#bedside

Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away. ↗

— Earl Nightingale

#bedside #before #best #during #elusive

Hospitals are very extreme places - you can be in a maternity room one minute, and by someone's bedside as they're dying the next. ↗

— James Purefoy

#dying #extreme #hospitals #maternity #minute

Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#asked #because #bedside #could #dad

After all, at end of the day, when you're breathing your last, it's not your producer, director, or cast mates by your bedside; it's your children. Keep that in mind. ↗

— John Ratzenberger

#bedside #breathing #cast #children #day

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis. ↗

— Alfred P. Sloan

#diagnosis #manners #right #substitute

Dr. Bone Specialist came in, made me stand up and hobble across the room, checked my reflexes, and then made me lie down on the table. He bent my right knee this way and that, up and down, all the way out to the side and in. Then he did the same with my left leg. He ordered X rays then started to leave the room. I panicked. I MUST GET DRUGS. "What can I take for the pain?" I asked him before he got out the door. "You can take some over the counter ibuprofen," he suggested. "But I wouldn't take more than nine a day." I choked. Nine a day? I'd been popping forty. Nine a day? Like hell. I couldn't even go to the bathroom on my own, I hadn't slept in three weeks, and my normally sunny cheery disposition had turned into that of a very rabid dog. If I didn't get good drugs and get them now, it was straight to Shooter's World and then Walgreens pharmacy for me. "I don't think you understand," I explained. "I can't go to work. I have spent the last four days with my mother who is addicted to QVC, watching jewelry shows, doll shows and make-up shows. I almost ordered a beef-jerky maker! Give me something, or I'm going to use your calf muscles to make the first batch!" Without further ado, he hastily scribbled out a prescription for some codeine and was gone. I was happy. My mother, however, had lost the ability to speak. ↗

— Laurie Notaro

#back-pain #bedside-manner #daughter #doctor-patient-relationship #doctors

But I know somebody who has a bedside urinal. How do I compete with that? ↗

— Lara Flynn Boyle

#compete #how #i #know #somebody

There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside. ↗

— Zhang Ziyi

#bedside #been #character #city #come

I'm not lonely, and I think that has a lot to do with what's on my bedside table rather than what's in my bed. ↗

— Michelle Williams

#bedside #i #i think #lonely #lot

I write everything down. I e-mail the second I think of something, or I write notes in my BlackBerry calendar. I set up reminder alerts on my phone. And I have a notebook by my bedside so I can write down any last-minute ideas. ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

#any #bedside #blackberry #calendar #down