Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles W. Pickering

Millions of Americans every year depend upon medical imaging exams to diagnose disease and detect injury, and thousands more rely on radiation therapy to treat and cure their cancers.

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.

Diane von Furstenberg

I was terrified the first time that I had a big problem in my business. I was obviously terrified when they diagnosed me with cancer in 1994. I was terrified when my son used to drive too fast. But I do believe in the fact that fear is not an option, so I always try to face it and not be afraid.

David Agus

We may never understand illnesses such as cancer. In fact, we may never cure it. But an ounce of prevention is worth more than a million pounds of cure.

David Agus

Cancer is the ultimate nemesis that hangs in the balance for one in three women and one in two men in their lifetime.

David Agus

We have forgotten that curing cancer starts with preventing cancer in the first place.

John Lilly

When you talk about effects of (winning that game), in any one year it doesn't have that great of an effect,

Gore Vidal

Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.

Paul Brennan

We found protective effects with at least weekly consumption of cruciferous vegetables,

Roman Romanenko

Throughout the history of spaceflight and the study of effects of exploring to human, space environment to human body, we have accumulated enough knowledge to be able to move over to the next step: getting ready for interplanetary missions, for interplanetary exploration.

Iris Chenault

She's tired today because she didn't get enough sleep without the machine. That's one of the side effects you don't get a good night's sleep.

Jim Egan

We really don't know what population effects have in terms of water quality trends.

Jason Ricci

I was involved in Habitat for Humanity when I was in high school and I think it's an incredible program. I've seen firsthand the effects it has on people.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Know how to listen and be sure that silence often produces the same effects as science.

Bruce Bochy

Jake was feeling the effects of everything that was going on between his teeth and hand, but he battled out there. He did a nice job.

Timothy Noah

The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it managed to survive.

Bryce Kaneshiro

Kaiser, they always step it up in the playoffs. They eliminated us last year, I didn't forget that.

Bobby Bowden

I thought our kids played about as hard and about as good as we could. If we could have eliminated penalties I think we might have won the game. I don't know how many holding penalties we got in the red zone. It seemed like every time we got to the red zone there was a holding penalty, even in the playoff in the end. We were our own worst enemy in that regard.

Ryan Ray

Our recycling program has also reduced our solid waste by up to one-third with a savings of approximately $13,000 for the first year, and we eliminated the need for a confidential services vendor, which saved us $22,000.

Suzanne Somers

I did trial and error on myself and it took two months. I eliminated all the sugars, obvious sugars, and I ate carbohydrates separate from protein.

Deron Williams

We're still in it. We haven't been eliminated yet. We've just got to keep fighting.

Van Chancellor

The day that we were eliminated from the playoffs was the day I vowed that would never happen again. I spent every waking moment, in some form or fashion, thinking about a way to get us back.

John Gibbons

We're not eliminated yet. I'm proud of the way the guys have played this year, they get after it. We're only going to get better.

Allen Iverson

We're not eliminated till we're eliminated. I just feel good about not being eliminated. We get to live another day.

Trent Yawney

We want them to experience what it's like to be in that situation. This has been a hard year for everyone -- not just the kids, but everybody off the ice who are trying so hard to make this thing work.

David Burns

We want to treat everybody the same, ... provide the same level of service whether it's three in the morning or three in the afternoon.

Alan Henderson

We want to thank everybody who helped us,

Jamie Varley

We want to sound like everybody and nobody at the same time.

Alexis Karel

We want to show everybody we belong. Our record doesn't matter. All those losses prepared us for this.

Larry Glass

We want to see something that's going to be a win-win for everybody and not just for one segment of the population.

Bengt Gustafsson

We know what we have to do. We know this is going to be a tough test, but we're here to win the gold medal. That's what we want ... that's what everybody wants. We just have to get the job done.

Levi Levine

We know we've got what it takes. It's not even a question. It's just a question of how much we want it. We've got to come out and play as hard as we can, and everybody has to be on the same page.

Shean Donovan

We know we need to play better. Everybody in here knows that.

Charlie Chaplin

The heart and the mind ... what an enigma.

Charlie Chaplin

As I began to love myself I recognized that my mind can disturb me and it can make me sick. But as I connected it to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally. Today I call this connection "WISDOM OF THE HEART"...

Charles W. Chesnutt

The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe.

Charles W. Chesnutt

The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.

Charles Sumner

The thought of going abroad makes my heart leap.

Charles de Lint

Every time we fix something that broken, whether it's a car engine or a broken heart, that an act of magic. And what makes it magic is that we choose to create or help, just as we can choose to harm.

Charles de Lint

I suppose the other thing too many forget is that we were all stories once, each and every one of us. And we remain stories. But too often we allow those stories to grow banal, or cruel or unconnected to each other.We allow the stories to continue, but they no longer have a heart. They no longer sustain us.

