Cachectic Quotes & Sayings

In a city like New York, any night can be completely different, even in a subtle way. — Nate Ruess

Everything I do is part of my passion. — Harry Connick Jr.

Given one has before oneself a strong, healthy, youth rich in spirited blood and a powerless, weak, cachectic old man scarcely capable of breathing. If now the physician wishes to practise the rejuvenating art on the latter, he should make silver tubes which fit into each other: open then the artery of the healthy person and introduce one of the tubes into it and fasten it into the artery; thereupon he opens also the artery of the ill person ... — Andreas Libavius

A film is its own thing and in an ideal world I think a film should be discovered knowing nothing and nothing should be added to it and nothing should be subtracted from it. — David Lynch

It occured to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw. — Thomas Harris

In some departments of our daily life, in which we imagine ourselves free agents, we are ruled by dictators exercising great power. — Edward Bernays

I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of. — Rachel Stevens

We are reformers in the spring, but iin autumn we stand by the old. Ralph Waldo Emerson — Ron Suskind

It is not only through their complexity that the immune systems confuse their owners' longing for security; they cause even more perplexity through their immanent paradox, as their successes, if they become too thorough, are perverted to become their own kind of reasons for illness: the growing universe of auto-immune pathologies illustrates the dangerous tendency of the own to win itself to death in the battle against the other.
It is no coincidence that recent interpretations of the immunity phenomenon exhibit a tendency to assign far greater significance to the presence of the foreign amidst the own than was intended in traditional identitary understandings of a monolithically closed organismic self - one could almost speak of a post-structuralist turn in biology. In the light of this, the patrol of antibodies in an organism seems less like a police force applying a rigid immigration policy than a theater troupe parodying its invaders and performing as their transvestites. — Peter Sloterdijk

The uncertainty principle tells us that it would take infinitely long to measure energy (or mass) with infinite precision, and that the longer a particle lasts, the more accurate our measurement of its energy can be. But if the particle is short-lived and its energy cannot possibly be determined with infinite precision, the energy can temporarily deviate from that of a true long-lived particle. In fact, because of the uncertainty principle, particles will do whatever they can get away with for as long as they can. — Lisa Randall

Prisons are about addictions. Most prisoners are casualties of their own habits. They have all created victims, some in cruel and callous ways, but almost to a man they have first practiced that cruelty on themselves. Prison provides the loneliness that fuels addiction. It is the slaughterhouse for addicts, and all are eventually delivered to its gates. — Stephen Reid

Rage was sometimes a useful ally in the heat of a fight, but it was a trickster. It made everything seem possible. — Jonathan Maberry

He differed from the healthy type that was essentially middle class - he never seemed to perspire. Some people couldn't be familiar with a chauffeur without having it returned; — F Scott Fitzgerald

You generally know when someone asks you to do something- am I more writing, or am I more editing? The editor is the best metaphor for your job. — Keith Rabois

It must have been a snapper — Gary Paulsen