Lister Quotes

In August 1867, a thirteen-year-old142 boy who had severely cut his arm while operating a machine at a fair in Glasgow was admitted to Lister's infirmary. The boy's wound was open and smeared with grime - a setup for gangrene. But rather than amputating the arm, Lister tried a salve of carbolic acid, hoping to keep the arm alive and uninfected. The wound teetered on the edge of a terrifying infection, threatening to become an abscess. But Lister persisted, intensifying his application of carbolic acid paste. For a few weeks, the whole effort seemed hopeless. But then, like a fire running to the end of a rope, the wound began to dry up. A month later, when the poultices were removed, the skin had completely healed underneath. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

See, I will always shop, and that's sort of a problem. Clothes are always exploding out of my closet! ~ Zoe Lister-Jones

But the doctors in the past, as the review of the evidence showed, branded Jenner, Semmelweis, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Pasteur, Lister, Koch and Keen as charlatans ... Napoleon said that war is too important to be left to the generals. We go on the assumption in the Senate that foreign relations are too important to be left to the diplomats ... this question (on a novel cancer cure) is too important to leave purely to doctors ... ~ Paul Douglas

I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't. ~ Zoe Lister-Jones

I love 'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's movie. It's like one of my all-time favorites. I could watch it over and over again. ~ Zoe Lister-Jones

Sometimes I think that kids who are given junk food then don't crave it as adults in the same way. I don't know. I'm trying to figure out what the psychology is behind it before I have children. ~ Zoe Lister-Jones

There are a lot of great organizations who are fighting for food and environmental safety in this country. The Environmental Working Group, Just Label It, Food Democracy Now, and the Center for Food Safety, to name a few. ~ Zoe Lister-Jones

Hey, dick head," he yelled with hands on his hips. "Don't even think of coming back here and telling me you shook anything more than her hand! ~ Ann Lister

GMOs are found in nearly 80% of processed food in the United States. Currently, up to 92% of U.S. corn is consumed what are you eating GMO with zoe lister-jonesgenetically engineered, as are 94% of soybeans and 94% of cotton. In short, they are everywhere. ~ Zoe Lister-Jones

I was never shielded from the realities of what it meant to be an artist and that made me afraid to be an artist because I wanted to know that my life was secure. ~ Zoe Lister-Jones

The Canadian dialect of English ... seems roughly to be the result of applying British syntax to an American vocabulary. ~ Lister Sinclair

I want to be covered, head-to-toe with nothing but you, Lace. Forever. ~ Ann Lister

As artists, it's really important to take time to see what ~ Zoe Lister-Jones

Lister patted the towel rail against his left palm. 'I'm going out like I came in - screaming and kicking.'
'You can't whack Death on the head.'
'If he comes near me, I'll rip his tits off. ~ Grant Naylor

A frightened captain makes a frightened crew. ~ Lister Sinclair

Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow. ~ Zoe Lister-Jones

I am a believer in the fundamental doctrines of Christianity. ~ Joseph Lister

I wish you'd stop acting as if-as if everything is normal!"
"What would you have me do?" he replied, getting up and walking over to the tray of liquor. He poured some Scotch into two glasses and handed one to Jordan. "If you're waiting for me to rant and weep, you're wasting your time."
"No, at the moment I'm glad you're not given to the masculine version of hysterics. I have news, as I said, and though you aren't going to find it pleasant from a personal viewpoint, it's the best possible news from the standpoint of your trial next week. Ian," he said uneasily, "our investigators-yours, I mean-have finally picked up Elizabeth's trail."
Ian's voice was cool, his expression unmoved. "Where is she?"
"We don't know yet, but we do know she was seen traveling in company of a man on the Bernam Road two nights after she disappeared. They put up at the inn about fifteen miles north of Lister. They"-he hesitated and expelled his breath in a rush-"they were traveling as man and wife, Ian."
Other than the merest tightening of Ian's hand upon the glass of Scotch, there was no visible reaction to this staggering news, or to all its heartbreaking and unsavory implications. "There's more news, and it's as good-I mean as valuable-to us."
Ian tossed down the contents of his glass and said with icy finality, "I can't see how any news could be better. She has now proven that I didn't kill her, and at the same time she's given me irrefutable grounds for divorce. ~ Judith McNaught

