Famous Quotes & Sayings

Darrell Hammond

I ran into an extraordinary doctor. He got up inside my head and figured out how my brain processed things, what my core values were, what my inner dialogue was.

Darrell Hammond

Doctors didn't know what to do with me.

Dario Fo

Tidy fees are the most effective remedy, both for the doctor and the patient.

Debi Thomas

For as long as I can really remember, I wanted to be a doctor.

Anna Quindlen

There may perhaps be a new generation of doctors horrified by lacerations, infections, women who have douched with kitchen cleanser. What an irony it would be if fanatics continued to kill and yet it was the apathy and silence of the medical profession that most wounded the ability to provide what is, after all, a medical procedure.

Cindy Crawford

I am the doctor of our family, and I am a big fan of homeopathy.

Andrew Johnson

My right side is paralyzed. I need no doctor. I can overcome my own troubles.

Amy Ryan

There are so many choices I made simply for health insurance. Is it the ideal role I wanted to play, or the TV show I wanted to be a part of? No, but it let me afford to go to the doctor.

Anthony Burgess

Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to Nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees.

Andre Holland

People do come up to me quite a lot. I get called all of it. I rarely get called my name; it's usually "Hey, Dr. Edwards!" or "Algernon." The most common thing is, "You're the black doctor on that show!" I'll take any of it, because I've definitely been called much worse things.

Ann Richards

Doctors are our partners, and they need all the assistance we can give them to be sure we get the right diagnosis.

Aneurin Bevan

What should be the glory of the profession is that a doctor should be able to meet his patients with no financial anxiety.

Andrew Weil

It's rare - too rare, I have to say - for botanists to become doctors.

Chuck Grassley

The public relies on the advice of doctors and leading researchers. The public has a right to know about financial relationships between those doctors and the drug companies who make the pharmaceuticals prescribed by doctors.

Christopher Moore

The netherworld is timeless and unchanging, and boring -- much like a doctor's waiting room.

Alonzo Mourning

Once my doctor began treating my kidney disease, my greatest challenge was the constant exhaustion. Fortunately, my doctor explained that anemia was causing my exhaustion and that people with serious illnesses, like kidney disease, may be at increased risk for anemia.

Anne Sexton

If the doctors cure then the sun sees it. If the doctors kill then the earth hides it. The doctors should fear arrogance more than cardiac arrest.

Anna Deavere Smith

I am lucky: I have fantastic doctors and a fantastic dentist.

Andrew Taylor Still

To find health should be the object of the doctor. Any one can find disease.

Andrew Lansley

Look back to 1948 when the British Medical Association denounced Aneurin Bevan as 'a would-be Führer' for wanting them to join a National Health Service. And Bevan himself described the BMA as 'politically poisoned people'. A survey at the time showed only 10 per cent of doctors backed the plans ... But where would we be today if my predecessors had caved in?

Andre Leon Talley

Waiting in line for something mundane is very boring. Waiting for my doctor to see me and waiting for my dentist to see me, yes, that is boring.

Alice Rivlin

most economists, like doctors, are reluctant to make predictions, and those who make them are seldom accurate. The economy, like the human body, is a highly complex system whose workings are not thoroughly understood.

Ally Carter

Townsend shrugged. 'With all due respect to the good doctor, I highly suspect he's a moron,

We told the doctor not to sugarcoat it, and if our time was short we wanted to know it.

What you say may very well be true, but I would feel better hearing what the doctor has to say.

Eula Biss

One of the shortcomings of our medical system is that doctors have very little time with their patients.

Kiana Tom

I like when my man is worldly, knows the finer things in life, is well traveled, educated. It's important to me that he's able to talk to all types of people, from doctors to dishwashers.

Jane Smiley

Vets do what doctors used to - diagnose the injury or the condition, patch it up as best they can and remind you that these things happen and that in life we are also in the midst of death.

What we're doing is entertaining. It's like a medical show. When you go to the hospital you're not going to find that doctor you see on TV.

Ken Jeong

When I finished my residency in New Orleans, I went to L.A. where I would work as a doctor during the day, and then at night I would actually go to The Improv and do standup, all the while kind of cultivating my comedy resume.

Thomas Frank

Money has transformed every watchdog, every independent authority. Medical doctors are increasingly gulled by the lobbying of pharmaceutical salesmen.

The doctors who have examined me say I am healthy enough for a long life, so don't have any illusions that I'll soon leave this world.

Boris Pasternak

That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.