Clinicians Choice Quotes & Sayings

We don't really know how technology will affect narrative. That's the question. See, people used to say that the novel is going to die, but they would never say that movies will die with it, when in fact all forms depend on the narrative. I think if one of them fails, the others are going to fail as well. Maybe this will happen to both forms, and maybe movies will take a totally different direction with fiction. — Don DeLillo

One day" she told them, "when you have retired, you will go to live with a family who will love you for your beauty and nothing more, and if you're very lucky there will be children, and the children will pet you and pet you and pet you. Ossin has a list, I think, of such children; he sends his hunting-staff out during the months they are not needed for that work, to look for them, and add names to the list." The fleethounds stared back at her with their enormous dark liquid eyes, and believed every word. — Robin McKinley

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

This is not very important what I'm doing. I'm just proving something. — Richard P. Feynman

As long as one feels that he is the doer, he cannot escape from the wheel of births. — Gautama Buddha

As men and women of character and of faith in the soundness of democratic methods, we must work like dogs to justify that faith. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

She could not mourn. She could no longer weep grasping the essence of annihilation, she wished only to cease, to be no more, as if sunk in some profound sleep devoid of wakening. — Tanith Lee

If you don't like vampire games, don't play — Vivian Vande Velde

I started thinking: 'Okay, what's wrong with wearing a bikini? I look better than I looked in quite a few years, so why not? What am I afraid of? — Valerie Bertinelli

Til undeath do us part. — Nancy Haddock

But now the problem we face is ineptitude, or maybe it's "eptitude" - making sure we apply the knowledge we have consistently and correctly. Just making the right treatment choice among the many options for a heart attack patient can be difficult, even for expert clinicians. — Atul Gawande

One of the last episodes was all about a flood. We were working in the rain till all hours, and it was muddy and it was cold and it was damp, and it was hours under the hoses. That was not pleasant. That was not pleasant. — Derek Jacobi