Were I fit for another world, how gladly would I go there. ~ Anne Lister

There's a lot of people desperately seeking to find 'the one,' and I think we should learn to be more at peace with ourselves. ~ Zoe Lister-Jones

There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight. ~ Zoe Lister-Jones

At this moment, glyphosate is the biggest threat. And because of its overuse, we are seeing the emergence of superweeds, which have grown resistant to glyphosate. This has led to biotech corporations developing even more toxic herbicides, including 2,4-D, one of the main components of Agent Orange. ~ Zoe Lister-Jones

I think growing up in New York, you see so much at such a young age, there's no bubble to escape into. ~ Zoe Lister-Jones

In my view, relationship movies never get old because humanity will never not be confounded by their relationships. ~ Zoe Lister-Jones

Theater is a really exciting place to return to all the time because it's incredible training for an actor. ~ Zoe Lister-Jones

I love a good massage, and they gotta go deep. ~ Zoe Lister-Jones

It is a duty not only to punish, but to prevent all manner of evil. ~ Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl Of Swinton

As consumers, we can buy organic and non-GMO verified products, so look out for those labels when shopping! ~ Zoe Lister-Jones

You always have to lie. I've been in plays that people don't enjoy and I pray that they lie to my face when I come outside. ~ Zoe Lister-Jones

I come from a long line of women who like shoes to a fault. ~ Zoe Lister-Jones

Same old eyes, same old world but the difference is how you look at what is in front of you, not what it is. ~ Lister Sinclair

Friday 22 June 1821 [Halifax]
I owe a good deal to this journal. By unburdening my mind on paper I feel, as it were, in some degree to get rid of it; it seems made over to a friend that hears it patiently, keeps it faithfully, and by never forgetting anything, is always ready to compare the past & present and thus to cheer & edify the future. ~ Anne Lister

Most single women have been in that situation where there is a silent guy in your group. You don't see him as boyfriend material. He's just there, but you know all the same people. ~ Zoe Lister-Jones

I have a hard time waiting for things to happen. ~ Zoe Lister-Jones

I always loved writing as a tool of expression. ~ Zoe Lister-Jones

I don't think I do look like an A-Lister. I'm more interested in being comfortable in my own skin than trying to be somebody I'm not. Gimme jeans, an old T-shirt, cowboy boots and a baseball cap any day. ~ Nathan Parsons

Lacey's hand wiggled between their bodies and gripped the hard length of his erection through his shorts. He flinched from her touch and broke their kiss.
"I can think of a dozen reasons why I shouldn't be doing this with you," he said, his voice rough and strained.
"And I'm feeling one, big reason why you should. ~ Ann Lister

We seemed to be heading toward a revolution that would not only see a battle between the haves and have-nots, but between the fundamentalists and the progressives - actually that war had already begun, and it did so long before September 11. ~ Michael Lister

Women always try to see the one good part of The Weird Guy because the dating landscape is so bleak. Women will say, 'He's very odd, but he likes to cook. He's creepy, but he makes good pancakes!' ~ Zoe Lister-Jones

There are certain women who are sexually driven and they can compartmentalize it from an emotional attachment. ~ Zoe Lister-Jones

But when it has been shown by the researches of Pasteur that the septic property of the atmosphere depended not on the oxygen, or any gaseous constituent, but on minute organisms suspended in it, which owed their energy to their vitality, it occurred to me that decomposition in the injured part might be avoided without excluding the air, by applying as a dressing some material capable of destroying the life of the floating particles. Upon this principle I have based a practice. ~ Joseph Lister

I think the dangers of the impact of GMOs on the environment are undebatable. Genetically modified crops are tied to the chemicals sprayed on them. ~ Zoe Lister-Jones

I'm in 'Madagascar 2.' I'm Testy the Lion. The franchise moves to Africa, and Bernie Mac is also in the film. I loved working for Dreamworks on that film. ~ Tom Lister, Jr.

It's always fun to play characters that are different from me. ~ Zoe Lister-Jones

I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's always been a passion of mine. ~ Zoe Lister-Jones

I love the shot put because you win or lose by yourself. Either I get exposed, or I dominate. I always dominated because I trained to dominate. ~ Tom Lister, Jr.

