Doctor Quotes

#1. When your parents are Middle Eastern immigrants, you have three choices. You can become a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer.

Michael Mina

#2. I think Jennifer Saunders would be great in 'Doctor Who.'

Matt Smith

#3. Before I got Doctor Who, I went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. I went back to take the final grade exam, which is the grade you have to take before you can take the teacher's diploma.

Sarah Sutton

#4. In 1962, I had an entry-level reporter's job at an Omaha television station. I had bargained to get a salary of $100 dollars a week because I didn't feel I could tell Meredith's doctor father I was making less.

Tom Brokaw

#5. I have negotiated with cannibals in foreign tongues and Arabian sea captains and French criminals. I have bartered with demons and angels! I am not about to let a country doctor take advantage of me.

Mark Beauregard

#6. The doctor's name was Sylvia. I told her she'd have a problem with me because Sylvia was my mother's name.

Paul Lynde

#7. What does a woman see in a woman that she can't see in a man?" Doctor Nolan paused. Then she said, "Tenderness." That shut me up.

Sylvia Plath

#8. It is very important to be reading as well as writing. A doctor is not going to ignore new surgery practices.

Brandon Sanderson

#9. My doctor told me that I drastically needed to lose weight. Fear of death and dying motivated meto make many lifestyle changes that led me to eventually shed over 100 pounds.

Kelly Price

#10. I was going to college to be a doctor.

Natalie Cole

#11. I used to get really sick. I would go to the doctor with all these ailments, and they would tell me I needed to be at home. I didn't even really understand what that meant because since I was a baby, I've always been moving, moving, and then touring.

Lykke Li

#12. To become a doctor, you spend so much time in the tunnels of preparation
head down, trying not to screw up, just going from one day to the next
that it is a shock to find yourself at the other end, with someone shaking your hand and offering you a job. But the day comes.

Atul Gawande

#13. I'm a doctor; we work in teams. I'm very committed to problem solving.

Raul Ruiz

#14. As a doctor, as a man of science, I can tell you there is no such thing as curses Everything just happens as a question of probability. The statistical likelihood of a specific event.

Andrew Schneider

#15. I told him Friday was a different religious occasion: Doctor Who. Hey, it's not my fault they don't have TiVo yet.

Libba Bray

#16. I love playing 'Radagast.' He's my new love, you know what I mean? I'm not divorcing 'Doctor Who.' I'm just going to be married to a few people.

Sylvester McCoy

#17. The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.

Denis Diderot

#18. Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks.

Mark Udall

#19. Nostalgia
that's the basic sickness, and I never heard of a doctor who can cure it.

Tim O'Brien

#20. Surely you couldn't be a good doctor and a terrible human being
surely the laws of man, if not God, didn't allow it.

Abraham Verghese

#21. Nurse: "Doctor, the man you just gave a clean bill of health to dropped dead right as he was leaving the office". Doctor: "Turn him around, make it look like he was walking in."

Henny Youngman

#22. Doctor Who has never pretended to be hard science fiction ... At best Doctor Who is a fairytale, with fairytale logic about this wonderful man in this big blue box who at the beginning of every story lands somewhere where there is a problem.

Neil Gaiman

#23. She hadn't seen a doctor cry before, they usually don't, that makes it
harder.
- Anita

Nilesh Sakpal

#24. Maybe I should find another doctor; one who realizes the importance of scars.

Rasmenia Massoud

#25. The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#26. The doctor gave me a relaxation cassette. When my blood pressure gets too high, the man on the tape tells me to say 'SERENITY NOW!' Are you supposed to yell it? The man on the tape wasn't specific. - Seinfeld

Charlie Hoehn

#27. I don't know what it's like for a book writer or a doctor or a teacher as they work to get established in their jobs, but for a singer, you've got to continue to grow or else you're just like last night's cornbread ... stale and dry.

