Medecin Quotes

#1. I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#2. The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.

Steven Chu

#3. I believe you have my umbrella he says, almost out of breath but wearing a grin that has too much wolf in it to be properly sheepish.

Erin Morgenstern

#4. [C]ontent [is] an obstacle to the exercise of power.

John Ralston Saul

#5. If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our dead bodies. And if they perish, let them perish with our arms wrapped about their knees, imploring them to stay. If Hell must be filled, let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go unwarned and unprayed for.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#6. The reward for attention is always healing.

Julia Cameron

#7. There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#8. In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.

Zong Qinghou

#9. Tact is kind; diplomacy is useful; euphemism is harmless and sometimes entertaining

Julian Burnside

#10. I actually was a ballet dancer - I studied ballet from three until 13 - but like very seriously, that's what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a contemporary ballet dancer. I wanted to go to Juilliard.

Solange Knowles