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“I was born with my moustache and, no, I've never been tempted to shave it off. I don't spend a lot of time worrying about my face and, like Gilbert and Sullivan's Katisha, my best feature is my left shoulder-blade.”
Source : "What I see in the mirror: Robert Winston" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.
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“Today, Medicare provides health insurance to about 40 million seniors and disabled individuals each year. The number is only expected to grow as the baby boomers begin retiring.”
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“I'm on a search for my future ex-wife.”
Source : "Richie Sambora Ready to Meet His 'Future Ex-Wife'". Interview with Mary S. Park, people.com. February 20, 2011.
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“You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.'”
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“By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their country which only history will be able to value fully. Among the Americans who served on Iwo Island, uncommon valor was a common virtue.”
Source : Chester W. Nimitz's statement after the Battle of Iwo Jima, circa March - May 1945.
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“The clearest window that ever was fashioned if it is barred by spiders' webs, and hung over with carcasses of insects, so that the sunlight has forgotten to find its way through, of what use can it be? Now, the Church is God's window; and if it is so obscured by errors that its light is darkness, how great is that darkness!”
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“When you go to Africa and you see people who are just like you and me - this is always my starting point. These are people who are just like you and me. The same synapses, same things are firing off in their heads, same dreams for their children, same hopes and aspirations that we all have. What can one do to reduce the possibility that their chances of a happy and healthy and prosperous life are not solely determined by the accident of where they were born?”
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“I am a dog person and not a cat person, definitely a dog person.”
Source : Source: www.npr.org