Famous Quotes & Sayings

Randy Pausch

My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'

Aeschylus

Bonds and the pangs of hunger are excellent prophet doctors for the wits.

Aeschylus

Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?

Agatha Christie

Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.

Aleister Crowley

The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.

Giovanni Trapattoni

We'll see how he feels, I'll talk with him and the doctors and then we'll decide.

Dylan Moran

It should not be an act of social disobedience to light a cigarette. Unless you're actually a doctor working at an incubator.

Albert Schweitzer

The doctor of the future will be oneself.

Albert Camus

Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering.

Albert Camus

After a short silence the doctor raised himself a little in his chair and asked if Tarrou had an idea of the path to follow for attaining peace. "Yes, he replied. "The path of sympathy.

Daniel Johns

So I went and visited a doctor and he diagnosed me with reactive arthritis.

Conor Oberst

We're all too busy working, entertaining ourselves With forty hours, television and prescription pills Well, I take two a day to help my brain behave It never does, but who's to say? At least my doctor gets paid.

Dan Buettner

A doctor may know more than a peasant, but a peasant and a doctor know more together.

David Foster Wallace

Everything gets horrible. Everything you see gets ugly. Lurid is the word. Doctor Garton said lurid, one time. That's the right word for it. And everything sounds harsh, spiny and harsh sounding, like every sound you hear all of a sudden has teeth. And smelling like I smell bad even after I just got out of the shower. It's like what's the point of washing if everything smells like I need another shower

Curt Schilling

It is all about rehab. Most doctors can make you 100 percent well physically. I would tell you that it is 25 percent about the surgery and 75 percent about the rehab.

Cybill Shepherd

And if doctor says that you don't have IBS with constipation, you might want to get a second opinion, because I had doctors that were telling me... of course, a lot of this has to do with science - progressing.

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.

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.

Daniel Baldwin

I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.

Claudette Colbert

I married a wonderful doctor, and I was very happy - period.

Colin Baker

I was well aware of the fact that once you appeared in Doctor Who as something else, you were ruled out for the part of the Doctor: that was a kind of well known thing in the business.

Colin Baker

It was lovely to do The Knock because I haven't done anything really significant since Doctor Who.

Colin Firth

One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age - at the age of 38 in fact - he changed course and decided to become a doctor.

Dan Quayle

Lookit, I've done it their way this far and now it's my turn. I'm my own handler. Any questions? Ask me ... There's not going to be any more handler stories because I'm the handler ... I'm Doctor Spin.

Conan O'Brien

Pamela Anderson Lee released a statement confirming that she has had her breast implants removed. Doctors say that Pamela is doing fine and that her old implants are now dating Charlie Sheen.