Bmj Quotes

#1. Healing must always seek to give voice to suffering, and the greater the range of words and meanings we have at our disposal, the clearer the voice becomes.
Iona Heath in BMJ 2000;320:125 ( 8 January) Review of the book Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age by David Morris

Iona Heath

#2. When homeless people go camping, how do they know?

Dana Gould

#3. I always try so hard to find a male doll and shoot a male doll, and it always kind of implodes. Whenever I use men, they're so scary and so dark, and I can never find this sort of lightness or this place between doll and human that I find with female dolls.

Laurie Simmons

#4. Rain amplifies your mistakes, and water on the track can make your car handle unpredictably. When something unpredictable happens you have to react to it; if you're reacting at speed, you're reacting too late. And so you should be afraid.

Garth Stein

#5. What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.

Marlee Matlin

#6. Elizabeth Taylor was so fat that whenever she went to London in a red dress, 30 passengers would try to board her.

Joan Rivers

#7. That sprung up between us. You are not truly happy

Charles Dickens

#8. Nothing else loves me, nor ever will. Not even - especially - me. I know what I am and that's not a thing to love.

Jeff Lindsay

#9. Making something new to look at is a futile and empty act if its only audience is the eyes.

Joseph Kosuth

#10. I know a man who is a diamond cutter. He mows the lawn at Yankee Stadium.

Henny Youngman

#11. Question: If you put a psychologist in a room with a man who thinks he's Napoleon and leave them there for a year (or ten or twenty), will you end up with two Skinner men or two guys with their hands in their shirts? Answer: Insufficient data.

Stephen King

#12. Your scare tactics are useless on me, Thane. My people have needs of their own, and they don't include being locked up in an underground cavern by a bunch of overgrown mosquitoes.

Suzannah Daniels

#13. If a man has any genuine talent he should be ready to make almost any sacrifice in order to cultivate it to the full.

G.H. Hardy