Quotes of Surgeon - somelinesforyou

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

- G. K. Chesterton

“ The campaign kickoff was so dismal that it needed a plastic surgeon instead of a press agent to put a face on it. ”

- Jane Mayer

“ Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon. ”

- Dag Hammarskjold

“ Writing is a job. A drunk writer is about as useful as a drunk surgeon. You can spend the rest of the day swimming in booze, but the hours you write should be sober and with purpose. ”

- Steve Gilliard

“ I met the surgeon general - he offered me a cigarette. ”

- Rodney Dangerfield

“ A poor surgeon hurts 1 person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130. ”

- Ernest Boyer

“ On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned. ”

- Christiaan N. Barnard

“ Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon. ”

- Maya Angelou

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

- Ernest Boyer

“ A number of plastic surgeons are claiming that looking at John Kerry now, as opposed to a few months ago, they believe he's had Botox shots. They claim a number of his worry lines have vanished. They haven't vanished, just Howard Dean is wearing them now. ”

- Jay Leno

“ And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. ”

- Bible

“ 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

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

- Joan Rivers

“ Now comes the part where I relieve you, the little people, of the burden of your failed and useless lives. But remember, as my plastic surgeon always said: if you gotta go, go with a smile. ”

- Jack Nicholson

“ Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ Surgeons must be very careful. When they take the knife!, underneath their fine incisions, stirs the Culprit — Life! ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney? ”

- Eileen Aitkins

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

- Alan Pease

“ She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon. ”

- Groucho Marx

“ 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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