To keep your he-man jaw muscles from smashing your precious teeth, the only set you have, the body evolved an automated braking system faster and more sophisticated than anything on a Lexus. The jaw knows its own strength. The faster and more recklessly you close your mouth, the less force the muscles are willing to apply. Mary Roach
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Do not fall in love with people like me. I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth. I will... - Caitlyn Siehl
  2. But hurry, let's entwine ourselves as one, our mouth broken, our soul bitten by love, so time discovers us safely destroyed. - Unknown
  3. No one can put words into my mouth, but they can put thoughts into my head. - Anthony T.Hincks
  4. I find that... The bigger the ego. The bigger the mouth. The deeper the shallowness of a person. - Anthony T. Hincks
  5. No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged. - Jodi Picoult
More Quotes By Mary Roach
  1. It is astounding to me, and achingly sad, that with eighty thousand people on the waiting list for donated hearts and livers and kidneys, with sixteen a day dying there on that list, that more then half of the people in the position H's family...
  2. As when astronaut Mike Mulhane was asked by a NASA psychiatrist what epitaph he'd like to have on his gravestone, Mulhane answered, "A loving husband and devoted father, " though in reality, he jokes in "Riding Rockets, " "I would have sold my wife and...
  3. We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.
  4. Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.
  5. It would be especially comforting to believe that I have the answer to the question, What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that’s that–the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness, persist? What will that feel...
Related Topics