Doctor Orders Quotes

#1. Speaking of happy successes, after years of struggling to lose those few extra pounds every mother puts on during adoption, particularly when the doctor orders bed rest, in 2004 I sent my assistant to the Gap in dark glasses with a fake ID to purchase my first pair of Easy Fit jeans.

Paula Poundstone

#2. Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor's orders for a stomach pump ...

Zelda Fitzgerald

#3. I can't do anything to death, doctor's orders.

Woody Allen

#4. We live on a minute island of known things. Our undiminished wonder at the mystery which surrounds us is what makes us human. In science fiction we can approach that mystery, not in small, everyday symbols, but in bigger ones of space and time.

Damon Knight

#5. It's a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor's orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.

Wislawa Szymborska

#6. Following his doctor's orders, Nikita (Khrushchev) has cut his drinking in half. He's leaving out the water.

Bob Hope

#7. Situated in some nebulous distance I do what I do so that the universal balance of which I am a part may remain a balance.

Antonio Porchia

#8. I gotta quit smoking, doctor's orders, and the drinking, court orders.

Dave Attell

#9. Those who are content have enough; those that complain, have too much.

Benjamin Franklin

#10. I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.

Chuck Yeager

#11. I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

Joseph Conrad

#12. C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.

Dennis Ritchie

#13. Since you cannot control the weather, or the traffic,
or the one you love, or your neighbors, or your boss,
then you must learn to control you ...
the one whose response to the difficulties of life REALLY counts.

Jim Rohn

#14. No wild beasts are so cruel as the Christians in their dealings with each other

Ammianus Marcellinus

#15. He'd heard about Holly putting some magical whammy on him, bringing to life the legend of the Chosen that gave a vampire the power to exist on sexual energy rather than blood. Forced to have sex on a regular basis. Doctor's orders. Lucky bastard.

Sharon Ashwood

#16. I need some meaning I can memorize. The kind I have always seems to slip my mind.

Conor Oberst

#17. I got good notice from that show, and on the last day of filming Townies, Twentieth Century Fox called wanting to meet with me about a development deal.

Jenna Elfman

#18. [Love] ... that sick kind of wanting that rips at your soul while making you look like some kind of psycho to the rest of the world.

J.H. Trumble