Michael McGirr Quotes & Sayings

A woman needed half her leg amputated after she slipped and broke the leg as she was cleaning her bath while she was still asleep. Not even the pain of a broken bone woke her and the angle at which she fell cut off circulation to the leg, killing the limb. When she finally awoke, she was close to multi-organ collapse. — Michael McGirr

Perhaps we are yet to feel the full impact of the Y2K bug but so far it's been quiet. — Michael McGirr

People with jutting jaws are more likely to have open throats and hence be less susceptible to snoring and sleep apnoea. Chris Worsnop points out that superheroes such as Superman and Batman are often drawn with strong jutting jaws, a feature which, since the time we lived in caves, has been seen as attractive to women. The reason women may be attracted to jutting jaws may have nothing to do with jutting biceps or jutting anything else; it simply makes it less likely they will have to put up with snoring. — Michael McGirr

Fatigue fatigue is when you're tired of being tired. — Michael McGirr

There's no point asking dogs about their dreams because sleeping dogs lie. — Michael McGirr

The word mortgage originates in French. it literally means 'death grip'. — Michael McGirr

There was a time when I fancied myself as a barrister but it takes years to qualify and even then you can end up earning less than $10,000 a day. So when I saw an advertisement for a course to become a barista I decided to settle for that. — Michael McGirr

The sheer volume of them [mass-market fiction books] was, to me, evidence of a tired culture, one which in large measure was saying the same thing over and over again in more and more words. — Michael McGirr

A reader never travels alone. — Michael McGirr