Acutes Quotes

#1. But the new guy is different, and the Acutes can see it, different from anybody been coming on this ward for the past ten years, different from anybody they ever met outside. He's just as vulnerable, maybe, but the Combine didn't get him.

Ken Kesey

#2. ...younger patients, known as 'Acutes' because the doctors figure them still sick enough to be fixed...

Ken Kesey

#3. Why is your skin the best feeling in the world?

Kamand Kojouri

#4. Had my life increased, or merely added to itself? There had been addition and subtraction in my life, but how much multiplication?

Julian Barnes

#5. If I were an athlete I'd be past my prime. If I were a dog I'd be dead. Thirty ... shit.

Jonathan Tropper

#6. Whoever, with an earnest soul,
Strives for some end from this low world afar,
Still upward travels though he miss the goal,
And strays
but towards a star.

Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling And Bulwer

#7. Soul. I suppose it was an apt description. The unseen force that guides the body.

Stephenie Meyer

#8. The longest prayer Peter ever prayed in the Senate-that of March 10, 1947, at the time of Mrs. Alben Barkley's death-took two minutes; the shortest, that which opened the Second Session of the Eightieth Congress-was exactly 36 words long and took a matter of seconds.

Peter Marshall

#9. Happiness is a dry martini and a good woman ... or a bad woman.

George Burns

#10. Sometimes you think you want to know something, but it's actually more exciting and more resonant when you have to try [and figure it out].

Atom Egoyan

#11. Marx's theory that only capitalists benefit from capitalism and workers are exploited was completely wrong. Nothing could have been further from the truth. Workers earned more as economies grew.

Kenneth Rogoff

#12. Won't you look down upon me Jesus, you've got to help me make a stand. You just got to see me through another day.

James Taylor

#13. The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

William Hazlitt

#14. I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare.

Vladimir Horowitz

#15. Remember this, my boy. The two greatest men who ever livied-Jesus and Socrates-were both hoboes.

Sam Torode

#16. Do something you fear, NOT to conquer the fear, NOT to accomplish a task, but to familiarize yourself with the processes with which fear protects itself, to demystify it.

Cheri Huber