Alecks Medical Quotes & Sayings

I may be old-fashioned. But I believe there is such a thing as a search for beauty - a delight in the nice things in the world. And I don't think one should have to apologise for it. — Saul Leiter

Live your life as though there is great joy to be experienced ... an abundance of goodness in each person you come in contact with, and the knowledge that you have enough inner wisdom to answer the mysteries that challenge you. — Meladee McCarty

Governments must now take a leading role in moving their nations in the right direction. — Henry W. Kendall

Most "squat" shoes (and I mean the ones that are designed for lifters_ have a slight heal to them. This is great if you have strong quads and use your legs to push the weight, but if you want to get your hamstrings and hips (which are stronger) involved, you will want a flat sole. — Joe "Ironman" Norman

It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values. — Jawaharlal Nehru

Use and respond to the initial fresh qualities but consider them absolutely expendable. — Richard Diebenkorn

Everything's interesting. You just have to look closely."
"And most people don't. — James Sallis

My father is just getting better and better, and that speaks so well of the way he approaches the work. — Domhnall Gleeson

It's all right to have our mite boxes for the heathen, and send missionaries to them. They're far away and we don't have to associate with them. But I don't want to have to sit in a pew with a hired boy. — L.M. Montgomery

Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don't need little changes. We need gigantic revolutionary changes ... Competition for the best teachers should be fierce. They should be getting six-figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government and absolutely free of charge for its citizens, just like national defense.
Sam Seaborne, West Wing — Aaron Sorkin

His hair was a dark, dark black - Barrani black - but his build was all wrong for Barrani. He was a shade taller than Teela, and about twice her width. Three times, maybe. His hands were empty; he carried no obvious weapon. Wore no open medallion. The hand that he lifted in ritual greeting, palm out, was smooth and un-adorned. — Michelle Sagara

When Iron Man's flying, we'd send real planes up to do the choreography so that we'd get the camerawork to really look like a cameraman was following from another plane. It gives it that 'Top Gun' look. — Jon Favreau

I don't like to make strong statements. I want to write strong novels ... I keep my deep, radical things for my novels. — Orhan Pamuk

To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or her to be on earth at this moment — Galway Kinnell