Root Canals Quotes

• Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic.

  Al Goldstein

  Sex, Roots, Married

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• When you have a cavity in your tooth and you let it get worse, eventually you have to get a root canal. If you have something that isn't right, the earlier you treat it the easier the treatment is going to be. That's kind of common sense.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Roots, Common Sense, Teeth

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• The last time I had this much fun was a root-canal operation.

  Larry Ziegler

  Fun, Golf, Roots

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• Homework, root canals, and deadlines are the important things in life, and only when we have these major dramas taken care of can we presume to look at the larger questions.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Drama, Taken, Roots

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• I've come to look upon death the same way I look upon root-canal work. Everyone else seems to get through it all right, so it couldn't be too difficult for me.

  Joseph Heller

  Roots, Looks, Way

  Joseph Heller, Adam J. Sorkin (1993). “Conversations with Joseph Heller”, p.176, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I hate dentists. That's why my tooth fell out. I was in the middle of a root canal and wouldn't go back, so it just dropped out when I was in the middle of Fifth Avenue. I had to do the Calvin Klein show without the tooth.

  Kate Moss

  Hate, Roots, Teeth

  Interview with Glenn O’Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 25, 2008.

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• Love is the grand prize and the garbage heap. Love is a spiritual root canal and the only thing that makes life worth living. Love is a little taste of always and a big bite of nothing. And love is everything in between these extremes.

  Robert Fulghum

  Spiritual, Love Is, Roots

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• I had rather get a root canal without anesthesia than to call your customer service office for help.

  Jon Jones

  Roots, Office, Anesthesia

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• So we took out those 3 root canals when she had 3-6 months to live. And that was 6 years ago, and she is still alive today, and MRI can't find the tumour anymore. It went away.

  Hal Huggins

  Cancer, Roots, Years

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• Marriage. It's a hard term to define. Especially for me--I've ducked it like root canal. Still there's no denying the fact that marriage ranks right up there with birth and death as one of the three biggies in the human safari. It's the only one though that we'll celebrate with a conscious awareness. Very few of you remember your arrival and even fewer of you will attend your own funeral.

  Andrew Schneider

  Roots, Funeral, Biggie

  "Fictional character: Chris Stevens". "Northern Exposure/ Our Wedding", www.imdb.com. 1992.

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• I could give you absolutely sterling advice on how to avoid writing, how when you run out of things to do other than going to your desk and writing, when every closet is reorganized and you've called your oldest living relative twice in one day to see what she's up to and there isn't an unanswered e-mail left on your computer or you simply can't bear to answer another one and there is no dignity, not a drop left, in any further evasion of the task at hand, namely writing, well, you can always ask your dentist for a root canal or have an accident in the bathtub instead.

  Tony Kushner

  Running, Writing, Hands

  "We Call That Failure Art" by Tony Kushner, www.newyorker.com. October 31, 2013.

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• The average household might prepare for root canal, traffic accident, unemployment or illness, but how the household will meet, manage and even survive violent crime is the most neglected area of household management.

  John Longenecker

  Average, Roots, Unemployment

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• Remember, the political idea being expressed a year ago was that because the GOP interpreted its 1994 mandate as a call to budget-balancing austerity, the electorate would never give the White House to the GOP if its nominee was also a root-canal austerian.

  Jude Wanniski

  Years, Ideas, Roots

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• I have had a number of patients with breast cancer, all of whom had root canals on the tooth related to the breast area on the associated energy meridian.

  John Diamond

  Cancer, Roots, Numbers

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• dating you would be like a series of unnecessary root canals interspersed with occasional makeout sessions.

  John Green

  Roots, Dating, Would Be

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.85, Penguin

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