Neurone Quotes

#1. I don't have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do.

Stephen Hawking

#2. I can say, if I like, that social insects behave like the working parts of an immense central nervous system: the termite colony is an enormous brain on millions of legs; the individual termite is a mobile neurone.

Lewis Thomas

#3. Cancer gets a bad press but, fair do's, it's a truly egalitarian illness, unlike those stuck-up bastards ME and motor neurone.

Ian Pattison

#4. Thirty years ago I was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, and given two and a half years to live. I have always wondered how they could be so precise about the half.

Stephen Hawking

#5. [A primate ban] would force us to abandon research that could lead to treatments for Alzheimer's, motor neurone disease, strokes and many other illnesses

Tipu Aziz

#6. Religions do make claims about the universe
the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.

Richard Dawkins

#7. You should see Nina's clan tartan," she said, pouring herself more tea. "It's white with orange, green, and royal blue. Horrendous."
"We took to calling any obnoxious pattern Clan MacGarish," I said.
"Or MacHideous," added Laurence.
"MacUgly," I continued.
"MacClash," he countered.

Molly Ringle

#8. Don't want to think about it? No problem. Don't think about it.

Bee Ridgway

#9. Your heart becomes gangrenous in your body when you go against your talent.

Martin Amis

#10. as I hardly know where I am, with what

George Eliot

#11. Benedict may not be as hurt as he really is.

Jerry Coleman

#12. Prayer is happy company with God.

Clement Of Alexandria

#13. The darkness that surrounds us cannot hurt us. It is the darkness in your own heart you should fear.

Silvertris

#14. Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven.

Victor Hugo

#15. You make your life with someone and you love that person and you think it's enough. But it's never enough, is it?
I couldn't say. I don't know anything about love anymore.

Paula McLain

#16. Lavender's blue,
Rosemary's green,
When you are king,
I shall be queen

M.M. Kaye

#17. When some people in the crowd act shocked or repulsed, Diamond calmly tells them her scars are part of her past, part of what made her who she is.

Cheryl Rainfield