Novacaine Quotes & Sayings

You look at these past predictions like there's only a market in the world for five computers [as allegedly said by IBM founder Thomas Watson] and you realize it's not a good idea to predict too far into the future. — Geoffrey Hinton

We try to remember that medicine is for the patient. We try never to forget that medicine is for the people. It is not for the profits. The profits follow, and if we have remembered that, they have never failed to appear. The better we have remembered it, the larger they have been, — George W. Merck

Home is a boxcar and it's so far out of reach
Hidden under umbrella beach — Owl City

I think at the heart of so much restlessness of the day is a spiritual vacuum. There is a yearning for meaningful lives, a yearning for values we can commonly embrace. I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses. — Bill Moyes

I have a feeling I may have been born a century and a half too late, two classes too low, and in the wrong country... — Jack Rollins

Still our old question of the comparative advantage of justice and injustice has not been answered: Which is the more profitable, to be just and act justly and practise virtue, whether seen or unseen of gods and men, or to be unjust and act unjustly, if only unpunished and unreformed? In my judgment, Socrates, the question has now become ridiculous. We know that, when the bodily constitution is gone, life is no longer endurable, though pampered with all kinds of meats and drinks, and having all wealth and all power; and shall we be told that when the very essence of the vital principle is undermined and corrupted, life is still worth having to a man, if only he be allowed to do whatever he likes with the single exception that he is not to acquire justice and virtue, or to escape from injustice and vice; assuming them both to be such as we have described? — Plato

I have always thought if you are going to make a film, it's much better to have an original script that will play to film's strengths. — William Boyd

The strength of your faith is not measured by the absence of doubt, but by the faithfulness of your life in the face of doubt. — Nicky Gumbel

I lived in Arizona, and I thought Florida was in California because I thought oranges came from the same place. — Jennifer Rubin

In my judgment, most people don't have the slightest idea of what is actually written in the Old Testament because they, like Dawkins himself, cannot speak the language. The — Brent A. Strawn

I pine for a return to the type of old-school journalism and the tough newspapermen and women of the Thirties. — Heather Brooke

I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction. — David Eddings

But the mean reds are horrible. You're afraid and you sweat like hell, but you don't know what you're afraid of. Except something bad is going to happen, only you don't know what that is. — Truman Capote

Instead of slapping her head, I do what they tell you to do: count to ten. Only I do it the gifted way: 123+456+789+10. When your sister has hurtled you swerving into the darkness, stranded you at a funeral home, and threatens to get you in trouble, just stop and count to 1,378 before you respond. — Jo Ann Beard

It's part of the shape of the Universe. I only have to talk to somebody and they begin to hate me. — Douglas Adams