Nostrum's Quotes

#1. The neurologist had dismissed her case after a single visit, handing out an easy nostrum by telling her father that if she continued to write poetry, she would be all right.

Flora Rheta Schreiber

#2. I could never say I'm going to do bigger and better things because that would negate what I've already accomplished, and I don't want to do that.

Jeffrey Donovan

#3. Just this once, instead of playing hide and seek let's play sardines

Nicole Andrews Moore

#4. I squeezed the controls to brace myself so I wouldn't shiver with the chill of wanting. Normal people got that feeling when they quit smoking cigarettes. I had gotten it then too.
Normal people did not get that feeling when faced with danger.

Jennifer Echols

#5. He asked why and I said, 'Because Gwyneth has a fat suit, my wife has a fat suit - I don't get a fat suit?' He looked at me and said, 'You mean you don't have one on?'

Joe Viterelli

#6. I'd throw dollars out of helicopters if I had to, to stimulate the economy.

Ben Bernanke

#7. I was their first book.

Neil Gaiman

#8. The story and study of the past, both recent and distant, will not reveal the future, but it flashes beacon lights along the way and it is a useful nostrum against despair.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#9. I started writing plays, but the fact that plays don't last forever was too much for me to bear.

Lena Dunham

#10. I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.

Len Wein

#11. I have zero interest in performing in films to try to convey any kind of message. My job is to be entertaining. There's a very different point of view about messages in films in Europe than there is in the States. Audiences rebel because they feel that they are being preached to.

Bruce Willis

#12. All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars.

Banksy

#13. Skiing is the next best thing to having wings.

Oprah Winfrey

#14. I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough - when they are on the very brink of success.

Joyce Meyer

#15. Then Paul bends over me, cradles me in his arms, as if he's sheltering me from the whole world. I close my eyes, and despite everything, I think I've never felt so safe.

Claudia Gray

#16. Far from being a magic nostrum, true love, so-called, was a lingering illness, a clash of cold steel, a take no-prisoners war between Venus and Mars.

Nina Mason

#17. Any physician who advertises a positive cure for any disease, who issues nostrum testimonials, who sells his services to a secret remedy, or who diagnoses and treats by mail patients he has never seen, is a quack.

Samuel Hopkins Adams

#18. I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as Chechnya.

Scott Anderson