Chuck Klosterman Quotes

I'd make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list.

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

I was asked by an NPR reporter once why don't I talk about race that often. I said, 'It's because I'm a neurosurgeon.' And she thought that was a strange response... I said, 'You see, when I take someone to the operating room, I'm actually operating on the thing that makes them who they are. The skin doesn't make them who they are.'

My dad was a surgeon in Egypt. He was a general surgeon. As a little boy I always admired what he was doing, and I wanted to do surgery.

I temporarily became a surgeon for 'Memory of Love'. I spent two weeks in an operating theatre, watching amputations, and I loved it.

My vantage point on the world is the operating room where I see my patients.

At heart, I'm a reconstructive surgeon.

It wasn't the 'miracle of engineering' that is the human body that was filling me with a mad desire to live my days and nights in a pair of scrubs. The hard truth was I did not remotely want to be a surgeon. I actually just wanted to be on 'Grey's Anatomy.'

At 10, I was intrigued by surgery, I wanted to be a surgeon for a long time. I love doctor shows and surgery shows. Blood is not an issue for me. I even took pictures once of me getting my blood taken.

I drank more wine when I wasn't working as much, to be honest.

A surgical operation is bloody, messy and never fun.

I think I'm a good actor, but to replicate tens of thousands of man hours in surgery is really hard.

The place where we were operating was not fit to be called an operating room. Aseptic work had not been done in it for some years. The floor could not be scrubbed properly, or the water would go through on the laboratories below.

When I was little, I wanted to be a plastic surgeon.

I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day.

Football has never left me. I still wake up in the morning and think of the operating room like a game, like it's showtime, let's perform.

My original plan was to be a surgeon.

My father's a dermatologic surgeon; my brother's a surgeon.

I am dying to play the role of a surgeon and if there is a medical series on TV, I would love to do it.

Remember, your body needs 6 to 8 glasses of fluid daily. Straight up or on the rocks.

The scrub sink...is the place where doctors wash their hands after they operate so that they won't get flecks of your vital organs on their Lexus upholstery.

I don't mind 800 million Chinese drinking a bottle [of Coca-Cola] a day, but I don't want them to bring back the empties.

I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars.

I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I told myself.