Frierson Quotes & Sayings

Ive just got to do a good job and stay on in Formula One for as long as I can. — Kimi Raikkonen

Nurses on transplant wards often remarked that male transplant patients show renewed interest in sex. One reported that a patient asked her to wear something other than "that shapeless scrub" so he could see her breasts. A post-op who had been impotent for seven years before the operation was found holding his penis and demonstrating an erection. Another nurse spoke of a man who left the fly of his pajamas unfastened to show her his penis. Conclude Tabler and Frierson, "this irrational but common belief that the recipient will somehow develop characteristics of the donor is generally transitory but may alter sexual patterns.' Let us hope that the man with the chicken heart was blessed with a patient and open-minded spouse. — Mary Roach

Coleridge was a drug addict. Poe was an alcoholic. Marlowe was killed by a man whom he was treacherously trying to stab. Pope took money to keep a woman's name out of a satire, then wrote a piece so that she could still be recognized, anyhow. Chatterton killed himself. Byron was accused of incest. Do you still want to a writer -and if so, why? — Bennett Cerf

Good scholars struggle to understand the world in an integral way (pedants bite off tiny bits and worry them to death). These visions of reality [ ... ] demand our respect, for they are an intellectual's only birthright. They are often entirely wrong and always flawed in serious ways, but they must be understood honorably and not subjected to mayhem by the excision of patches. — Stephen Jay Gould

Taking away people's names denied their power, a lesson Cheris tried not to think about. — Yoon Ha Lee

Without a belief in my programme and without an acceptance of my condition, you will ruin me, ruin yourselves and ruin the cause. — Mahatma Gandhi

You're so careful with me, Bevin murmured, awed.
That's because you're so precious to me, Tim replied — Savannah J. Frierson

The pain was so huge he felt small and weak and helpless inside it, — George R R Martin

You never die from a snake bite, you can't be unbitten it's in the way, what continues to pour through you long after the bite has taken place. — Bob Proctor