For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory. ~ Zoe Lister-Jones

If there is chemistry, and the mind and body are working as one, it's nirvana. It's like a well-written symphony or, better yet, perfect... sheet music."
"Sheet music?"
"Yeah, music between the sheets. ~ Ann Lister

How sweet the thought that there is (still) another & better & happier world than this. ~ Anne Lister

Dr. Lister, who treated the wounded Pres. Garfield, had been so stung by the medical establishment's reaction to his embrace of African-American doctors that he, in response, refused to do part from the status quo enough to considering using antiseptic techniques. ~ Candice Millard

In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl. ~ Zoe Lister-Jones

People under time pressure don't think faster." - Tim Lister Think rate is fixed. No matter what you do, no matter how hard you try, you can't pick up the pace of thinking. ~ Tom DeMarco

You and I together could be dangerous."
"Combustible, maybe," she said. "But I doubt dangerous. ~ Ann Lister

While we are on the subject of cunt monikers, in his study of humorous names, Russell Ash found a whole family of Cunts living in England in the nineteenth century: Fanny Cunt (born 1839), also her son, Richard 'Dick' Cunt, and her daughters, Ella Cunt and Violet Cunt. ~ Kate Lister

A lot of times, you try and please your biological family, and you can't please them. ~ Tom Lister, Jr.

But Kellogg was obsessed with 'diddling' (1938), and the cornflake was designed to suppress lust and cure serial masturbators. Kellogg and his brother William Kellogg designed bland foods to treat the patients at their sanatorium. ~ Kate Lister

I think a lot of people, especially women, feel like to be whole, you need to find part of yourself in another person - probably because of the fables we're told as kids. ~ Zoe Lister-Jones

I only act in films where I've got an A-lister as my mentor. ~ Taron Egerton

I've been an audience member for friends in plays that I don't enjoy and I have to lie to their faces. It's just part of that lifestyle unfortunately, especially in New York. ~ Zoe Lister-Jones

Because there are so many factors when considering the potential impacts of GMOs on our health and environment, we wanted to make a film that could unpack complex subject matter, while taking the audience on an entertaining ride. It is a very powerful tool because it allows viewers to understand the nature of these very complicated issues in a digestible format, and then hopefully engage in a dialogue about them in their respective homes and communities. ~ Zoe Lister-Jones

I'm everything free. I'm gluten-free. I'm dairy-free. I'm sugar-free. Sometimes I'm yeast-free which really means I eat paper. ~ Zoe Lister-Jones

especially his relationship with creation. The thought of an infinite God stooping low to relate to and redeem a broken people rightfully leaves our minds reeling - or at least it should. ~ J. Ryan Lister

Lister saw the vast importance of the discoveries of Pasteur. He saw it because he was watching on the heights, and he was watching there alone. ~ Thomas Clifford Allbutt

I'm a health-food junkie, so all of my food is a splurge, money-wise! ~ Zoe Lister-Jones

Doctors, I find, have a very materialistic outlook. The spiritual seems to be strangely hidden from them. They pin their faith on Science - but what I say is... what is Science - what can it do?"
There seemed, to Hercule Poirot, to be no answer to the question other than a meticulous and painstaking description embracing Pasteur, Lister, Humphrey Davy's safety lamp - the convenience of electricity in the home and several hundred other kindred items. But that, naturally, was not the answer Mrs Lionel Cloade wanted. ~ Agatha Christie

There are emotional ties to family that are connected to the sexual experience for women that are very different than men which does make it harder for women to date and not get hurt. ~ Zoe Lister-Jones

Because GMOs aren't labeled, it's very hard to prove causality in terms of health effects. It's even more difficult because the seeds are patented, so independent researchers have a hard time gaining access to them. ~ Zoe Lister-Jones

For the most part, for me and my friends, there's always an emotional attachment that clouds women's judgment. ~ Zoe Lister-Jones

Hosiah Lister, now dead, rec'd his freedom."
Consider, then, the full measure of my sadness, reading this inscription; not merely for Hosiah Lister, but for all of us, consider the dear cost of liberty in a world so hostile, so teeming with enemies and opportunists, that one could not become free without casting aside all casualty, all choice, all will, all identity; finding freedom only in the spacious blankness of unbeing, the wide plains of nonentity, infinite and still. ~ M T Anderson

