Dentist Quotes - Page 5

• I guess I'm not a professional's professional. I think I'd rather go to the dentist than play a practice round.

  Laura Davies

  Golf, Thinking, Practice

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• I was a bio major, and I was going to take over my aunt's dental practice and be a dentist.

  Michael Steger

  Aunt, Practice, Dental

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• According to my mother, there pretty much wasn't anything I wouldn't eat as a child.... I was even inclined to dig into stuff about which she expressed open disgust... cheap Chinese food with pepper so hot it made your gums feel like a medieval dentist had been at them.

  Alice Domurat Dreger

  Mother, Children, Chinese

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• I'd rather play tennis than go to the dentist.
  I'd rather play soccer than go to the doctor.
  I'd rather play Hurk than go to work.
  Hurk? Hurk? What's Hurk?
  I don't know but it MUST be better than work!

  Shel Silverstein

  Soccer, Doctors, Play

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• I go to the dentist every six months, I get a cleaning, so... I'm fortunate enough that those fluoride treatments as a child worked. Not getting any cavities.

  Daniel Tosh

  Funny, Children, Six Months

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you took your child to the dentist and check for cavities, the child likely won't get them. If you take them just for emergency, that's all they're gonna get.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Emergencies, Checks

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• I think fear neutralizes alcohol, weakens its anesthetic power. It's good for small fears; your boss, your wife, your bills, your dentist; all right then to take a drink. But for big ones it doesn't do any good. Like water on blazing gasoline, it will only quicken and compound it. It takes sand, in the literal and the slang sense, to smother the bonfire that is fear. And if you're out of sand, then you must burn up.

  Cornell Woolrich

  Fear, Thinking, Water

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• Although a life-long fashion dropout, I have absorbed enough by reading Harper's Bazaar while waiting at the dentist's to have grasped that the purpose of fashion is to make A Statement. My own modest Statement, discerned by true cognoscenti, is, "Woman Who Wears Clothes So She Won't Be Naked.

  Molly Ivins

  Fashion, Reading, Clothes

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• I always loved comedy, but I never knew it was something you could learn to do. I always thought that some people are born comedians ... just like some people are born dentists.

  Paul Reiser

  People, Comedian, Comedy

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• I don't believe in the hereditary principle in the House of Lords. Imagine going to the dentist, sitting in the chair and he says, 'I'm not a dentist myself, but my father was a dentist and his father before him. Now, open wide!

  Tony Benn

  Father, Believe, House

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• Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades; shoe makers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch, and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but up in the Mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that there He makes men.

  Daniel Webster

  Men, Shoes, Gold Teeth

  Attributed in N.Y. Times, 6 Dec. 1925

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• I am not interested in the ephemeral - such subjects as the adulteries of dentists. I am interested in those things that repeat and repeat and repeat in the lives of the millions.

  Thornton Wilder

  Ephemeral, Adultery, Not Interested

  1961 In the New York Times, 6 Mar.

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• One cannot see callers, answer the telephone, go to luncheons or dinners, visit the dentist or shoemaker, address charitable organizations in or from a bed; therefore a bed, in my experience, is simply bristling with ideas.

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  Organization, Ideas, Bed

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• You always think another time would have been ideal for you . . . the reality is there was no novocaine when you went to the dentist.

  Woody Allen

  Reality, Thinking, Ideals

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• I do not," I felt oddly appalled by her statement. "I'm an excellent liar. Ask my dentist. He swears I floss regularly.

  Darynda Jones

  Liars, Excellent, Swear

  Darynda Jones (2011). “Second Grave on the Left”, p.21, Macmillan

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• It's disquieting to reflect that one's dreams never symbolize one's real wishes, but always something Much Worse... If I really wanted to be passionately embraced by Peter, I should dream of dentists or gardening. I wonder what unspeakable depths of awfulness can only be expressed by the polite symbol of Peter's embraces?

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Dream, Real, Wish

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• Gradually the awful truth dawns on you: that Santa Claus was just the tip of the iceberg - that your future will not be the rollercoaster ride you'd imagined, that the world occupied by your parents, the world of washing the dishes, going to the dentist, weekend trips to the DIY superstore to buy floor tiles, is actually largely what people mean when they speak of 'life'.

  Paul Murray

  Life, Mean, Weekend

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• If you don’t care about something, one way to demonstrate your feelings is to say the word and then repeat the word with the letters S-C-H-M replacing the first letters. Somebody who didn’t care about dentists, for instance could say ‘Dentist, schmentists.

  Daniel Handler

  Feelings, Care, Letters

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• The first time that she spread her legs for him it had been like opening her jaws for the dentist.

  Tom Robbins

  Time, Legs, Firsts

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.208, Bantam

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• Acupuncturists
  Chiropractors
  Massage Therapists
  Dentists
  and more!

  Shirley MacLaine

  Laughter, Massage, Therapists

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• Cities are gentrified by the following types of people in sequence: first the risk-oblivious (artists), then the risk-aware (developers), finally the risk adverse (dentists from New Jersey).

  Bill Kraus

  Artist, Cities, People

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• Sentimentality and nostalgia are closely related. Kissing cousins. I have no time for nostalgia, though. Nostalgics believe the past is nicer than the present. It isn't. Or wasn't. Nostalgics want to cuddle the past like a puppy. But the past has bloody teeth and bad breath. I look into its mouth like a sorrowing dentist.

  Mal Peet

  Cousin, Believe, Kissing

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• Believe me, you have to have a certain confidence in your powers of descretion to let a dentist loose with a drill in your mouth less than an hour after you've...um...entertained his wife.

  Jojo Moyes

  Believe, Wife, Mouths

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• It seems to be a general belief that the will of God is to make things distasteful for us, like taking bad-tasting medicine when we are sick, or going to the dentist. Somebody needs to tell us that the sunrise is also God's will. There is the time of harvest, the harvest which will provide food and clothes for us, without which life could not be sustained on earth. God ordered the seasons-they are his will. In fact, the good things in life far outweigh the bad. There are more sunrises than cyclones.

  Charles L. Allen

  God, Things In Life, Medicine

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• Like going to the dentist, where you write: "Dental appointment today. All of the dentists in Boulder are 'holistic.' They can't fill a cavity but they're good for your soul. Your teeth rot, but apparently your spirit prospers."

  Ken Wilber

  Writing, Soul, Teeth

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