C. Walton Lillehei Quotes

I would like to think that Ive left the world of cardiovascular surgery better than when I found it. That would be a suitable epitaph.

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• I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Everything
  • White
  • Certainty

• I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • Live
  • Trying

• I've always liked to dress up; I've always liked to look good. You look good, you feel good, you play good.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Up
  • Good
  • Dress

• A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Never
  • Own
  • Errors

• For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

  

  Pam Brown
  • Nature
  • Spring
  • Will

• I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Like
  • Hair
  • Gray

• We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • People
  • Life
  • Fear

• Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • America
  • Confusion
  • Only

• I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.

  

  Vijay
  • People
  • Writing
  • Stop

• I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Night
  • Dad
  • Day

• Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Long
  • You
  • Nice

• Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Cool
  • Face
  • Bus

• Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Women
  • Stand
  • Lib

• Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Stupid
  • Celebrity
  • Become

• American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Country
  • American
  • Problems

• Going to Europe as a budding cook opened my eyes to food in a different way. When I got to Italy, the first thing I did was put my little basil plants in the ground and watch them turn into big, healthy bushes.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Different
  • Food
  • Eyes

• A lot of the images I use are already out there in the public or in the news. I just steal them or photograph them or repaint them, so they've already been talked about, already been consumed.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Just
  • News
  • Steal

• The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Power
  • Powerful
  • Only

• You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Night
  • Stars
  • Laughing

• We are great believers in the idea that the Internet can help bring justice, but justice varies from place to place across the world.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • World
  • Great
  • Help

• There's still a tremendous amount of homophobia out there in the world, but it is what it is. I am who I am, and the people in my life are who they are, and they love us, hate us, for whatever reason. It is what it is.

  

  Jillian Michaels
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• She could not trust herself to hope—but without hope, she realized, she had no reason to go on.

  

  Melissa de la Cruz
  • Hope
  • Trust
  • Reason

• If I'm going to have baked goods in the morning, the rule is that I have to make them myself.

  

  Jenny Slate
  • Morning

• I would like to think that Ive left the world of cardiovascular surgery better than when I found it. That would be a suitable epitaph.

  

  C. Walton Lillehei
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Would Be