Wilfred Trotter Quotes
It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those of the painter or sculptor. ... That proposition does not admit of discussion. It is a product of the intellectual innocence which I think we surgeons may fairly claim to possess, and which is happily not inconsistent with a quite adequate worldly wisdom.
Wilfred Trotter
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Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.
Ambrose Bierce
I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.
Chuck D
I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them.
Arno Penzias
You do not boo an Olympic Gold Medalist. I'm the best in the world. I came here for you. You don't boo me.
Kurt Angle
Creating music based on art and giving away from your spirit is more important than making a living.
Arturo O'Farrill
The Bible is not just one book, but an entire library, with stories, songs, poetry, letters and history, as well as literature that might more obviously qualify as 'religious.'
John Drane
The best way to look at aging is to see it as an opportunity to leave what didn't work behind and step boldly into a brand new future.
Oprah Winfrey
Sandoz turned and accepted the book, looking at the spine. "Aeschylus?" Wordlessly, Guiuliani pointed out the passage, and Emilio studied it a while, slowly translating the Greek in his mind. Finally, he said, " ' In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, againstour will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.' "
Mary Doria Russell
Evidently what in the fiction of the story serves in all innocence to reach the heart of the reader becomes an abomination for one who feels the echo of the facts she has really lived.
Elena Ferrante
Labor is service and service is life. And when we serve something more than ourselves, we feel alive.
Anthony Robbins
It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those of the painter or sculptor. ... That proposition does not admit of discussion. It is a product of the intellectual innocence which I think we surgeons may fairly claim to possess, and which is happily not inconsistent with a quite adequate worldly wisdom.
Wilfred Trotter
