Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joel Siegel

What cancer does is, it forces you to focus, to prioritize, and you learn what's important. I mean, I don't sweat the small stuff. I used to get angry at cab drivers. It's not worth it.... And when somebody says you have cancer, you realize it's all small stuff.

Joel Salatin

If you think the price of organic food is expensive, have you priced cancer lately,

Joe Biden

One of the reasons to pick the cancer effort is to demonstrate to people that there's not much beyond our capacity. It will take time, but if we focus, if we narrow down where the bottle necks are and we move, there's never been a problem we can't solve.

Joe Biden

If we were able to put every single solitary cancer cell that has a genomic - had their genome done in one place, we have the computing capacity to go in and look at what are the similarities and dissimilarities that make them work and don't work. And every expert will tell you, it is probably gonna exponentially increase the capacity to be able to find, A, cures, B, vaccines, and C, turn some cancers into chronic diseases, rather than it cost you your life.

Joe Biden

There's about 100 different cancers in a cancer cell. And so what we're finding out is, they're finding out ways to deal with one or two of the cancers there, with certain medicines. But they don't know why, if you have that cancer and I have that cancer, and I get the therapy and you get it, I don't live and you live. That - they don't know why.

John Caudwell

E-mails are the cancer of modern business.

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Once you have a disease like cancer, you look at life a bit differently. Some things that were important no longer seem as important as they were.

Lindy Boggs

As a public official and being so highly visible, I have a responsibility to make it very clear that those people who will have cancer at one point in their lives will be able to function.

Linus Pauling

Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.

Lindsay Lohan

I'm a Cancer, which means I'm maternal and emotional. So in relationships I'm screwed.

Joseph Campbell

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it.

Phil Crane

Despite the fact that a predicted 350,000 persons in the US will die of cancer this year, the cancer bureaucracy keeps a closed mind. ...the basic issue is not the efficacy of Laetrile, but the infringement of freedom in what amounts to a life and death question.

Peter Jennings

We are survivors from the moment of diagnosis.

Haruki Murakami

You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.

Haruki Murakami

Possibilities are like cancer. The more I think about them, the more they multiply, and there's no way to stop them. I'm out of control.

Jodi Rell

I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.

Jimmy Carr

A lady with a clipboard stopped me in the street the other day. She said, 'Can you spare a few minutes for cancer research?' I said, 'All right, but we won't get much done.

Judith Hill

Fighting cancer is my mission right now. The research and development of finding cures for this nasty disease is my passion.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

You're never really cancer-free and I should have known that.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

When the doctor told me I had cancer, I was scared.

Kate Jackson

As someone who has had cancer, I learned that you don't have to die. Look at me. Because of early detection, I'm fine. I'm cured. I'm well.

Kate Jackson

My breast cancer was caught very early thanks to my doctor a wonderful woman named Elsie Giogi, who just recently passed away after practicing medicine into her 80's. At the time, she had suggested I go for a baseline mammogram before age 40 because I had fibrocystic breasts. The mammogram discovered a tiny tumor, and it was so small that they were able to take it out very easily. I had a lumpectomy. Unfortunately, they did miss a little of the cancer, and two years later I had a mastectomy. But hey, I'm here, I'm alive, and I'm going to live to be 100!

Kate Moss

Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer

Laura Ziskin

Cancer is everybody's cause.

Laura Ziskin

I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.

Laura Ziskin

When I was diagnosed I didn't know how epidemic cancer was. You find out that everybody you know is touched by this disease.

Landon Donovan

Skin cancer became personal to my family when my father was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma,

Karen Black

I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little more intimidating. Even the maid who comes to work for me once a week has found out that she can just trample over me... Im a Cancer! We are not ferocious people.

Julie Gold

I'm praying that was my one little dip in the cancer pool. I hope never to have to revisit that, but I learned a lot, I'm cancer free with a bright and hopeful future.

Julie Gerberding

People just don't know that you can have colon cancer and be completely asymptomatic and healthy.

Joseph Pilates

By exercising your stomach muscles, you wring out the body, you don't catch colds, you don't get cancer, you don't get hernias. Do animals get hernias? Do animals go on diets?

Joycelyn Elders

Guns kill more teenagers than the other big killers - heart disease, cancer, and AIDS - combined.