I grew up in a financially insecure place because I knew that my parents were following their dreams which has pros and cons. It was actually my mom who encouraged me to go to acting school because I was really afraid to put all my eggs in that basket. ~ Zoe Lister-Jones

I try to make a lot of time for friends and family because I think that's really important and for pleasurable experiences. ~ Zoe Lister-Jones

You promised me forever, Flynn Beckett. I want my forever. ~ Ann Lister

If you shake any book by Sade, a cunt will fall out; Sade is a cunt piñata. ~ Kate Lister

Am certainly attentive to her but cautiously, without any impropriety that could be laid hold of. Yet my manners are certainly peculiar, not all masculine but rather softly gentleman-like. I know how to please girls. ~ Anne Lister

I'm a big comic book person. I love Captain America. I like John Henry. I'm hoping to play one of the superhero characters that's coming from Marvel. ~ Tom Lister, Jr.

The secret to a long-lasting relationship is perpetually imagining the worst. It's a world view tracing back to my Eastern European ancestry and one I draw upon regularly. ~ Zoe Lister-Jones

Saturday 12 July 1823 [Halifax]
Could not sleep last night. Dozing, hot & disturbed ... a violent longing for a female companion came over me. Never remember feeling it so painfully before ... It was absolute pain to me. ~ Anne Lister

I draw comfort from the notion that nature reveals its motivations only slowly; mysteries within mysteries that keep us arrogant, would-be know-alls firmly in our place. ~ John Lister-Kaye

We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage. ~ Zoe Lister-Jones

I spent my teens and early 20s shopping almost exclusively at thrift stores. ~ Zoe Lister-Jones

Most actors and actresses are performative as people. ~ Zoe Lister-Jones

I'm not sure I can explain it. I have all this raw emotion inside for you and sometimes I'm not sure what to do with it. I'm afraid if I let it out it will be too overwhelming for you and for me. ~ Ann Lister

I think a lot of women, in the way that they might attach emotion to sex, attach emotion to food, in a different way than men. ~ Zoe Lister-Jones

Don't shove away a lifetime of blessing because you fear trials. You'll have them no matter what you do.~ Marianne Lister ~ Melissa Jagears

Writing becomes a really good creative outlet when you're sitting there and feeling creatively frustrated or stilted, but also you then get to write parts for yourself. ~ Zoe Lister-Jones

He went to Scotland and studied under Lister ... ("Lister was persecuted by the British Medical Association. He was threatened with having his license revoked.") Yet in Lister's hospital virtually no one died as a result of operations because Lister had developed a carbolic acid wash and disinfectant. Dr. Keen came back from Scotland ... He was referred to as a crazy Listerite ... He was denied an opportunity to practice in every hospital in Philadelphia. ~ Paul Douglas

In the course of an extended investigation into the nature of inflammation, and the healthy and morbid conditions of the blood in relation to it, I arrived several years ago at the conclusion that the essential cause of suppuration in wounds is decomposition brought about by the influence of the atmosphere upon blood or serum retained within them, and, in the case of contused wounds, upon portions of tissue destroyed by the violence of the injury.

To prevent the occurrence of suppuration with all its attendant risks was an object manifestly desirable, but till lately apparently unattainable, since it seemed hopeless to attempt to exclude the oxygen which was universally regarded as the agent by which putrefaction was effected. But when it had been shown by the researches of Pasteur that the septic properties of the atmosphere depended not on the oxygen, or any gaseous constituent, but on minute organisms suspended in it, which owed their energy to their vitality, it occurred to me that decomposition in the injured part might be avoided without excluding the air, by applying as a dressing some material capable of destroying the life of the floating particles. ~ Joseph Lister

Joseph Lister?" Liam said suddenly, cutting through the silence. "Really? Him?"
Chubs stiffened beside me. "That man was a hero. He pioneered research on the origins of infections and sterilization."
Liam stared hard at the faux leather cover of just Chubs's skip-tracer ID, carefully choosing his next words. "You couldn't have chosen something cooler? Someone who is maybe not an old dead white guy?"
"His work led to the reduction of post operative infections and safer surgical practices," Chubs insisted. "Who would you have picked? Captain America?"
"Steve Rogers is a perfectly legit name." Liam pass the ID back to him. " This is all ... very Boba Fett of you. I'm not sure what to say, Chubsie. ~ Alexandra Bracken