Surgeons Quotes

“All heart surgeons are bastards, and Conway is no exception.”

— Michael Crichton

I'd make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list.

— Kristen Wiig

The only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons.

— David Hockney

I was going to go to school to become a neurological surgeon.

— Angel Haze

Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.

— Dolly Parton

The best prescription is knowledge.

— C. Everett Koop

A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

— Ernest L. Boyer

Like a surgeon, friends cut you in order to heal you.

— Timothy Keller

You'll feel a tingling in your chest," says a surgeon. "It's nothing to worry about.

— Neal Shusterman

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

— Anonymous

Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.

— E. B. White

Brain surgeons earn 10 times that of a general practitioner... it pays to be an expert.

— Allan Pease

Editing might be a bloody trade. But knives aren't the exclusive property of butchers. Surgeons use them too.

— Blake Morrison

Surgeons always underestimate the pain and disability involved in what they do to people.

— Robert Winston

I can 100 percent tell you that I have not gone under the surgeon's knife or had a facelift.

— Shane Warne

Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.

— Paul Simon

At 10, I was intrigued by surgery, I wanted to be a surgeon for a long time. I love doctor shows and…

— Jessica Biel

Heart surgeons do not have the world's smallest egos: when you ask them to name the world's three leading practitioners, they never…

— Sara Paretsky

I write humor the way a surgeon operates, because it is a livelihood, because I have a great urge to do it,…

— James Thurber

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

It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to…

— Ivan Pavlov

You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you…

— Benjamin Carson

If you build a career on being a beautiful young woman, that's going to be a short career. I have to establish…

— Amanda Donohoe

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

— John Barrasso

It is the assumption of this book that there is a typical human nature. It is the aim of this book to…

— Matt Ridley

My own son has a congenital heart condition, where his life was saved by a cardiac surgeon stepping in at 11 days…

— Atul Gawande

There was a time when the women of Afghanistan - at least in Kabul - were out there. They were allowed to…

— Arundhati Roy

A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is…

— W. H. Auden

Let the surgeon take care to regulate the whole regimen of the patient's life for joy and happiness by promising that he…

— Henri de Mondeville

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

— Benjamin Carson

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

Prayer works in the mind as a healing force. It calms the patient, enlightens the physician, guides the surgeon, and it often…

— Wilferd Peterson

Greed plays a role in causing unnecessary surgery, although I don't think the economic motive alone is enough to explain it. There's…

— Robert S. Mendelsohn

Ralston didn't care. He turned on his brother as the surgeon knelt next to him and inspected the wound. "She could have…

— Sarah MacLean

Assume that a surgeon has discovered how to do brain surgery, that he can do only one a month, that 1,000 persons…

— Leonard Read

“There is a saying about surgeons, meant as a reproof: "Sometimes wrong; never in doubt." But this seemed to me their strength.…

— Atul Gawande

“Modern cosmetic surgeons have a direct financial interest in a social role for women that requires them to feel ugly. They do…

— Naomi Wolf

Not only weight loss surgery is unnecessary but also it deprives human being a normal life. People after surgery would never be…

— Subodh Gupta

One night my son was downstairs studying, and he had been up so late all that week, and my husband said, "I…

— Marva Collins