Quotes with hospital

  • The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.
  • Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.
  • Some fans get genuinely upset if I admit that a song that they held close to their heart was not based on actual events in my life. Like What Sarah Said : I was never in a waiting room in a hospital waiting for news that somebody was going to die.
  • I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be.
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  • Abigail Van Buren A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
    Abigail Van Buren
    American advice columnist and radio show host (1918 - 2013)
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  • Billy Campbell A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious. So, it's always a challenge, whether I'm lying in a hospital bed or flying around with a rocket pack on my back, or what have you. On the best of days, it's a challenge for me.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Samuel Goldwyn A Hospital is no place to be sick.
    Samuel Goldwyn
    American producer (1882 - 1974)
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  • Ben Vereen As I laid in the hospital bed I started thinking that I had a show to do. I was hoping the Doctor would put me together so I could do the show.
    Ben Vereen
    American actor, dancer and singer (1946 - )
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Barkley was the first of many American skyjackers whose primary interest was money; by 1972, the majority of the nation's hijackings would involve demands for ransom. Barkley himself was declared incompetent to stand trial in November 1971, at which point he was committed to a psychiatric hospital in Georgia.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Caitlin Doughty Dying in the sanitary environment of a hospital is a relatively new concept. In the late 19th century, dying at a hospital was reserved for people who had nothing and no one. Given the choice, a person wanted to die at home in their bed, surrounded by friends and family.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Carolyn Murphy Giving birth was the most amazing thing I've ever done. I'd been living in a Third World country, and I said, 'I'm going to just squat behind a tree.' I basically did that but in a chair in my living room. I didn't want a sterile hospital room. I didn't want doctors. I had a midwife.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Anne Tyler I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people’s hands, people used to be shocked because they’d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be.
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  • Aneurin Bevan I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales If I am to care for people in hospital I really must know every aspect of their treatment and to understand their suffering.
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  • Brunello Cucinelli If you buy a sweater for €1,000 and you know that the funds you are paying are also going to help to build a hospital and a school, wouldn't you think better about it?
    Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
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  • Barbra Streisand My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • J. G. Ballard My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a grudge against the human race.
    Crash (1973)
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Bob Dole President Obama came to visit me in the hospital. He said, 'I wish you were still in the Senate; I need your help.' I'm not certain I can help on everything. Maybe some things.
    Bob Dole
    American politician and attorney (1923 - )
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  • Agnes Smedley So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Society is a hospital of incurables.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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