Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Johnson

I didn't realize the full impact of the injuries until the doctor showed me the X-rays,

J. D. Salinger

But doctors talk about cells as if they had such unlimited importance all by themselves. As if they didn't really belong to the person that has them." Teddy brushed back his hair from his forehead with one hand. "I grew my own body," he said. "Nobody else did it for me. So if I grew it, I must have known how to grow it. Unconsciously, at least. I may have lost the conscious knowledge of how to grow it sometime in the last few hundred thousand years, but the knowledge is still there, because—obviously—I've used it.

It means people will have greater choice, ... If we didn't have that, there would be 475 fewer doctors they'd be able to see.

It was pretty scary at first I doubted I'd be back but the doctors told me right away that it would heal up if I worked at it.

It tells me my doctor did a good job.

Pete Carroll

It went really well. The doctors made a point that it was something that they had to do.

It was just what the doctor ordered for the trails.

It's like taking a group of teachers and telling doctors how to practice. And yet it seems to me that it's fairly standard practice that everyone seems to be able to tell teachers what to teach.

It's going to be a long, long, dragged-out process. The doctors can't tell if she's ever going to be the same.

It's been over 10 years, and (the doctors) are 4,000 miles away, so I said what the heck.

It's like a cure-all for veterinarians. It's like the doctor telling us to take two aspirin.

Jonah Lomu

Towards the end of 2003 it was hard to get through training - and the darkest point was when a doctor told me there was a possibility I could end up in a wheelchair

Paracelsus

The universities do not teach all things ... so a doctor must seek out old wives, gypsies, sorcerers, wandering tribes, old robbers, and such outlaws and take lessons from them. A doctor must be a traveller . . . Knowledge is experience.

Mary Daly

Few gynecologists recommend to their heterosexual patients the most foolpoof of solutions, namely, misterectomy.

Prince Charles

It is frightening how dependent on drugs we are all becoming and how easy it is for doctors to prescribe them as the universal panacea for our ills.

Pierre Bayle

Do you doubt that the least effects of nature were not used as marks of the wrath of heaven? It was to the interest of pontiffs, priests, and augurs, as much as it is to the interest of lawyers and doctors that there should be lawsuits and sickness. No wonder they took care that the people should not grow slack in their religion.

Mike Ferguson

America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken.

Elizabeth Gilbert

A lot of [erotica] was really interestingly disguised in the 19th-century as medical journals. So it would be in the voice of a learned doctor talking about somebody's pathologies. And then it would get really detailed. And then it would get really sweaty. And then you're like, "This isn't a doctor! I would like to see a degree, Mister!"

Elisabeth Sladen

I love radio, and I haven't done it - other than the actual 'Doctor Who' - for so long now. It takes a different kind of discipline and a different kind of enjoyment, really.

Elaine Stritch

I don't have to go to a doctor and have my face changed. It terrifies me that women do that.

Lionel Tiger

Our ancestors were eating meat over 2.5 million years ago. We mainly ate meat, fish, fruits, vegetables and nuts. We have to assume our physiology evolved in association with this diet. The balanced diet for our species was what we could acquire then, not what the government and doctors tell us to eat now.

Linus Pauling

I hear from patients who say their doctor said, 'If you want to take Vitamin C, go ahead and do it. It won't harm you, and it may do you some good.' More and more physicians are getting convinced about the value of large doses of Vitamin C.

Lindsay Wagner

If I was not an actress, I would be a homeopathic doctor.

Phil Bredesen

Good access to a doctor and a drugstore when you first have a problem can avoid a lot of cost and heartache later.

Peter Rogers

Why are infectious disease doctors the best ones to date? They are the most cultured and sensitive.

Peter Capaldi

I haven't played Doctor Who since I was 9 on the playground.

Peter Capaldi

'Doctor Who' belongs to all of us. Everybody makes 'Doctor Who.'

Phyllis Bottome

Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.

Phyllis Diller

The doctor looked my body over. I said: Is there any hope? He said: Yes. Reincarnation.

Haruki Murakami

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

Josh Holloway

I wanted to do everything. I wanted to be a pilot. I wanted to be a secret agent. I wanted to be a fireman and a doctor, all that. So I related that through movies and stuff.

Joshua Ferris

A dentist is only half the doctor he claims to be,