Perfume acts as an anesthetic. By the time she floats a…

I need the anesthetic qualities of the local fire water.

— Anthony Bourdain

Making a record is a lot like surgery without an anesthetic. You first have to cut yourself up the middle. Then you have to…

— Gerard Way

I want my whole life lined with a topical anesthetic.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I would not like to live in the past because you don't get anesthetic when you go to the dentist. You don't get antibiotics.…

— Woody Allen

If devils exist, their first aim is to give you an anesthetic -- to put you off your guard. Only if that fails, do…

— C. S. Lewis

Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?

— Ernest Hemingway

Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

— George Bernard Shaw

Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep.

— Norman Cousins

With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can…

— Saul Bellow

“Because there wasn’t anything else to do, he settled at the kitchen table with a bottle of mead and nearly emptied it. The anesthetic…

— Ann Gimpel

“She came and took away all his miseries, his sorrows !! Then SHe went and left him restlessly numb. He was her painkiller. SHe,…

— Self

“Dentists and surgeons frequently used nitrous oxide as an anesthetic. Travis”

— Dean Koontz

With plastic surgery, the general anesthetic is like a black-velvety sleep, and that's what death is - without waking up to someone clapping and…

— Joan Rivers

“For them, the last option was to have brain surgery, which involved removing parts of the skull and exposing the brain. (Since the brain…

— Michio Kaku

Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool

— Bellamy BrookS