Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Minchin

It is absolutely outrageous that a spin doctor for Labor's NBN Co is being paid $450,000 per annum by Australian taxpayers to promote a company that generates no revenue, has no customers and provides no services to anybody

Nick Offerman

Once you have a PhD, every meeting you go to becomes a doctor's appointment.

Nawal El Saadawi

You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.

Muhammad Ali

I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer, anything but a fighter. In this trade, it's the managers that make the money and last the longest.

Maeve Binchy

Of course, I should have done what doctors said and walked for miles every day and not eaten great amounts of butter. But then, life is life, and if we all did what they said we should do, it would be a different world.

Liya Kebede

Midwives and doctors play a crucial role preventing unnecessary maternal deaths. They educate women about nutrition, health and family planning. And they step in when complications arise.

Michael Crichton

Without question, the notion of the doctor as a legitimate fee-for-service entrepreneur, making his fortune from misfortunes of his patients, is old-fashioned, distasteful, and doomed.

Michel de Montaigne

No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.

Michel de Montaigne

The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.

Mark Twain

God cures and the doctor sends the bill.

Marianne Faithfull

I do take care of myself; I get my nails done, and I have a skin doctor, but that's it. I'm clean and groomed.

Nicholas Haslam

MY DOCTOR phoned and said you don't deserve this news, but your lungs are crystal clear'.

Ned Vizzini

Yes, Doctor. I'll do what you say. I'll do what you all say.

Publilius Syrus

An intemperate patient makes a harsh doctor.

Nelson Mandela

The wounds that cannot be seen are more painful than those that can be treated by a doctor.

Kingsley Amis

How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.

Patch Adams

I am a Doctor, but above all else I consider myself an activist for peace, justice and care for all people.

Patch Adams

The purpose of a doctor or any human in general should not be to simply delay the death of the patient, but to increase the person's quality of life.

Larry the Cable Guy

I saw a sign one time that said 'hemorrhoids awareness week' at the doctor's office. Let me tell you, if you got hemorrhoids, I'm sure you are aware of it. You don't need a sign to tell anybody about it.

Pablo Picasso

Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters.

Patsy Cline

You might say it was my return to the living that launched me as a singer. I was placed in an oxygen tent, and the doctors brought me back to life.

Ivan Illich

The medicalization of early diagnosis not only hampers and discourages preventative health-care but it also trains the patient-to-be to function in the meantime as an acolyte to his doctor. He learns to depend on the physician in sickness and in health. He turns into a life-long patient.

Irvin D. Yalom

Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms. The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by this dynamic. One's own fear and sense of limitation is avoided by enlarging oneself and one's sphere of control. There is some evidence, for example, that those who enter the death-related professions (soldiers, doctors, priests, and morticians) may in part be motivated by a need to obtain control over death anxiety.

Ina May Gaskin

When you destroy midwives, you also destroy a body of knowledge that is shared by women, that can’t be put together by a bunch of surgeons or a bunch of male obstetricians, because physiologically, birth doesn’t happen the same way around surgeons, medically trained doctors, as it does around sympathetic women.

Nancy Mitford

English doctors have killed 3/4 of my friends & the joke is the remaining 1/4 go on recommending them, so odd is human nature.

Keira Knightley

My doctor was like, 'Any questions?' And I was like, 'Yes! When can I drink please?!' I just want a margarita.

Julian Assange

We have a way of dealing with information that has sort of personal - personally identifying information in it. But there are legitimate secrets - you know, your records with your doctor; that's a legitimate secret. But we deal with whistleblowers that are coming forward that are really sort of well motivated.

Keith Richards

I don't trust doctors. It's not to say there ain't some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn't trust 'em at all.

Kim Harrison

if I’d been hit with the same thing as Glenn, I probably had his doctor. The thought seemed about right when Glenn shrank back in his chair with a guilty expression. The tomato, too, was in hiding somewhere. I didn’t want to know where. I truly didn’t.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Most people don't have the advantage of being able to evaluate their doctor in advance.

Shane Koyczan

A question like “do you love me?” was an itch our doctors told us not to scratch.

Michael Weatherly

My wife, Bojana, is a doctor; we both work intense hours and have months when we barely see each other. It isnt easy, but we realize nobody said it was supposed to be!

Michael Pollan

Better to pay the grocer than the doctor.