Prognosis Negative Quotes

#1. I think I'll have a large order of prognosis negative.

Bette Davis

#2. That's what we should do, Hazel Grace: We should team up and be this disabled vigilante duo roaring through the world, righting wrongs, defending the weak, protecting the endangered.

John Green

#3. Thunder rolled ... It is said that the gods play games with the lives of men. But what games, and why, and the identities of the actual pawns, and what the game is, and what the rules are - who knows? Best not to speculate. Thunder rolled ... It rolled a six.

Terry Pratchett

#4. Greenhouse gas emissions: Ultimately, stabilisation - at whatever level - requires that annual emissions be brought down to more than 80% below current levels

Nicholas Stern

#5. I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost.

Stanley Tucci

#6. The planet Earth is not in danger. She has millions of years to recover. It is the human species that, by degrading the ecosystem, is putting itself at risk. Nothing will be done to stem present developments, and it is already too late. The prognosis is negative.

Guillaume Faye

#7. Feminist is so heavy with baggage, negative baggage: You hate men, you hate bras, you hate African culture, you think women should always be in charge, you don't wear makeup, you don't shave, you're always angry, you don't have a sense of humor, you don't use deodorant.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#8. Like all lawyers, I was delighted by gratitude. It happened so rarely.

C.J. Sansom

#9. I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos.

Brian Setzer

#10. If he had any kind of a clue, he wouldn't be caught dead with that stuff. See what I did there? Caught dead? I crack myself up. Eve sipped more coffee she probably, at this point, didn't need.

Rachel Caine

#11. I am not a piece of meat, Sam," Hunter feigned insult. "And my eyes are up here.

Genna Rulon

#12. Hair that gleams can send a clear sign that you're young and in your prime, whatever your actual age.

Helen Fisher

#13. Inertia is the death of creativity. You have to stay in the groove. When you get out of the groove, you start to dread the work, because you know it's going to suck for a while - it's going to suck until you get back into the flow.

Austin Kleon

#14. An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format fiction tends to require a bunch of experience of human life that takes time to acquire. So your average mid-career novelist is in their forties to fifties!

Charles Stross