Syndrome Quotes

#1. In Europe and Australia, there is something called the Tall Poppy Syndrome: People like to cut the tall poppies. They don't want you to succeed, and they cut you down - especially people from your own social class.

Mark Burnett

#2. I would prefer to have gum on my face than own up to the fact that I accidentally got gum on my face. And of course one sentence out of every ten that comes from my mouth is probably not one hundred percent true.

Alicia Thompson

#3. Don't fall prey to the 'genius' syndrome and outsmart yourself by being too complicated

Sheila Davis

#4. Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday's.

Christopher Hitchens

#5. Barry Bonds is outspoken. I think that the people of Pittsburgh felt, it's a syndrome of you've got to apologize for being successful if you're successful (as well as) black and outspoken.

Dave Parker

#6. I've have a number of violent tics. With Tourette syndrome, there's not just compulsive actions, but compulsive thoughts as well. That used to scare my mother a lot.

Dash Mihok

#7. This nation should be less worried about putting the Vietnam syndrome behind us than restarting the World War II victory syndrome that resulted in the Vietnam syndrome in the first place.

Karl Marlantes

#8. So then, how can I trust you now?" Nathan asked. His tone was light, but his face was guarded. Now would be an ideal time for that kiss, my brain whispered, but I couldn't take the coward's way out. "Because," I said simply, "I'm in love with you.

Alicia Thompson

#9. Having financial independence does not increase one's chances of independent, artistic creation whatsoever. Our conditioned behavior toward mimicry for the sake of market forces is an amazing syndrome. The watchtowers guide us well.

Fady Joudah

#10. Everyone gets that second album syndrome.

Niall Horan

#11. Suddenly, I developed an acute case of Tourette's syndrome, Fuck! That fucking-shit-son-of-an-ass-monkey-dick-weasel!

Christine Zolendz

#12. I can drink like a fish, or at least, someone born with fetal alcohol syndrome.

Anthony Jeselnik

#13. I think that for example as a prisoner of course I was pressured to become very submissive and in a way the syndrome of Stockholm is when you shift position and then you become like you're supposed to act, which is accepting the authority of those who have abducted you.

Ingrid Betancourt

#14. Girls are generally recognized as superior mimics. Those with [Asperger's Syndrome] hold back and observe until they learn the 'rules', then imitate their way through social situations.

Tony Attwood

#15. You may notice when arguing with someone on the left that every time you begin to make a point, that leftist begins shouting about George W. Bush. It's like Leftist Tourette's Syndrome. "Why did Obama blow out the budget?" "BUUUUUUUSHHHH!!!!!

Ben Shapiro

#16. The Hank Williams Syndrome: Come to Nashville, write some good songs, cut some hit records, make money, take all the drugs you can and drink all you can, become a wild man and all of a sudden die.

Waylon Jennings

#17. If you confidently start to move from where you are to where you want to be, it's only a matter of time before the people around you will accept what you are doing. Or, at the very least, they will realize you will not be deterred, and they'll stop trying to hold you back.

Heidi Tankersley

#18. I do a lot of research on the placebo effect, not just in depression but in irritable bowel syndrome, pain, arthritis of the knee, migraine, asthma.

Irving Kirsch

#19. My blood runs cold when I hear the 'great news' that we have found a marker for the Down's syndrome gene, which means we can identify it more easily. Why is that good news? It's only good news if you're going to terminate.

Sally Phillips

#20. Well, you know I have an office, my film offices. So I know that syndrome. I fancy offices, so there must be something wrong with me. Even the window cleaner intrigues me. It's a very sexy environment.

Hugh Grant

#21. fear of being unmasked as the incompetent you "really" are is so common that it actually has a clinical name: impostor syndrome.

Megan McArdle

#22. Today, I hold firm to my ability to say "no" to everything that doesn't fall under the umbrella of my ultimate gifts. If it doesn't allow me to offer my best self to the world, it's a graceful "no.

