Rod Kimble Quotes & Sayings

Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history. — William Cowper

I was like him two years ago; I was the one in control. I — Joanna Mazurkiewicz

She called me Nerdy because I wore glasses and read books and ate yogurt on my lunch break. I'm not really a nerd: I only aspire to be one. Because of the high-school-dropout thing, I'm a self-didact. (Not a dirty word, look it up.) I read constantly. I think. But I lack formal education. So I'm left with the feeling that I'm smarter than everyone around me but that if I ever got around really smart people - people who went to universities and drank wine and spoke Latin - that they'd be bored as hell by me. It's a lonely way to go through life. So I wear the name as a badge of honor. That someday I may not totally bore some really smart people. The question is: How do you find smart people? — Gillian Flynn

When somebody tells me I cannot do something, that's when I do it, — Gertrude Ederle

One must drop all presuppositions and dogmas and rules - for there only lead to stalemate or disaster; one must cease to regard all patients as replicas, and honor each one with individual reactions and propensities; and, in this way, with the patient as one's equal, one's co-explorer, not one's puppet, one may find therapeutic ways which are better than other ways, tactics which can be modified as occasion requires. — Oliver Sacks

A review of trials of acupuncture for back pain showed that the studies that were properly blinded showed a tiny benefit for acupuncture, which was not "statistically significant" (we'll come back to what that means later). Meanwhile, the trials that were not blinded - the ones in which the patients knew whether they were in the treatment group or not - showed a massive, statistically significant benefit for acupuncture. — Ben Goldacre

People say you should do it this way, someone else suggests that, yes, there's financing, but maybe you should use this actor. And there are the threats, at the end - if you don't do it this way, you'll lose your box office; if you don't do it that way, you'll never get financed again ... 35, 40 years of this, you get beat up. — Martin Scorsese

It's not fashionable but I like to spit out of the window of a moving train. — Paul Theroux

The machine was so intricate, so complicated, that he almost got dizzy looking at it. Even in its sad state of disrepair, it was beautiful. — Brian Selznick

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories. — John Wilmot

Why don't you try it? It might be easier to run in these than your boots."
"This shoe clearly is not my size, and there is no time to have more made."
I tried not to laugh. "They have some in the back room that are your size. — Allison Van Diepen

I believe that a healthy body breeds a healthy mind. I am 74 years old now and my wife, Niso, is 38 years younger than me. She absolutely insists that I take regular exercise with her. — Wilbur Smith

This is Mindy. Malia was reading her book in Hawaii." My book! Malia Obama was reading my book! The one Amazon reviewer "My2Cents" called "sort of meh"! I was walking on air. — Mindy Kaling