Spucktuch Quotes & Sayings

As economists have often pointed out, we pay doctors for quantity, not quality. As they point out less often, we also pay them as individuals, rather than as members of a team working together for their patients. Both practices have made for serious problems. — Atul Gawande

My acting gives me my self-worth. — Elizabeth Banks

A victor knows that problems exist but he does not isolate himself from them — Sunday Adelaja

You can't fight an evil disease with sweet medicine,' says the ng'anga. — Panashe Chigumadzi

The meanest hut with love in it is a palace fit for the gods, and a palace without love is a den only fit for wild beasts. — Robert Green Ingersoll

I just love the hours of the theatre, I love the way it operates. I always say that when you're doing a play it's like getting a shot of B12, and when you do television for a long series you need a shot of B12. — Gavin MacLeod

It is rather his mind has so wide a range, and so rich a retention, that he simply cannot understand that ordinary folk do not always follow him. 'I little imagined,' he said, 'that I should find you in the posture of Sir Isaac Newton.' Oh dear, I thought, here it comes again. What on earth was the meaning of *that*? So I just said No... and went fiddling with the oil-squirter, trying to remember things about Newton. — Beverley Nichols

The charge that the construction of the geologic scale involves circularity has a certain amount of validity ... Thus, the procedure is far from ideal and the geologic ranges are constantly being revised (usually extended) as new occurrences are found. — David M. Raup

If at first you don't succeed--write more! — N.B. Williams

In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don't think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school. — Gillian Anderson

Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend "a course of reading." Distrust a course of reading! People who really care for books read all of them. There is no other course. — Andrew Lang

Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications. — Keith Richards

I finally made up my mind that I would neither disclaim the black race nor claim the white race; but that I would change my name, raise a mustache, and let the world take me for what it would; that it was not necessary for me to go about with a label of inferiority pasted across my forehead. — James Weldon Johnson

Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep. — Ellie Goulding