Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Cleave

Psychiatry in this place is like serving an in-flight meal in the middle of a plane crash. If I wanted to make you well, as a doctor, I should be giving you a parachute, not a cheese-and-pickle sandwich.

Dianne Feinstein

Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less.

David Agus

I want doctors to treat toward health and not treat toward disease,

David Mixner

For many people with HIV, finding the right doctor is the most important decision they'll make.

Dave Barry

Before going on a diet you should consult your doctor, or at least send him some money.

Dave Barry

It is a good idea to 'shop around' before you settle on a doctor. Ask about the condition of his Mercedes. Ask about the competence of his mechanic. Don't be shy! After all, you're paying for it.

David Tennant

I was always going to act, literally ever since I was tiny. In fact, I have Doctor Who to thank for that. I wanted to become an actor after being obsessed with Tom Baker, the fourth Doctor Who, in the 1970s. His was the definitive performance of all time in anything.

Catherine Deneuve

To wait, for an actor, is not like someone who's waiting to see the doctor. It's not the kind of wait where you get bored.

JoAnn Manson

The perception that these hormones protect the heart was so strong that many doctors were prescribing it to prevent heart disease.

Aubrey McClendon

Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.

Albert Einstein

If I had it [life] to do all over again, I'd have been a plumber.

Andy Rooney

Let's face it, though, anything that's apt to happen to an appliance like a blender isn't covered by the warranty anyway, so I never send them in. If it breaks, I'll buy a new one. That's the American way.

Kurt Vonnegut

It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries.

H. L. Mencken

The townspeople are morons, yokels, peasants and genus homo boobiensis...surrounded by gaping primates from the upland vallies.

Oscar Wilde

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

P. J. O'Rourke

We are a nation that worships speed and power. And for good reason. Without power we would still be part of England and everybody would be out of work... Bicycles are too slow and impuissant for a nation like ours. They belong in Czechoslovakia.

Lance Morrow

The jumbo jet is the airborne equivalent of the interstate highway...One might as well be stuffed into a cartridge and shot through a pneumatic tube, like interoffice mail.

Edward Teller

When Columbus took off, the purpose was to improve trade relations with China. That problem has not been solved to this very day, but just look at the by-products.

August Wilson

Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.

Benjamin Franklin

The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it.

Anton Chekhov

It is a poor thing for the writer to take on that which he doesn't understand.

Carol Vorderman

If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.

Andy Robinson

We were awful, we started poorly and never got in the game. At no stage did we put any pressure on the French.

Alan Kay

I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What have they done to you, my poor child?

Walter Mare

Too tired to yawn, too tired to sleep: / Poor tired Tim! It's sad for him.

E. Hicks

We've (shot) very poor percentages and come out with a win. We just need to play harder. We lacked physical, tough play for 40 minutes.