Bipperty Bopperty Quotes & Sayings

It takes 50 years to get a wrong idea out of medicine, and 100 years a right one into medicine. — John Hughlings Jackson

My father used to be away for months at a time, and he'd never leave any money for food, so my brother and I had to go out and nick it. — Norman Wisdom

My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people - because I was close to something that fell apart. — Banks

My brother distrusts the essential truth of memories; I distrust the way we colour them in. We each have our own cheap-mail-order paintbox, and our favourite hues. Thus, I remembered Grandma a few pages ago as "petite and unopinionated". My brother, when consulted, takes out his paintbrush and counterproposes "short and bossy. — Julian Barnes

My love of water ... is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position - I enter a fugue state - but I cannot bear to bury my face in water). — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

her. I never felt properly sorry for schizophrenics, she thought, unable to escape the voices in their heads and fighting for their sanity with a maelstrom of noise all around them, making it impossible to think. No — Connie Willis

I have to force myself to look away from those irresistible dimples; they unleash the desire between my legs. — Emily Rose Philips

The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the 'social sciences' is: some do, some don't. — Ernest Rutherford

The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God; that the universe is only matter in spontaneous motion; and, most grievous word of all, that what men call their souls die with the death of the body, as music dies when the strings are broken. — John Lothrop Motley

The attendant walked closer. "Where'd you come from, soldier?"
Tree tried to think of a recent war and coudn't, so he said, "Canada."
The attendant looked surprised. "Canada?"
"It was a secret mission," Grandpa said.
"It saved the Republic," Wild Man whispered. — Joan Bauer

I'm really excited about the revolution that is young people actually playing young people on Broadway. — Jennifer Damiano

I always found it satisfying that gravity was described by Einstein's geometric theory of general relativity. — Antony Garrett Lisi

people with autism must survive in an outside world where "special needs" is playground slang for "retarded, — Naoki Higashida

As if I was never nicknamed 'Wednesday' as in 'Adams'. — Sarah Vowell

A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy. — Yanni