Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Wittman

Thousand of Virginia's are losing their coverage, facing skyrocketing insurance premiums and losing their doctors under Obamacare. Employers across the Commonwealth say that the law is preventing or slowing down hiring and growth.

Rob Sheffield

It's kind of amazing how popular 'Grey's Anatomy' is. What other show can boast such an annoyingly sincere cast of doctors, sniveling through such perfunctory love triangles?

Rob Zombie

I don't really have a fear of doctors, in the sense that they're going to do something bad to me. I don't have a fear of them eating me, or a fear of needles, or anything like that. I have a fear that I'm feeling completely fine, everything's good, and then when I go there, he's going to tell me something horrible.

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.

Thomas Sowell

Like other magicians, Obama has chosen his distractions well. The insurance industry is currently his favorite distraction as scapegoats, after he has tried to demonize doctors without much success . . . . Obama even gets away with saying things like having a system to 'keep insurance companies honest' - and many people may not see the painful irony in politicians trying to keep other people honest.

Robert Morley

A cough is a symptom, not a disease. Take it to your doctor and he can give you something serious to worry about.

Ricki Lake

Normal birth to me should not be numb from the waist down and waiting for the doctor to tell you to push. There's a reason we feel it. There's a reason we need to feel it.

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.

Roberta Flack

I have been on diets that were supervised by doctors, that were carefully supervised where I lost weight.

I've got to go. That's one of the penalties of being a doctor. I never seem to finish a conversation.

Sarah Sutton

I often look at a lot of Doctor Who stuff that's about now, which no one has approached me about.

Sarah Sutton

There are generations who watch Doctor Who together.

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.

Winston Churchill

The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.

William S. Burroughs

Many doctors are drawn to this profession (psychology) because they have an innate deficiency of insight into the motives, feelings and thoughts of others, a deficiency they hope to remedy by ingesting masses of data.

William Kristol

The most devastating indictment of the president's proposal is that it threatens to destroy virtually everything about American health care that's worth preserving. Under the plan's layers of regulation and oversight, even seeing a doctor whenever you like will be no easy matter: access to physicians will be carefully regulated by gatekeepers; referrals to specialists will be strongly discouraged; second opinions will be almost unheard of; and the availability of new drugs will be limited.

Will Rogers

Personally, I have always felt that the best doctor in the world is the Veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter...he's just got to know.

W. C. Fields

When doctors and undertakers meet, they wink at each other.

W. C. Fields

Dentists, lawyers, doctors are all a bunch of thieving bastards.

Zach Braff

The biggest problem I had with starring in Scrubs were the black doctors. I just had to keep telling myself this show was satire.

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.

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.

Kelly Price

My doctor told me that I drastically needed to lose weight. Fear of death and dying motivated meto make many lifestyle changes that led me to eventually shed over 100 pounds.

Keith David

I came out singing, the doctor slapped me on the head, and I started singing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our reliance on the physician is a kind of despair of ourselves.

Temple Grandin

These diagnostic profiles like depression, ADHD, autism, dyslexia, it's half science and the other half is a committee of doctors bickering over what it should be, and it has changed. It's not precise like a diagnosis of tuberculosis would be very precise.

Ronald Reagan

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