Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Moore

The netherworld is timeless and unchanging, and boring -- much like a doctor's waiting room.

Alonzo Mourning

Once my doctor began treating my kidney disease, my greatest challenge was the constant exhaustion. Fortunately, my doctor explained that anemia was causing my exhaustion and that people with serious illnesses, like kidney disease, may be at increased risk for anemia.

Anne Sexton

If the doctors cure then the sun sees it. If the doctors kill then the earth hides it. The doctors should fear arrogance more than cardiac arrest.

Anna Deavere Smith

I am lucky: I have fantastic doctors and a fantastic dentist.

Andrew Taylor Still

To find health should be the object of the doctor. Any one can find disease.

Daniel Johns

So I went and visited a doctor and he diagnosed me with reactive arthritis.

Conor Oberst

We're all too busy working, entertaining ourselves With forty hours, television and prescription pills Well, I take two a day to help my brain behave It never does, but who's to say? At least my doctor gets paid.

Dan Buettner

A doctor may know more than a peasant, but a peasant and a doctor know more together.

David Foster Wallace

Everything gets horrible. Everything you see gets ugly. Lurid is the word. Doctor Garton said lurid, one time. That's the right word for it. And everything sounds harsh, spiny and harsh sounding, like every sound you hear all of a sudden has teeth. And smelling like I smell bad even after I just got out of the shower. It's like what's the point of washing if everything smells like I need another shower

David Lloyd George

The doctors are always changing their opinions. They always have some new fad.

Curt Schilling

It is all about rehab. Most doctors can make you 100 percent well physically. I would tell you that it is 25 percent about the surgery and 75 percent about the rehab.

Andrew Lansley

Look back to 1948 when the British Medical Association denounced Aneurin Bevan as 'a would-be Führer' for wanting them to join a National Health Service. And Bevan himself described the BMA as 'politically poisoned people'. A survey at the time showed only 10 per cent of doctors backed the plans ... But where would we be today if my predecessors had caved in?

Andre Leon Talley

Waiting in line for something mundane is very boring. Waiting for my doctor to see me and waiting for my dentist to see me, yes, that is boring.

Alice Rivlin

most economists, like doctors, are reluctant to make predictions, and those who make them are seldom accurate. The economy, like the human body, is a highly complex system whose workings are not thoroughly understood.

Albert Schweitzer

The doctor of the future will be oneself.

Albert Camus

Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering.

Albert Camus

After a short silence the doctor raised himself a little in his chair and asked if Tarrou had an idea of the path to follow for attaining peace. "Yes, he replied. "The path of sympathy.

Anna Quindlen

There may perhaps be a new generation of doctors horrified by lacerations, infections, women who have douched with kitchen cleanser. What an irony it would be if fanatics continued to kill and yet it was the apathy and silence of the medical profession that most wounded the ability to provide what is, after all, a medical procedure.

Cindy Crawford

I am the doctor of our family, and I am a big fan of homeopathy.

Andrew Johnson

My right side is paralyzed. I need no doctor. I can overcome my own troubles.

Amy Ryan

There are so many choices I made simply for health insurance. Is it the ideal role I wanted to play, or the TV show I wanted to be a part of? No, but it let me afford to go to the doctor.

Anthony Burgess

Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to Nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees.

Andre Holland

People do come up to me quite a lot. I get called all of it. I rarely get called my name; it's usually "Hey, Dr. Edwards!" or "Algernon." The most common thing is, "You're the black doctor on that show!" I'll take any of it, because I've definitely been called much worse things.

Ann Richards

Doctors are our partners, and they need all the assistance we can give them to be sure we get the right diagnosis.

Aneurin Bevan

What should be the glory of the profession is that a doctor should be able to meet his patients with no financial anxiety.

Robert Kiyosaki

If medical doctors can be sued for malpractice, shouldn't financial professionals practice under the same safeguard?

Robert Benchley

The English language may hold a more disagreeable combination of words than "The doctor will see you now." I am willing to concede something to the phrase "Have you anything to say before the current is turned on?" That may be worse for the moment, but it doesn't last so long. For continued, unmitigating depression, I know nothing to equal "The doctor will see you now." But I'm not narrow-minded about it. I'm willing to consider other possibilities.

Richard Dreyfuss

I said to my doctor, 'You gotta testme, there's something wrong with me that I would be behaving this way.'

Thornton Wilder

Doctors are mostly impostors. The older a doctor is and the more venerated he is, the more he must pretend to know everything. Of course, they grow worse with time. Always look for a doctor who is hated by the best doctors. Always seek out a bright young doctor before he comes down with nonsense.

Thomas More

It's a poor doctor who can't cure one disease without giving you another.

Thomas Sowell

Like other magicians, Obama has chosen his distractions well. The insurance industry is currently his favorite distraction as scapegoats, after he has tried to demonize doctors without much success . . . . Obama even gets away with saying things like having a system to 'keep insurance companies honest' - and many people may not see the painful irony in politicians trying to keep other people honest.

Robert Morley

A cough is a symptom, not a disease. Take it to your doctor and he can give you something serious to worry about.

Ricki Lake

Normal birth to me should not be numb from the waist down and waiting for the doctor to tell you to push. There's a reason we feel it. There's a reason we need to feel it.