Quotes About Open Heart Surgery

#1. My father died during open-heart surgery on March 29 of my senior year in college. I was getting set to go to law school. I remember sitting in the waiting room when the doctor walked in. I said to myself, The worst possible thing just happened. What will you do?

Steve Wynn

#2. I would never do hard-core pornography, because it looks too much like open-heart surgery.

John Waters

#3. How much more can you give? Other than, literally, open-heart surgery onstage? Not much. But the only cure you have right now is the honesty of going, this is who you are. I know who I am.

Robin Williams

#4. Adapting your own book is like performing open-heart surgery on your own child.

Jonathan Tropper

#5. You can't put a Band-Aid on open-heart surgery.

Sierra Rose

#6. I believe that open-heart surgery is a must
for all human beings

Daniel Bailey

#7. Meanwhile in my head, I'm undergoing open-heart surgery.

Anne Sexton

#8. Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually about 'having a stent put in,' as if they had their tires rotated.

Roger Ebert

#9. Fifteen years ago tomorrow I had open heart surgery, a quintuple bypass surgery. Thanks to all of my doctors. Because of them, in 15 years of life I've been able to experience, well, acid reflux, short-term memory loss, and erectile dysfunction. Thanks for all your work. It's great to be alive.

David Letterman

#10. Taking Viagra after open heart surgery is like a Civil War re-enactment with live ammo. Not good.

Robin Williams

#11. The only thing left that shows I was a heart patient is I have a scar down the middle of my chest where they went in three times to do open heart surgery. I have a brand new heart inside, and all the mechanical and electronic gear and so forth is all gone.

Dick Cheney

#12. Baseball didn't really get into my blood until I knocked off that hitting streak. Getting a daily hit became more important to me than eating, drinking or sleeping.

Joe DiMaggio

#13. If it's not an absolute YES, it's a NO

Cheryl Richardson

#14. He lit his pipe again, smiling to himself quietly, with that painful smile of his, as though he were enjoying a joke that hurt him.

W. Somerset Maugham

#15. The origin of agriculture involved both human intentionality and a set of underlying ecological and evolutionary principles.

Kent V. Flannery

#16. Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. I have learned from Nature that dependence on unnatural beliefs weakens us in the struggle and shortens our breath for the race.

Luther Burbank

#18. If you see how a plant grows and you taste it in situ you have a perfect example of how it should taste on the plate.

Rene Redzepi

#19. Aging is basically the build-up of error: error at the genetic level, error at the cellular level. Cells normally repair themselves; that's why you heal when you get a cut. But even the mechanism of repair eventually falls apart.

Michio Kaku

#20. When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.

Kaskade

#21. The reason progress is slow is that we always expect other men to be the heroes and to live the heroic lives. But we all have hero stuff in us. In our sphere of life we can always live more heroically and triumphantly and grow in heroic stature.

Wilferd Peterson