Scalpel Quotes
24 quotes by 23 authors
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In golf, driving is a game of free-swinging muscle control, while putting is something like performing eye surgery and using a bread knife for a…
— Tommy Bolt
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As soon as we touch the complex processes that go on in a living thing, be it plant or animal, we are at once forced…
— John Jacob Abel
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Doctrine is to be the balm of a healing experience of God, not a theological scalpel to wound and exclude people.
— Diana Butler Bass
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A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch,
— Michael Ondaatje
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I could teach an eighth-grader in twenty minutes how to brief a case. Yet for all three years in most law schools the casebook method…
— Gerry Spence
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It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel is a surgeon.
— Robert Hooke
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Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.
— Jay Samit
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The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful.
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser
— Michael Caine
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An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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Unfortunately, I have dedicated great effort to the task of compiling this ‘sensitive words glossary,’ and I have mastered my filtering skills. I knew which…
— Murong Xuecun
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Truth is to be used as a scalpel, not a club.
— Matt Chandler
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I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.
— Patricia Cornwell
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DOCTOR. Always preceded by 'The good'. Among men, in familiar conversation, 'Oh! balls, doctor!' Is a wizard when he enjoys your confidence, a jack-ass when…
— Gustave Flaubert
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At first I was queasy; I'll never forget the sound of the scalpel cutting a body open. But it was so cool trying to work…
— Jonathan Davis
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The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.
— Ed Koch
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It is astounding to me, and achingly sad, that with eighty thousand people on the waiting list for donated hearts and livers and kidneys, with…
— Mary Roach
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After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.
— Richard Matheson
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Time heals. No, it doesn't. At best, time is the great leveler, sweeping us all into coffins. We find ways to distract ourselves from the…
— Karen Marie Moning
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[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for excising…
— Stephen Batchelor
Who Wrote These Scalpel Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 24 Scalpel Quotes as follows: