Coughing Quotes - Page 2

• Keith was just bringing the glass to his lips when Adrian said, "Mmm. O positive, my favorite." Keith sprayed out the wine he'd just drunk and promptly started coughing. I was relieved that none got on me. jill burst into giggles, and Clarence stared at his glass wonderingly. "Is it? I thought it was a cabernet sauvignon." "So it is," said Adrian, straight-faced. "My mistake.

  Richelle Mead

  Mistake, Wine, Glasses

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.113, Penguin

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• 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 risk his coughing up some big Nazi hairball on someone's front stoop.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Mustache, Risk, Stripes

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• 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, dragging strangers up dusty staircases while coughing up one of the most thrilling phrases in the English language: 'It was on this spot…' My fantasy is to one day become a docent.

  Sarah Vowell

  Dream, Retirement, Sunset

  FaceBook post by Sarah Vowell from May 06, 2010

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• Well...I'm on birth control" I was drinking the water again and choked on it. It took several moments of coughing before I could gasp out. "What?" "It takes a while for it to start working, so I figured I should be prepared, just in case." "Just in case," I repeated, still dumbfounded.

  Richelle Mead

  Drinking, Water, Birth Control

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Bloodlines: The Fiery Heart”, p.63, Penguin UK

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• 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 coffee is black, thick, unsavory of smell, and execrable in taste. The bottom of the cup has a muddy sediment in it half an inch deep. This goes down your throat, and portions of it lodge by the way, and produce a tickling aggravation that keeps you barking and coughing for an hour.

  Mark Twain

  Coffee, Aggravation, Smell

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.380, Velvet Element Books

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• Ancient stars in their death throes spat out atoms like iron which this universe had never known. ... Now the iron of old nova coughings vivifies the redness of our blood.

  Howard Bloom

  Stars, Science, Blood

  Howard Bloom (2000). “Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century”, Wiley

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• I'm not angry. I can't sing that loud for that long anyway, I'll start coughing - I don't have the instrument for it. I don't feel that emotional. I'm at peace.

  Lizz Wright

  Emotional, Long, Loud

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• One of my sisters wanted to be an opera singer. So, we spent a few dollars to try to train her, because Italian people would like to have an opera singer in the family. But she's got trouble coughing, let alone singing. One day, she was in the shower singing 'Madame Butterfly,' three days later the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor.

  Pat Cooper

  Butterfly, Italian, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I really like playing with Mike Doughty from Soul Coughing. He was cool. He opened up some shows for us. I liked playing with G. Love, he's amazing. God Damn, it was like the best live I had ever seen.

  Mason Jennings

  Soul, Damn, Shows

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• All I do is see all these incidents of [Hillary Clinton's] coughing all the time. I don't know what it is.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Clinton, Incidents, Knows

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.

  Barbra Streisand

  Umpires, Judging, Lag

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• When I wake up in the middle of the night when I hear one of my kids coughing or crying, I think about Syria.

  Samantha Power

  Kids, Night, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I believe in books. And when our people [coughing] - our people of Jerusalem, let's say after the Romans destroyed the temple and the city, all we took is a little book, that's all. Not treasures, we had no treasures. They were ransacked, taken away. But the book - the little book - and this book produced more books, thousands, hundreds of thousands of books, and in the book we found our memory, and our attachment to that memory is what kept us alive.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Book, Taken

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• Take [the first female] president away from Hillary [Clinton], what's her story? What is fascinating? What's interesting about Hillary? Coughing fits? The lump in her throat that she has to cover with the Mao jacket? What's her story?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Interesting, President, Female

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• This moment, this being, is the thing. My life is all life in little. The moon, the planets, pass around my heart. The sun, now hidden by the round bulk of this earth, shines into me, and in me as well. The gods and the angels both good and bad are like the hairs of my own head, seemingly numberless, and growing from within. I people the cosmos from myself, it seems, yet what am I? A puff of dust, or a brief coughing spell, with emptiness and silence to follow.

  Alexander Eliot

  Angel, Heart, Moon

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• I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of line—the survivors of a regiment of 1,000 that went forward 48 hours before. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Mother, Running, Children

  Speech at Chautauqua, NY, 14 Aug. 1936, in Public Papers (1936) vol. 5, p. 289

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• Mmm. O positive, my favorite.” “Is it? I thought it was a cabernet sauvignon.” “So it is,” said Adrian, straight-faced. “My mistake.

  Richelle Mead

  Mistake, My Favorite, Cabernet

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• What a wonderfully exciting cough,' said the little man, quite startled by it, 'do you mind if I join you?' And with that he launched into the most extraordinary and spectacular fit of coughing which caught Arthur so much by surprise that he started to choke violently, discovered he was already doing it and got thoroughly confused.

  Douglas Adams

  Confused, Men, Mind

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Life, the Universe and Everything”, p.102, Pan Macmillan

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• 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 in liquid form. It took every ounce of strength I had to swallow it and not spray it on those around me. "Wh...what is this?" I asked, coughing. Viktoria grinned. "Vodka." I peered at the glass. "No, it isn't. I've had vodka before." "Not Russian vodka." Apparently not.

  Richelle Mead

  Fire, Glasses, Cups

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.658, Penguin

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• It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding.

  Markus Zusak

  Faces, Streams, Humans

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• We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Princess, Tunnels, Media

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.34, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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, when the gummy sheen on the turbid waters of the Ankh River had a special iridescence and the eaves were full of birdsong, or at least birds coughing rhythmically

  Terry Pratchett

  Spring, Rivers, Water

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “The Light Fantastic: (Discworld Novel 2)”, p.91, Random House

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• Let me drive," she said, reaching for the reins. He turned to her in disbelief. "This is a phaeton, not a single-horse wagon." Sophie fought the urge to throttle him. His nose was running, his eyes were red, he couldn't stop coughing, and still he found the energy to act like an arrogant peacock. "I assure you," she said slowly, "that I know how to drive a team of horses.

  Julia Quinn

  Running, Horse, Team

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• I have eight times online since January [2016] in which Hillary Clinton has had massive coughing fits in which she couldn't complete her speech. I've seen her lifted onto airplanes. And I don't know what's wrong with her.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Airplane, Eight, Speech

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• 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 your prayers?

  Orson Scott Card

  Prayer, Thinking, Wife

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Heartfire: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.230, Macmillan

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