Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Roach

One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others'. My bedside is piled with books, but it's duty reading: books for book research, books for review. The ones I pine for are off on a shelf downstairs.

Andrew Stern

Nurses play a unique and central role in our health care system, and we need to unite and empower nurses to speak out. Nurses are leaving the bedside in droves because of low pay and working conditions.

Andrew Stern

Nurses are leaving the bedside in droves. We have more and more large employers. We can't solve problems at a local level.

Louise Brown

I have a large pile of novels on my bedside table, and I look at them frequently, promising myself that I will find the time to read them.

Abraham Verghese

I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient whose care I am taking over is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it's only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.

Abraham Verghese

You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.

Elizabeth Jagger

'Finnegans Wake,' 'Alice and Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass' live on my bedside table back home in London.

Sherwin B. Nuland

The growing professional disciplines of medical ethics and bioethics have had a profound impact on researchers, bedside doctors, associations of physicians, and government.

Karen Hill

Even though we're grateful for those initiatives that have been put in place, we still haven't had the problem addressed which is really nursing at the bedside and direct patient care, which is still compromised despite these initiatives.

Xavier Chambon

We want to put books in everyone's hands.

Ron Cooper

We have no problem with the audit. Our books are open to everyone.

James Patterson

The fact is that our kids aren't reading books - or frankly, much of anything lately. Schools are under funded, some schools even closing their libraries. Parents have to realize that it's their job, and not the school's job, to get kids into the habit of reading for fun.

Rene Descartes

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

Joseph Annotti

There is case after case on the books that have upheld the validity of flood exclusion language, exactly the language Mr. Scruggs is contesting.

Joe King

When I'm not playing football, I'm usually studying. I want to go to college, so I got to keep reading books and doing my homework.

A. S. Byatt

You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.

Thomas Carlyle

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

Mark Frauenfelder

When I was a kid, one of my favorite books was George Gamow's 'One Two Three ... Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science.'

Eric Brown

I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.

Charles Buxton

You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.

Paul Clarke

The outcome helps us fulfill our duty of providing maximum returns on our investments to fund the work of the church.

Li Zhaoxing

The position of the U.N. ... must be strengthened so that it can perform its duty of safeguarding peace in a more effective way,

Kerry Greenwood

I'm a duty solicitor, so I can't fix someone's life; all I can do is fix the problem I've got in front of my eyes.

Kathe Kollwitz

It is my duty to voice the suffering of men, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain-high.

John Abizaid

Every American soldier wants as much public support as he can possibly have. That's the soldiers on duty in Iraq, and that's me, as well. We fight better knowing that our people back home support us, back us, and understand what we're doing. It's hugely important.

Denis Diderot

There is only one duty; that is to be happy.

Kevin Chambers

There is no process for regular review of local issuing authorities. If someone just stops performing that duty, we'd have no way of knowing that.

Tom Tancredo

He can fight terrorists overseas, but he leaves our borders so they can come in here and do their thing.

Lynsey Addario

Every story takes its toll on me and leaves an impression on me.

Jessalyn Gilsig

It's much more fun to be the person who comes into the room and lights the match. I get to be the force, the girl who always says or does something completely outrageous, and leaves everyone thinking, 'What was that?'

Yotam Ottolenghi

Celery leaves are an underused ingredient, most likely because supermarkets sell mostly leafless stalks.

Tracy Kidder

I'm a little suspicious of the great, overarching view. It always leaves something out.

Algernon Blackwood

A strong emotion, especially if experienced for the first time, leaves a vivid memory of the scene where it occurred.

Thomas Mann

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

Bill Viola

You can always tell in a movie when they are setting you up for something. If someone leaves an important object on the table and walks away, the camera will have some way of indicating that to you.

Dmitri Mendeleev

Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others.

Lola Kirke

The oboe is the most maddening thing of all time. I'm struggling to play something that my oboe teacher was doing when she was much younger than I am.

Rutina Wesley

It's really maddening out there for dark-skinned actresses in terms of the opportunities we get. There's just so much talent that is being overlooked.

Edgar Cayce

Keep the Pineal Gland operating and you will Never grow Old, You will always be Young.

Eddie Rickenbacker

I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.

Heather Brooke

I pine for a return to the type of old-school journalism and the tough newspapermen and women of the Thirties.

Tim Russell

This is the first time that I have done spring drills at Pine Tree.

Steve Lawson

Fletcher didn't have to be talked into doing what he did for Pine Mountain, ... He did it because it was the right thing to do.

J. B. Smoove

I thought 'Pineapple Express' was hilarious.

Chris Donahue

The shelf space has been shrinking. We underinvested in making sure that hasn't happened, and that's one of the things we're going to fix.

Chris Donahue

The shelf space has been shrinking, ... We underinvested in making sure that hasn't happened, and that's one of the things we're going to fix.

Deirdre McQuade

They want to make sure RU-486 is on the shelf of every doctor's office. It's really disgusting.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.