Top 100 Quotes About Surgery
#1. If there was anything obviously heroic about medieval surgery, it was the patient.
David C. Lindberg
#2. Health-wise there is nothing to worry about. Though I had gone through a surgery sometime ago, it was nothing serious.
Katrina Kaif
#3. I hate when models say 'Oh, plastic surgery is just a wrong thing. What are you talking about? You won the genetic lottery. You look like this specimen that's making people everywhere feel insecure and you're going to ridicule someone for getting plastic surgery?
Tyra Banks
#4. I mean, I think I'm doing a lot better than other people that have had shoulder surgery in their careers. Some people have never come back.
Maria Sharapova
#5. I attempted various types of plastic surgery, minutely but enough to stave off this encroaching middle-aged body. And every time I did, something went wrong. I felt misshapen, just not natural any more.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#6. Benzedrine,' he said. 'I rang up my secretary before dinner and asked her to wangle some out of the surgery at Headquarters.
Ian Fleming
#7. Think about it: Heart disease and diabetes, which account for more deaths in the U.S. and worldwide than everything else combined, are completely preventable by making comprehensive lifestyle changes. Without drugs or surgery.
Dean Ornish
#8. One might as well try to perform brain surgery with a sledgehammer.
Ben Bernanke
#9. I notice that the number of cosmetic-surgery operations has risen by 34 per cent in the past year. Once we subtract Jordan, Jodie Marsh and Michael Jackson from those figures, we can see that demand overall may have stabilised.
Michael Gove
#10. You cannot powder away what botox can fix. My name is Tamar, and I am for plastic surgery.
Tamar Braxton
#11. My back was just destroyed after pregnancy. I almost had to have surgery, until I did Pilates and rebuilt my body.
Melissa McCarthy
#12. You have no confidence when you come out of surgery because you can't really do anything. You're like, 'Man, am I ever going to heal?'
Rob Gronkowski
#13. Rapping about a surgery is something that makes sense for me to do.
Lazarus Of Bethany
#14. I'm not sure how paying for transgender surgery [in the military] makes our country safer.
Mike Huckabee
#15. There's the whole myth about rocket science. It's really not that hard. It's not brain surgery.
John Powell
#16. They showed this one beautiful picture of me recently and they had all the things that I had done. I thought it was a great compliment for everybody to think I've had plastic surgery.
Cybill Shepherd
#17. Because of all the cosmetic services like skin whitening and hair bleaching, there is a lot that people can do to change their appearance without having actual surgery. It's quite common in Thailand and Korea and Japan.
Jess Row
#18. Living with a single kidney is almost exactly like living with two; the remaining kidney expands to take up the slack. (When kidneys fail, they generally fail together; barring trauma or cancer, there's not much advantage to a backup.) The main risk to the donor is the risk of any surgery.
Virginia Postrel
#19. I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.
Christine Lahti
#20. I'm happy that I can focus on my body a little bit. I'm not happy to get surgery, but I'm happy that I can focus on getting better.
Dwyane Wade
#21. Restlessly, I moved around the surgery, picking things up and putting them down again.
Diana Gabaldon
#22. I've had two children and no surgery. My body is the result of good genes and a healthy attitude.
Elle Macpherson
#23. I had a sense of debt to the medical profession and to surgery particularly. I would not be as ambient as I am without it.
Jeffrey Tate
#24. The desire to be loved, to feel loved, is behind every diet, pill, surgery, and lie. It is behind each act of violence and every affair as well as each organized religion and every method of self-help.
Vironika Tugaleva
#25. After age twelve, birthdays should be as private as hernia surgery.
Erma Bombeck
#26. We don't want to put a band-aid on our problems that we keep talking about in society; we want to get down to the nitty gritty and do some surgery.
Allan Houston
#27. Call me an alarmist, but there are certain words I don't like to hear together: cheap fireplace, discount brakes, cut-rate surgery ...
Margo Kaufman
#28. Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
Maeve Binchy
#29. While I was gone, I had quintuple bypass surgery on my heart. Plus, I got a haircut.
David Letterman
#30. Fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class - Hope your surgery went well!
Simone Elkeles
#31. Winning is only important in war and surgery.
Al McGuire
#32. This is an execution, not surgery. Where does that come from, that you must find the method of execution that causes the least pain?
Antonin Scalia
#33. When I go in for heart surgery, I want a full-time surgeon. I don't want some guy who just does it part-time between rounds of golf. You want a guy who is doing it all the time and is always reading and learning about the most recent techniques.
Don Meyer
#34. McDonald's breakfast for under a dollar is actually more expensive than that. You have to factor in the cost of bypass surgery.