Heidi Tankersley

#23. Serge's attention-deficit disorder was the first of many hyphens. Obsessive-compulsive, manic-depressive, anal-retentive, paranoid-schizophrenic. He was believed to be the only self-inflicted case of shaken-baby syndrome.

Tim Dorsey

#24. I'm happy being me, you will just have to get over it.

Tina J. Richardson

#25. And it's hard to hate someone once you understand them.

Lucy Christopher

#26. Avoid the RTP Syndrome. When you rush to Publish, you rush to mistakes and chaos. Guaranteed.

Judith Briles

#27. Sometimes I suspect most of the media commentariat are suffering from Munchausen syndrome.

Rebekah Brooks

#28. I was always interested in working with people with disabilities, and in high school I worked with people who had Down Syndrome. That was for an agency called AHRC, Association for the Help of Retarded Children. Then I went to college, and throughout college I volunteered for AHRC.

Meredith Eaton

#29. No matter how hopeless you feel, strive to find the one thing that makes you feel alive and pull yourself to the light at the end of the tunnel. There is hope. Trust me.

Tammy-Louise Wilkins

#30. Technically I have siblings, but they are quite a bit older than me - I was the accident - so I have the only-child syndrome going on. I'm a little more selfish, a little more independent, a little closed. I do wish I were softer. I wish I were able to form relationships better.

Carrie Underwood

#31. There should be a name for the syndrome that occurs when you're in Paris and you already miss it.

Rosecrans Baldwin

#32. I'm always on guard around most people. They do not realize how exhausting that is to keep up. That is why afterwards I really need my space.

Tina J. Richardson

#33. Do you have some kind of syndrome that makes you act this way, or are you just a rude, socially inept asshole?

Annabel Joseph

#34. Phury Syndrome - a condition whereupon one brother was so fucked-up that the other fell into a black hole trying to save him.

J.R. Ward

#35. He decided there was no point in telling her he'd looked in the fridge and seen none of these things. There'd just be some variation of his mother's standard crack about Male Refrigeration Blindness Syndrome.

Nora Roberts

#36. The jury is supposed to be twelve peers, but technically that would mean every single person on the jury should have Asperger's syndrome, because then they'd really understand me.

Jodi Picoult

#37. I am a father. My son's name is Max and my daughter's name is Billie Grace. Twelve years ago Max was born with Down Syndrome. His journey has been complicated by infantile seizures, sleep apnea, dietary challenges and now, puberty!

John C. McGinley

#38. Sometimes, sitting here in the dark, slowly slowly creating strategy, she wondered if she was only fooling herself to think her plans were clever.

Vernor Vinge

#39. It's the only way I know how to deal with Conan's BMS." "His what?" "Bitchy man syndrome,

H.P. Mallory

#40. Mom says it's because she has PMS.
Do you even know what that means?
I'm not a little kid anymore. It means pissed-at- men syndrome

Nicholas Sparks

#41. I definitely have a kind of Stockholm Syndrome for superhero movies because it's very clear that's the era we're in. It's like Christianity in the Middle Ages.

Wesley Morris

#42. I'm loyal to Andrew and everything, but let me tell you
Nathan has a nice chest.

Alicia Thompson

#43. Life was full of adventure: I learnt the smell of danger - I've got a sixth sense for it now. We're homesick for it, some of us; it's called the 'Afghan syndrome'.

Svetlana Alexievich

#44. It dawns on me that maybe I'm just terrifically lazy; that I might be appropriating other people's invisible sicknesses and disorders and scribbling them on the clipboard at the end of my bed to fool the nurses; so I can indulge in rest cures all day, every day. That I'm even fooling myself.

Jalina Mhyana

#45. I know of other mothers who have children with disabilities,and right away they loved them and decided to fight for them.
That isn't my story.

Gillian Marchenko

#46. Everybody who is alive is a survivor, and everybody who is dead isn't," I said."So everybody alive must have the Survivor's Syndrome. It's that or death. I am so damn sick of people telling me proudly that they are survivors!

Kurt Vonnegut

#47. Great, he was going to have PMS for at least a few days. Pissy Man Syndrome.

