Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Selzer

A minor operation is one that is done on someone else

Richard Francis Burton

When doctors differ who decides amid the milliard-headed throng?

Richard Lamm

America with 4% of the world's population has 50% of the worlds lawyers .... tort lawyers love to point out that 1% of America's health care cost is used to pay malpractice insurance ... but most doctors practice defensive medicine to avoid malpractice litigation ... these costs are not included in the 1% number above.

Richard Carmona

As 17th U.S. Surgeon General, I was privileged to serve as the nation's doctor. I focused much of my time on promoting proven programs and individual steps that lead to good health.

Ugo Betti

A vague uneasiness: the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.

Roger Ailes

My doctor told me that I'm old, fat, and ugly, but none of those things is going to kill me immediately.

Trent Reznor

My doctor says, 'You've got one of the hardest ones to treat because it's not bipolar, it's not up and down, you're always just about a quart low in the mood department,

Vince Flynn

My doctors warned me repeatedly that if you don't stay positive, you don't do well,

Robert Green Ingersoll

The old lady who said there must be a devil, else how could they make pictures that looked exactly like him, reasoned like a trained theologian - like a doctor of divinity.

Ronald Reagan

We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients.

Robert Jay Lifton

Sometimes its said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category.

Rodney Dangerfield

I drink too much, way too much; my doctor drew blood he ran a tab!

Rodney Dangerfield

When I was born the doctor took one look at my face, turned me over and said, "Look, twins!"

Rodney Dangerfield

What a doctor I've got - he's really mixed up. Last week, he grabbed my knee and told me to cough. Then hit me in the balls with a hammer.

Vincent Canby

Horror need not always be a long-fanged gentleman in evening clothes or a dismembered corpse or a doctor who keeps a brain in his gold fish bowl. It may be a warm sunny day, the innocence of girlhood and hints of unexplored sexuality that combine to produce a euphoria so intense it becomes transporting, a state beyond life or death. Such horror is unspeakable not because it is gruesome but because it remains outside the realm of things that can be easily defined or explained in conventional ways.

Warren Buffett

Ben's Mr. Market allegory may seem out-of-date in today's investment world, in which most professionals and academicians talk of efficient markets, dynamic hedging and betas. Their interest in such matters is understandable, since techniques shrouded in mystery clearly have value to the purveyor of investment advice. After all, what witch doctor has ever achieved fame and fortune by simply advising 'Take two aspirins'?

Samuel Barber

I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.

Ryan Reynolds

I finally had my prostate checked. And I was super-thankful that I taught my asshole to whistle before the doctor stuck his finger in there. The look on his face was priceless.

Rudolph Valentino

Well, doctor, and do I now act like a 'pink powder puff' ?

Wendy Liebman

Is there a doctor in the house? My parents want me to marry you.

Virginia Postrel

Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want.

Ty Cobb

When two doctors pass each other on the street they wink at each other.

Warren Zevon

Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence -- helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.

Stephen Colbert

Obama avoided the Vietnam draft with a letter from his family doctor diagnosing him as medically eight.

Sonia Sotomayor

What's quote-unquote a 'good' lawyer, doctor, or whatever the profession is. And if you're a male who grew up professionally in a male-dominated profession, then your image of what a good lawyer is a male image.

Thomas Friedman

No matter what your profession – doctor, lawyer, architect, accountant – if you are an American, you better be good at the touchy-feely service stuff, because anything that can be digitized can be outsourced to either the smartest or the cheapest producer.

Thomas Bernhard

What is ridiculous about human beings, Doctor,' the prince said, 'is actually their total incapacity to be ridiculous

Henry David Thoreau

The doctors are all agreed that I am suffering for want of society. Was never a case like it. First, I did not know that I was suffering at all. Secondly, as an Irishman might say, I had thought it was indigestion of the society I got.

Jean Sibelius

All the doctors who wanted to forbid me to smoke and to drink are dead,

Jennifer Lawrence

I wanted to be a doctor when I was little, so I'm okay with blood and guts.

Jennifer Lawrence

I just went to the doctor today, I got a chest X-ray of my lungs and discovered that my breasts are uneven.

Jermaine Jackson

Whether it's possible or not, being a doctor, you take an oath. To care for your patient, not to kill them. You take an oath to do things that are proper in the medical world. Not to administer something outside of a hospital setting that's not even your area.

Eoin Colfer

I am perhaps unusual in that I came to 'Doctor Who' through the numerous novelisations and not through the television show.