Quotes About Emergency Rooms

#1. Health care providers, saving lives daily in our emergency rooms, live with federal mandates.

Barbara Ann Radnofsky

#2. Even exciting places are boring most of the time. Wars. Movie sets. Emergency rooms.

Ann Brashares

#3. We carry our ancestors in our names and sometimes we carry our ancestors through the sliding doors of emergency rooms and either way they are heavy, man, either way we can't escape.

Marie-Helene Bertino

#4. Free-loading at emergency rooms - mandated by government - makes being uninsured a viable option.

Thomas Sowell

#5. Emergency rooms will be used the way they were intended to be used: not for primary care, but for when the average freaky American get some strange object up his ass.

Bill Maher

#6. Emergency Rooms ... were the nightmares your nightmares had while they slept.

Nicole Deese

#7. America is running a fever, but there are no emergency rooms.

Ed Markey

#8. Poor people wait a lot. Welfare, unemployment lines, laundromats, phone booths, emergency rooms, jails, etc.

Lucia Berlin

#9. You know that a lot of people go to emergency rooms when they don't really need to.

Steven Burd

#10. Emergency rooms are closed, many hospital wards are as well leaving people who are sick with heart disease, trauma, pregnancy complications, pneumonia, malaria and all the everyday health emergencies with nowhere to go.

Richard E. Besser

#11. These are folks that keep people out of hospitals, out of emergency rooms, out of nursing homes. And not only that, they help people achieve more fulfilling lives.

Atul Gawande

#12. Our health care system squanders money because it is designed to react to emergencies. Homeless shelters, hospital emergency rooms, jails, prisons - these are expensive and ineffective ways to intervene and there are people who clearly profit from this cycle of continued suffering.

Pete Earley

#13. Chapels are emergency rooms for the soul. They are the one place we can reliably go to find who we are and what we should be doing with our lives - usually by finding all we aren't, and what is much greater than us, to which we can only give ourselves up.

Geraldine Brooks

#14. Every new president inherits headaches, but President Obama has inherited an entire emergency room.

Madeleine Albright

#15. I drove myself to the Emergency Room. That's a nice relaxing drive. "Noooo, after you. Merge-everybody merge."

Brian Regan

#16. Perhaps why I am so uniquely terrible is simply that I represent total Dissent. Total Dissent. T.D. 19 + 4 = 23.

William S. Burroughs

#17. All you crazy white people "I'm American!", all you did was come out of your mother's pussy on American soil. That's it. That's it! What, you think you're better than somebody from France 'cause you came out of a pussy in Detroit?

Chris Rock

#18. If, in fact, the GOP doesn't like any form of health care reform, what do we do with those 40 to 60 million uninsured? ... When they show up in the emergency room, just shoot 'em! Kill them! ... Do we have enough body bags? I don't know.

Montel Williams

#19. I have never found it difficult, as some do, to speak to children. All one has to do is pretend that they're some kind of intelligent farm animal: a pig, perhaps, or a horse.

Hanya Yanagihara

#20. But once a fool always a fool, and the greater the power in his hands the more disastrous is likely to be the use he makes of it. The heaviest calamity in English history, the breach with America, might never have occurred if George the Third had not been an honest dullard.

James G. Frazer

#21. The Drowned Gods makes men," old Aaron Redhand said, "thousands of years ago." "But it's men who make crowns.

George R R Martin

#22. One of the unfortunate side effects of my medication is it hinders my ability to act crazy.

Kyra Davis

#23. I'd love to be a dead body in the emergency room and have George Clooney go, 'This one's gone!' while he puts a sheet on me.

Rosie O'Donnell

#24. I started watching 'The Stooges' religiously and obsessively when I was probably about four or five years old till around the age of 18.

Chris Diamantopoulos

#25. I've always considered them ideas, forever recorded." Malone motioned to one of the paperbacks. "Malory wrote King Arthur in the late part of the 15th century. So you're reading his thoughts from five hundred years ago. We'll never know Malory, but we know his imagination.

Steve Berry

#26. I went pretty much for one tone, and I knew at that time that I wanted to play a Rickenbacker.

John Fogerty

#27. The Net is allowing us to turn ourselves into a giant, collective meta-intelligence. And this meta-intelligence continues to grow as more and more people come online.

Peter Diamandis

#28. The appeal of leaving and never looking back. No endpoint to your journey.
How gloriously terrifying.

Kirsten Hubbard

#29. Linde's Danger to Self is a warm, candid and appealing account of being an emergency room psychiatrist. Linde captures the non-conformist, hard-boiled style of the psychiatrists who work in this setting.

Tanya Luhrmann

#30. I had to sell my house and make a lot of sacrifices to become a writer, and it sucks not to get taken seriously.

Paul Cleave

#31. Macbeth:
If we should fail?
Lady Macbeth:
We fail?
But screw your courage to the sticking place,
And we'll not fail.

William Shakespeare