Sickness Thermometer Quotes & Sayings

I'm in a caregiver's relationship with my body, a perpetual internal gauging of wellness. My spine is Hogarth's thermometer. I ascend and descend its rungs a hundred times a day, reading the mercury level. The same dis-ease speaks many languages. If you block one mouth, another will speak. The symptoms represent differently, and as I get older, my translation changes. The prescription changes. Must be vigilant. Must be my best nurse. — Jalina Mhyana

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. — Milan Kundera

In publishing, I may be unsure of what happens next, but I know that it's a sure road; God put me here. — Miranda A. Uyeh

Three quarters of faith is boldness.
Three quarters of wisdom is intelligence.
Three quarters of love is kindness. — Matshona Dhliwayo

There's a heart beneath the boobs and a brain beneath the wig. — Dolly Parton

I wake up feverish, sore, uncomfortable.
Is it sickness or is it heartbreak?
I can't tell.
The thermometer says I'm normal, but I'm clearly not. — David Levithan

There is no cosmic scale on which you can weigh your actions; you learn too late what choices ruin the fragile balance. — Jodi Picoult

No matter what is the environment around you, it is always possible to maintain your brand of integrity — Abdul Kalam

Death you are too familiar — Beth Havens

When people say, 'But what is acceptable in erotica?' I sometimes answer them by saying: there are certain taboos and limits in writing about sex as a positive, enjoyable, blissful, exciting activity. There are no taboos and limits whatsoever to describing the same sexual activities if they are traumatic, horrible, full of suffering and disgust. You can describe anything. — Senta Holland

When New Kids became really successful, I got a lot of offers to do parts in movies and TV shows, but I was really busy, so I pretty much turned everything down. But I always knew it was something that I would eventually put some energy into. — Donnie Wahlberg

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea. — Sydney Pollack

If we look honestly at our relationships, we can see so much about how we have created them. — Shakti Gawain

I think women are in much the same place in the Irish theater as they are everywhere else. Certainly, we have wonderful Irish writers, and we have quite a number of Irish women directors. But there could be more, and there should be more. — Garry Hynes