Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Minchin

It is absolutely outrageous that a spin doctor for Labor's NBN Co is being paid $450,000 per annum by Australian taxpayers to promote a company that generates no revenue, has no customers and provides no services to anybody

Nick Offerman

Once you have a PhD, every meeting you go to becomes a doctor's appointment.

Nawal El Saadawi

You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.

Muhammad Ali

I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer, anything but a fighter. In this trade, it's the managers that make the money and last the longest.

Marianne Faithfull

I do take care of myself; I get my nails done, and I have a skin doctor, but that's it. I'm clean and groomed.

Ivan Illich

The medicalization of early diagnosis not only hampers and discourages preventative health-care but it also trains the patient-to-be to function in the meantime as an acolyte to his doctor. He learns to depend on the physician in sickness and in health. He turns into a life-long patient.

Irvin D. Yalom

Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms. The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by this dynamic. One's own fear and sense of limitation is avoided by enlarging oneself and one's sphere of control. There is some evidence, for example, that those who enter the death-related professions (soldiers, doctors, priests, and morticians) may in part be motivated by a need to obtain control over death anxiety.

Ina May Gaskin

When you destroy midwives, you also destroy a body of knowledge that is shared by women, that can’t be put together by a bunch of surgeons or a bunch of male obstetricians, because physiologically, birth doesn’t happen the same way around surgeons, medically trained doctors, as it does around sympathetic women.

H. L. Mencken

A tin horn politician with the manner of a rural corn doctor and the mien of a ham actor

Paul Broun

One such troubling provision is a tax increase to pay for the $635 billion included in the budget for health care 'reserve funds.' Health care reform is desperately needed in America, but I'm concerned that $635 billion will be a down payment on socialized medicine, causing the impersonal rationing of health care and destroying the doctor-patient relationship.

Martha Beck

People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.

Margery Allingham

Good doctors get a mechanic's pleasure in making you tick over.

Paul Auster

Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you're not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.

Julia Roberts

Your face tells a story and it shouldn't be a story about your drive to the doctor's office.

Publilius Syrus

An intemperate patient makes a harsh doctor.

Nelson Mandela

The wounds that cannot be seen are more painful than those that can be treated by a doctor.

Nellie Bly

I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them of my sanity, the more they doubted it

R. Lee Ermey

I go the VA Hospital when I have a problem and the doctor jumps on me.

George Hamilton

I'm my own doctor. I have a group of people who call me up on a weekly basis. I'm a 'doctor' without a license.

Jean de la Bruyere

The doctors allow one to die, the charlatans kill.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.

Moliere

There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!

Milton Berle

Now that doctors have stopped making house calls, lots of patients now have to die without their help.

Nancy Mitford

English doctors have killed 3/4 of my friends & the joke is the remaining 1/4 go on recommending them, so odd is human nature.

Keira Knightley

My doctor was like, 'Any questions?' And I was like, 'Yes! When can I drink please?!' I just want a margarita.

Julian Assange

We have a way of dealing with information that has sort of personal - personally identifying information in it. But there are legitimate secrets - you know, your records with your doctor; that's a legitimate secret. But we deal with whistleblowers that are coming forward that are really sort of well motivated.

Keith Richards

I don't trust doctors. It's not to say there ain't some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn't trust 'em at all.

Kim Harrison

if I’d been hit with the same thing as Glenn, I probably had his doctor. The thought seemed about right when Glenn shrank back in his chair with a guilty expression. The tomato, too, was in hiding somewhere. I didn’t want to know where. I truly didn’t.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Most people don't have the advantage of being able to evaluate their doctor in advance.

Kingsley Amis

How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.

Howard Dean

No doctor is going to do an abortion on a live fetus. That doesn't happen. Doctors don't do that. If they do, they'll get their license pulled, as well they should.

Jay London

I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?

Jay Leno

Dean's wife, Judith Steinberg, made a rare appearance with Dean. She's a doctor, so I guess they brought her in to stop the hemorrhaging.