Quintuple Bypass Quotes

#1. My doctors were of one mind: unless something was immediately done, I had maybe six months to live. A quintuple bypass was suggested. Quintuple! I was impressed, though somewhat disturbed because I was in the middle of work on a new book.

Studs Terkel

#2. Fifteen years ago tomorrow I had open heart surgery, a quintuple bypass surgery. Thanks to all of my doctors. Because of them, in 15 years of life I've been able to experience, well, acid reflux, short-term memory loss, and erectile dysfunction. Thanks for all your work. It's great to be alive.

David Letterman

#3. While I was gone, I had quintuple bypass surgery on my heart. Plus, I got a haircut.

David Letterman

#4. They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.

Thomas Hardy

#5. We call our system the Department of Corrections, or simply Corrections, but correcting or any notion of rehabilitation has been largely thrown to the wayside in favor of punitive action through the revocation of selfhood.

Erika Camplin

#6. It is difficult to put words to the smell of decomposing human. It is dense and cloying, sweet but not flower-sweet. Halfway between rotting fruit and rotting meat.

Mary Roach

#7. I was on paper earning more money and having more success than I'd ever had. And it was also the most miserable I've ever been. When those things collided, I realised something was off. That's when I started poking around to figure out what was wrong.

Damien Rice

#8. He wondered if this was what people were doing - were they making dinners with their family, holding babies, recounting days? Was this what life was like for them? Albie's

Ann Patchett

#9. Make the acvocacy of radical causes sufficiently remunerative, and the supply of advocates will be unlimited.

Milton Friedman

#10. She finally found the strength to wake up to the emptiness inside her.

Samantha Sotto

#11. Justice is the truth in action.

Joseph Joubert

#12. For a moment something almost as rare as the sight that they had just witnessed occurred: Loki was totally lost for words.

Joanne Harris

#13. Whether you job involves chasing criminals, crouching numbers, or wrestling with paperwork, learning how to recognize and rely on those hunches and gut feelings can dramatically improve your job performance.

Laurie Nadel