Neurosurgeon Quotes

#1. You don't want your neurosurgeon to have doubts about the meaning of it all while he or she is operating on your brain.

Aleksandar Hemon

#2. As a pediatric neurosurgeon, I frequently faced life and death situations, and had to come up with the right diagnosis, the right plan, and execute that plan frequently with other colleagues.

Benjamin Carson

#3. As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.

Eben Alexander

#4. Where did the boy genius go? He had been, as a child, expected to be a neurosurgeon, or a great novelist. And now he's considering (or, okay, refusing to consider) law school. Was the burden of his potential too much for him?

Michael Cunningham

#5. I had this fantasy of becoming a neurosurgeon. You know, the normal Jewish boy fantasy, but I wanted to be a neurosurgeon for some reason. So I started in this unpleasant way. I was an assistant to the coroner, opening up corpses, taking the innards out, opening skulls, taking the brains out.

Joseph Brodsky

#6. The neurosurgeon removed the right half of my skull. The swelling from the injury was so severe, it was causing enormous pressure on my brain, which if left uncontrolled would have killed me.

Amy Rankin

#7. I remember telling a neurosurgeon, "Don't give me too much information, because at the moment my ignorance is my best asset."

Christopher Reeve

#8. There are more important ways of earning a living, aren't there? Like being a neurosurgeon. But some plays are very important, aren't they?

Michael Gambon

#9. I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon.

Eben Alexander

#10. What had I expected of the first child? Everything. Rocket scientist. Neurosurgeon. Designated hitter. We talked wisely at cocktail parties about the sad mistake our mothers had made in pinning all their hopes and dreams on us. We were full of it.

Anna Quindlen

#11. I was talking to my dad, who's a neurosurgeon. He had this academic paper he wanted to publish. Journals take about 18 months to publish a paper, and he just wanted to get things up there.

Trip Adler

#12. I don't know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, it's always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon, sans anesthesia. As a memoirist, you have to crack your head open and examine every uncomfortable thing in there.

Koren Zailckas

#13. (Dr. Carson, being a neurosurgeon, probably favors a physiological and biochemical model of brain dysfunction over a Freudian model. This means he was a shoo-in for the presidential nomination if Republicans stayed on their meds. Which they didn't.)

P. J. O'Rourke

#14. Coarse necessities of physical existence drag him from the heights of thought into the mart of economic strife and gain.

Will Durant

#15. Want some help with help with that stick in your ass, love?"
"No. It's quite comfortable, thank you."
"It should be. It's been in there for years." Nix winked at Will. "I hope you'll forgive my wife. She's a bit antisocial."
"And water's a bit wet.

S.W. Vaughn

#16. I rode my bike to school every day from age five to age fourteen. It was a small town - you could go anywhere.

Rand Paul

#17. She had always believed that people who were nasty or unkind to others were only like that because there was something wrong in their lives, and that people who had something wrong in their lives were not to be despised or hated, but were to be pitied. So

Alexander McCall Smith

#18. No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.

Jeremy Taylor

#19. Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.

Alice Paul

#20. You say you want nothing in return. Yet I feel the price is still too high to pay.

Truth Devour

#21. It's as if I've arrived in a place where it's all spirit and no body
an overwhelming sense of calm ... I actually began to feel blessed.

Gloria Naylor

#22. Love every man in spite of his falling into sin. Never mind the sins, but remember that the foundation of the man is the same--the image of God.

John Of Kronstadt

#23. These people are committed to one person. They are Master's and slaves, or Doms and subs who don't share

B.S.M. Stoneking

#24. A priest's life is spent between question and answer
or between a question and the attempt to answer it. The question is the summary of the spiritual life.

Naguib Mahfouz

#25. On tiptoes the redhead wouldn't even reach my shoulders; she is clearly too young to be a bride. And the willowy girl is too forlorn. And I am too unwilling.
Yet here we are.

Lauren DeStefano

#26. The deal is this. You be the hero. Come down here. Unarmed. Come inside with your hands on your head. I'll let everybody go. Then I'll blow your fucking head off. Sir. How's that for a deal? You buy it?

Richard Bachman

#27. When we can sing in the face of death, we can sing in the face of anything.

E. Stanley Jones

#28. When this ultimate crisis comes... when there is no way out - that is the very moment when we explode from within and the totally other emerges: the sudden surfacing of a strength, a security of unknown origin, welling up from beyond reason, rational expectation, and hope.

Emile Durkheim