Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Peters

My outlook for the future is still the same as for any healthy person of my age. The only difference is that now I have to learn how to live with cancer. If I respond well to the chemotherapy, I can hopefully put the cancer into remission for another ten years or even longer.

Barry Manilow

The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.

B. B. King

A lot of times I say to myself, "I wished I could be worthy of all the compliments that people give me sometimes." I'm not inventing anything that's going to stop cancer or muscular dystrophy or anything, but I like to feel that my time and talent is always there for the people that need it. When someone do say something negative, most times I think about it, but it don't bother me that much.

Dr. Prentice

We observed that women in the low-fat diet group had a 9 percent lower risk of breast cancer than the usual diet group, but that difference could be due to chance.

Carl Sagan

As agonizing a disease as cancer is, I do not think it can be said that our civilization is threatened by it. ... But a very plausible case can be made that our civilization is fundamentally threatened by the lack of adequate fertility control. Exponential increases of population will dominate any arithmetic increases, even those brought about by heroic technological initiatives, in the availability of food and resources, as Malthus long ago realized.

Bill Vaughan

A cancer is not only a physical disease, it is a state of mind.

Bill Bryson

Think of a single problem confronting the world today. Disease, poverty, global warming... If the problem is going to be solved, it is science that is going to solve it. Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do. If anyone ever cures cancer, it will be a guy with a science degree. Or a woman with a science degree.

Bill Hicks

'Warning: Smoking may cause fetal injury or premature birth.'...Found MY brand! Just don't get the ones that say 'lung cancer.'

Terry Watkins

The American Cancer Society really stepped up and did their part during this natural disaster.

What is it that makes a complete stranger dive into an icy river to save a solid gold baby? Maybe we'll never know

Kip Drown

The problem with a game like this is that people are going to pick up the paper and see the point spread and think it was a complete blowout. If we get a couple of stops, and hit a couple of buckets here and there, (the final score) is a lot more indicative of how the game really went.

Torey Lovullo

Those first two runs, if you dissect what happened, they weren't well-hit balls. I think a young pitcher might get down on himself but I know that he reached down deep and said I'm OK. . . . He was in complete control of that game.

Chris Brathwaite

We are in complete compliance with the FAA and all of their security directives. Our policies are exactly what the FAA wants us to do.

Rex Grossman

Well, obviously the goal is to complete every pass, get into a rhythm, you know, score some points and I'd feel good about going into the bye week. I just want to play well and stay in rhythm and get some more exposure to actually playing.

Kofi Annan

Two years ago, I declared that in my view no reform of the United Nations would be complete without reform of the Security Council. That is still my belief,

Meghan Purvis

Unfortunately, this may be one of the last years when the public gets a complete picture of toxic pollution.

Jamey Shouppe

You know you are going to get six innings out of (Bryan Henry) every time out. And the reason is because he's such a complete pitcher.

Ray Bradbury

If you're reluctant to weep, you won't live a full and complete life.

Joby Scroggs

We knew going in that they were going to zero in on Kevin, who still had 115 yards in the game. Now, we've got another weapon - teams have to prepare even harder.

Allen Iverson

I had problems walking, so I knew I couldn't do any running. I couldn't do it. It's real swollen.

Efren Barajas

If Cesar knew about this, he'd roll over in his grave.

John Stocco

I didn't have flashbacks, ... I just knew I was getting down this time.

Petula Clark

I did have one boyfriend, from Norway, who knew nothing of my stardom. It was all hand-holding stuff, and we did share my first grown-up kiss, upon which I slapped his face.

Michelle Wie

Before the birdies, I had a sense of urgency, ... I knew I had to do something to get things going.

David Baker

Before, maybe one out of 10 knew what the AFL was. Now, maybe one out of 10 doesn't know.

David Baker

Before, maybe one out of 10 knew what the A.F.L. was. Now, maybe one out of 10 doesn't know.

J. C. Chandor

I wrote 'All is Lost' while editing 'Margin Call'. I did that long before I knew if I was ever going to get to make another movie.

Ann Beattie

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.

George Washington

The business being thus closed . . . dined together and took a cordial leave of each other After which I returned to my lodgings, did some business with and received the papers from the secretary of the Convention, and retired to meditate on the momentous work which had been executed.

Harold MacMillan

We do not intend to part from the Americans and we do not intend to be satellites. I am sure they do not want us to be so. The stronger we are, the better partners we shall be; and I feel certain that as the months pass we shall draw continually closer together with mutual confidence and respect.

Gwyneth Paltrow

When I venture out to eat, I like to go to places with food that I don't know how to make. So my favorites are Japanese and Indian. Indian food has so much layering of flavor, and the dishes go together so harmoniously.

Gregory Bateson

Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive.

Ingrid Newkirk

It's time for the State Department to permanently change its official policy to allow all members of U.S. citizens' families - no matter what size they are or how many legs they have - to evacuate together when disaster strikes.

Cathy Moriarty

The way I grew up, when you're married, you have to stay married together.

Atharva Veda

Live together in Love; live in Peace; and live in Service.

Gaston Gaudio

I think I've always had it in me. I just haven't been able to put it together for a whole match.