Chelsea M. Cameron

#48. Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.

Christopher Eccleston

#49. ODTAA syndrome: the syndrome of One Damn Thing After Another.

Atul Gawande

#50. When you start in science, you are brainwashed into believing how careful you must be, and how difficult it is to discover things. There's something that might be called the 'graduate student syndrome'; graduate students hardly believe they can make a discovery.

Francis Crick

#51. Oh, my goodness, when you're a mother and you just give birth to a child with spina bifida and - or Down's Syndrome or cerebral palsy, there's a bit of a shock you're going to have to go through, a bit of an adjustment curve.

Joni Eareckson Tada

#52. It's a singular sort of pain, watching the most beautiful creature self-destruct because you weren't able to find the red wire.

Joyce Rachelle

#53. It's gone on my whole life, this David and Goliath syndrome that a lot of these smaller guys always have. They think the only reason I've ever had any success in my career is because of my physical size. And you know what? If that's the case, so be it. I really don't care. Because I have that size.

Kevin Nash

#54. I commit to most things I do in life, so I don't really have any serious regrets. But I'll say this: There are plenty of people that I wish I could un-meet. It's kind of an L.A. syndrome.

Sasha Grey

#55. It was another example of a phenomenon I call "the talking dog syndrome." Some people are still amazed that any woman (this includes Governors' wives, corporate CEOs, sports stars and rock singers) can hold her own under pressure and be articulate and knowledgeable. The dog can talk!

Hillary Rodham Clinton

#56. Professor Raylene's ground breaking study found that subjects with Tourrette's Syndrome burned more calories than Lutherans.

Chris Dolley

#57. YES, I look like everyone else.
NO! I'm not like everyone else.

Tina J. Richardson

#58. I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!

Gary Numan

#59. People kept on calling. At first Armando told them that Jeff was in the bathroom. Then, when people started telling him that Jeff was in the bathroom a lot, he started telling them that Jeff had Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

Mark Wilkins

#60. The extreme positions of the Crossfire Syndrome require extreme simplification - framing the debate in terms which ignore the real issues.

Michael Crichton

#61. Or perhaps the syndrome we are witnessing is preemptive capitulation: If we reduce our conscience to rubble before the bad men get here, they will have nothing to destroy.

J. Budziszewski

#62. Autism is what makes me, me. You can't 'cure' Autism out of me. It's intertwined into how I perceive the world

Tina J. Richardson

#63. I have an obsession with books about kids with Asperger's syndrome.

Donald Glover

#64. Patients with various other types of movement disorders may also be able to pick up the rhythmic movement or kinetic melody of an animal, so, for example, equestrian therapy may have startling effectiveness for people with parkinsonism, Tourette's syndrome, chorea, or dystonia.

Oliver Sacks

#65. It didn't matter, because he was an employee of a criminal enterprise and I was an FBI consultant and, oh yeah, technically kidnapped and probably in the throes of some kind of Stockholm syndrome.

Rosemary Clement-Moore

#66. I have been recently diagnosed with Sjogren's Syndrome, an autoimmune disease which is an ongoing medical condition that affects my energy level and causes fatigue and joint pain.

Venus Williams

#67. The stupa is a white dome with a conical stone tower emerging from its center. There are two eyes painted on the tower, the all seeing eyes of Buddha. They're purple, and look a little sinister, like an Old Testament Buddha.

Joshua Isard

#68. It [ME] is one of the most disabling diseases that I care for, far exceeding HIV disease except for the terminal stages.

Daniel L. Peterson

#69. There's never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it's mostly a fabrication.

Noam Chomsky

#70. Male guilt avoidance syndrome,' explained my father. 'It's a recognised medical condition by 2054.

Jasper Fforde

#71. The GA's new recruits have to be the slowest learners since the eradication of Down's syndrome.

Peter Watts

#72. Joanna gave me a leveling look. You think we're the only major that's superinsular and clique-ish and gossips about everyone else in it? Believe me, if Nathan bought a new brand of toothpaste, those math nerds probably already know about it.

