Mary Roach Quotes

I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out.

They want you to bring out your intestines.

I'm not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.

A surgical operation is bloody, messy and never fun.

I said "Vote Yes." He voted "Yes." We rolled him out again. He does better under sedation.

I sleep people. I put people unconscious. I'm stating facts.

The only person in the world who could knock me out is my anaesthetist.

Everybody has a colon. Everyone over 50 needs to get their colon checked.

[T]hey stretch you on a table. Then they bid you close your eyelids, And they mask you with a napkin, And the anæsthetic reaches Hot and subtle through your being.

If you stretched the average person's intestines out from end to end, it would make them scream a lot.

I tried to make every bit of it as creepy as I could. And I had the same response you do. I feel the same way. The hospital scenes, that procedure was so real.

L.A. is wonderful. They have something called sleep dentistry. You just go there, and they put you to sleep and go, 'Drrrrrr,' and by the time you wake up a few hours later, you have a whole new set of teeth. I mean, whatever you want them to do.

Finally, as the digestive canal is a complex system, a series of separate chemical laboratories, I cut the connections between them in order to investigate the course of phenomena in each particular laboratory; thus I resolved the digestive canal into several separate parts.

I have kind of an iron stomach.

As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal.

The downside isn't really injury, fear of injury or the process of fighting back from injury. The downside, the very worst thing in the world, is surgery.

It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water; also lack of appetite has always been regarded as an undesirable phenomenon, from which one might conclude that appetite is essentially linked with the process of digestion.

Life is for the living. I was a little scared before surgery 'cause of the release you sign that says there's always a very small percent chance that you'll die during the operation.

All the food that is put into the stomach that the system cannot derive benefit from, is a burden to nature in her work.

Handshaking is friendly until your hands bleed. Confetti looks festive until you’re forced to spit out mouthfuls hurled directly into your face. Applause is wonderful until you can hardly hear yourself speak. A crush of screaming women is flattering until they tear your clothes.

A rite of passage in America when you turn 50 and have good health insurance is a colonoscopy.

Personally, I'd have a baby just for the epidural.

I've had two shoulder surgeries.

I had a minor back surgery, as minor as it's going to get.

I can make the best fart noises. I can make, like, 10 different sounds at different levels.