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Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis. -- Alfred P. Sloan
But I know somebody who has a bedside urinal. How do I compete with that? -- Lara Flynn Boyle
Finnegans Wake,' 'Alice and Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass' live on my bedside table back home in London. -- Elizabeth Jagger
I sleep with my gun on my bedside table. I live alone; it is my protection and makes me feel safer. -- Alana Stewart
The growing professional disciplines of medical ethics and bioethics have had a profound impact on researchers, bedside doctors, associations of physicians, and government. -- Sherwin B. Nuland
You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time. -- Abraham Verghese
I'm not lonely, and I think that has a lot to do with what's on my bedside table rather than what's in my bed. -- Michelle Williams
I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient. -- Patrick Soon-Shiong
Hospitals are very extreme places - you can be in a maternity room one minute, and by someone's bedside as they're dying the next. -- James Purefoy
A thoughtful cup of tea brought to your bedside each morning means more to me than the huge bouquet of flowers bought once a year. -- Penny Jordan
Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away. -- Earl Nightingale
After all, at end of the day, when you're breathing your last, it's not your producer, director, or cast mates by your bedside; it's your children. Keep that in mind. -- John Ratzenberger
I always have several books on the go at any one moment, so it's no good you asking 'What's on the bedside table at the moment, Emma?' because often I can't even see the table! -- Emma Watson
I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation. -- Gabriel Byrne
I usually plan to read a book for a half-hour before bed, but then I end up staying awake until 3 A.M. to finish it. Fortunately, my dog doesn't mind when I keep the bedside lamp on. -- Amanda Hocking
I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously. -- Mal Peet
I write everything down. I e-mail the second I think of something, or I write notes in my BlackBerry calendar. I set up reminder alerts on my phone. And I have a notebook by my bedside so I can write down any last-minute ideas. -- Giada De Laurentiis
What is for sale, what is not? If we really think that making your apologies to your wife or reading a bedside story to your child are activities that we can pay a stranger to do, then, without moralising, what has happened to us? -- Arlie Russell Hochschild
I sleep with my gun on my bedside table. I live alone; it is my protection and makes me feel safer. I have had to pull it out a few times when I have heard noises at night, but I've never had to use it. -- Alana Stewart
I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient whose care I am taking over is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it's only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important. -- Abraham Verghese
There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside. -- Zhang Ziyi
One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others'. My bedside is piled with books, but it's duty reading: books for book research, books for review. The ones I pine for are off on a shelf downstairs. -- Mary Roach
I tell residents, if you gave me two patients with identical problems, and one of them had family at the bedside with a lot of laughter, plus photos and a quilt from home, and next door was another patient who was alone every time I came by - I'm going to be very nervous about the isolated patient's mental status. -- Allan Hamilton
Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose. -- Mitt Romney
Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind? -- Vladimir Nabokov
Waking up each morning to a hysterical alarm clock on the bedside table. -- Paulo Coelho
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere. -- William S. Burroughs
I kiss her ghost, and sleep with the dust on her photograph, next to my bedside. -- Anthony Liccione
A good conscience will be found a pleasant visitor at our bedside in a dying hour. -- J. C. Ryle
When you know you are dying, self-deceptions fly from your bedside like embers off a bonfire. -- Darin Strauss
Keep a note pad and pencil on your bedside table. Million-dollar ideas sometimes strike at 3 A.M. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading. -- Barbara Pym
Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity. -- William Osler
In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner. -- Eric Ambler
When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside: "Am I dying or is this my birthday?" -- Nancy Astor
Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking it's passage for some reason. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
You try spending six months sitting at somebody's bedside, waiting for them to die and then tell me that the happy-ending love story isn't one of God's good gifts. -- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
A quarter past three," she exclaimed, catching sight of the bedside clock. "What a time to be drinking tea!" "Anytime," Harold told her, "is time to be drinking tea. -- Miss Read
Last but not least, she put on a pair of black-framed reading glasses she'd found on Mr. Mercer's bedside table. If it worked for Clark Kent, it'd work for her. -- Sara Shepard
My last bedside conversation in the hospital just a few weeks before Allen Ginsberg died was 'please take care of so and so. And the legacy of the Kerouac school. -- Anne Waldman
For those of us who have been diagnosed with cancer, time is a precious commodity. The time and distance from the scientist's lab bench to the patient's bedside must be shortened. -- Larry Lucchino
Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement. Legend tells us that Lincoln's dying mother called her small son to her bedside and whispered, 'Be somebody, Abe'. -- Wilferd Peterson
Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly. -- Richard Wright
He has been named as the heir apparent of the great Argentine hero, Diego Maradona, by journalists, players, and Maradona himself, alike. I'd personally put him in a drawer of my bedside table. -- Franz Beckenbauer
I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents to raise enough money to bring a first-class surgeon to his bedside, -- Tommy Douglas
A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside. -- Dean Koontz

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