Surgeons Quotes · Page 4

The tools used by the surgeons must be adapted to the task and where the human brain is concerned they cannot be…

— Lars Leksell

If you lay a hand on me I'll ram your testicles so far up inside your abdomen it'll take a heart surgeon…

— Orson Scott Card

Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.

— Malcolm McDowell

When I'm walking around, I'm usually drinking pop, so I can't have a mask on. That's why I couldn't be a surgeon.

— Chuck Klosterman

I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the…

— Nicolas Chamfort

Surgeon general's job is to protect, promote and advance the health, safety and security of the nation.

— Richard Carmona

[Librarians] study their field with as much determination and as much delight as open-heart surgeons.

— Maya Angelou

It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel…

— Robert Hooke

Some people's brilliance is in their head. A surgeon's brilliance is in her hands. But there are people who have brilliant hearts.…

— Gennifer Choldenko

Tell the image makers and magazine sellers and the plastic surgeons that you are not afraid. That what you fear the most…

— Marion Woodman

For people who dont know me, I practiced medicine in Casper, Wyoming for 25 years as an orthopedic surgeon, taking care of…

— John Barrasso

Our priests and presidents, our surgeons and lawyers, our educators and newscasters need worry less about satisfying the demands of their discipline…

— Neil Postman

People say you shouldn't have plastic surgery because if God wanted you another way he would have made you that way, but…

— Dolly Parton

The only other scenario that could explain everything, up to and including your own bizarre apperance, is a convoluted conspiracy theory involving…

— Eoin Colfer

Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such…

— Honore de Balzac

The concept of need is often looked upon rather unfavorably by economists, in contrast with the concept of demand. Both, however, have…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those…

— Wilfred Trotter

A pair of dolphins swept by us in the water, flicking their heads out to get a look at us as they…

— Jim Butcher

A Russian cosmonaut and a Russian brain surgeon were once discussing Christianity. The brain surgeon was a Christian, but the cosmonaut wasn’t.…

— Jostein Gaarder

If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but…

— George Bernard Shaw

You need a human story to intersect those points of interest with real stakes on the line, and then things start to…

— Jon Spaihts

One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of them. On…

— Benjamin Carson

In fact,I believe the reason why the Chinese failed to develop botany and zoology is that the Chinese scholar cannot stare coldly…

— Lin Yutang

A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever.

— William Nicholson

My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn't let him cut my nails.

— Alan King

It is the surgeon’s duty to tranquillize the temper, to beget cheerfulness, and to impart confidence of recovery.

— Astley Cooper

An incompetent teacher is even worse than an incompetent surgeon because a surgeon can only cut up one person at a time.

— Ernest L. Boyer

I really admire police officers, surgeons, or anyone who works in high stressed situations.

— Yasmin Paige

You don't... get it, boy... This isn't a mudhole... it's an operating table. And I'm the surgeon.

— Frank Miller

I don't think it takes a brain surgeon to understand how to read a story.

— Uma Thurman

I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's…

— Norman Mailer

My dad was a doctor and surgeon. He was the fifth generation of his family to become a doctor.

— Ken Kercheval

I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments.

— Joseph Murray

The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.

— William Stewart Halsted

I wanted to be a brain surgeon, but I had a bad habit of dropping things.

— Gilbert Gottfried

My dad was a surgeon in Egypt. He was a general surgeon. As a little boy I always admired what he was…

— Magdi Yacoub

All reviews should carry a Surgeon General's warning. The good ones turn your head, the bad ones break your heart.

— David Ives

A lot of people have misconceptions about what the surgeon general does.

— Vivek Murthy

A good surgeon doesn't just concentrate on technical ability, but also on the appropriateness of what you're doing.

— Benjamin Carson