Rheumatic Quotes

#1. I believe that Chess possesses a magic that is also a help in advanced age. A rheumatic knee is forgotten during a game of chess and other events can seem quite unimportant in comparison with a catastrophe on the chessboard.

Vlastimil Hort

#2. I remember when I was very young, I had a fever - a long rheumatic fever in bed for four months. And in the days, I stayed alone with the maid. I only had my father's books with me. They were fantasy books about ghosts, and also books by Edgar Allen Poe that made a forever impression on me.

Dario Argento

#3. How many young men, in all previous times of unprecedented steadiness, had turned suddenly wild and wicked for the same reason, and, in an ecstasy of unrequited love, taken to wrench off door-knockers, and invert the boxes of rheumatic watchmen!

Charles Dickens

#4. To say that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic merit, is no better than to say he is rheumatic or diabetic.

James Joyce

#5. chicken eggs sell for two million reichsmarks apiece, and rheumatic fever stalks Children's House like a wolf. There is no butter or meat. Fruit is a memory.

Anthony Doerr

#6. My dream was to become a ballet dancer, but after a year in bed with rheumatic fever at 13, I had grown too tall, and had no muscle tone left. I tried a ballet class and couldn't even do a plie without falling over. It was my first death.

Carmen Dell'Orefice

#7. When I was 11, I spent eight months in the hospital with rheumatic fever and almost died.

Rod Carew

#8. Wesley, the younger child, had had rheumatic fever when he was seven and Mrs. May thought this was what had caused him to be an intellectual.

Flannery O'Connor

#9. Here in Bosnia I had already seen several cases of rheumatic fever and a case we thought was miliary tuberculosis, diseases now rare in America. It was sobering to think that the mundane process of vaccinating these children might ultimately save more lives than any UN-brokered peace treaty.

Pamela Grim

#10. If you tilt the whole country sideways, Los Angeles is the place where everything loose will fall.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#11. She wanted to learn. Sometimes it seemed an unending thirst; however much she absorbed, she could not quench it. That

Robert Jordan

#12. The representative system of government is calculated to produce the wisest laws, by collecting wisdom where it can be found.

Thomas Paine

#13. If a minority culture doesn't accept you as much as majority culture, think about following a path of non-conformity

Paul Isaacs

#14. Almost half of the Turkish population believes it is not legitimate to criticize the government. Interestingly, this correlates with the number of supporters of Erdogan's government.

Elif Safak

#15. Evolution has made Homo sapiens, like other social mammals, a xenophobic creature. Sapiens instinctively divide humanity into two parts, 'we' and 'they'.

Yuval Noah Harari

#16. Finding practical answers to tough problems seems to take a backseat to ideology.

Christopher R. Hill

#17. The truth is funny. Honest discovery, observation, and reaction is better than contrived invention.

Del Close

#18. Personally, I don't stretch, I don't get massages. Maybe massages would be useful, but I just don't have the time for it.

Dean Karnazes

#19. Fundamental, Bible believing people do not have the right to indoctrinate their children in their religious beliefs because we, the state, are preparing them for the year 2000, when America will be part of a one-world global society and their children will not fit in.

Peter Hoagland

#20. I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.

Zeresenay Alemseged

#21. We come to this book because something is missing in our souls. This book will take you through the steps that you stumbled over in all your other attempts. And it will bring more than you asked for.

Ruben Papian

#22. There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in flux.

Jeffrey Deitch