Alicia Thompson

#73. smart talk trap."17 This a syndrome where companies hire, reward, and promote people for sounding smart rather than making sure that smart things are done.

Robert I. Sutton

#74. Korsakoff's syndrome,

Nancy Kress

#75. People don't get cancer or diabetes or have a baby with Down syndrome as any kind of punishment. People who believe that are very 'limited', which is polite way to say they're stupid.

Nancy Freund

#76. I suffered from 'No one will ever fancy me!' syndrome, well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not.

Kate Winslet

#77. I have that glass-half-empty syndrome, and it takes a great deal of effort to climb out of the hole of darkness that I choose to live in mentally.

Christian Slater

#78. I'm okay with who I am.You might not understand me. That's okay as I don't understand you.We can still be friends, we just have to accept our differences.

Tina J. Richardson

#79. I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now, so I have to get better before I can start another big project.

Laura Hillenbrand

#80. When a woman is fit and healthy, everything else falls into place. We are conditioned to put others first, that 'burnt chop syndrome' we observed in our mothers. It takes discipline to pay attention to our diets, to exercise, to leave time for refreshment of mind, body and spirit.

Quentin Bryce

#81. It's the familiar love-hate syndrome of seduction: "I don't really care what it is I say, I care only that you like it."

Rene Descartes

#82. The syndrome known as life is too diffuse to admit of palliation. For every symptom that is eased, another is made worse. The horse leech's daughter is a closed system. Her quantum of wantum cannot vary.

Samuel Beckett

#83. It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of five who can see the bright side of having a child with Down syndrome and still find the time and energy to govern the state of Alaska.

Sam Harris

#84. Television just turns people into nightmares. The egos! I call it Omarosa syndrome.

Jackie Warner

#85. Having Down syndrome is like being born normal. I am just like you and you are just like me. We are all born in different ways, that is the way I can describe it. I have a normal life.

Chris Burke

#86. I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He is a metaphor for dreams and faith.

Mark Burnett

#87. For those that don't know, my sister was born with Down Syndrome, and she was institutionalized in the very early sixties. Me, being just a small boy and being shuffled around between my mother and grandparents, I never knew her.

Nikki Sixx

#88. Dear Girls Across the Globe,
Let's stop body-shaming each other with hurtful comments about how another girl looks or doesn't look. We are all beautiful in our own unique way; so let's speak about each other with the dignity that we would want others to have when they speak about us.

Miya Yamanouchi

#89. Poverty Effeciency Syndrome are multiple negative poverty effects (Self induced effects,acquired,inherited..)

Ikechukwu Joseph

#90. Adrienne started teaching a few months ago in Denver and wrote that it leaves you with a constant feeling of deceiving people. That you know nothing they don't, or couldn't learn on their own if they cared to.

David Sedaris

#91. I have a very vibrant imposter syndrome that goes on throughout most of my life, but nothing more than when someone has to put a hat on me or some kind of sash and go, 'We're giving you this certificate.'

Robin Ince

#92. Your social rules suck, if i wanted to start a conversation on the relevance of solar vs wind energy I will!

Tina J. Richardson

#93. Nothing like cleaning the whole house while my siblings sing "O Canada" - #oldestchildsyndrome.

Michelle N. Onuorah

#94. The opposite of sad is down's syndrome.

Anthony Jeselnik

#95. I am not man so much as syndrome; as a voice that bellows in the human heart.
I am rain.
I cannot be contained

Alan Moore

#96. The biggest question of all was tinged with hope: Is it possible I can be completely well again? And more importantly, could I be brave enough to dare to believe it?

Heidi Tankersley

#97. Can guys get PMS?"
"More like MBHS," Gabi replies. "Male Butt-Hole Syndrome. It's an epidemic.

Rachel Harris

#98. These actions can lead to the martyr syndrome, in which people sacrifice their own desires to arouse feelings of pity or guilt in others.

Henry Cloud

#99. But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses.

Christopher Shays

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

Muhammad Ali