Leksell Retractor Quotes & Sayings

The state of admiration is a condition of feeblemindedness. Most people are feebleminded all their lives only because they admire. Only a dimwit admires, the smart one doesn't admire: he respects, observes, understands. — Gerhard Kopf

It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find themselves at certain hours of the day or night in the depth of certain authentic and waking nightmare states, surrounded by the formidable suction, the formidable oppression of a kind of civic magic which will soon be seen appearing openly in social behavior. — Antonin Artaud

I wish I could tell every young girl with an eating disorder, or who has harmed herself in any way, that she's worthy of life and that her life has meaning. You can overcome and get through anything. — Demi Lovato

Whomsoever you follow, howsoever great, see to it that you follow the spirit of the master and not imitate him mechanically. — Mahatma Gandhi

Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look. — Ronald Reagan

I think so many great artists are flocking to LA because the downtown art scene is so vibrant, there is cheap living and you can really flourish as an artist there. There is an unbelievably supportive and really smart, talented theatre audience in LA full of young, hungry, vibrant people. It's something that sort of makes me think of what New York must have been like in its downtown theater scene in the 1980s - before my time. — Jon Bernthal

I tried writing this book about a singer in a wedding band, but realized I only wanted to write the book so I could have an excuse to sing with a wedding band as research. That's not a good enough reason to write a book. — Megan McCafferty

There is only one person who can ever know exactly what you want and truly make you happy - that person is you! — Denise Austin

After all, if you think you can't, why think? — Anonymous

The Modern-day so call "FREEDOM FIGHTERS" of Liberia does not have a "Political" ideology that they are willing to to die for; if you are not disposed to "DIE" for an ideology that will live than rallying people up is an act and hope of false promises. — Henry Johnson Jr

It was easy to lose a part of your body, it seemed to her; there were so many ways, it was a wonder anybody reached their death intact. — Emma Donoghue

At the British Open, I had my opportunities, but the ball just didn't want to go in the hole on the back nine. — Fuzzy Zoeller

Sow good services, sweet rememberances will grow from them. — Germaine De Stael

Things with the power to scare the living shit out of you on a thundery midnight in most cases seem only interesting in the bright light of a summer morning. — Stephen King

Writing is so much more problematic than drawing, full of moral pitfalls, ambiguity, public responsibility. If you record a day of your life, does the decision to do so change the shape of the day? One of Doris Lessing's days in The Golden Notebook is fifty-four pages long. It's complete; the rest are summaries - the "impression" of a day foisted artfully upon the reader by providing a few details. Fiction is made this way - as lineal perspective gives the illusion of three dimensions in drawing. But does the selection of a day - that you begin by knowing you must remember and observe - really affect it? Do you change the balance, distort the truth? The period itself, its choice and selection, does that not in itself constitute a kind of misconstruction, and the rest follow subconsciously? — Kate Millett