Throat Quotes - Page 6

• I swing my arms to loosen myself up. Place my fists on my hips. then drop them to my sides. Saliva's filling my mouth at a ridiculous rate and i feel vomit at the back of my throat. I swallow hard and open my lips so I can get the stupid line out and go hide in the woods and-that's when i start crying.

  Suzanne Collins

  Stupid, Swings, Mouths

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.162, Scholastic Inc.

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• The purpose of music is to elevate the spirit and inspire. Not to help push some product down your throat. It puts you in tune with your own existence. Sometimes you really don't know how you feel, but really good music can define how you feel... someone who's telling me where he's been that I haven't and what it's like there - somebody whose life I can feel.

  Bob Dylan

  Inspire, Tunes, Purpose

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• I don't want to go shoving what I believe down anyone's throat. Whatever I believe about Jesus is a personal thing, but it doesn't exclude all the others.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Jesus, Believe, Want

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• I saw his face change. His eyes widen. He lunged at me. I wouldn't let go. We stared into eachother's eyes and clawed at eachother's throats. As we rolled over the edge of the water tower and fell the whole way down, I was only thinking one thing ...Lena

  Kami Garcia

  Letting Go, Eye, Thinking

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• I could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.

  Aimee Bender

  Tears, Groups, Away From Each Other

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• We do not war with races primarily as such. Tyranny is our foe. Whatever trapping or disguise it wears, whatever language it speaks, be it external or internal, we must for ever be on our guard, ever mobilized, ever vigilant, always ready to spring at its throat. In all this we march together. Not only do we march and strive shoulder to shoulder at this moment, under the fire of the enemy on the fields of war or in the air, but also in those realms of thought which are consecrated to the rights and the dignity of man.

  Winston Churchill

  Spring, War, Men

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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• I have lived those lines and I know that if I had not been apprehended I would have slit some white throats.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  White, Lines, Slits

  Eldridge Cleaver (2015). “Target Zero: A Life in Writing”, p.47, Macmillan

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• The fruition of what is unlawful must be followed by remorse. The core sticks in the throat after the apple is eaten, and the sated appetite loathes the interdicted pleasure for which innocence was bartered.

  Jane Porter

  Apples, Fruition, Sticks

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• My voice is my instrument. ... It is not in the throat, from where it appears to come. It is in my feet and how they touch the floor, in my legs and how they lift and sink with the rhythm of the song. It is in my hips and belly and lower back.

  Holly Near

  Song, Voice, Feet

  Holly Near, Derk Richardson (1990). “Fire in the Rain- Singer in the Storm: An Autobiography”, William Morrow & Company

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• I don't want someone shoving his views down my throat, unless they're covered in a crunchy candy shell.

  Stephen Colbert

  Views, Shells, Want

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• A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher.

  George Herbert

  Flatterer

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.344

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• Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine - how good how fine. It went down all pulpy, slushy, oozy, all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large, beatified Strawberry.

  John Keats

  Food, Writing, Hands

  John Keats (1820). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.96

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• Most importantly, what you get from a greasy spoon is a certain kind of smell that has been almost legislated out of existence. It is cigaretty, certainly, and it also has the catch-throat quality of smoking fat. It is a warm, companionable fug that rises to meet you as you step through the door on a late autumn day and it is how public places used to smell in my childhood in the 1970s. It is real, it is human, and it beats anything I know.

  Kathryn Hughes

  Real, Food, Autumn

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• And then you bit onto them, and learned once again that Cut-me-own-Throat Dibbler could find a use for bits of an animal that the animal didn't know it had got. Dibbler had worked out that with enough fried onions and mustard people would eat anything.

  Terry Pratchett

  Food, Cutting, Animal

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• I wouldn't walk across the street to piss down Don Shula's throat if he was on fire.

  Johnny Unitas

  Fire, Nfl, Walks

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• Why don't men ... leave off those detestable stiff collars, stocks, and things, that make them all look like choked chickens, and which hide so many handsomely-turned throats, that a body never sees, unless a body is married, or unless a body happens to see a body's brothers while they are shaving.

  Fanny Fern

  Brother, Men, Clothes

  FANNY FERN (1857). “FRESH LEAVES”, p.249

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• There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain. The painless ones go around putting their hands on hot stoves, freezing their feet to the point of gangrene, scalding the lining of their throats with boiling coffee, because there is no warning anguish. Evolution does not favour them. So too perhaps with the fearless women, because there aren't very many of them around. ... Providence appears to protect such women, maybe out of astonishment.

  Margaret Atwood

  Pain, Fear, Coffee

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bluebeard's Egg”, p.112, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Notwithstanding the sight of all our miseries, which press upon us and take us by the throat, we have an instinct which we cannot repress, and which lifts us up.

  Blaise Pascal

  Sight, Misery, Instinct

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• I cleared my throat - it isn't frogs you get in your throat; it's memories.

  Martha Grimes

  Memories, Frogs

  Martha Grimes (2006). “Belle Ruin”, New Amer Library

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• Any writer knows he has to pay for his compliments. As soon as he has said, Why, thank you, that's very generous of you, the other person clears his throat and dives into his own writing experiences.

  Mary Jane Ward

  Writing, Pay, Compliment

  Mary Jane Ward (1983). “The snake pit”

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• Cravats grow higher, as if they mean to protect the throat. The highest cravats in public life will be worn by Citizen Antoine Saint-Just, of the National Convention and the Committee of Public Safety. In the dark and harrowing days of '94, an obscene feminine inversion will appear: a thin crimson ribbon, worn round a bare white neck.

  Hilary Mantel

  Mean, Dark, White

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• 40 Words for Sorrow is brilliant-one of the finest crime novels I've ever read. Giles Blunt writes with uncommon grace, style and compassion and he plots like a demon. This book has it all-unforgettable characters, beautiful language, throat-constricting suspense.

  Jonathan Kellerman

  Beautiful, Book, Writing

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• It's just an old alley cat that has followed us all the way home. It hasn't a star on its forehead, or a silky satiny coat. No proud tiger stripes, no dainty tread, no elegant velvet throat. It's a splotchy, blotchy city cat, not a pretty cat, a rough little bag of old bones. 'Beauty,' we shall call you. 'Beauty' come in.

  Eve Merriam

  Stars, Home, Cat

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• If the javelin had hit me 10cm to the left, it would have punctured my lung, 20cm higher the throat, which would have been the worst-case scenario. Just 1cm higher and it would have hit bone, muscle and tendon and that would have been the end of my sporting career.

  Roman Sebrle

  Careers, Worst Case Scenario, Javelin

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• I've always been dissatisfied, I know that. But lately I find that I reek of discontentment. It fills my throat, and it floods my brain. And sometimes I fear there is no longer a dream, but only the discontentment.

  David McCullough

  Dream, Brain, Sometimes

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