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21 " The dentist swiveled on his heels and disappeared, leaving me there to massage my jaw back into feeling after its brief, masochistic marriage to the top of my wooden desk. "
― Jonathan Lethem , Gun, With Occasional Music
22 " We must somehow get comfortable with the reality of periodic failure. ... Like a trip to the dentist the thought of occasional reverses may not make us tingle with joyful anticipation but then again it's not the end of the world. "
23 " Photographers along with dentists are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out. "
24 " Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill. "
25 " According to my mother, there pretty much wasn't anything I wouldn't eat as a child. Not just try, but eat. I was even inclined to dig into stuff about which she expressed open disgust - lobster and other shellfish, and cheap Chinese food with pepper so hot it made your gums feel like a medieval dentist had been at them. "
26 " Funny is funny. I dare anyone to look at Tim Conway and Harvey Korman doing the dentist sketch, which is more than 40 years old, and not scream with laughter. "