Disease Quotations | Page 8

We started off doing this underground, handing them out in no central location. We started this because we believe that disease will easily spread without access to clean needles.

I can't really do that. I can't share a lot of things with him. I feel like the disease is progressing.

I can't speak highly enough (about) progress that has been made in the field. It occurred as the foundation was raising funds and awareness of the disease and getting drug companies to develop new treatments.

I can't sit here and tell you today what diseases we're going to treat as a result of this research. All I can tell you is that we're never going to get to that point unless we can do the research.

Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.

There are several patients - there are thousands of patients, tens of thousands of patients, that carry either a stimulator in the brain or in the periphery, in the inner ear, to restore neurological functions or to control diseases like Parkinson's disease.

One of the great changes wrought by the increased public awareness of Alzheimers - and thank you, Nancy Reagan, you wonderful tough old dame, you - is that people in the early stages of the disease are now speaking out while they still have the capacity to do so.

I have a disease? Bullshit. I cured it with my brain.

Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.

We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.