Chirurgov Quotes & Sayings

The local Cairo clergy offered to issue a fatwa recognizing Napoleon as the legitimate ruler of Egypt - provided the entire French army formally convert to Islam. Napoleon actually considered the offer, but when it became clear that the muftis' demand included mass adult circumcision and total abstinence from wine, the conversion plan was scrapped. — Tom Reiss

I've always been a serious computer nerd, as well as a biologist. — Joseph DeRisi

The only pleasing thing in life is pain. Pain creates pleasure, but not in the literal way. — Mia P

It's not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous, I would have stuck with hockey. — Eric Heiden

Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it's understood on television and in newspapers. — Kenneth Koch

I'd like to think the best of me was still hiding up in my sleeve. — John Mayer

The best thing to do is try and make sure you're getting something at your end. We had stretches where we didn't get that. — Bo Ryan

It's always a wake-up call to get beaten. — Usain Bolt

Mr S. got angry.
'Yes, I do have a son. He's a good-for-nothing. A dead loss.'
I couldn't ask which prison he was in, so I put it more tactfully: 'What is he doing?'
He sighed deeply: 'He's a professor of mathematics at London University. — George Mikes