The Great Influenza Quotes

#1. My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918.

James Rainwater

#2. When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.

Jean Baudrillard

#3. Knowledge without labor is profitless. Knowledge with labor is genius.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#4. It's like you can't have a real conversation with anyone.

Jeff Hobbs

#5. The public is probably more suspicious of poets than women, and maybe for good reason.

Billy Collins

#6. The unique nature about the influenza virus is its great potential for changes, for mutation.

Margaret Chan

#7. The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.

Aristotle.

#8. I was with her for about six years before I asked her to marry me, which only means one thing: I shouldn't have done it! If you wait six years to get engaged, you are on the fence.

Marc Maron

#9. We need to have a plan equal to the challenge.

Jim Yong Kim

#10. For my part, I think that the mystery is always greatest where there is the most - emptiness.

Judith Krantz

#11. might be; and by this difference in the concluding blow producing a corresponding contrast in the final aspect of the completed fabric; this savage's sword,

Herman Melville

#12. I am an atheist and do not know the meaning of the 'religious pain' that is felt by believers of every cast when what they believe in is insulted.

Tariq Ali

#13. And, perhaps, Mr. Dobbin's sentimental Amelia was no more like the real one than this absurd little print which he cherished. But what man in love, of us, is better informed? - or is he much happier when he sees and owns his delusion?

William Makepeace Thackeray

#14. I began painting well before I started doing comedy. In fact, when I came out of the war in 1946, I enrolled in art school in Dayton, Ohio. I painted for three years, and then show business took hold.

Jonathan Winters

#15. I realised how much misdirection is in stunt co-coordinating. It's similar to magic, the tricks we use to make people think the stunt is real. I also have a lifelong fascination with gambling cheats. I'm not one, but I do have a fascination with it.

Steve Truglia