Loretta Lynn

#28. The Doctor: Sorry, do you have a name?
Idris: Seven hundred years and finally he asks.
The Doctor: But what do I call you?
Idris: I think you call me ... Sexy?
The Doctor: [embarrassed] Only when we're alone.
Idris: We are alone.
The Doctor: Oh. Come on then, Sexy.

Neil Gaiman

#29. I had a bike accident a few years ago, and I went to the emergency room, and I had to have a gash sewn up. And I am the kind of person that I was sitting up fascinated, watching, to the extent that the doctor said, 'Do you want to do a couple of stitches? You seem to be very interested.'

Mary Roach

#30. I dread the day I leave [Doctor Who], because then I'll have to go back to writing bedrooms and offices and pubs. And maybe a field, if I'm lucky.

Russell T. Davies

#31. Freedom is the only real doctor of the sick slaves; and a good conscience, of the ill masters!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#32. When you walk into a doctor's office, you've got to have the same attitude you would about anything else. You've got to ask tough questions, and you've got to not be afraid to challenge their credentials.

Tom Brokaw

#33. I want to go to the next doctor's visit with you," I tell her.

"Okay."

"Don't get too excited about all of this. You'll wake up the baby," I say dryly.

Elle Kennedy

#34. As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.

Jack Kevorkian

#35. Hogwarts, it is not, thought the Doctor, realising that no one would appreciate this reference for almost a century.

Eoin Colfer

#36. On 'Love Actually,' I met Hugh Grant, who is a relative: our great-grandmothers were sisters. He'd call me cousin and ruffle my hair. And it was brilliant working with David Tennant on 'Doctor Who.'

Thomas Sangster

#37. Obama avoided the Vietnam draft with a letter from his family doctor diagnosing him as medically eight.

Stephen Colbert

#38. Your swoonin' needs work." his accent was back. "so does your alias," I snapped. "Dr.Smith? Seriously? Why not John Doe? And how is it that everybody around here seems to buy you're a doctor? you don't look enough to drink, let alone practice medicine

Erica O'Rourke

#39. I absolutely reject that idea that the press is liberal and what it does is liberal. In my view, it's like accusing a doctor of malpractice or a lawyer of malfeasance.

Ron Suskind

#40. The doctor didn't want me to play golf anymore and was worried about me fly-fishing. Golf is something I enjoy, but fly-fishing is a different thing: That's religion. Hunting is religion for me. I didn't want to give those up.

Tom Brokaw

#41. I'm probably going to deliver my baby in these [4-inch YSL heels] ... I went to the doctor yesterday and he said, 'You're gonna need to get out of those heels!'

Jessica Simpson

#42. Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.

Roald Dahl

#43. A vague uneasiness: the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.

Ugo Betti

#44. I grew up in a household where we didn't really talk about our feelings, and where the only reason you went to a doctor was because you'd accidentally cut off a limb with a chain saw.

Jodi Picoult

#45. Oh, I just tend to believe in things when I'm writing them. For instance, when I was writing 'Doctor Dee,' I believed in magic. And when I wrote 'Hawksmoor' I believed in psychic geography. But as soon as I type the last full stop, I'm back to being a complete blank again.

Peter Ackroyd

#46. Democracy means doing whatever you want without asking permission of anybody but your boss, your doctor, your lawyer, your landlord, your bank, your city, your state and federal authorities, and your wife and children.

Sam Levenson

#47. I don't know what a person does that does not have a relationship with God. When he goes to the doctor and the doctors says, 'Hey, you've got less than two months to live and there's nothing we can do for you.' Who do they turn to when you're given something that earth shattering?

Si Robertson

#48. The doctor said I should do a lot of walking, so I walk to the mound nine or ten times a game.

Cal Ripken, Sr.

#49. Exercise must become a regular part of your day or personal effectiveness system. Do not wait to start exercising because you want to lose weight or because the doctor has given you some scary update on your health. Exercise to keep fit and stay healthy. It's not too late to start now.

Archibald Marwizi

#50. Capability doesn't equal intent, Doctor. Do you want what she knows or not? Because if you keep looking at her like the caged lab rat, she'll keep looking at you like the evil bloody scientist with the big syringe.

