Heart Surgery Quotes:

Meanwhile in my head, I’m undergoing open-heart surgery.

- Anne Sexton

source: Anne Sexton (2001). “Transformations”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Heart, Open Heart, Surgery, Heart Surgery

Some people think plant-based diet, whole foods diet is extreme. Half a million people a year will have their chests opened up and a vein taken from their leg and sewn onto their coronary artery. Some people would call that extreme.

- Caldwell Esselstyn

topic: Taken, Thinking, Years, Cardiologist, Healthy Eating

Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually about 'having a stent put in,' as if they had their tires rotated.

- Roger Ebert

topic: Heart, People, Typical, Heart Surgery

I have had heart surgery three times, so I know what it was like to have pins and needles stuck in you.

- Josh Ryan Evans

topic: Heart, Three, Pins, Heart Surgery

When I go in for heart surgery, I want a full-time surgeon. I don't want some guy who just does it part-time between rounds of golf. You want a guy who is doing it all the time and is always reading and learning about the most recent techniques.

- Don Meyer

topic: Basketball, Reading, Heart, Reading And Learning, Part Time

[when asked about what he was most thankful about]: Being alive. After heart surgery, you dig that part. Breath, family and friends are just amazing. Just to have a second shot is pretty great!

- Robin Williams

topic: Thanksgiving, Heart, Family And Friends, Heart Surgery

I would never do hard-core pornography, because it looks too much like open-heart surgery.

- John Waters

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Heart, Looks, Too Much, Hard Core, Heart Surgery

Fifteen years ago tomorrow I had open heart surgery, a quintuple bypass surgery. Thanks to all of my doctors. Because of them, in 15 years of life I've been able to experience, well, acid reflux, short-term memory loss, and erectile dysfunction. Thanks for all your work. It's great to be alive.

- David Letterman

topic: Memories, Heart, Loss, Memory Loss, Acid Reflux

Let's face it, the human body is like a condominium apartment. The thing that keeps you really enjoying it is the maintenance. There's a tremendous amount of daily, weekly, monthly and yearly work that has to be done. From showering to open heart surgery, we're always doing something to ourselves. If your body was a used car, you wouldn't buy it.

- Jerry Seinfeld

topic: Heart, Car, Faces, Used Car, Heart Surgery

The only thing left that shows I was a heart patient is I have a scar down the middle of my chest where they went in three times to do open heart surgery. I have a brand new heart inside, and all the mechanical and electronic gear and so forth is all gone.

- Dick Cheney

topic: Heart, Three, Gone, Heart Surgery

How much more can you give? Other than, literally, open-heart surgery onstage? Not much. But the only cure you have right now is the honesty of going, this is who you are. I know who I am.

- Robin Williams

topic: Honesty, Heart, Who I Am, Heart Surgery

Taking Viagra after open heart surgery is like a Civil War re-enactment with live ammo. Not good.

- Robin Williams

source: "Robin Williams: Weapons of Self Destruction". Documentary, www.imdb.com. December 6, 2009.

topic: War, Heart, Viagra, Ammo, Heart Surgery

I have a charity called the Chain Of Hope, where we target children from poor areas where heart surgery is not available, and we offer our services.

- Magdi Yacoub

topic: Children, Heart, Target, Heart Surgery

I was 48-years old before anybody talked me into it for medicinal purposes, instead of some of these drugs that they give you that will lead you to heart surgery and things of that nature.

- Merle Haggard

topic: Heart, Years, Giving, Heart Surgery

To write poetry, like sincere poetry, it is like performing heart surgery on yourself without anesthesia...in public...You are peeling back layers. You are dissecting yourself...You do not know what they [the audience] is going to do when you reach into yourself and rip out your organs to be displayed

- Amir Sulaiman

topic: Rip, Writing, Heart, Peeling, Dissecting

So far, I should be calm and more specifically not like that...Anything else? Would you like to do surgery on my personality? How about open-heart surgery? I´ve got some tools

- Julianna Baggott

topic: Heart, Personality, Tools, Heart Surgery

If my wife is cooking a meal at home, which is not often, thankfully, but you know, she's doing (oh, she's good at some things) but if she's cooking, you know, she's dealing with people on the phone, she's talking to the kids, she's painting the ceiling, she's doing open-heart surgery over here; if I'm cooking, the door is shut, the kids are out, the phone's on the hook, if she comes in I get annoyed, I say "Terry, please, I'm trying to fry an egg in here, give me a break.".

- Ken Robinson

topic: Heart, Kids, Home, Heart Surgery

My daughter, when she was a week old, was diagnosed with congenital heart disease. For the past thirteen years, she's had four major heart surgeries. She's a candidate for - and must have - heart replacement surgery in order to have a long life.

- Nick Cassavetes

source: Interview With Scott B., www.ign.com. February 14, 2002.

topic: Daughter, Mother, Heart, Candidates, Heart Surgery

Most of the really good songs are dead true. ... It had to have happened to have the song be there. Every time I've tried to make stuff up it just kind of falls flat. So the majority of my work is something that happened to me, I saw happen to someone else, or a friend of mine told me happened. There is a certain amount of theatrical and poetic license. People are supposed to like it, that's why you're doing it. It's supposed to be fun. It's not brain surgery, it's heart surgery. They're just songs.

- Guy Clark

topic: Song, Fun, Fall, Poetic License, Brain Surgery

I've done millions of mediocre movies. I've done way more than my fair share. You do what you gotta do. This is not heart surgery. I'm not curing cancer. I'm just trying to put my kids through school.

- Ron Perlman

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Cancer, Heart, School, Fair Share, Heart Surgery

I hate those TV shows where characters talk about one thing, such as their patient on the operation table (let's say they're a doctor), then you realize they're actually talking about actually talking about themselves. The patient's open-heart surgery is nothing compared to their own messed-up heart or whatever. It's selfish. And means they're not concentrating, which is medical negligence.

- Jaclyn Moriarty

source: Jaclyn Moriarty (2010). “The Ghosts Of Ashbury High”, p.112, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Hate, Selfish, Character, Heart Surgery