Aortic Quotes

#1. A metamorphosis had come over us. It was something internal, an electrical pulse in the brain, some slight variation in the aortic rhythm that had forever altered our states, transformed our external structures. We were not who we had been, nor yet what we would become.

Cliff James

#2. I've started the John Ritter Foundation for Aortic Health. The big focus is helping people get the correct diagnoses.

Amy Yasbeck

#3. Change is both exciting and scary. Learning new skills is the same. Having an idea of what to expect emotionally is as important as knowing what to expect from both real and imagined limitations.

Melinda West Seifert

#4. The bad press came because they thought I should fight more. I couldn't get the fights because if I would sign to fight one of King's guys I would be signed to him. I chose not to do that. In hindsight, that might have been a mistake.

Gerry Cooney

#5. I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema.

Joe Wright

#6. There were air raids at night. The factory was dark and dirty. And I remember thinking - well - I must find somebody or something because like this I cannot go on.

Ruth Pitter

#7. There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question.

Carl Sagan

#8. Decide had the same root as suicide and homicide. Decisions felt like little killings. Somebody lost.

Gregory Benford

#9. What good does it do to sit at the counter when you cannot afford a hamburger?

Martin Luther King Jr.

#10. Like many toilets in Goa, it was nothing more than a smooth, steep slope behind the squatting keyhole. Waste matter rolled down the slope to a narrow lane. Wild, hairy, black Goan pigs roamed the lanes, eating the waste.

Gregory David Roberts

#11. But we believe that the Octavo must be read to avert catastrophe - otherwise why did the Creator leave it behind?" "Perhaps He was just forgetful," suggested the astrologer.

Terry Pratchett