Surgeons Quotes · Page 3

Men sometimes seem more ready to accept women as brain surgeons than as athletes.

— Janice Kaplan

I wish I could do something else, I wish I was an amazing painter or a brain surgeon or something, but it's…

— Erol Alkan

I've been told by doctors and surgeons that I have the energy of ten men who have normal jobs.

— Gary Busey

It is above all man's social position that decides whether he will sublimate his sadism as a butcher, surgeon, or policeman.

— Wilhelm Reich

Just looking at all the faces here reminds me of some of the great work that was done this year . .…

— Ricky Gervais

Who was that fatman buried in your place? Just another imitator, plastic surgeons did his face.

— Loudon Wainwright III

For brain surgeons it's particularly difficult to deal with failure. It was fascinating to learn about that whole world.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

The same skills that I used as a welder, as a migrant farm worker, are similar skills that I'm using as a…

— Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

The surgery of the ancient Indian physicians was bold and skilful. A special branch of surgery was dedicated to rhinoplasty or operations…

— Howard W. Hunter

Don't tell me that [broken heartstrings] hurt less than a broken bone, that an ingrown life is something surgeons can cut away,…

— Shane Koyczan

I see myself at a certain age as not being able to play the kind of parts that would keep me stimulated,…

— Elisabeth Shue

My father, a surgeon and urologist, studied sex professionally all his life. Before he died at 82, he told me he hadn't…

— Katharine Hepburn

The surgeon general warned today that saliva causes stomach cancer. But apparently only when swallowed in small amounts over a long period…

— George Carlin

A grave aspect to a grave character is of much more consequence than the world is generally aware of; a barber may…

— Henry Fielding

I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship; and you do stop,…

— Anais Nin

Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts…

— Tom Peters

The American ideal is not that we all agree with each other, or even like each other, every minute of the day.…

— C. Everett Koop

“All surgeons fear an operation can go too far, to a point where they become irretrievably lost in aatomical bits and pieces.…

— Allan Hamilton

Puck stopped his drumming [on his belly] for a brief moment and grinned at Sabrina. I hear they have a lot of…

— Michael Buckley

Reports to the Surgeon General represent the final word upon the efficient and devoted sense of responsibility of our people in this…

— Herbert Hoover

What a waste of an education Rick Santorum is! ... Let's just pray that none of his home-schooled kids grow up to…

— Randi Rhodes

I've heard people say that the trouble with the world is that we haven't enough great leaders. I think we haven't enough…

— Babe Ruth

DURING THE PAST TWO TO THREE DECADES, we have acquired substantial evidence that most chronic diseases in America can be partially attributed…

— T. Colin Campbell

Today, women have access to the technological capacity to do anything to our bodies in the struggle for "beauty", but we have…

— Naomi Wolf

I really think the most important thing I do is to protect the dignity and the integrity of the Office of the…

— Richard Carmona

An osteopath is only a human engineer, who should understand all the laws governing his engine and thereby master disease.

— Andrew Taylor Still

You [men] are our protectors, is not true; for if you were, who would there be to protect us from?

— Mary Edwards Walker

The surgeon knows all the parts of the brain but he does not know his patient's dreams.

— Richard Selzer

How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons.

— Camille Paglia

Dura est manus cirurgi, sed sanans. The hand of the surgeon is hard, but healing.

— Walter Map

Surgeon General's warning ought to read: Smoking has been determined t0 cause cancer, heart disease & rednecks with seniority.

— Bill Hicks

We have great managers who havent spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that havent spent a day…

— Henry Mintzberg

The plastic surgeon's knife slashes at time, which may seem to retreat, but then keeps on coming.

— Mason Cooley

A woman went to a plastic surgeon and asked him to make her like Bo Derek. He gave her a lobotomy.

— Joan Rivers

I'd rather spend half an hour in the company of a top carpenter, than three hours in the company of an average…

— Winston Churchill

If you decide to become a veterinary surgeon you will never grow rich, but you will have a life of endless interest…

— James Herriot

U.S. surgeons operate on the wrong body part as often as 40 times a week.

— Marty Makary

Although surgeons know how to deal with bits of the brain, they don't really know how it works.

— James Nesbitt

Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the Culprit-Life!

— Emily Dickinson

Whatever you give, if you give it freely and without conditions it'll come back to you two fold.

— Victor Chang