Communicable Quotes

#1. Resentment is a communicable disease and should be quarantined.

Cynthia Ozick

#2. Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

Andre Breton

#3. Bodies can catch feelings as easily as catch fire: affect leaps from one body to another, evoking tenderness, inciting shame, igniting rage, exciting fear-in short, communicable affect can inflame nerves and muscles in a conflagration of every conceivable kind of passion

Melissa Gregg

#4. Now I no longer believe that people's secrets are defined and communicable, or their feelings full-blown and easy to recognize.

Alice Munro

#5. Harvey tried to come up behind me, but I stepped back towards the couch, so I could face him. They were trying to circle like sharks. Phillip was staring at me, hard. Right; I was supposed to be enjoying myself, not acting like they all had communicable diseases. Which

Laurell K. Hamilton

#6. Rising demand for animal products highlights microbiological risks, with animal-welfare measures sometimes creating new hazards. For example, open pens for poultry may increase the spread of communicable diseases like avian influenza.

Louise Fresco

#7. Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.

Hermann Hesse

#8. Words make the intangible aspects of human experience communicable, and a single sentence can shatter our world view and assist us in the formulation of a new one.

Chris Matakas

#9. One might say that science itself, and civilization and art, are all about different orderings of the world - to contain it, and to make it in some sense intelligible, communicable. And bearable.

Oliver Sacks

#10. Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. Misery is a communicable disease.

Martha Graham

#12. The happy place
Imparts to thee no happiness, no joy
Rather inflames thy torment, representing
Lost bliss, to thee no more communicable;
So never more in Hell than when in Heaven.

John Milton

#13. There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.

Benjamin Spock

#14. Abstraction is an exercise in a pre-assured failure. It is a futile attempt to communicate the non-communicable

Derek R. Audette

#15. If you feel depressed you shouldn't go out on the street because it will show on your face and you'll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease.

Martha Graham

#16. One of the psychological reasons why decent people shrink from vulgar sex discussion is because by its very nature it is not a communicable kind of knowledge ... It is too sacred to be profaned.

Fulton J. Sheen

#17. Everything leads us to believe that there exists a spot in the mind from which life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future, the high and the low, the communicable and the incommunicable will cease to appear contradictory.

Andre Breton

#18. Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.

Terry Pratchett

#19. Poverty made me feel weak, as if I were coming down with an awful, debilitating, communicable disease - the disease of being without money. Instead of going to the hospital, you went to the poor farm. The difference was, you never got well at the poor farm.

Faith Sullivan

#20. There is a chance that we could have at least as many dying from communicable diseases as we had dying from the tsunami.

David Nabarro

#21. Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.

Ned Rorem

#22. An anatomy lab is as choosy as a pedigreed woman seeking love: You can't be too fat or too tall or have any communicable diseases.

Mary Roach

#23. She almost burst out laughing. He'd uttered the word talk like it was a communicable disease.

Lorelei James

#24. Economic diseases are highly communicable. It follows therefore that the economic health of every country is a proper matter of concern to all its neighbors, near or distant.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#25. Fighting communicable disease was often like fighting a forest fire: sometimes you had to drop back and surrender a battle in hopes of winning the war.

Dan Brown

#26. Within 2 years Im predicting ... that youre going to see a suitcase nuke in this country. Youre probably going to see a release in a few years of something communicable. & I am predicting that you will see a lot of conventional bombings ... in the next year or so.

Alex Jones

#27. Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical activity and low dietary calcium intake are risk factors for osteoporosis as well as for many other non-communicable diseases.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

#28. No argument can persuade me to like oysters if I do not like them. In other words, the disturbing thing about matters of taste is that they are not communicable.

Hannah Arendt

#29. Fear is a communicable disease; it comes out in the sweat and passes from host to host. Fear is an incendiary agent; it combusts with stupidity.

Brian McGreevy

#30. But there's a sacredness which is not of thought, nor of a feeling resuscitated by thought. It is not recognizable by thought nor can it be utilized by thought. Thought cannot formulate it. But there's a sacredness, untouched by any symbol or word. It is not communicable. It is a fact.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#31. Culture is a communicable disease.

Marty Rubin