Sigrun Ironhew Quotes

#1. In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.

Barry Marshall

#2. I'm a master of speaking silently - all my life I've spoken silently and I've lived through entire tragedies in silence.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#3. Anyone who wants more out of life and is frustrated enough to do something about it can learn and apply what winners do.

Larry Weidel

#4. When I curse Fate, it's not me, but the earth in me.

Czeslaw Milosz

#5. Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate dining room. For most, meals were informal, a kind of rolling refueling; often only the men sat down.

Nancy Gibbs

#6. Before the war, and especially before the Boer War, it was summer all the year round.

George Orwell

#7. To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.

Sugar Ray Robinson

#8. As he scribbled his odds and ends, he made a note reaffirming his belief that art always serves beauty, and beauty is delight in form, and form is the key to organic life, since no living thing can exist without it, so that every work of art, including tragedy, expresses the joy of existence.

Boris Pasternak

#9. J, n. A consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel ... from a Latin verb, "jacere", "to throw," because when a stone is thrown at a dog the dog's tail assumes that shape.

Ambrose Bierce