Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sonia Sotomayor

What's quote-unquote a 'good' lawyer, doctor, or whatever the profession is. And if you're a male who grew up professionally in a male-dominated profession, then your image of what a good lawyer is a male image.

Thomas Friedman

No matter what your profession – doctor, lawyer, architect, accountant – if you are an American, you better be good at the touchy-feely service stuff, because anything that can be digitized can be outsourced to either the smartest or the cheapest producer.

Thomas Bernhard

What is ridiculous about human beings, Doctor,' the prince said, 'is actually their total incapacity to be ridiculous

Ronda Rousey

I had a certificate that said, 'Doctor of Mixology, Harvard University,' that I actually got from Harvard University. A friend of mine was a research assistant over there and it was one of those student or university perks and she brought me in on that. So I am a doctorate from Harvard and it only took me one afternoon.

Umberto Eco

A mystic is a hysteric who has met her confessor before her doctor.

Umberto Eco

The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers.

Trent Reznor

My doctor says, 'You've got one of the hardest ones to treat because it's not bipolar, it's not up and down, you're always just about a quart low in the mood department,

Vince Flynn

My doctors warned me repeatedly that if you don't stay positive, you don't do well,

Haruki Murakami

Tell me, Doctor, are you afraid of death?" "I guess it depends on how you die.

Karl Kraus

One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.

Ronald Reagan

Yes, the deficit doctors have their scalpels out all right, but they're not poised over the budget. That's as fat as ever and getting fatter. What they're ready to operate on is your wallet.

Will Rogers

Personally, I have always felt that the best doctor in the world is the Veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter...he's just got to know.

W. C. Fields

When doctors and undertakers meet, they wink at each other.

W. C. Fields

Dentists, lawyers, doctors are all a bunch of thieving bastards.

Zach Braff

The biggest problem I had with starring in Scrubs were the black doctors. I just had to keep telling myself this show was satire.

Vincent Canby

Horror need not always be a long-fanged gentleman in evening clothes or a dismembered corpse or a doctor who keeps a brain in his gold fish bowl. It may be a warm sunny day, the innocence of girlhood and hints of unexplored sexuality that combine to produce a euphoria so intense it becomes transporting, a state beyond life or death. Such horror is unspeakable not because it is gruesome but because it remains outside the realm of things that can be easily defined or explained in conventional ways.

Warren Buffett

Ben's Mr. Market allegory may seem out-of-date in today's investment world, in which most professionals and academicians talk of efficient markets, dynamic hedging and betas. Their interest in such matters is understandable, since techniques shrouded in mystery clearly have value to the purveyor of investment advice. After all, what witch doctor has ever achieved fame and fortune by simply advising 'Take two aspirins'?

Warren Zevon

Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence -- helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.

Winston Churchill

The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.

William S. Burroughs

Many doctors are drawn to this profession (psychology) because they have an innate deficiency of insight into the motives, feelings and thoughts of others, a deficiency they hope to remedy by ingesting masses of data.

William Kristol

The most devastating indictment of the president's proposal is that it threatens to destroy virtually everything about American health care that's worth preserving. Under the plan's layers of regulation and oversight, even seeing a doctor whenever you like will be no easy matter: access to physicians will be carefully regulated by gatekeepers; referrals to specialists will be strongly discouraged; second opinions will be almost unheard of; and the availability of new drugs will be limited.

Woody Allen

Some people are funny, and some people are not funny. Many people who are not funny can make a living at it. You don't have to be great to make a living at it. Just like a doctor who doesn't have to be great can still make a living out of it.

Woody Allen

I can't do anything to death, doctor's orders.

William J. Clinton

I have always believed that the decision to have an abortion generally should be between a woman, her doctor, her conscience, and her God.

William James

An enormous mass of experience, both of homeopathic doctors and their patients, is invoked in favor of the efficacy of these remedies and doses.

Samuel Barber

I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.

Ryan Reynolds

I finally had my prostate checked. And I was super-thankful that I taught my asshole to whistle before the doctor stuck his finger in there. The look on his face was priceless.

Rudolph Valentino

Well, doctor, and do I now act like a 'pink powder puff' ?

Wendy Liebman

Is there a doctor in the house? My parents want me to marry you.

Virginia Postrel

Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want.

Ty Cobb

When two doctors pass each other on the street they wink at each other.

Vinod Khosla

By 2025, 80 percent of the functions doctors do will be done much better and much more cheaply by machines and machine learned algorithms,

Roberta Flack

I have been on diets that were supervised by doctors, that were carefully supervised where I lost weight.