Coma Quotes - Page 2

• Right now, the economy is a whole lot like a fairly good-looking brain-dead chick in a persistent vegetative coma. You can't really wake her up, but there's things she's still good for.

  Cintra Wilson

  Brain, Looking Good, Economy

  Cintra Wilson (2010). “Caligula for President: Better American Living Through Tyranny”, p.116, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience.

  Bill Bryson

  Giving, Worry, Television

  Bill Bryson (1991). “Neither here nor there: travels in Europe”, Harvill Secker

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• I was in a coma for five days - I was dead longer than Jesus before he was raised from the dead.

  Rik Mayall

  Jesus, Raised, Five

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• The coma ward was boring yet difficult. Like golf.

  Belinda Peregrin

  Golf, Boring, Difficult

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• I read a lot of science books - I love cosmology, quantum theory, particle physics. So my idea of a great read would probably put you directly into a coma.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Book, Ideas, Physics

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• Once in a while - perhaps every 10 years, or even every generation - a novel appears that profoundly questions the way we look at the world, and at ourselves. Beijing Coma is a poetic examination not just of a country at a defining moment in its history, but of the universal right to remember and to hope. It is, in every sense, a landmark work of fiction

  Tash Aw

  Country, Years, Way

  "Growing up in the world". www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2008.

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• In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return.

  Ma Jian

  Book, Years, Squares

  "The great Tiananmen taboo" by Ma Jian, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2009.

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• As a rule, from what I've observed, the American Captain of Industry doesn't do anything out of business hours. When he has put the cat out and locked up the office for the night, he just relapses into a state of coma from which he emerges only to start being a Captain of Industry again.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Cat, Night, Office

  P. G. Wodehouse, David A. Jasen (1997). “Enter Jeeves: 15 Early Stories”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• We need to take down our "Do not disturb" signs... snap out of our stupor and come out of our coma and awake from our apathy.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Apathy, Needs

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• Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.

  Ma Jian

  Years, Beijing

  "The great Tiananmen taboo" by Ma Jian, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2009.

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• For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'The Firm' all captivated me by providing glimpses into realms about which I knew very little - medical science, submarine technology and the law.

  Dan Brown

  Real, Technology, Law

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• I'm in road-coma at the moment. But it's OK. I think you subliminally become a junkie of being on the road. As much as you think you're burnt out, the minute you get off you go stir crazy and you just wanna go right back.

  Shannon Hoon

  Crazy, Thinking, Moments

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• We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the "Girlfriend in a Coma" is, like, really funny.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Song, Girlfriend, Mean

  "Zach Galifianakis Talks Working with Will Ferrell, His “Non-Sexual” Character, and Disliking Children on the Set of THE CAMPAIGN". Interview with Scott Wampler, collider.com. July 25, 2012.

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• Adolescence isn't a period; it's a coma.

  Richard Armour

  Periods, Adolescence

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• I was 21, and rehearsing a play, took a fall and was in a coma for a few days. And when I recovered, I'd lost my sense of smell completely.

  Bill Pullman

  Fall, Play, Smell

  "A Minute With: Bill Pullman about 'Torchwood'". Interview with Iain Blair, www.reuters.com. July 6, 2011.

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• Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long coma. Time, you discover, has wrought changes that leave you feeling mildly foolish and out of touch.

  Bill Bryson

  Years, Land, Long

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• Antonio- "Just in time, Pete. Five more minutes of reading this and she'd have been in a coma." Peter- "Are we such bad company that you'd rather hide out in here reading that old thing?

  Kelley Armstrong

  Reading, Old Things, Bad Company

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Bitten”, p.82, Vintage Canada

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• This new condition, this unwilled silence, had fallen over him ten days ago. The day Cass had gone into the hospital. The day she had fallen into a coma.

  Pseudonymous Bosch

  Silence, Gone, Fallen

  Pseudonymous Bosch (2012). “This Isn't What It Looks Like: The Secret Series”, p.16, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• You either fainted or you wanted a much closer look at the cracks in the tile. Either way, you hit hard." "Seriously?" He nodded. "Maybe you shouldn't have been trying to make out with him," he suggested. How did he know that? "I was kissing him good-bye." He snorted and exchanged glances with the nurse. "That's not what it looked like to me." Probably not. But what happened? Could Reyes Farrow take control over me even from a freaking coma? I was doomed.

  Darynda Jones

  Kissing, Bye, Nurse

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.211, St. Martin's Press

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• The whole town’s talking about the way Jax Stone sat in your hospital room and snag to you until you came out of your coma. Then he apparently wouldn’t leave you alone for a minute. The boy sounds hooked.

  Abbi Glines

  Boys, Talking, Sound

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• If I stay. If I live. It’s up to me. All this business about medically induced comas is just doctor talk. It’s not up to the doctors. It’s not up to the absentee angels. It’s not even up to God who, if He exists, is nowhere around right now. It’s up to me.

  Gayle Forman

  Angel, Doctors, If I Stay

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.45, Penguin

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• Dazed, Nick nodded, then looked to Caleb. “I’m such an effing idiot.” “We knew that,” he said drily. “We definitely didn’t have to throw you into a coma for that little-known nugget.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Nuggets, Littles, Idiot

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “Inferno: Number 4 in series”, p.199, Hachette UK

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• As a performer, I wanted to be the loudest, most persistent alarm clock I could be, because there didn’t seem like any other way to snap society out of its Christianity- and media-induced coma.

  Marilyn Manson

  Media, Alarms, Way

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• Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.

  Jack Kevorkian

  People, Buttons, Needs

  "LOS ANGELES TIMES INTERVIEW : Jack Kevorkian : Defending Assisted Suicide Right Up to the End". Interview With Jack Lessenberry, articles.latimes.com. December 12, 1993.

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• Discerning placement of a comma does not atone for a spiritual coma.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Spiritual, Doe, Placement

  Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda (2008). “Autobiography of a Yogi”, p.128, Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.

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