Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aaron Koblin

They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies…the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you. When you're stumped, go to your notes like a wizard to his spellbook. Mash those thoughts together. Extend them in every direction until they meet.

Daniel Johns

I am doing everything humanly possible to try and get well, but lately things have just kept getting worse.

E. M. Forster

But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.

Anne Sexton

Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort.

Janet Jackson

To a world sick with racism, get well soon.

Booker T. Washington

There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.

Benjamin Franklin

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

Deb Caletti

If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp.

Charles Dickens

It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture to ourselves what flowers they might have borne, if they had flourished . . .

Kurt Vonnegut

You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do.

Bill Walton

I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.

Bo Sanchez

We are all wounded. But wounds are necessary for his healing light to enter into our beings. Without wounds and failure and frustrations and defeats, there will be no opening for his brilliance to tickle in and invade our lives. Failures in life are courses with very high tuition fees, so I don't cut classes and miss my lessons: on humility, on patience, on hope, on asking others for help, on listening to God, on trying again and again and again.

Charles Krauthammer

Where there is a confluence of interests among nations, as, for example the swine flu or polio, you can get well functioning international institutions like the World Health Organization. And you can act. Climate change is different, because the science remains hypothetical and the potential costs staggering.

Bernie Siegel

Getting well is not the only goal. Even more important is learning to live without fear, to be at peace with life and ultimately death.

Gertrude B. Elion

It is important to go into work you would like to do. Then it doesn't seem like work. You sometimes feel it's almost too good to be true that someone will pay you for enjoying yourself. I've been very fortunate that my work led to useful drugs for a variety of serious illnesses. The thrill of seeing people get well who might otherwise have died of diseases like leukemia, kidney failure, and herpes virus encephalitis cannot be described in words.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Everybody's got money for vacation time. Look at how much we all spend just to get - well, I get sick on the loop-the-loop roller coasters. People pay money for that kind of experience. So I would certainly save up money, save several vacations worth of money, to go on a suborbital flight or any rocket flights.

John Steinbeck

You're getting well,' Samuel said. 'Some people think it's an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well. But the time poultice is no respecter of glories. Everyone gets well if he waits around.

Johnny Miller

I played so bad, I got a get-well card from the IRS.

Phyllis Diller

Would you believe that I once entered a beauty contest? I must have been out of my mind. I not only came in last, I got 361 get-well cards.

Phyllis Diller

Everybody knows how lazy he is. One day the neighbors saw Fang mow the lawn and I got three Get Well cards.

Stephen King

Writing's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.

Stephen King

Time heals all wounds.

Stephen King

Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.

Rumi

If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill.

Robert Green Ingersoll

If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.

Warren Buffett

Well, I think the biggest mistake is not learning the habits of saving properly early. Because saving is a habit. And then, trying to get rich quick. It's pretty easy to get well-to-do slowly. But it's not easy to get rich quick.

Vladimir Lenin

The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart.

William Cowper

To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.

Henry David Thoreau

Somehow strangely the vice of men gets well represented and protected but their virtue has none to plead its cause - nor any charter of immunities and rights.

Emma Forrest

Time heals all wounds. And if it doesn't, you name them something other than wounds and agree to let them stay.

George Bernard Shaw

Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up.

George Bernard Shaw

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.