(46 quotes found)
“I met the surgeon general - he offered me a cigarette.”
Rodney Dangerfield
“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
“Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.”
Dag Hammarskjold
“With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.”
Saul Bellow
“I have been given the name of a good surgeon and I am going to have a pin inserted.”
Michael Owen
“The wounded surgeon plies the steel / That questions the distempered part.”
T.S. Eliot
“A surgeon should be young a physician old.”
French Proverb
“[Surgeon in charge J.N. Green] found Dr. Mary Walker a capable, tireless assistant, indispensable to him and his 100 or more sick and wounded patients, ... Mary Edward Walker: Above and Beyond.”
Dale Walker
“You don't have to be a brain surgeon to work out that if we use it, it has to be along the lines of American football, where the players and the coach get to challenge a decision using replays.”
Dave Richardson
“If you're a brain surgeon it's more like two weeks' salary. But if you're flipping burgers, spending two months' salary, you're not going to have a very happy girlfriend.”
Chuck Kuba
