Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Vinod Khosla

By 2025, 80 percent of the functions doctors do will be done much better and much more cheaply by machines and machine learned algorithms,

Sam Ewing

"Tell me, doctor, " said the patient, "when I stand on my head, the blood rushes to it. Why doesn't it rush to my feet now?" "That's because your feet aren't empty," said the doctor.

Roger Zelazny

There are none of you, good doctors, could cope with my family anyway.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Good news!" she chirped. "The doctor says this time it's triplets!

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Just out of curiosity, sweetheart; did you ever talk to your doctor about givin' you some tranquilizers?

Suheir Hammad

I came from a traditional immigrant family where education meant there were only a few valid paths: doctor or lawyer - and I didnt want to be either one.

Simon Callow

When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it.

Natalie Portman

I've wanted to be an astronaut, a doctor, a vet - these are things I've said in interviews. Before that, I wanted to be a mermaid and a fairy

Tony Bennett

I'd like to have every gentleman and lady in this room commit themselves to get our government to legalize drugs, so they have to get it through a doctor, not just some gangsters who sell it under the table. Let's legalize drugs like they did in Amsterdam. No one's hiding or sneaking around corners to get it. They go to a doctor to get it.

Tom Riley

The thing about Doctor Who is it's chased around the world, so there's 50 fans hanging out at every location,

Sinead O'Connor

I was getting a lot of pressure from people in show business about my being overweight because of medication, I was on 200 mg of amitriptiline. When I said this to my doctor, for some reason she took me completely off medication and she didn't really supervise properly.

Simone Weil

The world needs saints who have genius, just as a plague-stricken town needs doctors.

Simon Pegg

Doctor Who was a big part of my childhood so it was a great honour to be in it.

Simon Hughes

Clinching the [County] Championship is a strange sensation... There's more atmosphere in a doctor's waiting room

Steven Spielberg

The world would be a poorer place without Doctor Who.

Steven Hatfill

I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist.

Steve Martin

I've decided to take up smoking, my doctor said I wasn't getting enough tar.

Steve Martin

Somewhere in the world is...The world's worst doctor and he could be yours.

Spencer Johnson

I grew up in Hollywood, California. A lot of my parents' friends were in the motion picture industry, but I saw their doctor friends as more solid. I admired them; there was a peacefulness in them, a sense of purpose that I liked. So I became very interested in being a surgeon.

Sigmund Freud

The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.

Shirley MacLaine

I had a video made of my recent knee operation. The doctor said it was the best movie I ever starred in.

Steven Wright

My doctor told me I shouldn't work out until I'm in better shape. I told him, 'All right; don't send me a bill until I pay you.'

Red Buttons

The Puerto Rican doctor, who wrote all his prescriptions with spray paint. Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

Dolly Parton, who said to her doctor, Are you sure it's a chest cold? Never got a dinner!

Tommy Cooper

Doctor, I can't pronounce my F's, T's and H's.” “Well you can't say fairer than that then

Thomas Bernhard

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

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.