"Let me tell something, seeing your name and psychiatric ward on the same piece of paper isn't the best way to start your day."

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Source : Michael Thomas Ford (2011). “Suicide Notes”, p.8, Harper Collins

Michael Thomas Ford

#Names Quotes #Paper Quotes #Way Quotes

“Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways.”
“My brother said that at Eton, students were told caning builds character. I suppose girls are caned less because we aren't thought to have much character." "Which is the sort of thing males say when they don't know any women.”
“Filmmaking is such a collaboration. At a certain point, I suppose you do have to let go and trust the people you're working with.”
“Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought.”
“I shall never forget my first encounter with gorillas. Sound preceded sight. Odor preceded sound in the form of an overwhelming, musky-barnyard, humanlike scent. The air was suddenly rent by a high-pitched series of screams followed by the rhythmic rondo of sharp pok-pok chestbeats from a great silverbacked male obscured behind what seemed an impenetrable wall of vegetation.”

Source : Dian Fossey (2000). “Gorillas in the Mist”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“New York is a bit of a dangerous place to me because you often leave in a blur.”
“We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics.”

Source : Joseph Lancaster (1807). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted”, p.154
“You have a long history of changes in diagnosis, from no touching to touching, to assessing acoustics and visuals. But visual is a problem, because if you're a living being you can't see beyond the surface of the skin. Now you don't have that problem. Laparoscopic surgery, inserting a camera into the body, is sometimes called "Nintendo surgery" - the best training for laparoscopic surgeries has actually been video games.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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