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.

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.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.

JoAnn Manson

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

Amy Johnson

The point is to be OK with your stuttering - and meet adults who stutter who are doctors and lawyers and engineers.

Amanda Fuller

I always wanted my work to speak for itself, and have opportunities to do interesting work and not just puff pieces.

Busy Philipps

I love little Peter Pan collars and little puff sleeves.

Annie Dillard

Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff.

Douglas Adams

Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

Billy Sunday

One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake.

Puff Daddy

It feels like I could go outside with a bikini thong on right now.

Oliver Goldsmith

Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish grown callous, almost to displease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.

Louis Menand

The short story is not as restrictive as the sonnet, but, of all the literary forms, it is possibly the most single-minded. ...at the end there has to be the literary equivalent of the magician's puff of smoke, an outcome that is both startling and anticipated.

Hod Lipson

Basically, any material you can squeeze, melt or generate into a powder, you can print.

Peter Stuyvesant

Powder and provisions failing, and no relief or reinforcement being expected, we were necessitated to come to terms with the enemy.

George Orwell

The object of powder is powder.

Michael Rigas

I've got the powder on my doorstep, now what do I do with it?

Linda Murphy

I just sprinkle shrimp with curry powder and sugar and broil them. Yum,