Caligula Uncut Quotes & Sayings

People ask me 'what was going through your mind in the race?' and I don't know. I try and ... let my body do what it knows — Ian Thorpe

I learned to write from authors. I didn't know any, but I read their books. — Cynthia Rylant

The funny thing about time in the OR, whether you race frenetically or proceed steadily, is that you have no sense of it passing. If boredom is, as Heidegger argued, the awareness of time passing, then surgery felt like the opposite: the intense focus made the arms of the clock seem arbitrarily placed. — Paul Kalanithi

Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten. — Chinua Achebe

It has taken so little time to change our minds, about things like this. Then — Margaret Atwood

Commitment shows up before results do! — John Di Lemme

Try and get off with Major Butt — Walter Lord

It was Lennie Marchbanks at the door. She had met him once or twice before and rather liked him; mechanics struck her as being such easy, agreeable people. And, she noticed, as a psychotherapist, one never had a mechanic for a patient. Why was that? Were they invariably balanced people, free of the neuroses that afflicted non-mechanically-minded others? — Alexander McCall Smith

The hardest-working people don't work hard because they're disciplined. They work hard because working on an exciting problem is fun. — Drew Houston

When you can impress your mom by saying you've been to someone's concert, you know you're pretty lame. — Gillian Jacobs

I hold you in the safest place I keep. Somewhere between memories and scars. — Nicole Lyons

Pretty much all my life I've wondered about my birth parents, wondered who they were, what they were like. But since I had my children, I don't wonder anymore. Because I look at my kids, and I can see the answer. It's right there in their features, in who they are. Everything that isn't Rick and his family must be from my side. It's my kids who are finally showing me where I come from. — Daphne Kalotay

I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking. — Carl Sagan