Lungs Quotes - Page 8

• I always loved running... it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

  Jesse Owens

  Motivational, Fitness, Running

  Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1978). “Jesse, a spiritual autobiography”

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• As smoking is to the lungs, so is resentment to the soul; even one puff is bad for you.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Smoking, Soul, Puff

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.177, A&C Black

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• to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief, you think, How can a body withstand this? Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again.

  Ellen Bass

  Hope, Grief, Love You

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• Ministers should not pray so loud, and long, as to exhaust the strength. It is not necessary to weary the throat and lungs in prayer. God's ear is ever open to hear the heart-felt petitions of his humble servants, and he does not require them to wear out the organs of speech in addressing him.

  Ellen G. White

  Prayer, Heart, Humble

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• If producing a regular column is living out loud, then keeping a daily blog is living at the top of your lungs. For a couple of months there, I was shrieking like a banshee.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Couple, Months, Banshees

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• I want to preach till the last breath in my lungs runs out.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Running, Want, Lasts

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• I have a huge rib cage, which is why I can hold a note out until I'm blue in the face... because I have such a big lung capacity.

  Jessica Simpson

  Blue, Ribs, Faces

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• You don't have free will when you have lung cancer.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Cancer, Free Will, Lung Cancer

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• Being able to scream at the top of my lungs in front of people is very therapeutic. It is a great gift for me to be able to do that.

  Dave Matthews

  People, Able, Scream

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• Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.

  King James I

  Marijuana, Smoking, Brain

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• I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot of medical things that happen. A hip fracture, three different kinds of lung cancer, pneumonia, blood poisoning, and so on.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Cancer, Pneumonia, Blood

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• Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma.

  Graydon Carter

  Long, Water, Brain

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• The American people are screaming at the top of their lungs to Washington, 'Stop! Stop the spending, stop the job-killing policies.' And yet, Democrats in Washington refuse to listen to the American people.

  John Boehner

  Jobs, People, Killing

  "Meet the Press" Interview, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 8, 2010.

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• [He] looked up and imagined the hand of God flinging stars like shining dust across the heavens. No. He was wrong to think such pagan thoughts, for God had only to utter a word and it was done. Only man had He shaped with His hands, using the dust He created to form His most precious and amazing creation. Only man was molded and loved into being, the breath of life in his lungs given by God.

  Francine Rivers

  Stars, Thinking, Men

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• I walk outside and scream at the top of my lungs, and it maybe travels two blocks. A whale unleashes his cry, and it travels hundreds or even thousands of miles. Every whale in the ocean will at one time or another run into that song. And I figure whales probably don't edit. If they think it, they say it...Whale talk is the truth, and in a very short period of time, if you're a whale, you know exactly what it is to be you.

  Chris Crutcher

  Running, Song, Block

  "Whale Talk". Book by Chris Crutcher, 2001.

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• For a long time I believed the opposite of passion was death. I was wrong. Passion and death are implicit, one in the other. Past the border of a fiery life lies the netherworld. I can trace this road, which took me through places so hot the very air burned the lungs. I did not turn back. I pressed on, and eventually passed over the border, beyond which lies a place that is wordless and cold, so cold that it, like mercury, burns a freezing blue flame.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Lying, Passion, Past

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• Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will. The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off, it enters into us like breath into our lungs, it fills us up, imbues us totally. There is no remedy for it.

  Patrick Süskind

  Stronger, Odor, Scent

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• Adaptation is one of the great advantages to being born and bred in Jersey. We're simply not bested by bad air or tainted water. We're like that catfish with lungs. Take us out of our environment and we can grow whatever body parts we need to survive. After Jersey the rest of the country's a piece of cake. You want to send someone into a fallout zone? Get him from Jersey. He'll be fine.

  Janet Evanovich

  Country, Air, Cake

  Janet Evanovich (1999). “Three To Get Deadly: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone had some defect, or body or of mind: he thought of all the people he had known (the whole world was like a sick house and there was no rhyme or reason in it), he saw a long procession, deformed in body, warped in mind, some with illness of the flesh, weak hearts or weak lungs, and some with illness of the spirit, languor of will, or craving for liquor. At that moment he felt a holy compassion for them all. …The words of the dying God crossed his memory: Forgive them, for they know not what they do.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Memories, Heart, Compassion

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• I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.

  Jodi Picoult

  Relationship, Distance, Eye

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Keeping Faith”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a suffocating smell of blood.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Grief, Reflection, Blood

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.16, Penguin UK

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• Birds... scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth. They know the truth. Screaming bloody murder all over the world in our ears, but sadly we don't speak bird.

  Kurt Cobain

  Sad, Nature, Morning

  "Journals". Book by Kurt Cobain, November 2002.

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• My dear, dear girl [. . .] we can't turn back the days that have gone. We can't turn life back to the hours when our lungs were sound, our blood hot, our bodies young. We are a flash of fire--a brain, a heart, a spirit. And we are three-cents-worth of lime and iron--which we cannot get back.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Girl, Heart, Iron

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• Down the hall came the wife. She was glorious, burning. She didn't know yet that her husband was dead. We knew. That's what gave her such power over us. The doctor took her into a room with a desk at the end of the hall, and from under the closed door a slab of brilliance radiated as if, by some stupendous process, diamonds were being incinerated in there. What a pair of lungs! She shrieked as I imagined an eagle would shriek. It felt wonderful to be alive to hear it! I've gone looking for that feeling everywhere.

  Denis Johnson

  Husband, Doctors, Doors

  "'What a Pair of Lungs!': Denis Johnson’s Ecstatic American Voice" by Philip Gourevitch, www.newyorker.com. May 27, 2017.

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• Trying to exhaust himself, Vaughan devised an endless almanac of terrifying wounds and insane collisions: The lungs of elderly men punctured by door-handles; the chests of young women impaled on steering-columns; the cheek of handsome youths torn on the chromium latches of quarter-lights. To Vaughan, these wounds formed the key to a new sexuality, born from a perverse technology. The images of these wounds hung in the gallery of his mind, like exhibits in the museum of a slaughterhouse.

  J. G. Ballard

  Technology, Men, Keys

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