Surgery Quotes - Page 8

• Sudden and slashing reforms are as perilous as sudden and slashing surgery.

  Russell Kirk

  Reform

  Russell Kirk (2014). “The Politics of Prudence”, p.34, Open Road Media

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• Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children.

  Diane Cilento

  Mother, Children, Doctors

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• I'd never say no to surgery in the future, because I feel like, as I get older, I'm going to face temptation more.

  Marcia Cross

  Temptation, Faces, Feels

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• Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.

  Nadia Giosia

  Italian, Rockets

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• It is a grueling position (catching). My knees will tell you that. I've had nine knee surgeries. I've had a couple of broken thumbs, one on each hand. I can look back at it and say it's worth it to be enshrined in Cooperstown. I don't have any pain in my knees right now.

  Gary Carter

  Couple, Pain, Hands

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• When you're the spokeswoman for a weight-loss program, everything is witnessed. I weigh in once a week with a witness. I have to sign an affidavit saying I cannot have any surgeries.

  Kirstie Alley

  Loss, Weight, Week

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• I have had heart surgery three times, so I know what it was like to have pins and needles stuck in you.

  Josh Ryan Evans

  Heart, Three, Pins

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• I haven't had any problems with my back since I got the foot surgery.

  Merle Haggard

  Feet, Problem, Havens

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• You can't make a recipe for something as complicated as surgery. Instead, you can make a recipe for how to have a team that's prepared for the unexpected.

  Atul Gawande

  Motivation, Team, Inspiration

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• Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.

  Vince Neil

  Men, Thinking, Glimpse

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• I was in a play directed by my father, and I was doing a fight scene, and the choreography went haywire, and I flew backward over a chair and ripped my thumb all the way to my wrist and had to have surgery to sew up all the tendons in there.

  Jeremy Piven

  Father, Fighting, Play

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• I don't want to be vain or fearful, and I don't think I'll do anything [in terms of plastic surgery], but if I want to do something, I will. From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death.

  Drew Barrymore

  Thinking, Perspective, Age

  "ELLE's August cover girl on her latest film, her new outlook, and refusing to settle". Elle Interview, www.elle.com. July 8, 2010.

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• I don't believe for one second that the eye surgery has helped me on the mound

  Greg Maddux

  Sports, Believe, Eye

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• Eventually, Americans would be stuck with government-run health care whether they like it or not. That's when the worst scenario would take shape, with Americans subjected to bureaucratic hassles, hours spent on hold waiting for a government service rep to take a call, restrictions on care, and, yes, lifesaving treatment and lifesaving surgeries denied or delayed.

  Mitch McConnell

  Running, Government, Waiting

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• 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

  Pain, Elbows, Able

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• It's tricky to say 'never,' but I will never have plastic surgery.

  Lili Taylor

  Plastic, Plastic Surgery, Tricky

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• Right after Dynasty ended I had a facelift and laser surgery to get rid of lines around my eyes.

  Linda Evans

  Eye, Dynasty, Lines

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• 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

  Brain, Mind, Language

  Mark Pagel (2012). “Wired for Culture: The Natural History of Human Cooperation”, p.290, Penguin UK

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• Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job.

  Paul Schullery

  Jobs, Lakes, Sea

  Paul Schullery, Marsha Karle (2013). “The Fishing Life: An Angler's Tales of Wild Rivers and Other Restless Metaphors”, p.23, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Writing is not something you can do or you can't. It's not even something that 'other people do' or 'for smart people only' or even 'for people who finished school and went to University'. Nonsense. Anyone can do it. But no-one can do it straight off the bat. Like plastering, brain surgery or assembling truck engines, you have to do a bit of training - get your hands dirty - and make some mistakes.

  Jasper Fforde

  Mistake, Smart, Dirty

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• The surgery will always be a huge part of my life. I'm going to need to help people with weight problems for the rest of my life so that I can maintain my weight.

  Carnie Wilson

  Weight Problems, People, Needs

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• Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.

  Jay Samit

  Self, Disruption, Scalpels

  Twitter post from May 20, 2016

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• I'm all for women who get plastic surgery, because plastic surgery allows you to make your outer appearance resemble your inner appearance — fakeWe have shows like Extreme Make-Over: “I
  don't want to develop a personality, just cut my face! Stretch it and staple it. Now I'm happy, or at least I look like it.

  Daniel Tosh

  Funny, Humor, Cutting

  "True Stories I Made Up". Audio CD Album, 2005.

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• If you want to become an Islamic radical and have yourself circumcised, I invite you to come to Moscow... I would recommend that he who does the surgery does it so you'll have nothing growing back afterward.

  Vladimir Putin

  Islamic, Doe, Moscow

  "The EU's Chechnya challenge" by Andrew Osborn, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2003.

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• In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War (1853-1856), watched one particularly inept surgeon cut both himself and, somehow, a bystander while blundering about during an amputation. Both men contracted an infection and died, as did the patient. Nightingale commented that it was the only surgery she'd ever seen with 300 percent mortality.

  Sam Kean

  War, Cutting, Men

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