George Carlin
#35. A scan showed that a benign brain tumor was pressing on her right frontal lobe. In terms of operative risk, it was the best kind of tumor to have, and the best place to have it; surgery would almost certainly eliminate her seizures. The alternative was a lifetime on toxic antiseizure medications.
Paul Kalanithi
#36. I hurt my left knee playing left tackle. I had surgery on my right knee.
Logan Mankins
#37. my mother died of an overdose of sleeping pills after extensive surgery so that the cause of death was probably listed as despair.
Sue Grafton
#38. Nobody would have me in their laboratory for five minutes. I couldn't cut up a frog, and I certainly couldn't perform surgery. I'm better at making it possible for other people.
Mary Lasker
#39. I don't get bothered by people saying what they say. I'm a happy person and I'm happy with my looks. I'm not an insecure person. I believe if somebody chooses plastic surgery it should be for themselves, not for anyone else.
Ashlee Simpson
#40. I want to be the only American actress who doesn't do any plastic surgery or anything. I think older faces are great.
Kathy Baker
#41. But, then again, I had to stop because there was too much pain or too much trouble. After I retired I still had one more elbow surgery just to be able to do normal things.
Richard Krajicek
#42. The only way to cure an egotist from bragging is by surgery
amputation at the neck.
Evan Esar
#43. I have a zombie apocalypse kit at my house. I've got freeze dried food, I've got a real deal medical kit, like, a doctor could perform a surgery with this medical kit. I got all kinds of everything.
Joel Madden
#45. People say you shouldn't have plastic surgery because if God wanted you another way he would have made you that way, but I say that's a lot of crock. If God didn't want plastic surgeons, he wouldn't have given them hands to work with.
Dolly Parton
#46. A successful birth is not a birth without drugs or monitors or surgery. A successful birth is when you're alive and the baby's alive.
Jean Hanff Korelitz
#47. Senator Kerry recovering very nicely after having shoulder surgery. The doctors said the senator was fully awake, lucid and joking after the surgery was done, but cautioned that that was just the drug. He went back to his boring self soon afterward.
Jay Leno
#48. The surgeries were the hardest scenes for me because it's literally balancing so many balls in the air, at the same time, and each surgery is different.
Andre Holland
#49. The problem with cosmetic surgery is that people who have it can only see how they look in the mirror. They don't realise how weird they look from other angles. I particularly hate the injections that puff out the face, which are hideous.
Jerry Hall
#50. I think it's a little irresponsible for women who choose surgery to then say they can portray the average woman on the street, because if the average woman can't afford those treatments, then she's going to say, 'I'm 53 and I don't look like that,' and start thinking she's ugly or inadequate.
Debra Winger
#51. No matter how much money you spend to make yourself beautiful - with all the products, the diets, the plastic surgery - in the end, women need to fall in love with themselves and realize they're wonderfully made.
Jessica Simpson
#52. I would sooner have bowel surgery in the woods with a stick.
Bill Bryson
#53. When you look at women who have had plastic surgery, they have lost something - usually an expression, something unique to their face.
Bo Derek
#54. The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.
Martin H. Fischer
#55. I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment.
Gail Devers
#56. Surgery is nature's way of telling us to slow down.
Dan John
#57. David's was the first face I saw when I woke up from the surgery to sew up my leg." Eve made a face. "It was like a bad rerun. His face is always the first one I see when I wake up from an attack by a homicidal lunatic.
Karen Rose
#58. Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour.
Eddie Redmayne
#59. If you're Natalie Dormer, you can take big fashion risks and shave half your head, and it looks good. If you're a normal person and you try that, you just look like you had recent brain surgery.
Mindy Kaling
#60. IT'S AN EXTRAORDINARY FEELING
WHEN PART OF YOUR BODY ARE
TOUCHED FOR THE FIRST TIME.
I'M THINKING OF THE SENSATIONS
FROM SEX AND SURGERY.
Jenny Holzer
#61. Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.
Naomi Wolf
#62. After the brain surgery, I started the hard process of recovery.
Amy Rankin
#63. I would never do hard-core pornography, because it looks too much like open-heart surgery.
John Waters
#64. Remember, it is no sign of weakness or defeat that your manuscript ends up in need of major surgery. This is a common occurrence in all writing, and among the best writers.
William Strunk Jr.
#65. No matter how many times I witness the miracle of someone having their sight restored, I'm still overwhelmed with emotion. When the eye patch comes off just 24 hours after surgery and you see that smile light up the room, you are witnessing a life being transformed.
Gabi Hollows
#66. 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
#67. Today I would say, 'I am against plastic surgery.' It's a grave act. An act that touches our soul. It was frightening.
Emmanuelle Beart
#68. Surgery is not my job. I have been the first artist to use aesthetic surgery in another context - not to appear younger or better according to the designated pattern. I wanted to disrupt the standarts of beauty.
