Sick Quotes

"Boy, you gotta be real sick to get this much attention"

"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

"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

"A lot of people in my life are getting sick or potentially going to get sick from tobacco"

Jeremy London, Actor

"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

"Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind"

Thomas Wolfe, Novelist

"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

"The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you"

Tony Snow, Journalist

"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

"Teens aren't just interested in getting laid. I won't believe that's all they're interested in. I have four younger sisters and they're sick of being shown how they're supposed to react in bed"

Linda Fiorentino, Actress

"They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard"

Alexander Cockburn, Lawyer

"You're not sick you're just in love"

Irving Berlin, Musician

"There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of. I'll put one of those on and be puttering around the house. Then a certain scene will come on and I'll just have to go over and watch"

David Fincher, Director

"I didn't think then, and I still don't, that I was actually sick"

Frances Farmer, Actress

"I don't want to write every week, it's too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want something. If you think I'm sick when I don't write, you can send for me to come and tell you"

Robert Gould Shaw, Soldier

"Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be"

Noel Coward, Playwright

"Probably millions of Americans got up this morning with a cup of coffee, a cigarette and a donut. No wonder they are sick and fouled up"

Jack LaLanne, Athlete

"Because these kids get away from their parents, and they binge drink until they are sick. Dozens of them are going to the hospital, and some of them dying. This is a problem, a big problem that needs to be addressed, and we need accurate information"

Zach Wamp, Politician

"The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well"

Tony Snow, Journalist

"I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis"

Rosanne Cash, Musician

"Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy"

Mary Wortley Montagu, Writer

"Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water"

Paul Farmer, Educator

"Let's take care of mothers and infants first, and then let's see what's left over for everybody over 50. I'm over 50. If I get sick, I would rather have money spent on children before it's spent on me"

Richard Dooling, Novelist

"So what I did was stuff my face with anything around, any old rubbish, burgers, chocolate, crisps, fish and chips, loads of it, till I felt sick - but at least I'd had the pleasure of stuffing my face and feeling really full"

John Prescott, Politician

"Every act I see, their whole act is choreographed. I'm sick of seeing these dancers. The only reason they have them is they don't have enough talent to get people dancing themselves"

Ronnie Spector, Musician

"Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting"

Mercedes McCambridge, Actress

"We have stabilized our economy. We took over a very sick economy, and we were hemorrhaging 750,000 jobs a month. We have stopped the hemorrhaging. In fact, we had 140,000 job growth last month. And that's what I call progress"

Jim Clyburn, Politician

"I'm sick of the treadmill"

Andrea Martin, Actor

"The day is coming when there will not be one sick saint in the body of Christ"

Benny Hinn, Clergyman

"Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the instruments that he picked up was the mandolin"

Michael Stipe, Musician

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