Famous Quotes & Sayings

Josh Holloway

I wanted to do everything. I wanted to be a pilot. I wanted to be a secret agent. I wanted to be a fireman and a doctor, all that. So I related that through movies and stuff.

Joshua Ferris

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

Freida Pinto

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

Frank Lautenberg

So the effect of this Republican provision to allow doctors to be gagged from even discussing abortion with their patients is outrageous.

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!

Jules Feiffer

I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal.

Josh Billings

It is not much trouble to doctor sick folks, but to doctor healthy ones is troublesome.

Karl Kraus

One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.

Haruki Murakami

Tell me, Doctor, are you afraid of death?" "I guess it depends on how you die.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

John Barrasso

I don't want anybody between a doctor and a patient - not an insurance company bureaucrat or a Washington bureaucrat.

Luise Rainer

The secret of a long life is to never trust a doctor.

Matt Smith

When I started Doctor Who Steven Moffat said, "That's it for the rest of your life." I'll be Doctor to a whole generation when they're 50.

Matt Smith

The storytelling in 'Doctor Who' is quite universal.

Matt Smith

At university I had a big coloured scarf and people would often say, 'All right, Doctor Who?' And, I thought, I rather liked that notion.

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.

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

Richard Dawkins

The patient typically finds himself impelled by some deep, inner conviction that something is true, or right, or virtuous: a conviction that doesn't seem to owe anything to evidence or reason, but which, nevertheless, he feels as totally compelling and convincing. We doctors refer to such a belief as 'faith'.

Reshma Shetty

Everybody in my family are doctors.

Reshma Shetty

My parents are amazing, but when I was like, 'Well, I'm going to be an actress,' and they're all doctors, that wasn't the best and easiest thing to do. I'm sure that I probably went through a year period when I wasn't telling them exactly what I was doing. But that's going to evolve.

Ronda Rousey

I had a certificate that said, 'Doctor of Mixology, Harvard University,' that I actually got from Harvard University. A friend of mine was a research assistant over there and it was one of those student or university perks and she brought me in on that. So I am a doctorate from Harvard and it only took me one afternoon.

Umberto Eco

A mystic is a hysteric who has met her confessor before her doctor.

Umberto Eco

The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers.

Paracelsus

The universities do not teach all things ... so a doctor must seek out old wives, gypsies, sorcerers, wandering tribes, old robbers, and such outlaws and take lessons from them. A doctor must be a traveller . . . Knowledge is experience.

Mary Daly

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

Peter Singer

Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the slippery slope: once we allow doctors to kill patients, we will not be able to limit the killing to those who want to die.

Prince Charles

It is frightening how dependent on drugs we are all becoming and how easy it is for doctors to prescribe them as the universal panacea for our ills.

Pierre Bayle

Do you doubt that the least effects of nature were not used as marks of the wrath of heaven? It was to the interest of pontiffs, priests, and augurs, as much as it is to the interest of lawyers and doctors that there should be lawsuits and sickness. No wonder they took care that the people should not grow slack in their religion.

Mike Ferguson

America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken.

Robert Benchley

The English language may hold a more disagreeable combination of words than "The doctor will see you now." I am willing to concede something to the phrase "Have you anything to say before the current is turned on?" That may be worse for the moment, but it doesn't last so long. For continued, unmitigating depression, I know nothing to equal "The doctor will see you now." But I'm not narrow-minded about it. I'm willing to consider other possibilities.

Richard Dreyfuss

I said to my doctor, 'You gotta testme, there's something wrong with me that I would be behaving this way.'

Thornton Wilder

Doctors are mostly impostors. The older a doctor is and the more venerated he is, the more he must pretend to know everything. Of course, they grow worse with time. Always look for a doctor who is hated by the best doctors. Always seek out a bright young doctor before he comes down with nonsense.