Parkinson Quotes

#1. Of all the men I have known, I cannot recall one whose mother did her level best for him when he was little who did not turn out well when he grew up.

Frances Parkinson Keyes

#2. Expenditures rise to meet income.

C. Northcote Parkinson

#3. It's the way surfing is - you grow up surfing together, and then you're thrown into a heat at Pipe or a world title bout against one another.

Joel Parkinson

#4. There's no way you can create a chemistry where none exists.

Michael Parkinson

#5. Just as Parkinson's isn't a big topic of conversation in my house, neither is my career.

Michael J. Fox

#6. I have been able to have a family and to dedicate quality time to my two sets of twins and my husband, as well as to serve on the boards of The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research and Montefiore Medical Center.

Karen Finerman

#7. There are a few people who genuinely see the best in everyone.

Katherine Parkinson

#8. Expenditure rises to meet income.

C. Northcote Parkinson

#9. In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.

Ike Skelton

#10. There are several patients - there are thousands of patients, tens of thousands of patients, that carry either a stimulator in the brain or in the periphery, in the inner ear, to restore neurological functions or to control diseases like Parkinson's disease.

Miguel Nicolelis

#11. I like to make people look as good as they'd like to look, and with luck, a shade better.

Norman Parkinson

#12. As a practicing neurologist, I can tell you first hand that working with Parkinson's patients offers clinical challenges. But from an emotional perspective, this disease can border on overwhelming.

David Perlmutter

#13. The onset of one religion can be resisted only by another.

C. Northcote Parkinson

#14. The way I look at life, and the way I look at the reality of Parkinson's, is that sometimes it's frustrating and sometimes it's funny. I need to look at it that way, and I think other people will look at it that way.

Michael J. Fox

#15. Imagination is essential and it comes first, for without imagination we are aimless.

C. Northcote Parkinson

#16. I happen to be a Parkinson's patient. I'm not fearful of my condition or my future - but if someone is looking in my eyes for fear, then they see their own fear reflected back at them.

Michael J. Fox

#17. We have common enemies today. It's called childhood poverty. It's called cancer. It's called AIDS. It's called Parkinson's. It's called Muscular Dystrophy.

Jerry Doyle

#18. It is only when we let go of knowing what we think we know that new knowing can enter our lives.

Maria Parkinson

#19. In Parkinson disease, double vision arises from the inability of the eyes to keep pace with each other.

Sotirios Parashos

#20. So what I say about Tracy is this: Tracy's big challenge is not having a Parkinson's patient for a husband. It's having me for a husband. I happen to be a Parkinson's patient.

Michael J. Fox

#21. When prescribing one of the drugs I take, my doctor warned me of a common side effect: exaggerated, intensely vivid dreams. To be honest, I've never really noticed the difference. I've always dreamt big.

Michael J. Fox

#22. He had Parkinson's disease for about, I'd say diagnosed for about 11 of the last years of his life. And treatment was not as good as it is now, of course. We're still going along and he died in '85 and he was 77.

Lynn Redgrave

#23. If you want to lower your risk of Parkinson's disease, caffeine is protective to some extent; nobody knows why. Head injuries are bad for you. They lead to Parkinson's disease.

Gregory Petsko

#24. Joe Frazier got hit more than me - and he doesn't have Parkinson's.

Muhammad Ali

#25. In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

C. Northcote Parkinson

#26. I was a purist bore.

Michael Parkinson

#27. I take the medication for myself so I can transact, not for anyone else. But I am aware that it is empowering for people to see what I do and, for the most part, people in the Parkinson's community are just really happy that Parkinson's is getting mentioned, and not in a pitying way.

Michael J. Fox

#28. Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

C. Northcote Parkinson

#29. Parkinson's is very hard to diagnose. So when I finally went to a neurologist, and he said, 'Oh, you have Parkinson's disease,' I was completely shocked.

Linda Ronstadt

#30. For me personally it is because I get an awful amount of success and I don't think I deserve it and then I want to sabotage it.

Michael Parkinson

#31. The void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with poison, drivel and misrepresentation.

