Top 47 Quotes About Appendix
#1. It should be done with the same degree of alacrity and nonchalance that you would display in authorizing a highly intelligent trained bear to remove your appendix.
Daniel S. Greenberg
#2. The first chess book that I read was Dufresne's self-tutor, published with Lasker's Common Sense in Chess as an appendix.
Vasily Smyslov
#3. I grew up in a family of ten. You had to have, like, a burst appendix to get the floor ... My brothers and sisters are very quick, intense, brilliant, very sarcastic people. And they were always right there with you, right there, missing not one little throat clearing.
Mary Robison
#4. When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.
Richard Dawkins
#5. Remarrying a husband you've divorced is like having your appendix put back in.
Phyllis Diller
#6. When I was twelve, my appendix burst, and as they were wheeling my ass into the operating room, I asked the doctor, "How will this affect my piano playing?" and he said, "Don't worry, you'll still be able to play the piano," and I said, "Wow! I wasn't able to before!" And then they gassed me.
John Scalzi
#8. I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix.
Charles Krauthammer
#9. Love is like the human appendix. You take it for granted while it's there, but when it's suddenly gone you're forced to endure horrible pain that can only be alleviated through drugs.
Reverend Jen
#11. I am my family's appendix, it's unnecessary appendage. - Aaliya
Rabih Alameddine
#12. I was young, there seemed to be never a childbirth, or a burst appendix, or any other drastic physical event that did not occur simultaneously with a snowstorm.
Alice Munro
#13. Everybody is afraid they won't have any money after they die, but Jack Benny discovered a way to take it with him. He had his appendix taken out and a piggy bank put in.
Bob Hope
#15. Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix, and God.
H.L. Mencken
#16. Give yourself-not just your time-to prayer. Remember that prayer is not an appendix to your life and your work, it is your life your real, spiritual life-and your work. Prayer is the thermometer of your soul.
Joel R. Beeke
#17. That was just kind of a surprise when the doctor said, 'We did a biopsy on your appendix, and you have cancer.'
Stuart Scott
#18. We humans have many vestigial features proving that we evolved. The most famous is the appendix.
Jerry A. Coyne
#19. The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I went down to 112 pounds and realized my brain doesn't work when I'm that thin, so I can't do my job. That's why, when I came out here, I never had that whole Hollywood pressure thing.
Carey Mulligan
#20. The modern king has become a vermiform appendix: useless when quiet; when obtrusive, in danger of removal.
Austin O'Malley
#21. I'm on Medicare now. If I go and have a big operation, it costs me nothing. It should cost me a little. I'm not rich, but I can afford a few grand if I have to have my appendix taken out. I can pitch in a little bit.
P. J. O'Rourke
#22. Dads are the appendix of humanity. They should just be taken out before they start causing problems.
Nick Burd
#23. How's his appendix?"
"Like crap. They almost didn't catch it in time, and he's still doing the ass-plant in a hospital bed, being
doted on by an army of hot nurses. Makes me sick."
"Maybeyou should rupture something."
"Any more of these stories out of you and I just might.
Marjorie M. Liu
#24. Nature, of course, has its share in the life of the soul and in numerous manifestations deeply influences human life. But this natural life of the soul is peripheral, mere appendix to the material phenomena of nature.
Rudolf Christoph Eucken
#25. She sticks to the rules, because it's all she's got. It's like her feelings dried up and they were replaced with a pile of useless laws. Like my appendix. Don't know what I need it for, but it's still there.
Monica Valentinelli
#26. In those years only the dead smiled, Glad to be at rest: And Leningrad city swayed like A needless appendix to its prisons.
Anna Akhmatova
#27. See appendix A for a proof that Winston Churchill was a carrot.
Charles Seife
#28. They all think men are obsolete. useless. as if we're just some sexual appendix.
Chuck Palahniuk
#30. I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.
Olivia De Havilland
#31. I remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix ... I buried a good many people that I knew, some of whom I loved.
Tommy Douglas
#33. If you work with pigs, you're more likely to have your appendix operated on:
Jack Mingo
#34. APPENDIX SOME WORDS ABOUT WAR AND PEACE (Published in Russian Archive, 1868)
Leo Tolstoy
#35. *Appendix usually means "small outgrowth from large intestine," but in this case it means "additional information accompanying main text." Or are those really the same things? Think carefully before you insult this book.
Pseudonymous Bosch
#36. The guy may be totally motivated, connected and inspired, but if he doesn't know how to do it, he's not the guy to take out your appendix.
Robert Genn
#38. I could lose my uterus and appendix today and miss my appendix more. - Kate
Z.A. Maxfield
#39. I don't know what you mean, but I know that you mean it.
(attrib: 'Edward', Appendix 2)
Robert Robert
#40. we must learn to see life as meaningful despite our circumstances. It emphasizes that there is an ultimate purpose to life. And in its original version, before an appendix was added, it concluded with one of the most religious sentences written in the twentieth Century:
Viktor E. Frankl
#41. I have bitten down or swallowed a few pellets through the years. My uncle had his appendix removed and there were over 100 lead pellets in it. He might have died of lead poisoning. Now that is eating a lot of game!
Phil Robertson
#42. I had my appendix removed in my 20s. I was in the middle of a play with Helen Mirren at the Royal Court Theatre, a fabulous career break. Then two weeks in I began suffering the most horrendous pain and had to pull out. Sadly, by the time I'd recovered, the show's run had ended.
Cherie Lunghi
#43. I cant retire from music any more than I can retire from my liver. Youd have to remove the music from me surgically - like you were taking out my appendix.
Ray Charles
#44. APPENDIX 2 THE PREFACE TO OLIVER TWIST AND THE NEWGATE NOVEL CONTROVERSY
Charles Dickens
#45. If this is victory, then our hands are too small to hold it.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#46. Stories can actually rearrange continents if they're told long enough.
Scott McClanahan
#47. You who have defeated us say to yourselves that Babylon is fallen and its works have been overturned. I say to you still that man remains on trial, each man in his own dock. Each man is a little war.
Frank Herbert
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