Joel Shepherd

#51. The Doctor: You know how adults tell you everything's going to be fine, just to make you feel better?
Amelia: Yes.
Doctor: Well ... everything's going to be fine.

Steven Moffat

#52. And what I have said of soul-winners, belongs not to the learned doctor of divinity, or to the eloquent preacher alone, but to you all who are in Christ Jesus.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#53. I came out singing, the doctor slapped me on the head, and I started singing.

Keith David

#54. You might find it alarming to think that your doctor will not actually need to see you in person but might make a diagnosis based on the position of the stars, the colour and smell of your urine, and the taste of your blood.

Ian Mortimer

#55. I destroyed all my geek stuff because I didn't want to be a geek, and I regret it to this day. Consumed in the geek bonfire of the vanities was a collection of autographs and letters from Peter Cushing, Spike Milligan and Frankie Howerd, the first Doctor Whos, actual astronauts, and many more.

Peter Capaldi

#56. I was never a big networker, but I was a spin doctor, all those shock shows, that's how I got my first backers. But fashion's a scary industry to be in, especially if you've not grown up with it.

Alexander McQueen

#57. If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry; I will find you another who will not agree with him.

Michel De Montaigne

#58. For a moment he [Doctor Pascal] thought he could see, in a flash, the future of the Rougon-Macquart family, a pack of wild, satiated appetites in the midst of a blaze of gold and blood.

Emile Zola

#59. Remember, I'm a doctor's daughter. So obviously I'm interested in all medical things.

Nancy Reagan

#60. The doctor unfortunately said I was fit.

Alec Douglas-Home

#61. I went in for a checkup, and when my doctor had me stand on the scale, even he was surprised. Seeing that number (which I'll take to the grave) was a turning point. I knew I needed to make a change. I cut out white flour and starches and worked with my doctor and a nutritionist to develop a plan.

Adam Richman

#62. I don't even like the show that much, I mean, it's about doctors. It's not like doctors are as important as actors anyway, I bet I've saved more lives with my acting talent then any doctor has.

Zach Braff

#63. Matt Smith?" I said. "Really? You are not the Doctor, Bran. At your age, it is important to keep a lookout for excessive hubris.

Patricia Briggs

#64. I believe all children are - are blessings from God. And to allocate that rule to a doctor - to - to dispose of a life is uncomprehensible to me.

Nadya Suleman

#65. the doctor, "that if you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of

Robert Louis Stevenson

#66. When a doctor refuses money, even the most ethical ones, you usually start driving a good bargain with the undertaker.

Sue Sanders

#67. The patient suffers; the family threatens; the colleagues frown; the nurse laughs; Death grins; and the young doctor dances a crazy jig amid the tumult, though once he dreamed he would glide along the floor with Death in a perfectly controlled tango.

Bert Keizer

#68. What we have now is doctors who are actually better technically at what they're doing in their specialty than 30 or 40 years ago, but we lost the relationship, when the doctor would look people in the eye and say, 'I care about you. We can do this together.'

Mehmet Oz

#69. I've been known to watch porn from time to time."
"Just from time to time?" I ask.
She shrugs naughtily, a little I've-got-a-secret look in her eyes.
"It's okay. Tell the doctor. Masturbation is normal. Don't be ashamed.

Lauren Blakely

#70. The charges that I am anti-Semitic are simply erroneous, felonious, and unceremonious. In fact, when I need a doctor, I always look for one with a Jewish name.

Jesse Jackson

#71. Let me know if you're in any pain, we're going through your groin with a tiny tube up to your heart." Doctor Casey said.
"Really, that's how my girlfriend does it. Only she doesn't have to medicate me first.

Lori Lesko

#72. Most people are squeamish about saying how much they earn, but in medicine the situation seems especially fraught. Doctors aren't supposed to be in it for the money, and the more concerned a doctor seems to be about making money the more suspicious people become about the care being provided.

Atul Gawande

#73. If you have health insurance, then you don't have to do anything. If you've got health insurance through your employer, you can keep your health insurance, keep your choice of doctor, keep your plan.

