William Osler Quotes

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

William Osler

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• I was unbelievably lucky.

  

  Wendy Hiller
  • Lucky
  • Unbelievably

• Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason, at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • People
  • Attention
  • Hurt

• I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Time
  • Work
  • Mom

• Weirdly, my nickname was Lady. I didn't get Stretch, or Stilts, or Spider Legs - I got Lady. I guess I was always a bit ladylike.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Always
  • Lady
  • Spider

• There is no point in pointing fingers because there are three fingers pointing back at you.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • You
  • Back
  • Three

• My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Character
  • Kids
  • Movie

• It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Up
  • Danger
  • Protection

• It's a coincidence that most of the films I have done are to do with social causes.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Done
  • Social
  • Coincidence

• I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Life
  • Country
  • Parents

• Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Character
  • Right
  • Directors

• For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Culture

• I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Playing
  • Early
  • Bars

• The problem with independent films is that they can be hit or miss. I've seen scripts that have blown me away. But there have to be all the right ingredients in place to make them work: the director, cast, publicity, distribution.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Work
  • Problem
  • Independent

• I am a self-critical perfectionist.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Perfectionist
  • Self-Critical

• I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Respect
  • Decency

• I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.

  

  Carey Lowell
  • Up
  • Always
  • Clothes

• It feels nice to be loved, but let me tell you there are 10 times more better looking, stylish and talented guys than me. So there's no solid reason for me to be proud! I don't think I have done anything extraordinary to change people's lives.

  

  Salman Khan
  • People
  • Done
  • Change

• I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Think
  • Author
  • Coffee

• 'Hi, everybody, and a very pleasant good (afternoon/evening) to you, wherever you may be.'

  

  Vin Scully
  • Good
  • May

• 'Station to Station' came out of a sense of urgency - a sense that culture, be it art, film or architecture, has become so compartmentalised. For this project, we wanted to break that and create a language that is more nomadic and less materialistic and really empowering for the creators and the audience.

  

  Doug Aitken
  • Art
  • Culture
  • Architecture

• The word spirit comes from the Latin word for "breath" - spiritu - and the origin of the word spirituality has to do with breath and life force, the mysteries of the ancients and all this. The word is very suspect in much of the art world - the Western art world. Certainly, spirituality has become divorced from religious.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Life
  • World
  • Art

• As someone who was raised Catholic, and went to St Bernadine's; don't pull your Catholic kid-fucker bullshit with me, motherfuckers! I'm not scared of you. And I'm not havin it!

  

  Kathy Griffin
  • Catholic

• Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Life
  • Care
  • Loneliness

• Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

  

  William Osler
  • Art
  • Science
  • Medicine