Denton Cooley Quotes

#1. The sun sees your body, the moon sees your soul.

Anonymous

#2. You're mad," he said in a low voice, "if you think I would leave you now. I'll see you safe and well no matter what it takes.

Lisa Kleypas

#3. The man who inspired me most, I think, was Dr. Alfred Blalock, who was professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins. He was a rather simple man with a burning curiosity. It was through his curiosity that he made many real contributions to medical science.

Denton Cooley

#4. Get a scalpel, and practice just, say, cutting a piece of meat or something like that. You sort of learn how you want to hold your fingers, and that sort of thing, and try to become graceful when you operate.

Denton Cooley

#5. The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human dignity - these are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.

Aga Khan IV

#6. Part of my job is to help other kids find books, because not everyone has a keenly organized mind. Some kids could wander the library for hours and still have no idea how to find anything. For them, the Dewey Decimal System might as well be advanced calculus.

Neal Shusterman

#7. I still take failure very seriously, but I've found that the only way I could overcome the feeling is to keep on working, and trying to benefit from failures or disappointments. There are always some lessons to be learned. So I keep on working.

Denton Cooley

#8. People don't have to be beautiful any more. We don't have any Audrey Hepburns, Rita Hayworths or Ava Gardeners. When you look at Al Pacino and the greatest actors in Hollywood they're all common-looking.

Omar Sharif

#9. Medical scientists are nice people, but you should not let them treat you.

August Bier

#10. Publishers were ever eager for authors to do their own publicity because nobody else was willing to do it for nothing. But then it became clear that if you want somebody to champion the story, there's nobody better than the person who made it all up.

Dave Morris

#11. A successful surgeon should be a man who, when asked to name the three best surgeons in the world, would have difficulty deciding on the other two.

Denton Cooley

#12. The spirit of Texas seems to pervade our everyday existence. Our desire is to be superlative, not only the largest, but also the best in the United States.

Denton Cooley

#13. I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

James Baldwin

#14. I've always felt that I did well as a student because I lacked confidence.

Denton Cooley

#15. I find I'm luckier when I work harder.

Denton Cooley

#16. I think work is a privilege ... It keeps you alive, spiritually.

Denton Cooley