Surgeons Quotes · Page 5

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— William Nicholson

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

— Richard Carmona

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 I for my opinion bleed, opinion shall be surgeon to my hurt, and keep me on the side where still I…

— William Shakespeare

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

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

— Malcolm McDowell

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

My dad, who is a heart surgeon, works with many adult patients who did not take good care of their bodies in…

— Daphne Oz

the 'finely polished word' of Hans Fritzsche was as effective as the surgeon's knife in cutting through the putrefying tissue of lies…

— Hans Fritzsche

Men grow when inspired by a high purpose, when contemplating vast horizons. The sacrifice of oneself is not very difficult for one…

— Alexis Carrel

It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out that if you stop or curtail stop-and-frisk, or if cops are reluctant to…

— Raymond Kelly

Every eye is an eye, when you're doing the surgery there that is just as important as if you were doing eye…

— Fred Hollows

“Perhaps Court was just an ignorant Scot, but he preferred two things in his surgeons: that they be sober, and that they…

— Kresley Cole

It's funny when people ask an actor what they want to play next, because you don't get to decide what you play.…

— Dylan Walsh

As a young surgeon in training at the University of California San Francisco General Hospital in the early '80s, my colleagues and…

— Richard Carmona

I want to be the surgeon who cuts you open Who fixes all of life's mistakes I want to be the house…

— Conor Oberst

I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician.…

— Jacques Pepin

In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The surgeon general is responsible for sharing scientifically-based information with the public so that they can improve their health. But I will…

— Vivek Murthy

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

There cannot always be fresh fields of conquest by the knife; there must be portions of the human frame that will ever…

— John Eric Erichsen

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

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

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

— Frank Miller

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

— Magdi Yacoub

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

— Vivek Murthy

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

— David Ives

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

— Ken Kercheval

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

— Astley Cooper

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

— Alan King

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

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

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

— Robert Hooke