Vomiting Quotes

• Writing without making mistakes is like vomiting hot air.

  Gunter Brus

  Mistake, Writing, Air

  "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book by Monika Faber, 2005.

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• I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.

  Robertson Davies

  School, Sunday, Boys

  "Forgotten Dialogues". Essay by Robertson Davies, 1961.

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• I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Errors, History, Mud

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• Actually, there is no way of making vomiting courteous. You have to do the next best thing, which is to vomit in such a way that the story you tell about it later will be amusing.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Luck, Stories, Way

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.58, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Wish, Sometimes, Eating

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.

  James A. Baldwin

  Years, Half, Earth

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• I went to see my doctor... Doctor Vidi-boom-ba. Yeah...I told him once, "Doctor, every morning when I get up and look in the mirror I feel like throwing up. What's wrong with me?" He said, "I don't know, but your eyesight is perfect."

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Morning, Humor

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• Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up.

  Ray Romano

  Funny, Fathers Day, Children

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• Complaining is like vomiting. You might feel better after you get it out, but you make everybody around you sick.

  Paul Molitor

  Feel Better, Sick, Complaining

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• Childhood is cannibals and psychotics vomiting in your mouth!

  Maurice Sendak

  Childhood, Mouths, Cannibal

  "In the Dumps", www.newyorker.com. September 27, 1993.

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• I don't know about you, but I call impromptu vomiting harm.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Atheist, Sin City, Waking Life

  Karen Marie Moning (2006). “Darkfever: Fever Series”, p.82, Delacorte Press

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• I'm here to tell you that I am proud of a couple of things. First, I am very good at projectile vomiting. Second, I've never had a really serious venereal disease.

  Herb Kelleher

  Couple, Disease, Proud

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• One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.

  Josh Billings

  Pride, Men, Air

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• The only way to recover the old world is to induce the media into vomiting it back up.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Media, World, Way

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• Your friend's poetry is terrible," he said. Clary blinked, caught momentarily off guard. "What?" "I said his poetry was terrible. It sounds like he ate a dictionary and started vomiting up words at random.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sound, Caught, Said

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “Sample of the CITYs”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• We've got a [Canadian] prime minister who seems to be intent on destroying our health system and education system. But I have gotten a thicker skin. I can get angry about these things without feeling like vomiting, if you know what I mean.

  Jane Jacobs

  Mean, Feelings, Skins

  Source: www.metropolismag.com

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• All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.

  James A. Baldwin

  Art, Kindness, Survival

  "Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1961.

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• He lit a cigarette and handed it to me. I inhaled. Coughed. Wheezed. Gasped for breath. Coughed again. Considered vomiting. Grabbed the swinging bench, head spinning, and threw the cigarette to the ground and stomped on it, convinced my Great Perhaps did not involve cigarettes.

  John Green

  Smoking, Benches, Spinning

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.19, Penguin

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• Really the truth is just a plain picture. A plain picture of, let's say, a tramp vomiting in the sewere. You know, and next door to the picture Mr. Rockefeller or Mr. C. W. Jones on the subway going to work. You know, any kind of picture. Just make a collage of pictures.

  Bob Dylan

  Artist, Doors, Next

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• The earliest memories I have from my childhood are of my mum getting ready to go on stage. I must have been about five and I would watch her vomiting backstage on opening night, and then the next minute she became Isabella, the Queen of Spain. At the time I remember thinking, 'What kind of schizophrenic job is this?' Now it all makes sense.

  Javier Bardem

  Jobs, Queens, Memories

  Interview with Peter Symth, www.mirror.co.uk. March 30, 2008.

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• The way that these girls keep themselves skinny is awful, isn't it? By vomiting or using hard drugs - which I can't afford.

  Amy Schumer

  Girl, Drug, Awful

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• And I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could make me feel so good.

  Amy Tan

  Remember, Wonder, Eating

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.154, Penguin

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• I made the school team, and when I won in a match against another school it was the greatest moment of my life even greater than the European titles. In those school races, I always ran my legs off. There were girls watching and I wanted to impress them. I was foaming and vomiting, but I won

  Juha Vaatainen

  Girl, Running, Team

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• Numbers have dehumanized us. Over breakfast coffee we read of 40,000 American dead in Vietnam. Instead of vomiting, we reach for the toast. Our morning rush through crowded streets is not to cry murder but to hit that trough before somebody else gobbles our share.

  Dalton Trumbo

  Morning, War, Coffee

  Dalton Trumbo (2007). “Johnny Got His Gun”, p.23, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• I'm vomiting days before I start shooting a new movie.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Shooting

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