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

• All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Time
  • World
  • Power

• Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • American
  • Study

• Trust him to have his bitter politics Against his unacquaintances the rich. Who sleep in houses of their own, though mortgaged. Conservatives, they don't know what to save.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Trust
  • Sleep
  • Politics

• Let all the learned say what they can, 'tis ready money makes the man.

  

  William Somervile
  • Man
  • Ready

• I knew that I couldn't lie beside her, without wanting to touch her. I couldn't have felt her breath come upon my mouth, without wanting to kiss her. And I couldn't have kissed her, without wanting to save her.

  

  Sarah Waters
  • Lying
  • Kissing
  • Felt

• [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