Orlan
#69. One popular new plastic surgery technique is called lip grafting, or 'fat recycling,' wherein fat cells are removed from one part of your body that is too large, such as your buttocks, and injected into your lips. People will then be literally kissing ass.
Dave Barry
#70. I don't recommend surgery at all. Women's bodies are beautiful as they are, and I've had a love/hate relationship with my breasts my whole life.
Pamela Anderson
#71. What makes you think painting is any less difficult than brain surgery?
Christopher Willard
#72. Adapting your own book is like performing open-heart surgery on your own child.
Jonathan Tropper
#73. Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
Nadia Giosia
#74. I'd rather look old than look as if I'd had plastic surgery. Sometimes it looks really fake; all people can think about when they look at you is that you've had plastic surgery.
Heather Graham
#75. In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
S. Jay Olshansky
#76. I think I'm still trying to find my feet as an actor. And I know it ain't brain surgery, but it confuses me and it comes between me and my sleep a lot.
Colin Farrell
#77. When I turned 50, I said to myself, well, if this is what it's like turning 50, I can't wait to turn 60 because I still felt very, very mentally and physically good, outside my back surgery.
Greg Norman
#78. John Kerry had surgery on his right shoulder this week to repair some damage. It was pretty bad, he had no feeling. It was almost like he was a Republican.
David Letterman
#79. When people are facing a severe illness or a major surgery, that may be one of the most significant opportunities for spiritual transformation that they will encounter.
Allan Hamilton
#80. I don't like surgery. I don't like elective surgery, I don't like surgery that you have to have.
Sandra Bernhard
#82. I adopted two children, then I got eye disease and five rounds of surgery. I went blind in one eye, then the other eye, and that went on for three or four years. I got very enamored and involved with the theater and did a lot of plays.
John Patrick Shanley
#83. Being transgender and in need of surgery is a bit like wearing a tattoo advertising something that you have no intention of selling, and constantly being asked to represent what you are not selling.
Merlyn Gabriel Miller
#84. [Language allows you] to implant a thought from your mind directly into someone else's mind, and they can attempt to do the same to you, without either of you having to perform surgery.
Mark Pagel
#85. Funny how a crisis can put life into perspective, fine-tune the eye of the heart, like laser surgery. In less than a minute everything comes into a twenty-twenty view.
Rachel Hauck
#86. Men aren't asked about age. Men aren't asked about their children. Not that these things aren't important, but I do feel like it becomes reductive when a woman's life becomes, 'Talk to me about your kids and how you feel about plastic surgery.'
Julianne Moore
#87. Oh, I just love being a character actress. You have a lot of fun, and not only that, you save tons on cosmetic surgery because you never have to have liposuction.
Marcia Gay Harden
#88. You know, let's put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn't be a person left in town.
Michael Jackson
#89. John Kerry will undergo surgery to repair his right shoulder. He originally hurt it when he suddenly switched positions on Iraq.
Craig Kilborn
#90. At 10, I was intrigued by surgery, I wanted to be a surgeon for a long time. I love doctor shows and surgery shows. Blood is not an issue for me. I even took pictures once of me getting my blood taken.
Jessica Biel
#91. I fell off a bridge when I was 14, then had surgery when I was 17. Now my left wrist is an inch-and-a-half shorter than my [right one] and doesn't quite have the mobility to wrap around a guitar neck without a bit of pain.
Zach Condon
#92. There's something you should probably know." "Please don't tell me you had gender reassignment surgery. I don't think I can manage that today.
Helena Hunting
#93. Probably the only type of cosmetic surgery I'd consider is having my bust reduced. It's alright for my current role in 'The Marquise' because it's a costume drama, which means boned corsets and a bit of cleavage, but it's a drag otherwise.
Kate O'Mara
#94. Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
Al McGuire
#95. I hate plastic surgery. I have a horror of any kind of knife. I don't like it.
Rebecca De Mornay
#96. Right after Dynasty ended I had a facelift and laser surgery to get rid of lines around my eyes.
Linda Evans
#97. The interesting thing with acting, actually, is that you get to be so many different people that you get to do so much research on so many different things that I've learned so much about brain surgery and about astrophysicist-type of things and traveling to amazing parts of the world.
Carla Gugino
#98. [when asked about what he was most thankful about]: Being alive. After heart surgery, you dig that part. Breath, family and friends are just amazing. Just to have a second shot is pretty great!
Robin Williams
#99. And that might have led to other shows but you know what LA is like. I was in my early 30s and it wasn't going to get easier. You know, that's when you start to wonder if you might have to get lots of plastic surgery.
Jane Badler
#100. Shrinking someone's stomach to the size of a walnut with surgery is one way to battle obesity and diabetes and may be lifesaving for a few, but it doesn't address the underlying causes.
Mark Hyman
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