C. Northcote Parkinson

#32. When I was at school studying biology, I wanted to be a medical researcher. I did work experience at St Mary's Hospital in London, and I begged them to let me see the post mortems. So the first time I saw a naked male was at 15, when I saw an 89 year old man who had died of a brain hemorrhage.

Katherine Parkinson

#33. A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience.

Frances Parkinson Keyes

#34. Losing one grounds you a bit. I learned a lot after losing the title in 2009, learned that I was probably too intense that year, and when I didn't win, I just felt horrible.

Joel Parkinson

#35. I've been on the tour for 12 years, and the big dream has always been to get a world title.

Joel Parkinson

#36. A half century of living should put a good deal into a person's face besides a few wrinkles and some unwelcome folds around the chin.

Frances Parkinson Keyes

#37. I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in.

Michael J. Fox

#38. It's funny, 'cause you think surfing is your whole life, but then when you make a family it seems like it's not at all.

Joel Parkinson

#39. The only thing that gets in the way of a really good photograph, is the camera

Norman Parkinson

#40. Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige.

C. Northcote Parkinson

#41. I guess you're only as good as the waves.

Joel Parkinson

#42. You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had Parkinson's, I wanted to kill him.

Michael J. Fox

#43. The only unavailable choice was whether or not to have Parkinson's. Everything else was up to me.

Michael J. Fox

#44. The basic quality for the diplomat is not intelligence but loyalty.

C. Northcote Parkinson

#45. I stay away from big chunks of carbs and try to keep it lean, even when I'm competing.

Joel Parkinson

#46. When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.

C. Northcote Parkinson

#47. As long as I'm getting waves and having fun, the results tend to take care of themselves.

Joel Parkinson

#48. It definitely takes a fair bit of experience to know what's the right kind of wave and which is the wrong wave.

Joel Parkinson

#49. Work expands to fill the time available for its completion," still known as Parkinson's Law.

Bill Bryson

#50. It is what it is. But you have the power to turn it into an isn't so bad.

Karen Salmansohn

#51. A compensation is something which does not quite compensate ...

Frances Parkinson Keyes

#52. God gave me Parkinson's syndrome to show me I'm not 'The Greatest' - he is.

Muhammad Ali

#53. Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

C. Northcote Parkinson

#54. It's true. Happiness is a big thing.

Joel Parkinson

#55. Many physical illnesses are associated with depression and anxiety, including heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, Parkinson's disease, stroke, kidney disease, lung disease, dementia and cancer.

Liz Miller

#56. I admire any woman who does stand-up, but frankly I'd rather pull out my own eyelids.

Katherine Parkinson

#57. One of the great things about Parkinson's, in a superficial way, is it relieved me of vanity. I don't worry about what I look like, because it's literally out of my hands. But on a deeper level, it gives you a real humility, because you have to deal every day with the fact that you compromise.

Michael J. Fox

#58. I'm going to get myself one of those, um, movable computers - what do you call them ... ? Laptops! I am bad. I still call my radio a wireless.

Katherine Parkinson

#59. T]he state Republican chairman, Gaylord Parkinson, postulated what he called the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.

Ronald Reagan

#60. I think life without Coronation Street would be unthinkable. It's part of all our lives.

Michael Parkinson

#61. Acting is about enhancing your life, not representing something that's missing.

Katherine Parkinson

#62. As much as Parkinson's is about movement, the end stage is being frozen. So the more I let that happen, the more I'm gonna be stuck within that and unable to reverse it.

Michael J. Fox

#63. The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor.

C. Northcote Parkinson

#64. Sure, it may be one step forward and two steps back, but after a time with Parkinson's, I've learned that what is important is making that step count; always looking up.

Michael J. Fox

#65. No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

Muhammad Ali

#66. I didn't just want to be a poster boy and sign on to publicize somebody else's method of operations. If I was going to put myself out there, I wanted to make sure that it was to an end. So I got involved with this congressional hearing about Parkinson's being underfunded.

Michael J. Fox

#67. I didn't know why I couldn't sing - all I knew was that it was muscular or mechanical. Then, when I was diagnosed with Parkinson's, I was finally given the reason. I now understand that no one can sing with Parkinson's disease. No matter how hard you try. And in my case, I can't sing a note.

