Dementia Patient Quotes

#1. Never give up hope. If you do, you'll be dead already.
Dementia Patient, Rose from The Inspired Caregiver

Peggi Speers

#2. I think it'd be great if Prince made an album of just romantic, slow ballads.

Moby

#3. For a woman to direct a movie in Hollywood, she has to go through so many layers of rejection by the powers that be - I suppose including myself - that it is harder to get to that point. So you can't just create something. And I think there is a whole unconscious mountain.

Amy Pascal

#4. The purpose of art is to re-present nature, not represent it.

Josef Albers

#5. I don't want to play a laptop live if I'm just going to sit there, so it's also a problem of working at my movie theater job long enough to get money to get better equipment.

Kyle Parker

#6. We may have heaven and hell in us, but we choose who we are. And who we fight.

Brad Meltzer

#7. A life without love is like a year without spring.

Octavian Paler

#8. As long as we keep loving, it will always be Christmas.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. We can eat whatever we want if we are willing to pay the consequences.

Roger Bezanis

#10. When I do stand-up for a long time, I'll get burned out, then I'll get an acting gig. For me, the grass is always greener. I'd like to do a mixture of all of it. My goal is just to do small movies that I've written. That's what I'm trying to do now, just write smaller movies.

Zach Galifianakis

#11. The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and rage which, in an individual patient, could be characterized as dementia.

Walker Percy

#12. It's easier when the patient is ninety-four, in the last stages of dementia, with a severe brain bleed. But for someone like me - a thirty-six-year-old given a diagnosis of terminal cancer - there aren't really words.

Paul Kalanithi

#13. The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important 'cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.

Al Franken

#14. I had lots of breaks. I guess the one that got my foot in the door was singing the National Anthem at the National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City in '74.

Reba McEntire

#15. As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use.

Ruth Benedict

#16. In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.

Daniel Dennett

#17. People around you should really have nothin' to say. Me, I'm just proud of the fact that you've done it your way.

Drake