Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frederick Wiseman

Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts.

Eoin Colfer

Certainly, Doctor. Let's talk about your chair. Victorian?

Eoin Colfer

I am perhaps unusual in that I came to 'Doctor Who' through the numerous novelisations and not through the television show.

Ginny Brown-Waite

Part of the redesign of FEMA is that they have so many people on standby, whether it is a retired nurse or a doctor who will take time off to go exactly where they are needed.

Felipe Alou

He's still in the hands of the trainers and doctors. When we're given the green light, we'll stick him in there.

Rick DiPietro

I don't know. I'm going to go see a doctor (Sunday).

Bill Johnson

I didn't realize the full impact of the injuries until the doctor showed me the X-rays,

J. D. Salinger

But doctors talk about cells as if they had such unlimited importance all by themselves. As if they didn't really belong to the person that has them." Teddy brushed back his hair from his forehead with one hand. "I grew my own body," he said. "Nobody else did it for me. So if I grew it, I must have known how to grow it. Unconsciously, at least. I may have lost the conscious knowledge of how to grow it sometime in the last few hundred thousand years, but the knowledge is still there, because—obviously—I've used it.

Isabel Wilkerson

There were colored and white waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor's offices to the bus stations, as people may already know. But there were actually colored windows at the post office in, for example, Pensacola, Florida. And there were white and colored telephone booths in Oklahoma. And there were separate windows where white people and black people would go to get their license plates in Indianola, Mississippi. And there were even separate tellers to make your deposits at the First National Bank in Atlanta.

Isabel Wilkerson

Anything that could be conceived of that would separate black people from white people was devised and codified by someone in some state in the South. There were colored and White waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor's offices to the bus stations, as people may already know.

Jack Kevorkian

My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life.

Jack Kevorkian

In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients' ease but at the same time they do harm instead by prolonging and even magnifying patients' dis-ease.

Martin Henderson

Most people start eating healthy after the doctor says they have a problem. That's just human nature.

My first reaction to the doctor was I'm going to throw up. I couldn't even stomach it.

Daniel Tammet

My first memory - at about four - was of numbers. The doctors who study me think a combination of mild autism and seizures I had when I was three have made me experience numbers the way I do.

One doctor said to me, 'The more people pray for you, the more energy is put out somewhere,' ... And he said, 'I'm a doctor telling you this: It works.'

One of doctors is very conversant in Japanese. He will be working to help them if there are any problems.

I think they should have known and explained more to the doctors and everyone.

Jeff is a valuable player and we?re glad to have him back. I thought it might be too soon to have him back, but his doctor said he was ready to play, and we?re happy to have him.

Some of these doctors have been in practice 20 to 30 years, ... And then there's even some questions, if it's a new technology, can they even learn it comfortably?

That doctor needs to go back to school.

Julie Gerberding

My own mother called me this week because her doctor told her that the vaccine was not available,

My mouth bled, I can no longer use my arm. I have to see a doctor because my two hands are numb.

Charles Smith

NAEP is like going to the doctor for a second opinion. There's some encouraging news in this, but we recognize that we have a long way to go in the nation and in states.

Bill Engvall

I told my wife I'm afraid to go back to the doctor because I'm afraid they're going to look at you and say: 'ma'am, just sell him for parts. It's like that old car that as soon as you fix one thing, something else goes out on it.

Bill Cosby

I can't even talk the way these people talk. 'Why you ain't?' 'Where you is?' Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth.

Carrie Fisher

I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like.

Bill Vaughan

It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.

Bertrand Russell

My doctor said to me afterwards, 'When you were ill you behaved like a true philosopher. Every time you came to yourself you made a joke.' I never had a compliment that pleased me more.

Ned Yost

That was just what the doctor ordered. He was as sharp as he can be. He really pitched great.

I was physically and mentally tired on Friday but with the help of the doctor and masseur I felt fine this morning,

Sharon Jones

I was onstage one night and was singing. I hit one note, and I just doubled over. It was like being punched hard in the back. I couldn't put my back up on the plane seat because of the pain. I got massages, thinking it was muscle spasms. The doctor told me at the time that it was my pancreas. I didn't even know.

John Hughes

I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw Doctor Zhivago every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.