Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Sam Ewing

"Tell me, doctor, " said the patient, "when I stand on my head, the blood rushes to it. Why doesn't it rush to my feet now?" "That's because your feet aren't empty," said the doctor.

Roger Zelazny

There are none of you, good doctors, could cope with my family anyway.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Good news!" she chirped. "The doctor says this time it's triplets!

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Just out of curiosity, sweetheart; did you ever talk to your doctor about givin' you some tranquilizers?

Suheir Hammad

I came from a traditional immigrant family where education meant there were only a few valid paths: doctor or lawyer - and I didnt want to be either one.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The old lady who said there must be a devil, else how could they make pictures that looked exactly like him, reasoned like a trained theologian - like a doctor of divinity.

Ronald Reagan

We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients.

Robert Jay Lifton

Sometimes its said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category.

Rodney Dangerfield

I drink too much, way too much; my doctor drew blood he ran a tab!

Rodney Dangerfield

When I was born the doctor took one look at my face, turned me over and said, "Look, twins!"

Rodney Dangerfield

What a doctor I've got - he's really mixed up. Last week, he grabbed my knee and told me to cough. Then hit me in the balls with a hammer.

Steve Harvey

I'm not a doctor. I just have a tremendous amount of common sense.

Susanna Kaysen

Disease [is] as one of our languages. Doctors understand what disease has to say about itself. It's up to the person with the disease to understand what the disease has to say to her.

Suzanne Collins

What? My head doctor says I'm not supposed to censor my thoughts. It's part of my therapy.

Stephen King

Don’t go beyond, no matter how much you feel you need to, Doctor. The barrier was not made to be broken. Remember this: there is more power here than you know. It is old and always restless. Remember.

Sophia Bush

People like to say, "Well, you're a celebrity. You should really pick a cause." I felt that's like telling a doctor, "Well, you should focus on one area of the body." Current issues, global issues, political issues, women's issues - whatever one you want to talk about. It's systemic, you know?

Steven Spielberg

The world would be a poorer place without Doctor Who.

Steven Hatfill

I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist.

Steve Martin

I've decided to take up smoking, my doctor said I wasn't getting enough tar.

Steve Martin

Somewhere in the world is...The world's worst doctor and he could be yours.

Spencer Johnson

I grew up in Hollywood, California. A lot of my parents' friends were in the motion picture industry, but I saw their doctor friends as more solid. I admired them; there was a peacefulness in them, a sense of purpose that I liked. So I became very interested in being a surgeon.

Sigmund Freud

The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.

Shirley MacLaine

I had a video made of my recent knee operation. The doctor said it was the best movie I ever starred in.

Kelly Price

My doctor told me that I drastically needed to lose weight. Fear of death and dying motivated meto make many lifestyle changes that led me to eventually shed over 100 pounds.

Keith David

I came out singing, the doctor slapped me on the head, and I started singing.

Temple Grandin

These diagnostic profiles like depression, ADHD, autism, dyslexia, it's half science and the other half is a committee of doctors bickering over what it should be, and it has changed. It's not precise like a diagnosis of tuberculosis would be very precise.

Tea Obreht

The dead are celebrated. The dead are loved. They give something to the living. Once you put something into the ground, Doctor, you always know where to find it.

Soren Kierkegaard

The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, 'Create silence'.

Stephenie Meyer

It was a strange combination to absorb - the everyday concerns of the town doctor stuck in the middle of a discussion of his early days in seventeenth-century London.

Stephen Colbert

Obama avoided the Vietnam draft with a letter from his family doctor diagnosing him as medically eight.