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.

Charles Dickens

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Alan Watts

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Chip Kidd

Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.

Chinua Achebe

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'

David Icke

A group of reptilian humanoids, called the Babylonian Brotherhood, control humanity.

David Hume

Custom is the great guide to human life.

Astro Teller

Anything which is a huge problem for humanity we'll sign up for, if we can find a way to fix it.

Hit-Boy

I had to learn how to think as a positive human being, before anything.

Herbert A. Simon

I like to think that since I was about 19, I have studied human decision-making and problem-solving.

Kay Henderson

They're role models in their communities, ... These kids, I would take 'em anywhere. They've got so much to share.

Naomi Campbell

I feel very responsible for young models of colour. They come to me and tell me they're not getting jobs, and I do what I can to speak up for them.

E. Hicks

As an agency, our model is not really one that works well with one-off projects.

Siri Hustvedt

The third-person or 'objective,' static, reductive models used in most science are important and yield significant results, but they have their limitations.

Donald Trump

I've been told I'm a role model to many women,

Carl Becker

I used to paint model soldiers as a kid.

Paul Kemp

That's what modeling does, it makes something real before it happens.

Jeff Bell

The model is imploding. Why don't we start working on a transition?

Mausumi Dikpati

The model has demonstrated the necessary skill to be used as a forecasting tool.

Howard Schnellenberger

We'll be getting the tape tonight and be studying them.

Dan Brown

I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.

David Epstein

When we started studying it in 1998, frankly, it worked much better than we ever anticipated.

John Huber

I get to make my own schedule, and I get a lot of studying done.

Nipsey Russell

He was always reading, always studying and was very, very quiet. He had a photographic memory.

Lance Reddick

I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.