Parkinson Quotes - Page 3

• I apologize if there's a Parkinson's painter in the audience. I assume you do your best work in the morning. Probably gets abstract by noon.

  Daniel Tosh

  Morning, Noon, Apologizing

  7 Copy quote

• Parkinson's is a slow but inevitable process. It's hard living with it on a daily basis. The difficulty facing people with it is that they never quite know 'Can I or can't I do this today?'

  Helen Mirren

  People, Today, Process

  "Helen Mirren: 'it's time we all understood Parkinson's disease'" by Denis Campbell, www.theguardian.com. Decemebr 1, 2010.

  35 Copy quote

  Show source

• Practically every day, there is a story in the newspapers about a new breakthrough drug on Parkinson's.

  Mort Kondracke

  New Day, Drug, Stories

  8 Copy quote

• If you asked my kids to describe me, they'd go through a whole list of words before even thinking about Parkinson's. And honestly, I don't think about it that much either. I talk about it because it's there, but it's not my totality.

  Michael J. Fox

  Kids, Thinking, Lists

  "Michael J Fox: 'Nobody pities me and that's great. I couldn't stand it'". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2013.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I take the medication for myself so I can transact, not for anyone else. But I am aware that it is empowering for people to see what I do and, for the most part, people in the Parkinson's community are just really happy that Parkinson's is getting mentioned, and not in a pitying way.

  Michael J. Fox

  People, Empowering, Community

  "Michael J Fox: 'Nobody pities me and that's great. I couldn't stand it'". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I didn't just want to be a poster boy and sign on to publicize somebody else's method of operations. If I was going to put myself out there, I wanted to make sure that it was to an end. So I got involved with this congressional hearing about Parkinson's being underfunded.

  Michael J. Fox

  Boys, Want, Hearing

  Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. February 18, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think we all get our own bag of hammers. We all get our own Parkinson's. We all have our own thing. I think that we'll look at it through the filter of that experience, and we'll say, "Yeah, I need to laugh at my stuff, too."

  Michael J. Fox

  Thinking, Laughing, Stuff

  "Michael J. Fox Talks THE MICHAEL J. FOX SHOW, How Much the Show Draws from Real Life, Parkinson’s Humor, Has He Seen MTV’s TEEN WOLF, and More". Interview with Christins Radish, collider.com. July 29, 2013.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in.

  Michael J. Fox

  Choices, Found, Parkinson's

  26 Copy quote

• Just as Parkinson's isn't a big topic of conversation in my house, neither is my career.

  Michael J. Fox

  Careers, House, Topics

  "'It's the gift that keeps on taking'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• So what I say about Tracy is this: Tracy's big challenge is not having a Parkinson's patient for a husband. It's having me for a husband. I happen to be a Parkinson's patient.

  Michael J. Fox

  Husband, Challenges, Patient

  "Happy Birthday, Michael". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 5, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• James Parkinson. George Huntington. Robert Graves. John Down. Now this Lou Gehrig fellow of mine. How did men come to monopolize disease names too?

  Khaled Hosseini

  Men, Names, Disease

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.342, A&C Black

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My goals over the decade include to develop new drugs to treat intractable diseases by using iPS cell technology and to conduct clinical trials using it on a few patients with Parkinson's diseases, diabetes or blood diseases.

  Shinya Yamanaka

  Technology, Cells, Blood

  6 Copy quote

• Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Work, Law, Numbers

  29 Copy quote

• I always liked to chase the girls. Parkinson's stops all that. Now I might have a chance to go to heaven.

  Muhammad Ali

  Girl, Boxing, Heaven

  4 Copy quote

• [monkeys] are used only when no other species and no alternatice approach can provide the answers to questions about such conditions as Alzhemers, stroke, Parkinson's, spinal injury, hormone disorders, and vaccines for HIV

  Colin Blakemore

  Animal, Vaccines, Answers

  4 Copy quote

• Near the end of his life, my father proved to be, at his core, a very polite, chivalrous man. He walked the halls of the facility where he lived, introducing himself and shaking people's hands as he had done at Rotary meetings. He complimented the nurses, ‘You have a lovely figure.’ He could also eat an entire 2 lb. box of See's Candies in an afternoon, which requires considerable effort with stage five Parkinson's disease.

  Jennifer L. Knox

  Father, Men, Hands

  8 Copy quote

• God gave me Parkinson's syndrome to show me I'm not 'The Greatest' - he is.

  Muhammad Ali

  Syndromes, Parkinson's, Show Me

  "'Twelve Rounds to Glory' rhymes Ali's life" by Regan McMahon, www.sfgate.com. January 27, 2008.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Evolution lies at the heart of biology. It is seamlessly and continuously linked to health research to better understand such conditions as AIDS or bird flu or Parkinson's or cancer or heart disease. Every biomedical experiment, every tiny advance, every major breakthrough ultimately connects to the principles first postulated by Darwin.

  Huntington Willard

  Cancer, Lying, Heart

  17 Copy quote

• If my dramatic career doesn't work out, I will go on to research and find cures for Alzheimer's or Parkinson's and other motor neuron diseases. It's a very exciting field of research. But I'd like to continue in drama, so it wouldn't be very smart of me if I blew this amazing opportunity with an inappropriate lifestyle.

  Freddie Stroma

  Smart, Drama, Opportunity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• T]he state Republican chairman, Gaylord Parkinson, postulated what he called the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.

  Ronald Reagan

  Republican, Speak, Politician

  Ronald Reagan (2011). “An American Life: An Enhanced eBook with CBS Video: The Autobiography”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Many physical illnesses are associated with depression and anxiety, including heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, Parkinson's disease, stroke, kidney disease, lung disease, dementia and cancer.

  Liz Miller

  Cancer, Heart, Blood

  Liz Miller (2010). “Mood Mapping: Plot your way to emotional health and happiness”, p.27, Pan Macmillan

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Sports, Attitude

  62 Copy quote

• He had Parkinson's disease for about, I'd say diagnosed for about 11 of the last years of his life. And treatment was not as good as it is now, of course. We're still going along and he died in '85 and he was 77.

  Lynn Redgrave

  Years, Disease, Lasts

  4 Copy quote

• It is what it is. But you have the power to turn it into an isn't so bad.

  Karen Salmansohn

  Turns, It Is What It Is

  FaceBook post by Karen Salmansohn from Sep 14, 2015

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I mean, is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me I'd rather [my daughters] were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny - a thousand things, before 'thin'. Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons.

  J. K. Rowling

  Girl, Daughter, Mean

  5 Copy quote