Obstetrical Quotes

#1. In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet nurse to humanity during his entire existence and has held earth close around him, like the little obstetrical toad that goes about with a cluster of eggs attached to his legs.

E.B. White

#2. Having a highly trained obstetrical surgeon attend a normal birth is analogous to having a pediatric surgeon babysit a healthy 2-year-old.

Marsden Wagner

#3. In 13 years of doing my day job, I've learned a few things about motivating people. It's about setting a vision and, as long as everyone knows why they're doing what they're doing, you achieve that vision.

Natalie Massenet

#4. Once I lived in time as a fish in water, breathing it, drinking it, sustained by it. Now I kill time and time kills me.

J.M. Coetzee

#5. I'm not taking things quite so seriously as before. Especially myself.

Thom Yorke

#6. The ignorant is a house without windows; the intellectual is a window without house! One lives without light; other lives in too much light!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. All books can be indecent books
Though recent books are bolder,
For filth, I'm glad to say, is in
The mind of the beholder.
When correctly viewed,
Everything is lewd.
I could tell you things about Peter Pan
And the Wizard of Oz, there's a dirty old man ...

Tom Lehrer

#8. You look at women like Lena Dunham, you look at how women are kind of crafting their own space on the screen. I want to add to that.

Danai Gurira

#9. Prayer had worked.

Janette Oke

#10. Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell.

P.D. James