Billroth Surgery Quotes & Sayings

I'll keep doing it until I die or the audiences die. — Mark Russell

Stories have the power to make people feel. To give a shit. To change their opinions. To change the world. — Chuck Wendig

Emblematic of this era was the prolific Viennese surgeon Theodor Billroth. Born in 1821, Billroth studied music and surgery with almost equal verve. (The professions still often go hand in hand. Both push manual skill to its limit; both mature with practice and age; both depend on immediacy, precision, and opposable thumbs.) — Siddhartha Mukherjee

We must avoid coming to too close quarters with life. It is a slender crust over which you must walk without bearing down too hard. Hit your heel into it and you make a hole in which you will disappear. True philosophy has never consisted in probing all problems, but often on the contrary eluding them. We are skirting an abyss: beware of vertigo. — Edmond Scherer

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd. — D.H. Lawrence

Every budding dictatorship begins by muzzling the artists, because they're a mouthy lot and they don't line up and salute very easily. — Margaret Atwood

Ashes are excellent fertilizer — Brandon Sanderson

We have reached a strange new place in marketing when tweets become full-page print ads, — A.O. Scott

Trust is like that. Once you lose it, you begin to adjust your attitudes toward people, you put up guards, and filter the information you want them to know. — Gilly Macmillan

There was a contact between a football player and a cheerleader, male I might add. That male cheerleader clipped me from the side as I was running full speed, or slower than full speed, but generally, in the upper quadrant of speed. And I hit the ground pretty good. — Les Miles

What the hell am I doing here? I have walked right into the middle of a category-five shitstorm. — Robert Gates

Well, filming in Hawaii, you know, is a blessing. It's one of the most beautiful places on this planet. It has a very mystic energy which informs you as an actor. — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

That's what Hubble can do for us. It can tell us whether the universe is expanding forever or if one day it's going to come back together. — Duane G. Carey

He rolled his eyes, which buoyed me with relief. The dying don't bother with sarcasm. — J.A. Konrath

I went through a whole phase when I was younger of being obsessed with Tolstoy and Kafka and Camus, all those really, beautiful, dark depressing books. — Jessica Pare