Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Pratchett

5.Buggre Alle this for a Larke I amme sick to mye Hart of typefetinge. Master Biltonn if no Gentelmann, and Master Scagges now more that a tighte fisted Southwarke Knobbefticke. I telle you, onne a daye laike thif Ennywone withe half and oz of Sense shoulde bee oute in the Suneshain, ane nott Stucke here alle the lielong dale inn thif mowldey olde By-Our-Lady Workefhoppe *AE@;I*

Terry Eagleton

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The multitude of the sick shall not make us deny the existence of health.

Leslie Jamison

After finishing a draft, no matter how rough, I almost always put it aside for a while. It doesn't matter if it's a story or a novel, I find that when it's still fresh in my mind I'm either thoroughly sick of its flaws or completely blind to them. Either way, I'm unable to make substantive edits of any value.

Lee Kuan Yew

Even from my sick bed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel something is going wrong, I will get up.

Saul Bellow

A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.

Tina Fey

I went through a phase where I was sick of acting, I didn't want to do it anymore, I was bored with it and then I tried directing a movie and I was like: "Shoot, get back over there!" It made me appreciate acting more.

S. E. Hinton

... Hey, I didn't know you didn't like baloney." I went cold. "I don't like it. I never liked it." Soda just looked at me. "You used to eat it. That's why you wouldn't eat anything while you were sick. You kept saying you didn't like baloney, no matter what it was we were trying to get you to eat." "I don't like it," I repeated.

Shelagh Delaney

I am here and I am safe and I am sick of it.

Natalie Imbruglia

My kitchen bench is covered with vitamins and protein powders. I go through phases when I'm sure I'm taking too many - but I don't get sick often.

Tony Scott

The world is sick of big IT things that don't work.

Tom Savini

Maybe some people got sick, but what I saw was people applauding the effects. When the helicopter zombie stood up, people applauded. When a guy gets the top of his head lopped off, are they applauding that some horrible thing happened to a person, or are they applauding how it was technically pulled off in a realistic way?

Sigourney Weaver

I am sent too many mainstream scripts in which the older woman is really quite grotesque. Sometimes you read a script and you feel quite sick that they have to caricature older women in such a negative way.

Shirley Manson

I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it.

Shirley Manson

I've got no timetable. I'm sort of sick of timetables, to be honest.

Richie Havens

I don't get sick. I can't afford to get sick.

Stevie Nicks

I remember once Prince dropped by to see me when I was in Minneapolis and I was sick, with a bag of cough drops and a spoon of cough medicine. I said to him, "Hey, can I have another spoon of that? It's just over the counter," and he'd go, "No, I didn't come here to start up new drug addictions for you." And I was like, "C'mon, give me that bottle!" He was very watchful over me.

Regina Brett

When I was 41, I found a lump the size of a grape in my right breast. I ended up bald, sick and exhausted from surgeries, chemo and radiation treatments. Ah, but I got to live.

Thomas Bernhard

It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.

Tom Robbins

Listen, I've been sick ever since I started working here, but today I'm well and I won't be in anymore.

Suzanne Collins

Sick and disoriented, I'm able to form only one thought: Peeta Mellark just saved my life.

Steven Morrissey

Even I, as sick as I am, I would never be you. Even I, sick and depraved, a traveler to the grave, I would never be you.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.

Ron Clarke

It makes me sick to see a superior runner wait behind the field until 200 meters to go and then sprint away. That is immoral. It's both an insult to the other runners and a denigration of his own ability.

Rick Riordan

Look, I need to tell you something,' I continued. The words came stumbling out of me. 'I couldnt stand it if...I dont want you to---' Percy?' she said. 'You look like you're going to be sick.' And that's how I felt.

Tracey Gold

Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control.

Tracey Ullman

I'm sick of environmentalism.

Tony Snow

The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.

Veronica Roth

I'm sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what's wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.

Ruby Wax

How come every other organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy, except the brain?

Rupert Murdoch

I'm not ashamed of any of my papers at all and I'm rather sick of snobs that tell us that they're bad papers, snobs who only read papers that no one else wants. I doubt if they read many papers at all.

William Cowper

My soul is sick with every day's report of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled.

Van Morrison

The media is going to stick a label on records. And the public is going to pick it up from that. And that's what I was getting sick of-the whole analyzation thing.