Linda Ronstadt

#68. I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders
Parkinson's and Alzheimer's
because of its unique capacity to organize or reorganize cerebral function when it has been damaged.

Oliver Sacks

#69. Having so many close calls in my career, it was such an awesome feeling to get that first world title.

Joel Parkinson

#70. Parkinson's dementia. Or was it something else? Only time would

Jane E. Mengesha

#71. You only need two waves in a heat, so I try and keep my surfs short and sweet and not too draining. Keep them intense and try and get the two best waves I can.

Joel Parkinson

#72. If you asked my kids to describe me, they'd go through a whole list of words before even thinking about Parkinson's. And honestly, I don't think about it that much either. I talk about it because it's there, but it's not my totality.

Michael J. Fox

#73. It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

C. Northcote Parkinson

#74. As I got older, I got Parkinson's disease, so I couldn't sing at all. That's what happened to me. I was singing at my best strength when I developed Parkinson's. I think I've had it for quite a while.

Linda Ronstadt

#75. Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

C. Northcote Parkinson

#76. I figure there's no point in stressing about what's out of my control, and all I can do is make the best of what I've got.

Joel Parkinson

#77. Carol Burnett, who played Miss Hannigan in 'Annie', is as funny as it gets.

Katherine Parkinson

#78. Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available.

Neal A. Maxwell

#79. It seems that now is the time to take risks and strike.

Roger Parkinson

#80. For me, I like to keep it real simple; I just worry about myself, the waves, and my surroundings.

Joel Parkinson

#81. Our intention is not to create cloned human beings, but rather to make lifesaving therapies for a wide range of human disease conditions, including diabetes, strokes, cancer, AIDS, and neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease.

Robert Lanza

#82. You can have a very bad end with Parkinson's, but on the other hand, you can be like me, because I'm lucky. I'm not having a bad end.

Margo MacDonald

#83. Coffee is already known to be a preventive factor against mild depression, Parkinson's disease, and colon and rectal cancers.

Chris Kilham

#84. Like trapped animals struggling to break free. What a curse was sickness in old age. This damned Parkinson's, cruel as torture.

Rohinton Mistry

#85. In the morning, I'll usually do eggs and toast, but at night I keep it all protein.

Joel Parkinson

#86. Most people in the U.K. discovered me playing a standard on Parkinson. In America, it was on VH1 singing an original called 'All At Sea,' which is a contemporary pop song. So the people that know me there tend to think of me in the singer/songwriter category.

Jamie Cullum

#87. Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to look at the claims of patent medicines!

Frances Parkinson Keyes

#88. In a prime-time address, President Bush said he backed limited federal funding for stem cell research. That's right, the President said, this is a quote, the research could help cure brain diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and whatever it is I have.

Conan O'Brien

#89. The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison.

C. Northcote Parkinson

#90. I have a form of Parkinson's disease, which I don't like. My legs don't move when my brain tells them to. It's very frustrating.

George H. W. Bush

#91. So much interviewing these days is about the presenter - I?m a clever boy, I?m going to be smart with people; or it?s a trivial - how do you like your eggs boiled?

Michael Parkinson

#92. One does not permit one's friends to be slandered in time of trouble.

Frances Parkinson Keyes

#93. The more time you have to do things, the less you are able to get done.

Joyce Rachelle

#94. The only door into her bedroom led through the church.

Frances Parkinson Keyes

#95. The camera can be the most deadly weapon since the assassin's bullet. Or it can be the lotion of the heart.

Norman Parkinson

#96. You get the health benefits of coffee up through about the first twenty-four ounces. It's the biggest source of antioxidants for Americans, and we think it helps prevent Alzheimer's and Parkinson's as well.

Mehmet Oz

#97. Deliberative bodies become decreasingly effective after they pass five to eight members.

C. Northcote Parkinson

#98. No creaking gates, no gothic towers, no shuttered windows. Yet for the past ten months this house has been the focus of an astonishing barrage of supernatural activity.

Michael Parkinson

#99. [monkeys] are used only when no other species and no alternatice approach can provide the answers to questions about such conditions as Alzhemers, stroke, Parkinson's, spinal injury, hormone disorders, and vaccines for HIV

Colin Blakemore

#100. The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.

C. Northcote Parkinson