Nabarro Quotes

#1. I voted against Gerald Nabarro in my first general election, but my defiance made no difference. If you had put a Conservative rosette on a mustachioed hamster, it would have been elected.

Jeremy Paxman

#2. Some things will not bear much zeal; and the more earnest we are about them, the less we recommend ourselves to the approbation of sober and considerate men.

John Tillotson

#3. Never say anything in writing that you wouldn't comfortably say in conversation. Be yourself when you write. If you're not a person who says 'indeed' or 'moreover,' or who calls someone an individual ('he's a fine individual'), please don't write it.

William Zinsser

#4. Let go of your pain and heal your wounds.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. What is important to me is there has been consensus and clarity, (and) much better coordination. We'll be much quicker to control avian influenza as a result.

David Nabarro

#6. Today's dirty hands are tomorrow's muddy water

Danielle Hylton-Outland

#7. We are watching very closely to see how the disease associated with bird flu, when it hits humans, is evolving.

David Nabarro

#8. If there is delay in getting culling teams out, delay in any part of the chain, even weeks, that could have great implications for the virus to spread.

David Nabarro

#9. There are some quite tricky challenges facing everybody working in Crimea and I shall be engaging with various government people.

David Nabarro

#10. There are many different stories to tell. It's never the same. Every day weather blows in and out, alters the surface. Sometimes it is stripped down to a single essential truth, the thing that is always believed, no matter what. The seeds from which the garden has grown.

Helen Humphreys

#11. Every country in the world now needs to have its veterinary services on high alert for H5N1 to be sure they are not caught unawares.

David Nabarro

#12. This outbreak is moving ahead of efforts to control it.

David Nabarro

#13. There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.

George Bernard Shaw

#14. Come to my reality, but day or night, don't make me stop dreaming.

Nico J. Genes

#15. 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

#16. Singing is not about timbres or category labels, singing is about fascinating acoustical properties like the colors of the human voice which derive from thought and emotion.

Thomas Hampson

#17. The virus is moving quite substantially into new locations. My attention is pretty much equally divided between Europe, the southern Balkans and Black Sea area, Africa and south Asia.

David Nabarro

#18. The flu-casters would draw out the maps and keep people engaged at regular intervals ... beaming it from the WHO bunker.

David Nabarro