Seideman Md Quotes & Sayings

The Empress Sabina had long ago formed her own theory about the nonsense in travel books. No traveler, having gone to the expense and trouble of venturing where most civilized people were too sensible to go, was going to come home and admit that it had been a waste of time. Instead, he had to pronounce his destination to be full of strange wonders, like the elk with no knees that could be caught by sabotaging the tree against which it leaned when it slept (Julius Caesar) or the men from India who could wrap themselves in their own ears (reported by the elder Pliny, who seemed to have written down everything he was ever told), or the blue-skinned Britons (Julius Caesar again).
Strangely, no traveler had ever brought one of these creatures home for inspection. Doubtless they were impossible to capture, or died on the journey, or the blue came off in the wash. — Ruth Downie

I apologise if you all know this, but the point is many, many people do not. Why else would they open a large play area for children, hang up a sign saying "Giant Kid's Playground", and then wonder why everyone says away from it? (Answer: everyone is scared of the Giant Kid.) — Lynne Truss

On a regular basis if you're trying to produce something, I think you should work every day and set achievable goals. — Chris Bohjalian

The choice-obsessed modern West is probably more accommodating to individuals who choose to eat differently than any other culture has ever been, but ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore - "I'm easy; I'll eat anything" - can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in a way that is good for society. Food choices are determined by many factors, but reason (even consciousness) is not generally high on the list. — Jonathan Safran Foer

If you're sad today, just remember the world is over 4 billion years old and you somehow managed to exist at the same time as David Bowie. — Simon Pegg

The adulterer dies. An old custom, justice. — Aeschylus

I don't know anything different about death than I ever have, but I feel differently. I inhabit this difference in feeling- or does it live in me?- at the same time as I'm sorrowing. The possibility of consolation, of joy even, does not dispel the sorrow. Sorrow is the cathedral, the immense architecture; in its interior there's room for almost everything; for desire, for flashes of happiness, for making plans for the future ... — Mark Doty

Fear is necessary for evolution. The fear that one could be destroyed at any moment. — Sosuke Aizen

Future is an empty paper, but not absolutely empty; the shadows of the drawings of the past is there, on the paper! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The essence of self-fulfillment and autonomous culture is an unshakable egotism. — H.L. Mencken

Some people feed you with love," Tara said, "and some people love you with food. — Graham Joyce

A man's moral character may be completely sapped; that is the dreadful part of it. — Henrik Ibsen

When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left? — Matthew Scully

I don't want to be called a good loser. A good loser is still a loser. — Stu Ungar

I never really know the title of a book until it's finished. — Mary Wesley