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Quotes About Dentist

An aching tooth is better out than in. To lose a rotting member is a gain.
~ Richard Baxter
He brushed his teeth carefully and used dental floss. He tried to take good care of his teeth because he was his own dentist now. Some things could go to pot, but not his health, he thought. Then why don't you stop pouring alcohol into yourself? he thought. Why don't you shut the hell up? he thought.
~ Richard Matheson
hygienist. But
~ Kate DiCamillo
It's a funny relationship that makeup artists have. I always feel kind of like a dentist. People look at me and think of pain.
~ Rick Baker
The dentist followed the children's gaze and fixed her eyes on Alfie. "Oh yes, I thought it might be you…" Miss Root's long, thin, gnarled finger pointed straight at him. "You, boy. Come to Mummy…" When Alfie's shaking legs finally propelled him to the front of the hall, he looked into the dentist's eyes for the first time. Miss Root's eyes were black. Blacker than oil. Blacker than coal. Blacker than the blackest black.
~ David Walliams
Sweating profusely, the thirsty dentist took a large swig of mouthwash,
~ David Walliams
He won a free teeth-bleaching, upper and lower arches, in a dentist's lottery. It explained his too-easy grin and his drinking coffee through a straw during what would later be classified as our first date.
~ Elinor Lipman
I should have been grateful to him, and I was—the way I was grateful to my dentist after he had filled a big cavity without anesthesia.
~ Elizabeth Peters
The man had a way of making her feel that she was altogether a rather remarkable woman, a person of subtle and exotic talents, fascinating beyond measure; and what a very different thing that was from the dentist husband at home who never succeeded in making her feel that she was anything but a sort of eternal patient, someone who dwelt in the waiting room, silent among the magazines, seldom if ever nowadays to be called in to suffer the finicky precise ministrations of those clean pink hands.
~ Roald Dahl
Are you so very hungry? asked Dorothy, in wonder. You can hardly imagine the size of my appetite, replied the Tiger, sadly. It seems to fill my whole body, from the end of my throat to the tip of my tail. I am very sure the appetite doesn't fit me, and is too large for the size of my body. Some day, when I meet a dentist with a pair of forceps, I'm going to have it pulled. What, your tooth? asked Dorothy. No, my appetite, said the Hungry Tiger.
~ L. Frank Baum
With a sudden pressure heralded by pricks of sweat along my drastically receding hairline, I swab the bottom of my salad plate with a vast hunk of bread and jam it into my mouth like a dentist packing a tooth. And just then-ah yes-I feel the niggling onset of a sneeze; here it comes, Hail Mary, bread or no bread, nothing can halt the shouting simultaneous eruption of every cavity in my head.
~ Jennifer Egan
Dentist: a prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coin out of your pocket.
~ Ambrose Bierce
I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
~ Casey Stengel
I'd rather go to the dentist... but I'm going.
~ Phil Gramm
I was a bio major, and I was going to take over my aunt's dental practice and be a dentist.
~ Michael Steger
I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways.
~ Augusten Burroughs
It's a funny relationship that makeup artists have. I always feel kind of like a dentist. People look at me and think of pain.
~ Rick Baker
It is a bad thing to bite into hard fruit with little teeth. You will say bad things about the fruit when the problem is your teeth.
~ Rita Williams-Garcia
Jake looked a little more sorrowful as he picked his teeth. Kilt a dentist, he said. A pure accident, but I kilt him.... Well, I've always considered dentistry a dangerous profession, Augustus said. Making a living by yanking people's teeth out is asking for trouble.
~ Larry McMurtry
Dentist: a prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coin out of your pocket.
~ Ambrose Bierce
I didn't want to have braces when I was a kid and I'm pretty sure my dad didn't want to pay for them.
~ Jessica Pare
Teeth extracted! Almost painless! Cheap, very cheap!
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Sometimes, giving up your privacy is a little like going to the dentist and we have let him have access that no one's ever had.
~ Tom Petty
I feel like clout is something that builds up on your teeth.
~ Andrew Mason