Surgeon Quotes
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I am indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes; when they are in great danger I recover them.
— William Shakespeare
There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.
— Ben Carson
A successful surgeon should be a man who, when asked to name the three best surgeons in the world, would have difficulty deciding on the other two.
— Denton Cooley
As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my family.
— Magdi Yacoub
One rotation that I unexpectedly enjoyed was surgery. I knew I was too clumsy to become a surgeon and did not have the traditional gung-ho mentality.
— Barron H. Lerner
No surgeon can treat the wounds of the tongue.
— Idries Shah
Words can be as irrevocable as an action. They can cut as deeply as a surgeon's scalpel.
— Gina Barreca
Technically, according to the notion of the will of God, there is no such a thing as a competent surgeon.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever.
— William Nicholson
Colonel Henry Blake, a surgeon: "I can paint a barn with someone else's blood. I just can't stand to see my own.
— M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team
War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
— Hippocrates
Usually I enjoy a first night as a surgeon enjoys an operation: this time I enjoyed it as a playgoer enjoys a pleasant performance. p 267
— George Bernard Shaw
Walpole has no intellect. A mere surgeon. A wonderful operator but, after all, what is operating? ... Manual labour.
— George Bernard Shaw
A surgeon needs to be calm. Worry just wastes time. It
— Brandon Sanderson
It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel is a surgeon.
— Robert Hooke
We find we breathe again, and hear the surgeon hum.
Outside, in the street, a car starts up. The heart regularly
Thunders. — James Kirkup
Outside, in the street, a car starts up. The heart regularly
Thunders. — James Kirkup
Feeling creative produces great work in approximately the same way that "feeling like a doctor" makes you a gifted thoracic surgeon.
— Merlin Mann
I may be married to a plastic surgeon, but I'm 98 percent real.
— Heather Dubrow
I'm a maniac, and everyone on this stage is stupid, fat and ugly. And Ben [Carson] you're a terrible surgeon.
— Ted Cruz
We call a cancer bad, they would say, because it kills a man; but you might just as well call a successful surgeon bad because he kills a cancer.
— C.S. Lewis
You know what the difference between a cardiac surgeon and God is? God doesn't think he's a cardiac surgeon.
— Lisa Gardner
I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work.
— Harvey Cushing
If you lay a hand on me I'll ram your testicles so far up inside your abdomen it'll take a heart surgeon to get them out.
— Orson Scott Card
A surgeon would never hesitate to amputate a rotting hand, no matter how faithfully it had served its owner in the past.
— Rick Riordan
Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.
— Maya Angelou
It is the surgeon's duty to tranquillize the temper, to beget cheerfulness, and to impart confidence of recovery.
— Astley Cooper
If you decide to become a veterinary surgeon you will never grow rich, but you will have a life of endless interest and variety.
— James Herriot
The purpose of art is to elevate the spirit or to pay a surgeon's bill. Or both. It can help a person remember or forget.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Listening to Benny [Goodman] talk about the clarinet was like listening to a surgeon get hung up on a scalpel.
— Artie Shaw
When the surgeon general [Joycelyn Elders] said that drugs should be legalized, I saw somebody else who felt what I feel. But she got fired.
— Snoop Dogg
My dad was a surgeon in Egypt. He was a general surgeon. As a little boy I always admired what he was doing, and I wanted to do surgery.
— Magdi Yacoub
If I for my opinion bleed, opinion shall be surgeon to my hurt, and keep me on the side where still I am.
— William Shakespeare
My plastic surgeon ... said my face looked like a bouquet of elbows.
— Phyllis Diller
An Irish surgeon, Denis Burkitt, discovered an aggressive form of lymphoma - now called Burkitt's lymphoma -
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
I'm a heart surgeon, sure, but I'm just a mechanic. I go in and I fuck around and I fix things. Shit.
— Raymond Carver
Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.
— E.B. White
She sometimes felt less like a primary-care pediatrician and more like a battlefield surgeon, patching up her patients and sending them back to war.
— Paul Tough
My mum says I wanted to be a surgeon, but I don't remember that. I think from the time I knew what was happening, I wanted to be a guitar player.
— Brian May
Nostalgia can be more painful than a surgeon's knife.
— Anurag Shourie
I do know that detachment is important. A surgeon can't be weeping into the open wound.
— Randa Haines
All reviews should carry a Surgeon General's warning. The good ones turn your head, the bad ones break your heart.
— David Ives
A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.
