Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Perlis

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

Alan Jackson

It's a scary word, 'cancer.

Alan Bennett

Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.

Al Ries

A laser is a weak source of energy. A laser takes [only] a few watts of energy and focuses them in a coherent stream of light. But with a laser, you can drill a hole in a diamond or wipe out cancer.

Edward Hoagland

Suicidal thinking, if serious, can be a kind of death scare, comparable to suffering a heart attack or undergoing a cancer operation. One survives such a phase both warier and chastened. When-ten years ago-I emerged from a bad dip into suicidal speculation, I felt utterly exhausted and yet quite fearless of ordinary dangers, vastly afraid of myself but much less scared of extraneous eventualities.

Eddie Long

The doctor can X-Ray you and say, 'You got cancer.' And then you go home and God let me see, does Christ have cancer? If Christ don't, I don't have cancer. All I need to do is get a picture of what he looks like. Because, if I can see Him I become like Him.

Athol Fugard

What I quickly discovered is that our so-called new South Africa has as much material for a story-teller as the old one. The landscape hasn't really changed. Who is in power now is different to who was in power then, but the squatter camps grow like cancer, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer.

Arnold Palmer

I guess most of us would rather not discuss cancer because we are all afraid we might be told we have it. It's hard for people to even say the word, and that's the first obstacle you have to overcome when you are diagnosed with the disease. I think once you understand a little more about it ... I don't mean it gets any easier ... but I think you give it more in-depth thought about how you're going to deal with it.

Arnold Palmer

I would urge the government to allocate more funds toward fighting cancer. My own situation, it made me think. It made me think about the potential of dying. I wouldn't say I was scared. I'm more scared of how it will happen than of it happening. I'm not scared that I'm going to die. I think of how I'm going to die ... I don't want to linger. That scares me a little. The idea of lingering.

Stephanie Parker

You don't have a family. You don't know the name of the child. Nobody reported her missing. Usually, we help look for missing children. This time, we're out looking for clues to the identity.

Zachary Abuza

There were plenty of clues as early as June and July to suggest that JI was going to shift to smaller suicide bombers, rather than truck bombs.

Justin Turner

It's actually a scavenger hunt. It's geared even more toward kids this year because kids aren't always interested in looking at flowers. We have five bunnies hidden in people's yards. On our Web site, we've included even more clues to finding them.

Steven Squyres

It's a cold, dry miserable place today. But we have got these tantalizing clues that, in the past, it used to be warmer and wetter.

Kazunori Jinnai

Ever since the Nikkei component reshuffle, movements in major high-tech stocks have been dictating the key average... Investors will be looking for clues to a rebound in the earnings announcements by major technology firms that will be coming later this week.

James Awad

I don't think we'll get any big surprises in the economic news next week, ... What the market will be looking for are any clues that point to anything other than four percent GDP (gross domestic product) growth.

Linda Bowman

Mr. Burke had a storage locker. We executed a search warrant to see if there were any clues to confirm him as the bomber.

Samantha Knapp

One of the two strongest clues that the Orlando Police Department is sharing with the media is the scent that was picked up in the woods.

Paul Sandler

Marine mammals are providing early clues of our unseen impact on the sea.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity.

Norman Finkelstein

I don't think it's a good thing to have Christian states, Muslim states, or any kind of ethnic states.

David Mitchell

As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off.

Joe Lhota

I've been marching in every single ethnic nationality parade all throughout the City of New York. We're all Americans first and foremost, but people understand their heritage and it's good to see.

Archie Panjabi

Sometimes my ethnicity is relevant, other times not. I definitely get the best of both worlds.

Archie Panjabi

I have always let the lack of Indian actors in the industry drive me, not hold me back. I remember an agent in L.A. telling me a few years ago that an Indian actor wouldn't ever make it in Hollywood, but my ethnicity has helped me.

Aziz Ansari

Regardless of your ethnicity or anything, if you do great work, people will notice and you'll get hired.

Mark Noll

Evangelicalism in the New York region has been transformed dramatically in the past 25 years by the full-blown ethnic transformation of the churches.

Carl Bildt

What we are seeing is ethnic separation still going on,

Tyler Baskfield

This is a very rare incident to happen. Mountain lions tend to be very elusive. Typically mountain lions don't want any part of people.

Tyler Baskfield

This is a very rare incident to happen.

David Fischer

St. Petersburg has made a lot of progress and we thought we were doing well, ... then an incident like this happens.

John Cannon

This is an incident where you've got a victim shot multiple times, possibly by more than one suspect.

Roy Wilsher

This is possibly the largest incident of its kind in peacetime Europe.

E. L. Konigsburg

Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my characters. I know how things are going to end, and I know some important incidents along the way.

Monte Mitchell

We've responded to nine incidents seven in the past two weeks.

Lajos Egri

No, you don't have to start your play with a premise. You can start with a character or an incident, or even a simple thought. This thought or incident grows, and the story slowly unfolds itself. You have time to find your premise in the mass of your material later. The important thing is to find it.

Ken Trump

When I looked at the incidents this year, it jumped right out.

Charley Casserly

We're going to get offers for this pick. We've already had discussions with teams. I think there's value in our pick.

Jason Lewis

It was easy to get the offers for the good-looking vapid dude. I guess that's my power alley.

Laura Puchowicz

We already have offers on some of the units.

Makhosini Nkosi

As the NPA we are very pleased with this as it offers us what we wanted all the time - which is enough time to prepare for this case,

Ariel Sharon

This offers an opportunity to the Palestinians, and it's their turn,

Michel de Montaigne

We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.

Joan Chen

There are only so many roles as empresses... but I've had a lot of offers to play vampires.

Jim Carrey

Movie offers are out there for me, I just don't hear them yet.

Jeannette Walls

All seasons have something to offer

Forrest Pearson

The whole racial thing has been downplayed, but that is what it was. It seems that everyone wants to sweep the thing under the rug.

Will Durst

I didn't know that was a racial epithet. I thought it was a geographical designation.

Ben Williams

I never had a racial term thrown to me the whole time I was at Ole Miss. We were progressing.

Alan Moore

As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.

Dean Acheson

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.

David Hume

Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment.

Dee Hock

The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.

Carolyn Porco

Spokes are one of those Saturn-system phenomena that we are keenly interested in understanding.

Carlos Castaneda

You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small

Charlotte Lamb

I wish you wouldn't walk in and out of my mind as though it was a railway station!

Charles Lamb

This is the magnanimity of authorship, when a writer having a topic presented to him, fruitful of beauties for common minds, waives his privilege, and trusts to the judicious few for understanding the reason of his abstinence.

Charles Baudelaire

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.