The cliche¤   of whites being ignorant of blacks was not only true, but understandable.Oh, but we knew them with the intimacy of a surgeon's scalpel.

-Angelou, Maya originally MayaJohnson
The Heart of a Woman, ch.12.

Un Picasso e¤  tudie un objet comme un chirurgien disse'  que un cadavre. A Picasso studies an object like a surgeon dissects a corpse.

-Kostrowitzki
  Les Peintres cubistes; Me¤  ditations esthe¤  tiques,'Sur la peinture, 2'.

A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 30.

-Boyer, Dr Ernest L
  In People,17 Mar.

They're killing the game with this phoney mystiqueötelling people that a guy needs the abilities of a brain surgeon to play left-guard for the Colts. Football is simply a game to keep the coalminers off the streets.

-Breslin,Jimmy
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

If there's a plastic surgeon who claims to be responsible for this face, then New York State will decertify him immediately.

-Cuomo, Mario Matthew
  On reports that he had undergone plastic surgery. In Newsweek,11 Nov.

The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the distempered part; Beneath the bleeding hands we feel The sharp compassion of the healer's art Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.4.

Dura est manus cirurgi, sed sanans. The hand of the surgeon is hard, but healing.

-Map,Walter
c.1181 De Nugis Curialium, Distinction 4, ch.4.

Thurber did not write the waya surgeon operates, he wrotethewayachildskipsrope,thewayamousewaltzes.

-White, E(lwyn) B(rooks)
  In the NewYorker,11 Nov.Tribute toJamesThurber.