Doctors Quotes - Page 11

• An apple a day, if well aimed, keeps the doctor away.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Funny, Humor, Apples

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• This presents a serious question." They both looked at me. "What's that?" asked Lena. "Whether to start you off with a Doctor Who marathon or dive straight into Firefly.

  Jim C. Hines

  Firefly, Serious, Marathon

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• Lilith: Oh, but your heart grows cold. A north wind blows and carries down the distant... Rose? The Doctor: Oooh, big mistake! Because that name keeps me fighting!

  Gareth Roberts

  Mistake, Heart, Fighting

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• Captain Jack: Rose, you are worth fighting for. [Jack kisses Rose passionately] Captain Jack: Wish I'd never met you, Doctor, I was much better off as a coward. [Jack kisses the Doctor the same way]

  Russell T Davies

  Fighting, Kissing, Rose

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• Rose Tyler: Can't you come through properly? The Doctor: Then the whole thing would fracture. The two universes would collapse. Rose Tyler: So?

  Russell T Davies

  Two, Rose, Fracture

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• I love you crookedly because my heart's been unhinged from birth. The doctors gave me strict instructions not to fall in love: my fragile clockwork heart would never survive. But when you gave me a dose of love so powerful - far beyond my wildest dreams - that I felt able to confront anything for you, I decided to put my life in your hands.

  Mathias Malzieu

  Dream, Falling In Love, Powerful

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• What Rose brings to the Doctor’s life is completion. It’s completing a circle – he’s male, he’s alien, he’s a traveler. Between the two of them together they complement each other and discover each other. And are in love with each other – absolutely, unashamedly, unreservedly.

  Russell T Davies

  Circles, Two, Rose

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• I flipped the good doctor the bird. Snorting, Gideon caught my hand and pulled me back down the hall. "What is it with you and giving people the finger?" "What? It's a classic.

  Sylvia Day

  Hands, People, Giving

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.495, Penguin

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• I don't think my mum ever understood my love of Doctor Who. Surely her strongest memory would have been me, standing at the top of the stairs, crying about how the "jelly men" were going to get me? Sorry, Mum, for those sleepless nights, but it was with good reason they called it Terror of the Zygons.

  Steve Berry

  Sorry, Memories, Night

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• In the end I sort of though we created a companion who was so alive and dynamic and so wedded to the doctor that you’d need a whole universe to contain her in. The only way to get rid of her is to send her into a parallel world from which she can never return; otherwise she would stay with the doctor forever.

  Russell T Davies

  Forever, Needs, Alive

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• Doctor." Gideon set one ankle on the opposite knee and settled back, creating a picture of unyielding decisiveness. "The only way I'm keeping my hands off her is if I'm dead. Find another way to fix us." Chapter 3 pg 50

  Sylvia Day

  Hands, Opposites, Creating

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.310, Penguin

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• I can't believe you just did that! Are you crazy?" I gripped the steering wheel tighter. "Why do people keep asking me that?" He turned to stare at me, his eyes worried. "Who else keeps asking you that? Are any of them doctors?

  Janette Rallison

  Crazy, Believe, Eye

  Janette Rallison (2009). “Just One Wish”, p.106, Penguin

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• The psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has a simple heuristic. Never ask the doctor what you should do. Ask him what he would do if he were in your place. You would be surprised at the difference

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Simple, Differences, Would Be

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.389, Random House

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• This,’ whispered the Doctor to Romana, ‘is going to be like trying to find a book about needles in a room full of books about haystacks.

  Gareth Roberts

  Book, Trying, Rooms

  Douglas Adams, Gareth Roberts (2012). “Doctor Who: Shada”, p.51, Random House

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• Are doctors who make mistakes villains? No, because then we all are.

  Atul Gawande

  Mistake, Villain, Doctor Who

  Atul Gawande (2010). “Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance”, p.106, Profile Books

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• If I stay. If I live. It’s up to me. All this business about medically induced comas is just doctor talk. It’s not up to the doctors. It’s not up to the absentee angels. It’s not even up to God who, if He exists, is nowhere around right now. It’s up to me.

  Gayle Forman

  Angel, If I Stay, Coma

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.45, Penguin

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• I had decided against religion a couple of years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools. And if it weren't true, the fools were all the more foolish. What I need is a good doctor, I thought. You either lived or died.

  Charles Bukowski

  Couple, Years, People

  Charles Bukowski (2001). “Ham On Rye”, p.152, Canongate Books

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• You will continue to read stories of crookedness and corruption - of policemen who lie and steal, doctors who reap where they do not sew, politicians on the take. Don't be misled. They are news because they are the exceptions.

  Robert Fulghum

  Lying, News, Stories

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• If you have more than one reason to do something (choose a doctor or veterinarian, hire a gardener or an employee, marry a person, go on a trip), just don’t do it. It does not mean that one reason is better than two, just that by invoking more than one reason you are trying to convince yourself to do something. Obvious decisions (robust to error) require no more than a single reason.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Mean, Errors, Two

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• Have you ever heard of the theory of relativity?" Artemis blinked. "Is this a joke? I have traveled through time, Doctor. I think I know a little something about relativity.

  Eoin Colfer

  Thinking, Fowl, Littles

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• ...Her parents were going to a conference for the weekend. The conference was called "Lawyers are Lovely, Great and Superb: so Why Does Everyone Think that They are Liars, Greedy and Scum?" and Mr Thomson was doing a speech called "Ten Tips to Make Lawyers as Popular as Doctors.

  Jaclyn Moriarty

  Liars, Weekend, Thinking

  Jaclyn Moriarty (2010). “The Year of Secret Assignments”, p.217, Scholastic Inc.

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• Young Reinette: Monsieur, be careful! The Doctor: It's just a nightmare, Reinette, don't worry, everyone has nightmares. Even monsters under the bed have nightmares! Young Reinette: What do monsters have nightmares about? The Doctor: Me!

  Steven Moffat

  Worry, Bed, Monsters

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• The doctor's wife ate two apples a day, just to be safe. But her husband kept coming home.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Husband, Home, Two

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• The clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Clever, People, Together

  Ben Aaronovitch (2011). “Moon Over Soho”, p.39, Del Rey

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• It's only in bad novels that people are divided into two camps and have nothing to do with each other. In real life everything gets mixed up! Don't you think you'd have to be a hopeless nonentity to play only one role all your life, to have only one place in society, always to stand for the same thing?--Ah, there you are!" - Larissa Fyodorovna in Doctor Zhivago.

  Boris Pasternak

  Real, Thinking, Play

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