Coughing Quotes

• Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

  Alan Jay Lerner

  Criticism, Theatre, Theater

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• Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

  Ralph Richardson

  Witty, Art, People

  New York Herald Tribune 19 May 1946, pt. 5, p. 1

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• My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night.

  John Philpot Curran

  Night, Doctors, Dear God

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• I know two kinds of audiences only--one coughing, and one not coughing.

  Artur Schnabel

  Two, Kind, Audience

  'My Life and Music' (1961) pt. 2, ch. 10

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• It is said that love and a cough cannot be hid.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Valentines Day, Valentine's Day, Valentine Love

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.506, Open Road Media

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• Winter's here, and you feel lousy: You're coughing and sneezing; your muscles ache; your nose is an active mucus volcano. These symptoms -- so familiar at this time of year -- can mean only one thing: Tiny fanged snails are eating your brain.

  Dave Barry

  Mean, Winter, Volcanoes

  "Waging Germ Warfare". www.miamiherald.com. December 27, 2009.

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• The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Art, People, Acting

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• All on-set kisses are weird, no matter who it is, especially with people standing around coughing and sneezing. It's very uncomfortable!

  Bella Heathcote

  Kissing, People, Sneezing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.

  Ralph Richardson

  Art, Acting, Entertainment

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• The worst moment was when I was performing and I was about to sing, but I choked. I had a tickle in my throat and I started coughing, and I couldn't get the words out. It lasted for like thirty seconds, but I got over it, and luckily the crowd didn't seem to care.

  Chris Brown

  Worst Moments, Care, Crowds

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• People want to hear clean sounds; they don't want to hear coughing in the background, pages turning.

  Petra Haden

  Pages Turning, People, Sound

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Love and a cough cannot be hid.

  George Herbert

  Love, Valentines Day, Valentine's Day

  George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”, p.141

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• So you want to know all about me. Who I am. What chance meeting of brush and canvas painted the face you see? What made me despise the girl in the mirror enough to transform her,turn her to into a stranger, only not. So you want to hear the whole story. Why I swerved off the high road, hard left to nowhere, recklessly indifferent to those coughing my dust, picked up speed no limits,no top end, just a high velocity rush to madness.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Girl, Who I Am, Dust

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Crank”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• They sat on a bench and Sproule held his wounded arm to his chest and rocked back and forth and blinked in the sun. What do you want to do? said the kid. Get a drink of water. Other than that. I dont know. You want to try and head back? To Texas? I don't know where else. We'd never make it. Well you say. I aint got no say. He was coughing again. He held his chest with his good hand and sat as if he'd get his breath. What have you got, a cold? I got consumption. Consumption? He nodded. I come out here for my health.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Kids, Texas, Hands

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West”, p.61, Vintage

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• What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity and shame, gain and loss, right and wrong, into one single koan.

  Hakuin Ekaku

  Loss, Evil, Meditation

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• Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns of the Northeast. Why? Because we organized; we broke the back of the sweatshops in this country; we have child labor laws. Those were not benevolent gifts from enlightened management. They were fought for, they were bled for, they were died for by working people, by people like us. Kids ought to know that.

  Utah Phillips

  Country, Song, Brother

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. September 1, 2003.

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• Kurt Vonnegut speaking to John Irving while Irving was administering the Heimlich maneuver in response to Vonnegut's uncontrollable coughing..."John,stop- I am not choking. I have emphysema.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Choke, Response, Uncontrollable

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• I asked a coughing friend of mine why he doesn't stop smoking. 'In this town it wouldn't do any good,' he explained. 'I happen to be a chain breather.'

  Robert Sylvester

  Smoking, Towns, Chains

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• You don't need treatment. The fever, inflammation, coughing, etc., constitute the healing process. Just get out of their way and permit them to complete their work. Don't try to 'aid' nature. She doesn't need your puny aid—she only asks that you cease interfering.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Healing, Trying, Needs

  Herbert M. Shelton (1993). “Getting Well”, p.175, Health Research Books

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• Violet heard the coughing and came running back. She sank down on the bench beside Rose, putting her arm around the older girl and holding a handkerchief to Rose's lips. "What happened?" she asked Galen, her tone just shy of being accusatory. "I am so sorry, Your Highness," Galen said, backing away. "I made her laugh, and–" "You made her laugh?" Violet's eyes widened. "She hasn't laughed in weeks!" She smiled at Galen and gave Rose's shoulders a little squeeze.

  Jessica Day George

  Girl, Running, Sorry

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• There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Sheep, Sailing, Sound

  "Joy in the Morning". Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1946.

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• I think coughing up slugs was quite hard. Ron has a scene where he has to cough up these giant slugs. I had this giant slug in my mouth loaded with slime and I spat them out. I think it was plastic. I hope it was plastic.

  Rupert Grint

  Thinking, Giants, Slugs

  Scholastic News Interview, www.scholastic.com.

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• Acting is the ability to keep an audience from coughing.

  Jean-Louis Barrault

  Art, Acting, Ability

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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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• What should we call him?" Klaus asked. "You should call him Dr. Montgomery," Mr. Poe replied, "unless he tells you to call him Montgomery. Both his first and last names are Montgomery, so it doesn't make much difference." "His name is Montgomery Montgomery?" Klaus said, smiling. "Yes, and I'm sure he's very sensitive about that, so don't ridicule him," Mr. Poe said, coughing again into his handkerchief.

  Daniel Handler

  Names, Differences, Drs

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