Biopsy Quotes

• My bones are as hard as a rock. Every time I have a biopsy, the doctors are doing hand exercises a week, ten days out.

  Don Baylor

  Sports, Exercise, Doctors

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• Taking a biopsy often aggravates and stimulates growth - and does not indicate how many secondary tumors have developed.

  Charles Horace Mayo

  Dark, Growth, Age

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• The moment the doctor said he wanted to do a biopsy, in my heart I thought I'd probably got it. But I also know a lot of people who have also had prostate cancer, so I had a reasonably good idea what to expect.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Cancer, Heart, Doctors

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• Literary studies were no more than a series of autopsies performed by heartless technicians. Worse than autopsies: biopsies. Vivisection. Even movies, which I love more than anything, more than life itself, they even do it with movies these days.

  Stephen Fry

  Heartless, Vivisection, Study

  Stephen Fry (2014). “Making History”, p.9, Soho Press

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• There's no bigger atheist than me. Well, I take that back. I'm a cancer screening away from going agnostic and a biopsy away from full-fledged Christian.

  Adam Carolla

  Christian, Atheist, Cancer

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• A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think autonomously for itself.

  Will Self

  Thinking, Stories, Vignettes

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