Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Roberts

End-stage liver disease refers to a liver that's failing, and a very high percentage of those livers are what we call cirrhotic, or the patient's liver has become cirrhotic, and what cirrhosis is, is the scarring of the liver tissue.

Augusten Burroughs

Even when we lose an arm or a leg, there's not less of us but more. Human experience weighs more than human tissue.

Anthony Atala

Every 30 seconds a patient dies from diseases that could be treated with tissue replacement,

Henri Frederic Amiel

To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.

George Wilson

[The popular impression about some chemists is that] the aquafortis and the chlorine of the laboratories have as effectually bleached the poetry out of them, as they destroy the colours of tissues exposed to their action.

George F. Kennan

World communism is like [a] malignant parasite which feeds on diseased tissue

Michael Behe

Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life.

Frank Bruni

Shiatsu, deep-tissue or maybe even Rolfing: Which manner of pummeling becomes a cephalopod most?

Pauline Kael

If you use Hollywood as the test tissue for mankind, what could the prognosis be?

Benoit Mandelbrot

I didn't feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little bit of everything and explore the world.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.

Art Alexakis

The world's most effeminate heterosexual, Daniel Johns

Anthony Storr

Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as delusional. Belief systems which may be just as irrational but which are shared by millions are called world religions.

Bill Bryson

A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world.

Bill Burton

There is a lightning quickness to the speed at which candidates can build and accidentally dismantle their own campaigns. If candidates don't figure out their place in the new digital world of politics, they will be destroyed by it.

Bill Burr

It's a whole new world as far as getting a show on the air. There's good things and bad things.

Bertrand Russell

We ought to look the world frankly in the face.

Bertrand Russell

One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence

Horst Koehler

Poles freed not just themselves, they launched a process which radiates until today, ... The fact that Poland threw off the yoke of communism led to the unification of Europe and a united Germany.

Charles Bukowski

Capitalism has survived communism. Now, it eats away at itself.

Barbara Tuchman

The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith.

Elia Kazan

I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.

Louie Gohmert

Socialism and communism fall of their own weight because, as Margaret Thatcher said, you run out of other people's money. Because socialized medicine never falls of its own weight because you put people on lists, and they die waiting to get the treatment and care. So you don't go broke.

Vaclav Klaus

Those of us who lived under communism for most of our lives were looking toward the Western world because of its values, emphasis on democracy, individual liberties and freedom, and economic prosperity.

A. J. P. Taylor

The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.

Michigan State

I would think that if you understood what Communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees, that we would someday become communists.

Dorothy Day

It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over.