Pancreas Quotes

• I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

  Jean Kerr

  Beauty, Beautiful, Tired

  The Snake Has All the Lines (1958)

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• We dont invent our natures. Theyre issued to us along with our lungs, our pancreas and everything else.

  Michael E. Mann

  Lungs

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• Some see the glass half full, some see it half empty, and some see it crawling with toxic alien parasites who want to devour your pancreas.

  James Alan Gardner

  Glasses, Toxic, Half

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• Physiology has, at last, gained control over the nerves which stimulate the gastric glands and the pancreas.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Adrenal Glands, Nerves, Lasts

  Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1957). “Experimental psychology, and other essays”

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• The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body.

  Patrick Soon-Shiong

  Body, Organs, Complexes

  "Meet Patrick Soon-Shiong, The LA Billionaire Reinventing Your Health Care". Interview with Howard Fineman, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2013.

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• i miss you so much it's giving me a pain in my pancreas.

  Maureen Johnson

  Pain, Giving, Missing

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• You rarely hear anyone use the word pancreas in a not-horrible context.

  Christian Finnegan

  Use, Horrible

  FaceBook post by Christian Finnegan from Aug 12, 2013

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• As I enter the small intestine I get squeezed by muscles. Its dark and the walls look like slimey crushed velvet theres pancreas juice on me help me I am disintigrating.

  Lynda Barry

  Wall, Dark, Velvet

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• Ranger declined the butterscotch pudding, not wanting to disrupt the consistency of his blood sugar level. I had two puddings and coffee, choosing to keep my pancreas at peak performance. Use it or lose it is my philosophy.

  Janet Evanovich

  Philosophy, Coffee, Use It Or Lose It

  Janet Evanovich (1999). “Three To Get Deadly: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• Intravenous injections of extract from dog's pancreas, removed from seven to ten weeks after ligation of the ducts, invariably exercises a reducing influence upon the percentage sugar of the blood and the amount of sugar excreted in the urine ... the extent and duration of the reduction varies directly with the amount of extract injected.

  Frederick Banting

  Dog, Exercise, Blood

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• Love in all its forms is very difficult ... to express. It changes, obviously. If you’re young, and you’re romantically in love with somebody, and often if you’ve just met somebody, its crazy! It’s completely overwhelming. You can’t think of anything else. You just want to climb inside the other person and live under their pancreas. And then it mellows, somewhat... to the point where you can barely look at them... without feeling a mild distaste

  Dylan Moran

  Change, Crazy, Thinking

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• Doctors removed my gallbladder and pancreas, which are supposed to break down sugar and alcohol.

  Sharon Jones

  Doctors, Alcohol, Sugar

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Dean Martin's pancreas, who overheard his liver singing I got a right to sing the blues. Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Singing, Dinner, Dean

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• You needed a new pancreas. The one we bought for you frees you from a dangerous dependency.” “Thanks, but I was enjoying that dependency.

  William Gibson

  Thanks, Enjoy, Dangerous

  William Gibson (2000). “Neuromancer”, p.43, Penguin

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• He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.

  A. Lee Martinez

  Giving, Helping, Eyeballs

  A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.49, Macmillan

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• I first found out I had cancer on my eye and lost an eye to this disease when I was 16, and I've since had cancer in my kidneys and pancreas and a host of other areas.

  Tom Rath

  Cancer, Eye, Disease

  "Author Tom Rath On The Health Wake-Up Call He Got At 16 Years Old". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19, 2013.

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