilapia anymore; I can't even deal with salad. I want M&M's and Ruffles.'

Indeed, if our ancestors of millions of years ago hadn't learned how to care for one another and hunt in packs, they'd all have ended up being eaten by leopards.

I only eat organic. I love salads and believe food is our best medicine. My son is so brainwashed, he thinks McDonald's is the devil.

Not all of us are chameleons that can do every different thing. I hope I'm going to be typecast. I will play the girl next door for the rest of my life if I have to. I always kind of feel like I have that in my pocket when I go in a room.

Well, you've got to be known for something. The danger of extreme versatility is that you don't spring to mind for anything.

I'm an interior designer, first and foremost. I can do one thing really well, and I'm going to stay in my little niche.

One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.

We have enforced a Darwinian process on wolves, turning them into the shy and elusive animals they've become. They didn't have that fear of us 30,000 years ago. We didn't have gunpowder; we had rocks. Wolves would have seen us as lunch, and we were weak and slow and tasty.

People in America are addicted to sugar and to fat and to salt.

If you're a technology investor, and you decide that you're also going to be a healthcare investor or a green-tech investor, that doesn't usually work out that well. There are reasons why people make their careers studying these things and becoming experts.

Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.

I'd rather be a big fish in a specialized pond than a little, little fish in a more generalized big pond.

I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?

I'm on my version of the protein diet, but there ain't no protein in it. It's a Krispy Kreme doughnut between two Cinnabons. And you soak it overnight in Red Bull. Then you chase it with a Snickers.

He doesn't write like a Neanderthal. He may be a Cro-Magnon.

If you're trying to get into the sports business, you really have to find a niche.

I'm pretty healthy, so I eat a lot of vegetables and fish. But I'm a huge sweets fan. It's really bad. I love ice cream and cookies and cake and all that stuff. So on the weekends, I will definitely indulge.

I have a pretty terrible sweet tooth.

That's the great thing about Apple: it's very focused on the things that we know how to do very well and not try to extend ourselves to areas that we know very little about or don't have a lot of expertise in.

The downside of dabbling in different industries is that you don't have your roots anywhere and you don't know where your real demand is.

When you find your niche, you just gotta continue to be confident and thrive in it.