Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isiah Thomas

If there's any player that should feel safe and secure right now about his heart, it's Eddy. He's probably been tested and seen more doctors about his heart than any player in the NBA.

Richard Selzer

If people understood that doctors weren't divine, perhaps the odor of malpractice might diminish.

If you explain to a patient what can be done and what might be the downsides, let the patient choose; don't have ethicists, priests, or doctors say you may or may not have replacement cells.

J. D. Salinger

But doctors talk about cells as if they had such unlimited importance all by themselves. As if they didn't really belong to the person that has them." Teddy brushed back his hair from his forehead with one hand. "I grew my own body," he said. "Nobody else did it for me. So if I grew it, I must have known how to grow it. Unconsciously, at least. I may have lost the conscious knowledge of how to grow it sometime in the last few hundred thousand years, but the knowledge is still there, because—obviously—I've used it.

Isabel Wilkerson

There were colored and white waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor's offices to the bus stations, as people may already know. But there were actually colored windows at the post office in, for example, Pensacola, Florida. And there were white and colored telephone booths in Oklahoma. And there were separate windows where white people and black people would go to get their license plates in Indianola, Mississippi. And there were even separate tellers to make your deposits at the First National Bank in Atlanta.

Isabel Wilkerson

Anything that could be conceived of that would separate black people from white people was devised and codified by someone in some state in the South. There were colored and White waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor's offices to the bus stations, as people may already know.

Jack Kevorkian

My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life.

Jack Kevorkian

In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients' ease but at the same time they do harm instead by prolonging and even magnifying patients' dis-ease.

Ginny Brown-Waite

Part of the redesign of FEMA is that they have so many people on standby, whether it is a retired nurse or a doctor who will take time off to go exactly where they are needed.

Felipe Alou

He's still in the hands of the trainers and doctors. When we're given the green light, we'll stick him in there.

Michael Vick

I'll be ready to play next week, the way it feels right now and what the doctors are telling me.

I'll talk with trainers, doctors, coaches, but I'm looking to play.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Astronomers do not commonly use Venereal, in favor of the less contagious-sounding Venutian. Blame the medical community, who snatched the word long before astronomers had any good use for it. I suppose you can't blame the doctors. Venus is the goddess of beauty and love, so she ought to be the goddess of its medical consequences.

Neil Gaiman

Idris: Are all people like this? The Doctor: Like what? Idris: So much bigger on the inside.

Neil Gaiman

Amy: This time can we... lose the bunk beds? The Doctor: No Bunk beds are cool, a bed with a ladder, you can't beat that!

Neil Gaiman

'Doctor Who' was the first mythology that I learned, before ever I ran into Greek or Roman or Egyptian mythologies.

John Steinbeck

What do I want in a doctor? Perhaps more than anything else-a friend with special knowledge.

John Simm

I'm incredibly proud of 'Life On Mars' and 'Doctor Who.' They're just a blast to do.

John Shirley

I do sometimes watch 'Dr. Who' and while the stories barely make sense, if at all, the doctor is such great company I don't care.

John Piper

Not going to God because your faith is weak is like not going to the doctor because you feel sick.

Nancy Grace

I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them.

Nan Hayworth

Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.

Seth MacFarlane

'The Brady Bunch' asks nothing of you as a viewer. Sometimes is just what the doctor ordered.

Seth MacFarlane

I distrust all television doctors.

Todd Solondz

Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances.

Sinead O'Connor

Unfortunately in my case, because of what I do for living, here in Ireland is very hard for me to find a doctor who can just deal with me as a person, that can get beyond Sinead O'Connor. I had to go to England to find a psychiatrist for my case.

Smokey Robinson

I've never been to rehab, I've never been to psychotherapy or the doctor or anything like that. I went to a church and I was prayed for, and I've always had a great relationship with God.

Michael Mina

When your parents are Middle Eastern immigrants, you have three choices. You can become a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer.

Michael Moore

The health insurance industry does not like to pay out claims, because they don't make money. The only way they can make a profit is if they don't pay for your operation. If they pay for your operation and your doctor's appointment and your pharmaceuticals, they don't make any money.

Terry McMillan

Sometimes I cheat and buy things I used to make from scratch and just doctor them up.

Margaret Halsey

people coming away from a session with Dr. S. usually looked as if they had had fifty minutes on the anvil with an apprentice blacksmith.

Kin Hubbard

There's another advantage to being poor - a doctor will cure you faster.

Henry Rollins

If I were a doctor, I would prescribe that you addict yourself deeply and irrevocably to music and never, ever seek cure outside of more music. It really is the best drug available.