Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Williams

He was proud to tell you that he practiced medicine for 52 years.

Richard Dawkins

It is possible in medicine, even when you intend to do good, to do harm instead. That is why science thrives on actively encouraging criticism rather than stifling it.

Richard Whately

Eloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing for whom it is intended.

Vance Havner

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Robert Trout

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.

Robert M. Fresco

The history of medicine is the history of the unusual.

Walter Raleigh

This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.

James Cook

With socialized medicine, the trick is not to die while waiting for treatment.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Take a dose of medicine once, and in all probability you will be obliged to take an additional hundred afterwards

Larry Brown

He keeps telling me he wants to come back. If the doctors give him the OK, we'll do it, but we'll just go day to day. It would be great to have him back, but if not, I'll get to play Steve more and Jamal more and Nate.

George Hamilton

I've gone to skin doctors and they'll say to you, 'We should remove this because it's pre-cancerous,' and I'll say, 'Explain pre-cancerous to me.' I'll listen for about twenty minutes and I'll say excuse me, 'Is pre-cancerous like pre-dead? So you're saying it could turn into cancer but it's not cancer?'

Kelly Nichols

Her kidneys are shutting down. They are doing this surgery to save the kidneys and give the doctors time to find out what is wrong.

Lord Warner

We've been told for some time that we should be more self-sufficient in doctors and not suck in doctors from overseas.

David Oaks

We're opposed to all these techniques because they're inherently intrusive and irreversible, and they give doctors a lot of control. It's like throwing gas on a fire.

Craig Patrick

I think we'll take our time. The doctors said he could be working out in as soon as three days, but we'll monitor it and see how he's doing when he gets back.

Diana Zuckerman

I think a lot of doctors have been slow to change.

Richard Carmona

As 17th U.S. Surgeon General, I was privileged to serve as the nation's doctor. I focused much of my time on promoting proven programs and individual steps that lead to good health.

Sarah Sutton

I often look at a lot of Doctor Who stuff that's about now, which no one has approached me about.

Alex Jones

And the Arabs are the biggest owners now of media in the United States, okay, and over stock exchanges. And in many major U.S. cities they’re the majority owners.

Chris Chambers

He's being a mediator on the sideline. That's more of what he is. That's what we needed down there. But he could probably go back upstairs now and everything would be the same.

Douglas Green

I already know that. I'll be talking to the police about that, not to the media.

William Safire

Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.

William J. Brennan

You in the media ought to be ashamed of yourselves to call the provisions and the guarantees of the Bill of Rights 'Technicalities'. They're not. We are what we are because of those guarantees.

William Gibson

I guess Twitter is the first thing that has been attractive to me as social media. I never felt the least draw to Facebook or MySpace. I've been involved anonymously in some tiny listservs, mainly in my ceaseless quest for random novelty, and sometimes while doing something that more closely resembles research.

Robert Scheer

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.

Saul Bellow

Open discussion of many major public questions has for some time now been taboo. We can't open our mouths without being denounced as racists, misogynists, supremacists, imperialists or fascists. As for the media, they stand ready to trash anyone so designated.

Sandra Day O'Connor

What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful.