George Carlin Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• A person of good intelligence and of sensitivity cannot exist in this society very long without having some anger about the inequality - and it's not just a bleeding-heart, knee-jerk, liberal kind of a thing - it is just a normal human reaction to a nonsensical set of values where we have cinnamon flavored dental floss and there are people sleeping in the street.

  George Carlin

  Heart, Sleep, Dental Floss

• Test of Metal: Will of Iron, Nerves of Steel, Heart of Gold, Balls of Brass.

  George Carlin

  Heart, Iron, Gold

• As it stands right now, I lead Richard Pryor in heart attacks, two to one. However, Richard still leads me, one to nothing, in burning yourself up.

  George Carlin

  Heart, Two, Burning

• Heart disease has changed my eating habits, but I still cook bacon for the smell.

  George Carlin

  Heart, Smell, Disease

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

• So I want to thank the Pentagon, the Soviet Union and the military-industrial complex from the bottom of my heart. Without them, I could never have become the man I am today.

  George Carlin

  Military, Heart, Men

  George Carlin (2009). “Last Words”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

• A scary dream makes your heart beat faster. Why doesn't the part of your brain that controls your heartbeat realize that another part of your brain is making the whole thing up? Don't these people communicate?

  George Carlin

  Dream, Heart, People

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.185, Hachette UK

• I've just completed a five-year period that can perhaps best be called a breathing spell. A time of getting my health back and gathering my strength. That time also included incredible cocaine abuse, a heart attack and my wife's recovery from both alcoholism and cocaine abuse.

  George Carlin

  Heart, Recovery, Years

  Source: reprints.longform.org

• I loved the angiogram. They stick a thing in your thigh and it goes all the way up to your heart. Isn't that a thrill? Well, at least the nurse scored thigh.

  George Carlin

  Heart, Nurse, Thrill

  Source: reprints.longform.org

• Sometimes, after I'd gone at the coke like one of those snow plows moving up First Avenue, I'd think my heart was over on the dresser, pounding, and I was watching it. I asked some of the doctors who drifted through the intensive-care unit what kind of effect total cocaine abuse has on the heart and they said things like, "Well, there's not enough valid information...." That kind of answer.

  George Carlin

  Moving, Heart, Thinking

  Source: reprints.longform.org

• I consider the coke a major cause. Of course, you could also make the argument that because cocaine speeds up the heart, it's good for you.

  George Carlin

  Heart, Coke, Causes

  Source: reprints.longform.org

• There's a thrill when you steal something in plain view of other people. When you drop a newspaper over a sign and walk away with it, or take something off a wall and the sound of the glue ripping makes people turn around. Your heart is racing, it's a rush.

  George Carlin

  Wall, Heart, Views

  Source: reprints.longform.org

• Personally, emotionally, I'd rather divorce myself from the world than face the heartbreak of partial success. Because partial success implies overwhelming failure.

  George Carlin

  Heart, Divorce, World

  Interview with Sam Merrill, reprints.longform.org. January 1982.

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