William Ernest Henley Quotes

[T]hey stretch you on a table. Then they bid you close your eyelids, And they mask you with a napkin, And the anæsthetic reaches Hot and subtle through your being.

William Ernest Henley

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• If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • You
  • Everyone
  • Hot

• Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Hot
  • Iron
  • Brainy

• Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Man
  • Head
  • Medical

• With 'Mask,' 'Smooth Talk' and 'Blue Velvet,' I loved the specific experiences so much. Each one was a specific filmmaker with a specific vision.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Vision
  • Blue
  • Mask

• Nature can do more than physicians.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Nature
  • More
  • Medical

• With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • School
  • Help
  • High

• I used to worry about what would happen five or 10 years from now, but I don't anymore. I thought about going to medical school because that has always interested me, but decided against it.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • School
  • Worry
  • Thought

• My hair is naturally straight, and I maintain its texture. My weekly indulgence is an egg-white and olive oil hair mask that deep-conditions and adds incredible shine.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Hair
  • Deep
  • Shine

• I used to be one of the lead actors of a theatre group called Hetu when I was in medical school. Prithvi Theatre was our stomping ground. I'd got many positive reviews.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • School
  • Positive
  • Theatre

• I love England. I don't really like places when they're too hot. It's my Celtic blood.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Love
  • Blood
  • Hot

• KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Kiss
  • Entertainment
  • Vegas

• What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialized language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Learning
  • Empathy
  • Medical

• I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then British colonization, against Nasser, against Sadat who pushed me into prison, Mubarak who pushed me into exile. I never stopped.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • College
  • Fighting
  • Child

• A hospital is no place to be sick.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Sick
  • Place
  • Medical

• No one plans to get sick or hurt - I certainly didn't - but most people will need medical care at some point in their lives.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Sick

• As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Experience
  • Wish
  • Medical

• I can still memory - taste the fresh buttermilk pancakes and hot buttermilk biscuits - both made with lard! - that were cooked on the top, or in the oven, of that ancient iron stove.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • Memory
  • Hot
  • Iron

• Consider this: I can go to Antarctica and get cash from an ATM without a glitch, but should I fall ill during my travels, a hospital there could not access my medical records or know what medications I am on.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Medical
  • Cash
  • Hospital

• In other words, all these things you might cling to, Catholicism, democratic ideals, Hasidism, Marxism, Freudianism, all of these things are exposed through use of psychedelics as simply quaint cultural artifacts, painted masks and rattles assembled by people of good intent but clearly not great grasp of the situation.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Situation
  • Democratic
  • Mask

• The fun thing about getting older is finding younger people to mentor.

  

  Mike May
  • People
  • Things
  • Getting

• The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Work
  • Love
  • Me

• I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to publish my book.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Myself

• [T]hey stretch you on a table. Then they bid you close your eyelids, And they mask you with a napkin, And the anæsthetic reaches Hot and subtle through your being.

  

  William Ernest Henley
  • Medical
  • Hot
  • Mask