Coughing Quotes

43 quotes by 37 authors

The worst moment was when I was performing and I was about to sing, but I choked. I had a tickle in my throat and… — Chris Brown
Of all the unchristian beverages that ever passed my lips, Turkish coffee is the worst. The cup is small, it is smeared with grounds; the… — Mark Twain
Ancient stars in their death throes spat out atoms like iron which this universe had never known. ... Now the iron of old nova coughings… — Howard Bloom
What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity… — Hakuin Ekaku
Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of… — Utah Phillips
There are people who look forward to spending their sunset years in the sunshine; it is my own retirement dream to await my death indoors,… — Sarah Vowell
Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing. — Ralph Richardson
I think coughing up slugs was quite hard. Ron has a scene where he has to cough up these giant slugs. I had this giant… — Rupert Grint
One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers… — Orson Scott Card
At the last minute, I couldn't wear the Hitler mustache because Tiger Stripe ate it; and then I didn't want to take my kitty and… — Chuck Palahniuk
I know two kinds of audiences only--one coughing, and one not coughing. — Artur Schnabel
I asked a coughing friend of mine why he doesn't stop smoking. 'In this town it wouldn't do any good,' he explained. 'I happen to… — Robert Sylvester
Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism. — Alan Jay Lerner
The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing. — Benjamin Franklin
He found that he had this sudden desperate longing for the fuming, smoky streets of Ankh-Morpork, which was always at its best in the spring,… — Terry Pratchett
Acting is the ability to keep an audience from coughing. — Jean-Louis Barrault
My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night. — John Philpot Curran
They sat on a bench and Sproule held his wounded arm to his chest and rocked back and forth and blinked in the sun. What… — Cormac McCarthy
Kurt Vonnegut speaking to John Irving while Irving was administering the Heimlich maneuver in response to Vonnegut's uncontrollable coughing..."John,stop- I am not choking. I have… — Kurt Vonnegut
When he finished, he drank from the cup. Everyone else did too, so I followed suit. And nearly choked to death. It was like fire… — Richelle Mead

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