Sick Quotes

"Most people, when they hear the disease name, it's all they know about it. It sounds so mild. When I first was sick, for the first 10 years or so, I was dismissed. I was ridiculed and told I was lazy. It was a joke"

Laura Hillenbrand, Author

"There's always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you're a fraud after all!"

Ben Stiller, Comedian

"I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know"

Laura Hillenbrand, Author

"If God is pleased in making you sick and unhappy, I hate God"

Ernestine L. Rose

"I got so I was really just sick of sculpture"

Robert Rauschenberg, Artist

"So, I didn't get moved up because of celebrity status or anything like that. I got in line, and I passed the test. And they realized that I was sick enough, and as soon as the liver became available, I got one"

Pat Summerall, Celebrity

"There's a kind of sick security some people get out of keeping away from people with disabilities. They are running away from any situation that's not totally pure and all-American and that requires them to do any thinking"

Major Owens, Politician

"All I want is a gentleman. I'm sick to bloody death of bastards"

Katie Price, Model

"The only time I think I've ever gotten sick of playing Guns and Roses songs really was during - after having played them in Guns and Roses, and then in Snakepit, and then playing 'It's So Easy' and 'Brownstone' in Velvet Revolver"

Slash, Musician

"They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life"

Black Elk, Leader

"Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die"

Skeet Ulrich, Actor

"One researcher just determined that African and Indian elephants make each other sick. When a new animal or plant is introduced to a habitat bad things happen. The biggest danger to native wildlife is foreign wildlife"

Robert T. Bakker, Scientist

"My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time"

Jim Carrey, Comedian

"I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick"

Abe Lemons, Coach

"This syndrome, SARS, is now a worldwide health threat... The world needs to work together to find its cause, cure the sick and stop its spread"

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Politician

"And I'm here to tell you, the reaction that I'm getting around the country, people are sick and tired of this word in Washington, compromise. This is why nothing ever gets done"

Herman Cain, Businessman

"I think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself"

Jim Carrey, Comedian

"You can't worry if it's cold; you can't worry if it's hot; you only worry if you get sick. Because then if you don't get well, you die"

Joaquin Andujar, Athlete

"They are sick in their minds. They say they brought 65 tanks into center of city. I say to you this talk is not true. This is part of their sick mind"

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Public Servant

"She told me she had a note, somebody was sick"

Lizzie Andrew Borden, Celebrity

"Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick"

Johnny Rivers, Musician

"In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them"

Maurice de Vlaminck, Artist

"To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today"

George Herman, Journalist

"The four of us couldn't have made a record with the time left over when we were shooting the show. We were on stage from 7.30 in the morning 'til 7 at night. Later on, when there was a break from filming, and we were sick of doing it the old way"

Peter Tork, Musician

"But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick"

Paul Farmer, Educator

"A Hospital is no place to be sick"

Samuel Goldwyn, Producer

"I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if I could make myself sick enough they'd take sympathy on me"

Daniel Johns, Musician

"We toured that record for a year, which turned out to be the culmination of ten years of being constantly on the road. We were sick to death of touring"

Michael Stipe, Musician

"But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater?"

Paracelsus, Scientist

"The Giraffe took the horse's head and led him along on the most level parts of the road towards the railway station, and two or three chaps went along to help get the sick man into the train"

Henry Lawson, Writer

"Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control"

Tracey Gold, Actress

"I just hope people don't get sick of us. I'm sick of us and I'm in Destiny's Child"

Beyonce Knowles, Musician

"Film lovers are sick people"

Francois Truffaut, Director

"I have to say. I kind of love all that stuff - those physical challenges. I guess there will come a time when I'll get sick of it but at this stage, I just like it all"

Richard Roxburgh, Actor

"In my entire career? I am so sick of being asked, What's it like to kiss Mel Gibson?"

Catherine McCormack, Actress

"What I remember most about junior homecoming was my date getting sick afterwards. That kinda sucked. Then, senior year, someone got gum in her hair when we were dancing. She had to get one of the chaperones to take her to the office and cut up her hair. I felt really bad for her, but it worked out fine"

James Lafferty, Actor

"Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you stays so mad with peoples you feels sick all the time like you needs the doctor"

Margaret Walker, Poet

"Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there's curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn't speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn't felt in a while. But I like it"

Javier Bardem, Actor

"Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change"

Tony Campolo, Clergyman

"Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed"

Joshua Chamberlain, Soldier

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