Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit.

Horace

A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.

If he's suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage, it means a blood vessel in his brain has burst and the situation is really critical.

I felt something like a punch and then heat. I touched myself and saw the blood.

If everything works out -- if IGF-2 status is tied to colon cancer risk in people and the blood test is workable -- then IGF-2 status could be the colon cancer equivalent of cholesterol levels as a risk factor for heart disease. We've never had a broad molecular screening tool like that for any cancer.

If future blood tests indicate the cells are indeed churning out the enzyme, this entire endeavor will have moved from theory into the pages of medical firsts.

John Rhys-Davies

If I had a bloody tattoo for every film I'd done, I'd be a walking billboard.

Stephen Moyer

I did a lot of musicals when I was young and finally went to drama school to try and get away from doing musicals... and of course the first thing that happened when I got out is I got offered a musical. And then when I got to the Royal Shakespeare Company, which was my next job, I ended up doing a bloody musical!

Brian Elliott

I don't think the true release has actually come. We won a game, but we don't even realize what we just did. This means so much to everybody; you just can't put it into words. Just saying it right now gets into your blood and your heart pumping. Seeing that trophy with those guys out there taking pictures, you couldn't write a better script for an ending.

I could hear people choking on blood in the front room and D.J. flopping around and David groaning.

William Shakespeare

I could a tale unfold whose lightest wordWould harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres.

I don't like going to the doctor, so I just let it go. But it just continued to get worse, and after they did the blood work, they found out it was mono.

Hunter S. Thompson

My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this climate.

Hunter S. Thompson

All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.

Howard Schultz

Starbucks is in my blood. It is such a part of me that letting it unravel simply was not an option.

J. R. R. Tolkien

It is written in my life-blood, such that it is, thick or thin; and I can no other.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy? Nobel laureate in literature.

Immanuel Kant

Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an island decided to separate and disperse throughout the world), the last murderer remaining in prison would first have to be executed, so that each has done to him what his deeds deserve and blood guilt does not cling to the people for not having insisted upon this punishment; for otherwise the people can be regarded as collaborators in his public violation of justice.

Margaret Weis

He could hear himself screaming and he knew it was his death cry. Still he fought on, as he had fought all his life. I...will...control... The words came from his mouth, stained with his blood... I will control... Reaching out, his hands closed over the Staff on Magius. I will!

Jose Saramago

With the passage of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the color of our blood and the salt of our tears.

Kelley Armstrong

What's next? If there are vampires in there, they probably drink artificial blood plasma substitute.

Kelley Armstrong

Before we left town, Antonio pulled into a strip mall and went in to get subs and salads, leaving Clay and me half naked and bleeding in the car, and Cain unconscious in the trunk. No wonder I was anxious to get back to Toronto. Spend too much time around these guys and you become a little too nonchalent about blood-soaked clothes and bodies in the trunk

Joe Manganiello

I am kind of giant … on (the True Blood) set.

Joe Manganiello

I've always been an athletic guy, but the extent to which I go for 'True Blood' or for 'Magic Mike' is because of the role that I'm playing.

Jimmy Carter

The love of liberty is a common blood that flows in our American veins.

John Cage

It was at Harvard not quite forty years ago that I went into an anechoic [totally silent] chamber not expecting in that silent room to hear two sounds: one high, my nervous system in operation, one low, my blood in circulation. The reason I did not expect to hear those two sounds was that they were set into vibration without any intention on my part. That experience gave my life direction, the exploration of nonintention. No one else was doing that. I would do it for us. I did not know immediately what I was doing, nor, after all these years, have I found out much. I compose music.

The liver signifieth the element of water, and it is also the water; for from the liver cometh the blood in the whole body into all the members. The liver is the mother of the blood.

The jewels are the vaccines business and blood testing. There's nothing about Chiron that makes you say 'wow, we need to buy this for the pipeline.' The portfolio is rather lackluster compared to other biotechnology companies.

Mahatma Gandhi

If the circulation of blood theory could not have been discovered without vivisection, the human kind could well have done without it.

Mahatma Gandhi

If blood be shed, let it be our own. Let us cultivate the calm courage to die without killing.

James Patterson

Then I found it: the source of the blood, the place where he'd been shot. 'Total?' I said, and I got a slight whimper. 'You have a boo-boo on your tail.

James Patterson

In a manner of speaking. As we intend for you to found a dynasty. And that dynasty will rule society until it has progressed enough to-" "Overthrow the dynasty in a revolutionary, blood filled coup!" Iggy said eagerly. We all looked at him. "Just saying." He sheepishly took a bite of cookie.

Novalis

Blood will stream over Europe until the nations become aware of the frightful madness which drives them in circles. And then, struck by celestial music and made gentle, they approach their former altars all together, hear about the works of peace, and hold a great celebration of peace with fervent tears before the smoking altars.