Barack Obama

#74. I'm incredibly proud of 'Life On Mars' and 'Doctor Who.' They're just a blast to do.

John Simm

#75. He pointed to the board where the word 'alliteration' had been written in handwriting far better than mine, which on good days looks like it came from the hand of a blind doctor writing his own morphine scripts in an earthquake.

Robert Wilder

#76. The scar on my eye is a result of the doctor's sewing up my face. It was 450 stitches and plastic surgery.

Charlie Puth

#77. The doctor can X-Ray you and say, 'You got cancer.' And then you go home and God let me see, does Christ have cancer? If Christ don't, I don't have cancer. All I need to do is get a picture of what he looks like. Because, if I can see Him I become like Him.

Eddie Long

#78. When I got into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, a doctor told me to give up the course as I'd be totally deaf within a couple of years. But I refused to give in.

Stephanie Beacham

#79. A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.

Joseph Addison

#80. I asked my doctor how many more years I have left and he said, 'You're too ornery to die.'

Jimmy Piersall

#81. Why did I submit myself to the butchery of the trenches when I might have served in the echelons as a medical officer? Even the most rudimentary knowledge of Doctor Freud would suggest that I was pursuing a death wish

Trevanian

#82. You know what my doctor said about that book you've been reading? Give it to someone you hate.

Graeme Simsion

#83. An impish grin spread across the doctor's weathered face.

Marissa Meyer

#84. Time is generally the best doctor.

Ovid

#85. When 'Supernatural' came out, there were a lot of procedurals and you were either a doctor or a cop or lawyer, otherwise the show didn't stay on TV. And then we came around, and I don't want to say we were trailblazers, but we found our niche.

Jared Padalecki

#86. Think of it.' said Robert Rosenbluth, a doctor whose acquaintance i made at the start of this book. 'no engineer could design something as multifunctional and fine tuned as an anus. to call someone an asshole is really bragging him up.

Mary Roach

#87. I would like to see every gay doctor come out, every gay lawyer, every gay architect come out, stand up and let that world know. That would do more to end prejudice overnight than anybody would I urge them to do that, urge them to come out. Only that way will we start to achieve our rights.

Harvey Milk

#88. That's why every doctor on TV is a drug addict, a sociopath, or just plain mega-rude. Doctors can do anything they want!

Mindy Kaling

#89. For many people with HIV, finding the right doctor is the most important decision they'll make.

David Mixner

#90. I married a wonderful doctor, and I was very happy - period.

Claudette Colbert

#91. A man goes to the doctor for a check, and the doctor exams him and says I've got bad news, you've got cancer and alzheimers. The man goes Thank god I don't have cancer.

Gilbert Gottfried

#92. The moment this brilliant young producer Miss Verity Lambert started telling me about Doctor Who, I was hooked. I remember telling her, This is going to run for five years. And look what's happened!

William Hartnell

#93. My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

Orson Welles

#94. I want to be a child doctor. A pediatry ... how do you call it, pediatrician? Do I like kids? No, not really.

Adriana Lima

#95. My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night.

John Philpot Curran

#96. Don't let anyone, especially your doctor, tell you that A-Fib isn't that serious, or you should just learn to live with it. (Beat Your A-Fib, page 165)

Steve S. Ryan

#97. [Many people] are happy to follow the advice of their smartphones or to take whatever drug the doctor prescribes, but when they hear of upgraded superhumans, they say: 'I hope, I will be dead before that happens

Yuval Noah Harari

#98. My parents came to this country after World War II, Jews from Czechoslovakia who had survived Auschwitz and Dachau. They settled with my sister in rural Ohio in the 1950s, where my dad became the town doctor and I was born.

Julie Salamon

#99. If you think that you have caught a cold, call in a good doctor. Call in three good doctors and play bridge.

Robert Benchley

#100. The doctor frowned upon drinking and often expressed wonderment at men who willingly made imbeciles of themselves.

Rick Yancey