Doctors Quotes · Page 29

Mr. Steven Bochco is a very wise man. After a many-monthed nationwide search to find a precocious teenage doctor, he hired me.

— Neil Patrick Harris

I wouldn't be boxing if I wasn't given the all-clear by the doctors, I wouldn't put my family or myself through that.

— Kell Brook

Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.

— George Bernard Shaw

Why is the AMA for 'Obamacare'? If this is going to hurt doctors, why are they for 'Obamacare'?

— Bill Maher

I used to jokingly say, "I don't teach art. I'm an art doctor." Students come to me and say, "My art's sick,"…

— John Baldessari

I auditioned for so many things - cops, lawyers, doctors and things but they were like, "She just seems too sweet. I…

— Christina Hendricks

Doctor I've wrestled with reality for 40 years and I'm happy to say that I've finally won out over it.

— Mary Chase

There are many other possibilities more enlightening than the struggle to become the local doctor's most affluent ulcer case.

— Nelson Rockefeller

Doctor, I'm taking your sister under my protection. If any thing happens to her, anything at all, I swear to you I…

— Joss Whedon

I was terrified when my doctor told me that I had a unique and interesting personality trait, but then he told me…

— Doug Stanhope

Of course, I should have done what doctors said and walked for miles every day and not eaten great amounts of butter.…

— Maeve Binchy

Because if I smashed anything, Team Jaiden would just get me into a behavior modification program, or maybe some doctor would put…

— Stefan Petrucha

There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist—it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an…

— Kara Walker

Medical costs are soaring because our health-care system is totally screwed up. Doctors and hospitals have every incentive to spend on unnecessary…

— Robert Reich

As a doctor, as well as a mother and a world citizen, I wish to practice the ultimate form of preventive medicine…

— Helen Caldicott

Millions of Americans today are taking dietary supplements, practicing yoga and integrating other natural therapies into their lives. These are all preventive…

— Andrew Weil

I think there's some evidence that when it comes to being a doctor or nurse, a police officer or therapist, that empathetic…

— Paul Bloom

Because of the war on drugs, pain patients are treated with skepticism and pain doctors live in fear of being prosecuted for…

— Maia Szalavitz

As a woman in sport media, you have to be smart. You use what you can to your advantage and make sure…

— Michelle Beadle

The birth control pill, to a great degree, made possible the (hetero)sexual revolution. Yet those who developed oral contraceptives did not intend…

— Beth Bailey

Most people don't like to be confronted with an actual fact-of-life because it's difficult to metabolize. A painting of a bowl of…

— Adamo Macri

The first [quality] to be named must always be the power of attention, of giving one's whole mind to the patient without…

— Wilfred Trotter

In February, the overcast sky isn’t gloomy so much as neutral and vague. It’s a significant factor in the common experience of…

— Charles Baxter

I cannot prevent anyone from getting angry, or mad, or frustrated. I can only hope that they'll turn that anger and frustration…

— Harvey Milk

In architecture, you arrive so late. I look at doctors, lawyers I know, and they're all buying boats and bailing out at…

— Thom Mayne

No doctor is going to do an abortion on a live fetus. That doesn't happen. Doctors don't do that. If they do,…

— Howard Dean

Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died…

— Anonymous

My fantasy is, if I wasnt on Dexter, I would move my family to London and work for the BBC on Doctor…

— Manny Coto

If you think that you have caught a cold, call in a good doctor. Call in three good doctors and play bridge.

— Robert Benchley

I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and…

— Norman Spinrad

As I laid in the hospital bed I started thinking that I had a show to do. I was hoping the Doctor…

— Ben Vereen

The principal villain in rising health care costs is the government. Not pharmaceutical companies, not doctors, but government.

— Neal Boortz

Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigger a reaction in their body.

— Irving Kirsch

A friend asked her doctor if a woman should have children after thirty-five. I said, "Thirty-five children is enough for any woman.

— Gracie Allen

The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.

— Alastair Campbell

I've discussed this with many doctors, and it is just so imperative that people learn how to properly cook food to get…

— Wolfgang Puck

I think it's a really sad situation when I have to lie to my doctor about what I need a medication for.

— Liz Miller

Mr. Doctor, that loose gown becomes you so well I wonder your notions should be so narrow.

— Elizabeth I

I think that a musician is like a doctor, he's supposed to heal people and make them feel better.

— Steve Turre

I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal.

— Jules Feiffer