Adrialin Quotes & Sayings

The next day I was driven down to New York City to take the physical. It was one of the strangest things I'd ever seen. Several hundred young men, maybe even a thousand, in their skivvies, walking around an enormous room, all of us lost, dazed, and confused.
Some of these guys had dodged the draft and were there under the watchful eyes of dozens of federal marshals lined up against one of the walls. After eight hours of being poked, prodded, stuck, and poked again, I was given a large red envelope. I had been rejected. I had the respiratory problems of an old man, high blood pressure, partial loss of hearing, very bad teeth, very flat, very wide feet and I tested positive for tuberculosis.
"Frankly," the doctor said, "I don't know how the hell you're even standing up," and that was when the sergeant told me that if they bottled everything that was wrong with me "we could take over the world without a shot. — John William Tuohy

Smile, just because you're alive and enjoying the magic of life. — Debasish Mridha

Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy. — Amy Winehouse

If the aristocrat is only valid in fashionable circles, and not with truckmen, he will never be a leader in fashion; and if the man of the people cannot speak on equal terms with the gentleman, so that the gentleman shall perceive that he is already really of his own order, he is not to be feared. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dumb as a drum vith a hole in it, sir. — Charles Dickens

I did not develop my ear. I discovered I had an ear, and it was an accident. — Clive Davis

When I would feel down ... I'd have some noodles father prepared, and all the worries I had that day ... Poof! They would all disappear. — Kim Young-kwang