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Abraham Verghese Quotes

Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.

Abraham Verghese

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: ethiopian
Birth: 1955

Topics

Medical School Year Medical School

I grew up with two different parakeets - one that lived for five years, and one that lived for 13 years - so I always had a bit of an attraction to birds and it's an oddly good fit to be in a movie about birdwatchers.

Good Birds Two Always Up Lived

I don't think too far ahead because I want to appreciate what's happening now.

Think Appreciate Now Want Ahead Far

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

Mistakes World Long Spinning Dizzy

Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.

Good Good And Evil Evil Face Mystery

Life begins on the other side of despair.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Life Despair Side Begins Other

All I know is that when you look over at the coaches on the other sideline, and all you see are guys who either coached with you or played for you, then you know it's time to get out.

Time You Look Know Over See

I started out as a box boy. You know, I didn't go to college, and I did well in supermarkets.

College You Go Know Boy Box

Zidane was just so majestic on the ball, relaxed. He oozed class, and I loved watching him. I remember France against Brazil in 2006. One of those game, I just couldn't believe the class of him.

Ruben Loftus-Cheek

Game Believe Loved Remember Class

I'm not an ordinary prisoner.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Ordinary Prisoner

Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.

Music Me Go Let Go Take Mine

'Girls Go Wild' was born out of a Joshua Tree excursion with some close friends after coming home from a long bit of touring.

Home Tree Friends Long Born Go

I don't pass the Tea Party's purity test.

Tea Party Test Purity Pass

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