— Ernest L. Boyer
WARNING: THE SURGEON GENERAL'S CRUSADE AGAINST THIS PRODUCT MAY DISTRACT YOU FROM THE MYRIAD WAYS YOUR GOVERNMENT FAILS TO PROTECT YOUR HEALTH.
— James K. Morrow
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.
— Nicolas Chamfort
I owe the quality of my skin to my cosmetic surgeon,
— Cindy Crawford
The surgeon knows all the parts of the brain but he does not know his patient's dreams.
— Richard Selzer
A surgeon wouldn't sell his tools. A lawyer doesn't sell his law books. I'm not going to sell my horse. I'm a sportsman.
— Ian Millar
My father was this famous heart surgeon, a wonderful man ... but there was something about me that drove him crazy.
— Dominick Dunne
Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.
— Alan Kay
At heart, I'm a reconstructive surgeon.
— Joseph Murray
I think the terrifying thing is you see all these people who go to the same cosmetic surgeon, and they end up, after a while, looking like everyone.
— Cate Blanchett
The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.
— William Stewart Halsted
What if the kid you bullied at school, grew up, and turned out to be the only surgeon who could save your life?
— Lynette Mather
I really think the most important thing I do is to protect the dignity and the integrity of the Office of the Surgeon General.
— Richard Carmona
Training is essential for almost any significant endeavor in life - running a marathon, becoming a surgeon, learning how to play the piano.
— John Ortberg
What a waste, using her talents this way. Like a brain surgeon clubbing seals for a living.
— Scott Westerfeld
My dad was a surgeon, my mom a nurse, and they were always out working. I had five sisters and a brother. They didn't care what I got up to.
— Willem Dafoe
My dad was a doctor and surgeon. He was the fifth generation of his family to become a doctor.
— Ken Kercheval
A good surgeon doesn't just concentrate on technical ability, but also on the appropriateness of what you're doing.
— Benjamin Carson
The same skills that I used as a welder, as a migrant farm worker, are similar skills that I'm using as a brain surgeon.
— Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa
I was a heart surgeon before I came to Congress, and I've worked many holidays on behalf of my patients.
— Larry Bucshon
I'm very lucky in that I have a good cosmetic surgeon.
— Sharon Osbourne
I wanted to be a brain surgeon, but I had a bad habit of dropping things.
— Gilbert Gottfried
Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart - poisoned as it is with pride and pain - and replacing it with his own.
— Max Lucado
Yes, I've been trepanned. That's quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
— Keith Richards
Failure instructs better than success. A single death shapes the surgeon's psyche in a way that fifty "saves" cannot.
— Frank T. Vertosick Jr.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
— Groucho Marx
It's a plastic surgeon you need, not a doctor
— John Cleese
Dr. Gordon S. Seagrave, the famous "Burma Surgeon.
— Ralph Ellison
Does the surgeon spare the cancer because he must cut to remove it? We are cruel. Of course we are cruel.
— Kathrine Kressmann Taylor
The overarching issue, really, is our surgeon general should be able to communicate transparently and honestly with the American public on all issues.
— Richard Carmona
He has many qualities as a prince, but he is not a surgeon.
— Sven-Goran Eriksson
You'll feel a tingling in your chest," says a surgeon. "It's nothing to worry about.
— Neal Shusterman
I'd rather spend half an hour in the company of a top carpenter, than three hours in the company of an average brain surgeon
— Winston Churchill
God loves us too much to pretend our sin isn't there. Sin is a cancer and Christ the surgeon. True prayer signs the consent form.
— Mark Hart
Why a writer? I should have been a surgeon or a mechanic, for surely a scalpel or wrench couldn't cause me the anguish words do.
— J. Carter Swift
I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
Usury is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon's knife of fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
— Ezra Pound
If surgeons don't get surgeon's block, then why are you allowed to get writer's block?
— Cory Doctorow
Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.
— Paul Simon
When I'm walking around, I'm usually drinking pop, so I can't have a mask on. That's why I couldn't be a surgeon.
— Chuck Klosterman
The plastic surgeon's knife slashes at time, which may seem to retreat, but then keeps on coming.
— Mason Cooley
No one under the age of eighteen needs a cell phone unless they're a surgeon, a drug dealer, or a prostitute.
— Paul Rudnick
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
I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments.
— Joseph Murray
The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon.
— John Eric Erichsen
There is nothing we fear so much as the unknown, and the Surgeon was not going to enlighten her.
— Joseph Finder
He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
— Hippocrates