Martin H. Fischer Quotes

The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.

Martin H. Fischer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: physicist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 10, 1879 - January 19, 1962

Topics

ArtPracticeMedicinePlumber

When people hear the name 'Marco Polo,' they tend to think of a map or explorer. Very few people know the true story of Marco Polo, and it's so much more compelling and exciting than the mythology.

John Fusco

PeopleStoryThinkNameKnowTrue

Alienation, I suppose, can't be hackneyed because it will always exist.

Mike Birbiglia

WillAlwaysExistBecauseAlienation

Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open.

Miroslav Vitous

MeWeekPlayOpenEverythingMiles

Any time I hear certain songs I put in a movie, I have to not listen to them anymore because I associate them with that movie. They take on that association rather than the association I had when I first heard them. So it's kinda bittersweet to put a song in a movie, honestly.

Jonathan Levine

TimeSongListenFirstBittersweet

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Doris Lessing

ChangeAgeGreatPeopleYouBody

I'm not naturally an extrovert. I'm a writer - I sit in a room by myself making things up. That is where I'm happiest.

Paula Hawkins

MyselfUpRoomThingsSitWhere

Everyone in my family is pretty much tone-deaf.

Tobias Jesso, Jr.

FamilyEveryonePrettyMuch

Moving into an unoccupied village when there's no opposition, I don't call that a military victory.

Norman Schwarzkopf

MovingVictoryVillageMilitaryCall

I prefer to express myself physically, or non-verbally. I prefer just to react without having a lot of dialogue.

Marisa Tomei

MyselfReactDialogueWithoutJust

Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class.

Martin Cruz Smith

DressBookBackClassCalifornia

Fiction should be an ethically safe space, free of fancy ideas. It should be dedicated modestly to relationships or escapism or the needs of luscious voyeurs.

Lydia Millet

SpaceIdeasFreeRelationshipsSafe

Britney proposing to me on a plane three months after we met, and getting married two months later was just us living in the moment. I really thought I'd spend the rest of my life with her.

Kevin Federline

LifeMomentMeRestThoughtMy Life

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