Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcel Proust

Facts do not find their way into the world in which our beliefs reside; they did not produce our beliefs, they do not destroy them; they may inflict on them the most constant refutations without weakening them, and an avalanche of afflictions or ailments succeeding one another without interruption in a family will not make it doubt the goodness of its God or the talent of its doctor.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

The state has been living on a revenue which was being produced in the private sphere for private purposes and had to be deflected from these purposes by political force. The theory that construes taxes on the analogy of club dues or of the purchase of the services of, say, a doctor only proves how far removed this part of the social sciences is from scientific habits of mind.

Jose Carreras

The happiest moment in my life? When my doctor told me I was completely cured of leukaemia.

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

Edward Albee

I am a Doctor. A.B... M.A... PH.D... ABMAPHID! Abmaphid has been variously described as a wasting disease of the frontal lobes, and as a wonder drug. It is actually both.

John Harvey Kellogg

Disease is cured by the body itself, not by doctors or remedies.

John Ensign

Medical liability reform is not a Republican or Democrat issue or even a doctor versus lawyer issue. It is a patient issue.

John Oliver

I don't know if there is some psychological thing of wanting to know where your doctor got his degree from before he comes into the medical room.

Joe Haldeman

Doctors don’t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop.

Joan Rivers

You know you've reached middle age when you're cautioned to slow down by your doctor, instead of by the police.

Jimmy Fallon

One of the candidates at the early GOP debate, George Pataki, said his routine before every debate is to drink a diet lemon Snapple iced tea and pray. Which is also the advice Chris Christie gets from his doctor.

Garry Trudeau

Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?

Joan Didion

When you lose someone, a whole lot of perfectly normal circumstances suddenly take on different meaning. You see it in a different light. You wonder if they knew. I wondered. Doctors have told me that people do have a sense of their own approaching death.

Eric Topol

The digitization of human beings will make a parody out of doctor knows best.

Eric Davis

I ate while I was taking chemo. The doctors didn't know. I really didn't get any nausea. I didn't have side effects. I would be drained for a day and a half.

John McPhee

The doctor listens in with a stethoscope and hears sounds of a warpath Indian drum.

John McCain

Did you hear the one about the woman who is attacked on the street by a gorilla, beaten senseless, raped repeatedly, and left to die? When she finally regains consciousness and tries to speak, her doctor leans over to hear her sigh contently and to feebly ask, 'Where is that marvelous ape?'

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.

Joseph Murray

I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments.

Justin Bieber

Whenever I'm sick, my doctor jokes that I have Beiber Fever!

Freida Pinto

When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else.

Oliver Sacks

There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients.

Novalis

Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.

Joshua Ferris

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

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.

Jonathan Safran Foer

For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time.

Norman Spinrad

I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English.

Mary Daly

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

Simon Pegg

Doctor Who was a big part of my childhood so it was a great honour to be in it.