Appendix Quotes

When we heard it was her appendix, we all thought the worst. But then, it turned out to be kidney stones. - Tom Eagleson

We will now incorporate this (state) plan into the health department's all-emergencies preparedness plan. It will become like an appendix. - Sarah Burkholder

The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I went down to 112 pounds and realized my brain doesn't work when I'm that thin, so I can't do my job. That's why, when I came out here, I never had that whole Hollywood pressure thing. - Carey Mulligan

The pioneer and harbinger of irreconcilable enmity (with Iran) was the American government and its Zionist appendix in the Middle East. - Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon us the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb. We do not choose our problems, we do not choose our products; we are pushed, we are forced / by what? By a system which has no purpose and goal transcending it, and which makes man its appendix. - Erich Fromm

The modern king has become a vermiform appendix - useless when quiet, when obtrusive in danger of removal. - Austin O'Malley

The governor's doctors have indicated that there has been a slow return of normal digestive function because of the ruptured appendix. A date has not been set for the governor to be discharged, and doctors will continue to evaluate the governor on a daily basis. - David Catalfamo

The appendix itself and its apparent uselessness is a flimsy basis for a worldview. - Dave Freer

Progress is the process whereby the human race is getting rid of whiskers, the veriform appendix and God. - Henry Louis Mencken

It should be done with the same degree of alacrity and nonchalance that you would display in authorizing a highly intelligent trained bear to remove your appendix. - Daniel S. Greenberg