Famous quotes containing the words prevent and/or scurvy:
“I asked myself, Is it going to prevent me from getting out of here? Is there a risk of death attached to it? Is it permanently disabling? Is it permanently disfiguring? Lastly, is it excruciating? If it doesnt fit one of those five categories, then it isnt important.”
—Rhonda Cornum, United States Army Major. As quoted in Newsweek magazine, Perspectives page (July 13, 1992)
“You sit around here and you spin your little webs and you think the whole world revolves around you and your money. Well it doesnt, Mr. Potter. In the whole vast configuration of things Id say you were nothing but a scurvy little spider.”
—Frances Goodrich (18911984)