Alfred Blalock Quotes

#1. The man who inspired me most, I think, was Dr. Alfred Blalock, who was professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins. He was a rather simple man with a burning curiosity. It was through his curiosity that he made many real contributions to medical science.

Denton Cooley

#2. I was a member of the Florida legislature for nine years, the speaker of the house, majority leader, majority whip.

Marco Rubio

#3. I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.

Camille Paglia

#4. A BOUNTY on the exportation of corn tends to lower its price to the foreign consumer, but it has no permanent effect on its price in the home market.

David Ricardo

#5. Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.

Wassily Kandinsky

#6. Don't leave me again. God. God. Don't leave me again."
"I didn't"
"Part of you did." He moved her back, and his eyes swarmed with emotion. "Part of you left me, and I couldn't stand it.

J.D. Robb

#7. Often when works at a hard question, nothing good is accomplished at the first attack. Then one takes a rest, long or short, and sits down anew to the work. During the first half-hour, as before, nothing is found, and then all of a sudden the decisive idea presents itself to the mind.

Henri Poincare

#8. My Conga people [fans] will find me anywhere I go.

Gloria Estefan

#9. With Jerry Bruckheimer, you know you'll get your money's worth. You're getting huge action sequences, it's going to be funny, and you know it's going to look great.

Jerry O'Connell

#10. Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is better to be afraid than secure.

George MacDonald

#11. What she would need to do in the days before she left and on the morning of her departure was smile, so that they would remember her smiling. *

Colm Toibin

#12. In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru.

Pranab Mukherjee