Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sinead O'Connor

I was getting a lot of pressure from people in show business about my being overweight because of medication, I was on 200 mg of amitriptiline. When I said this to my doctor, for some reason she took me completely off medication and she didn't really supervise properly.

Simone Weil

The world needs saints who have genius, just as a plague-stricken town needs doctors.

Simon Pegg

Doctor Who was a big part of my childhood so it was a great honour to be in it.

Simon Hughes

Clinching the [County] Championship is a strange sensation... There's more atmosphere in a doctor's waiting room

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our reliance on the physician is a kind of despair of ourselves.

Phil Bredesen

Good access to a doctor and a drugstore when you first have a problem can avoid a lot of cost and heartache later.

Peter Rogers

Why are infectious disease doctors the best ones to date? They are the most cultured and sensitive.

Peter Capaldi

I haven't played Doctor Who since I was 9 on the playground.

Peter Capaldi

'Doctor Who' belongs to all of us. Everybody makes 'Doctor Who.'

Phyllis Bottome

Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.

Phyllis Diller

The doctor looked my body over. I said: Is there any hope? He said: Yes. Reincarnation.

Phyllis Diller

My doctor is a family physician. He treats my family and I support his.

Henry Rollins

If I were a doctor, I would prescribe that you addict yourself deeply and irrevocably to music and never, ever seek cure outside of more music. It really is the best drug available.

Helmut Schmidt

People who have visions should go see a doctor.

Manny Coto

I would wait in line for anything to do with Doctor Who.

Mordecai Richler

I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to any of you. You overrated bunch of charlatans deal with the grammar of human problems, and the writers I've mentioned with the essence.

Mike Mason

There is no trick of a magician or spell of a witch doctor, no drug or mesmerism or bribery or torture or coercion that can compare in power with the force for change unleashed in the human breast through the touch of love.

Marcel Proust

A doctor who doesn't say too many foolish things is a patient half-cured.

Marcel Proust

Facts do not find their way into the world in which our beliefs reside; they did not produce our beliefs, they do not destroy them; they may inflict on them the most constant refutations without weakening them, and an avalanche of afflictions or ailments succeeding one another without interruption in a family will not make it doubt the goodness of its God or the talent of its doctor.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

The state has been living on a revenue which was being produced in the private sphere for private purposes and had to be deflected from these purposes by political force. The theory that construes taxes on the analogy of club dues or of the purchase of the services of, say, a doctor only proves how far removed this part of the social sciences is from scientific habits of mind.

Jose Carreras

The happiest moment in my life? When my doctor told me I was completely cured of leukaemia.

Luise Rainer

The secret of a long life is to never trust a doctor.

Simon Callow

When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it.

Natalie Portman

I've wanted to be an astronaut, a doctor, a vet - these are things I've said in interviews. Before that, I wanted to be a mermaid and a fairy

Jonah Lomu

Towards the end of 2003 it was hard to get through training - and the darkest point was when a doctor told me there was a possibility I could end up in a wheelchair

Josh Holloway

I wanted to do everything. I wanted to be a pilot. I wanted to be a secret agent. I wanted to be a fireman and a doctor, all that. So I related that through movies and stuff.

Peter Singer

Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the slippery slope: once we allow doctors to kill patients, we will not be able to limit the killing to those who want to die.

Prince Charles

It is frightening how dependent on drugs we are all becoming and how easy it is for doctors to prescribe them as the universal panacea for our ills.

Pierre Bayle

Do you doubt that the least effects of nature were not used as marks of the wrath of heaven? It was to the interest of pontiffs, priests, and augurs, as much as it is to the interest of lawyers and doctors that there should be lawsuits and sickness. No wonder they took care that the people should not grow slack in their religion.

Mike Ferguson

America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken.

Paracelsus

The universities do not teach all things ... so a doctor must seek out old wives, gypsies, sorcerers, wandering tribes, old robbers, and such outlaws and take lessons from them. A doctor must be a traveller . . . Knowledge is experience.

Mary Daly

Few gynecologists recommend to their heterosexual patients the most foolpoof of solutions, namely, misterectomy.

Joan Didion

When you lose someone, a whole lot of perfectly normal circumstances suddenly take on different meaning. You see it in a different light. You wonder if they knew. I wondered. Doctors have told me that people do have a sense of their own approaching death.