Gland Quotes

Every fat person says it's not their fault, that they have gland trouble. You know which gland? The saliva gland. They can't push away from the table. (Jesse Ventura)
If you were to open up a baby's head - and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should - you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland. View quote
Dave Barry
My doctor says that I have a malformed public duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre,' he muttered to himself, 'and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes. View quote
Douglas Adams
New York, the nation's thyroid gland. View quote
Christopher Morley
A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person. View quote
Dawn Powell
'Early stages' is when the cancer is completely contained within the prostate. If it is detected when the cancer is entirely in the gland, the chance for full recovery is at its highest. View quote
Len Dawson
We are told by physicians and scientists that thousands of cells in the human brain are still dormant and, consequently, that the average human being uses only a small part of his equipment. The area of the brain which is found around the pineal gland is that connected with the intuition, and it is these cells which must be roused into activity before there can be any real intuitive perception which, when aroused, will manifest soul control, spiritual illumination, true psychological understanding of one's fellowmen, and a development of the true esoteric sense, which is the objective before you at this time. View quote
Alice Bailey
I have to explain that I'm not an anarchist – I have a pro-state gland. View quote
Richard Stallman
My wife comes from a foodie family so I've been indoctrinated into that. I had sweetbreads the other night, and I have to say, not my favorite thing in the world You're eating a gland. View quote
Armie Hammer
I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment. View quote
Gail Devers
It is better to crush a gland instead of an oak. (André Gernez)
There's really no such thing as the agony of dying. I'm quite sure that pain is shut off at the moment of death. You see, something happens when the body knows it's about to go. Peptide hormones are released by cells in the hypothalamus and pituitary gland. Endorphins. They attach themselves to the cells responsible for feeling pain. View quote
Lewis Thomas
On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents underground makes you wonder if there isn't one giant sweat gland lodged beneath the city. View quote
Diane Ackerman
The brain is a gland of unity: the brain is one with the body. View quote
Richard Bergland
Every organ is a hormone-producing gland. View quote
Richard Bergland
The acute physical pain of his prostate gland, his economic difficulties, his precarious status as a political refugee, all combined to cause our warm, genial comrade, who had always been so full of life, to end his sufferings and commit suicide. View quote
Alexander Berkman
The brain has all the characteristics of a gland except one-leaky capillaries-the sturdy brain capillaries are collectively called the 'blood-brain-barrier'. This barrier can easily be demonstrated by injecting a blue dye into an animal; every other organ (except the testicle) turns blue, but the blood-brain barrier keeps the brain as white as snow. View quote
Richard Bergland