Charles de Lint

Write from the heart, what has meaning to you personally; have the patience and discipline to sit down and do it every day whether you're feeling inspired or not; never be afraid to take chances, in fact, make sure you take chances. As soon as you become complacent, you become boring ... . Read as much as possible, not simply in the genre, or what you think you're interested in, but other things as well.

Charles de Lint

There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back.

Michael Specter

It doesn't seem to matter how often vaccines are proved safe or supplements are shown to offer nothing of value. When people don't like facts, they ignore them.

Bertrand Russell

Every sane and sensible and quiet thing we do is absolutely ignored by the press.

Parry Aftab

Most spammers will ignore the state laws, as they have all others.

Joe Schwarzer

Mitchell was a tireless promoter of airspace, but he ignored military protocol,

Steve Ross

I think they said they were looking to read the law more aggressively than it has ever been read before. It was a mistake for them to pursue this matter. They ignored the original intent of the statute.

Chad Henne

Just going through last week, not playing ever like that before ... (you) just pretty much got to ignore it and move on and be more prepared than you were last week.

Bob Brewer

I don't think you can completely ignore that.

John Edward

Ignore the polls. They're wrong all the time.

Miriam Toews

Ignore all advice about writing. Leave your blood on every page. Every page!

Charlie Chaplin

Nothing in life is permanent, not even one's troubles.

Charlie Chaplin

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.

Charlie Chaplin

So when I cease to be I want to go back...to the sea! Oh for the life of a sardine! That is the life for me!

Charlie Chaplin

You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.

Charlie Chaplin

Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.

Charlie Chaplin

Life is laughter when seen in a long shot, but it is a tragedy when seen in a close-up.

Charles Dudley Warner

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

Charles de Gaulle

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles de Lint

We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the idea of a tree, instead of appreciating the actual trees in front of us.

Bill Taylor

We want to send the message that New Orleans is up and running and it's OK to come back.

Mark Regev

We want to send a very strong and sharp message to the Palestinians, and the temporary suspension of talks is that message.

Mark Phelan

Ultimately, the responsibility rests with the drivers, and they seemed to respond to the message we were putting out.

David Koresh

I am more willing to come out when I get my message from my commander.

Edwin Land

We can be dramatic, even theatrical; we can be persuasive; but the message we are telling must be true.

Megan Challender

We want people to understand our message is one of peace and not one of hate.

Marlene Rosenberg

We want everyone to be welcome to Beth Zion. That is a big message of Messiah.

Penn Jillette

The medium is not the message - the message is the message.

Craig Fugate

Until we really understand why people ... don't prepare and what it takes to get that message across, then I think that's going to be our challenge.

Charles W. Pickering

The current lack of a national standard for operators of medical imaging and radiation therapy equipment poses a hazard to American patients and jeopardizes quality health care.

Charles Dickens

It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have.

Alan Chadwick

We need to create the beauty and the quality first. The quantity will follow.

Akio Morita

Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.

Dhirubhai Ambani

We must always go for the best. Do not compromise on quality. Reject if it is not the best - not only the best in India, but globally.

Julian Baggini

Seek first what is true and of value, and then whatever happiness follows will be of the appropriate quantity and, more importantly, quality.

Arne Jacobsen

In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.

Derek Jacobi

You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop.

Denis Waitley

Your habits will determine your quality of life.

Tasneem Ahmed

We are awaiting New Delhi's response on it.

Kurt Vonnegut

Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Response, when asked how he came upon his theorems.

Larry Steach

When this all started, I didn't know what to expect. But, the response has been phenomenal.

Scott Baker

It can be more than that. It's not unusual for all of the staff to work on responses

Jim Angell

I think their response has been very measured.

Greg Stone

I don't understand why the response wasn't instantaneous.

Dan Anderson

It got a terrific response here at Wesley,

Paul Goldblatt

This was not a response to any one incident.

Charles Dudley Warner

It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.

Charles Spurgeon

God works, and therefore we work; God is with- us, and therefore we are with God, and stand on His side.

Chloe Grace Moretz

An actor always goes to the safe side.

Daniel Hernandez

We know what it is like to be on the other side of this,

Dave Gahan

Vocally, I really like going into the darker side of myself.

Jack Thompson

The other side wants to make me the issue,

Madeleine Albright

There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.

Barry Commoner

No action is without its side effects.

Derek Bailey

I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.

Charles Dickens

Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.

Charles Spurgeon

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

Charles Spurgeon

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

Alan Watts

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Alan Watts

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Alan Watts

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

Alan Parsons

That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

Alan Moore

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

Alan Arkin

Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another theme, incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.