Vancomycin Quotes

#1. At Beth Israel there had been Acinetobacter baumannii, which was resistant to vancomycin. "That's how you know it's a hospital infection," I recall being told by a doctor I asked at Columbia Presbyterian. "If it's resistant to vanc it's hospital. Because vanc only gets used in hospital settings.

Joan Didion

#2. As boys going to sea immediately become nautical in speech, walk as if they already had their "sea legs" on, and shiver their timbers on all possible occasions, so I turned military at once, called my dinner my rations, saluted all new comers, and ordered a dress parade that very afternoon.

Louisa May Alcott

#3. It is unacceptable, all the stunned and anxious missing a person is asked to endure in life. It is not to be endured, not really.

Lorrie Moore

#4. Physiologists, in fact, have calculated that rowing a two-thousand-meter race - the Olympic standard - takes the same physiological toll as playing two basketball games back-to-back. And it exacts that toll in about six minutes. A well-conditioned oarsman or oarswoman

Daniel James Brown

#5. He receives comfort like cold porridge.

William Shakespeare

#6. I always wanted children late; I had my first daughter at 39 and the second at 45.

Monica Bellucci

#7. Everyone's favorite supper is a gluey carbohydrate-rich concoction known simply as "hotdish" and served in a community Pyrex.

Diablo Cody

#8. You have a book that's also a face?

Cassandra Clare

#9. I pray as part of my mindfulness practice and try to recount my day, all my triumphs and foibles, before I go to sleep at night. These practices keep me calm for the most part.

Emily Saliers

#10. It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. A canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to paint, my reason for painting.

Irving Stone

#12. I think I'm being friendly with someone and I'll sit in their lap. They think I'm flirting with them.

Kylie Minogue

#13. His only weakness was the habit of prophesying war within the next fortnight. George Bernard Shaw

Barbara W. Tuchman

#14. I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.'

Eddie Van Halen

#15. My kids would not get in to bed every night without me telling them that I loved them.

Lisa Vanderpump

#16. Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner