Dr Shigeto Quotes & Sayings

Political experts are saying the reason John Kerry is doing so well is because he's 'electable.' Hey, so was Al Gore - in fact, he even got elected and it didn't help him at all. — Jay Leno

Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some care] only for the mental culture, and [are] in danger of over-studying, under the delusion ... that learning must be had at all costs, forgetting that health and real wisdom are better. — Louisa May Alcott

When you people have a set up joke and the joke is set up straight and the words are just well written, I always say "C'mon, humans don't speak that way." — Will Gluck

I don't have a compact. — Andrea Cremer

You don't have to be peculiar to find God. — Evelyn Underhill

The instructions of the teacher consist then merely in a hint, a touch-enough to give a start to the child. The rest develops of itself. — Maria Montessori

Why get stained when getting dirty is so much more fun — Gayle Forman

If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare ... they may appoint teachers in every state ... The powers of Congress would subvert the very foundation, the very nature of the limited government established by the people of America. — James Madison

Eventually the dollar won't always rule. Eventually there will be a challenge to the United States and it will have to be like other countries that are a bit concerned about their currency, and then have to ratchet back in order to - right, in order to sustain. We just haven't reached that point yet. — Amity Shlaes

I treat people with respect, love, kindness and grace not because of who they are, but because of who I am. — Elissa Gabrielle

Eventually I got asked to be in a Michael J. Fox sitcom called High School U.S.A. I didn't think it was funny and said no. They doubled the money, and that kind of offended me. I realized, oh, that's right, my opinion means nothing in Hollywood. I'd seen other people compromise, and I felt that once you gave up on what you wanted to do, you couldn't go back. It was selling out. So I decided to go back to Minneapolis. — Joel Hodgson

When the Russian delegate this summer indicated the Soviet Union's interest in sending medical equipment, Dr Shigeto went right away to see the delegate and settle the matter tactfully. He is careful to steer clear of the superficial swirl of political maneuvering, but never misses any opportunity to improve the capability of the A-bomb Hospital or to enhance concretely the welfare of the patients. In that sense, he sometimes refers to himself as a 'dirty handkerchief.' That is, he serves to filter political purposes out of relief efforts so that the effect on patients is purely and concretely humane. — Kenzaburo Oe

I went back to the States and started at a small newspaper in Riverside County, California, covering the police; I was making $280 a week covering the police. — John Pomfret