Hiccups Quotes

• Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Able, Firsts, Quiet

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• I notoriously get the hiccups. When I get the hiccups, I get it numerous times in one day.

  Amy Smart

  One Day

  "Interview: the Cast of Crank". Interview with Stax, www.ign.com. August 29, 2006.

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• How do you get rid of hiccups? Drink water upside-down and put a pencil in your mouth. Is that possible?

  Heidi Montag

  Water, Mouths, Down And

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• I screwed up. It's all on me. I know that...All these hiccups I have, they must be for a reason. All this is just a test. I just don't know what the test is yet.

  Greg Norman

  Golf, Tests, Reason

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• I think hiccup cures were really invented for the amusement of the patient's friends.

  Bill Watterson

  Thinking, Amusement, Patient

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• Why does a silly bird go on saying "chiff-chaff" all day long? Is it happiness or hiccups?

  A. A. Milne

  Silly, Long, Bird

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• That is a terrible plan." "Hiccup's plans are always t-terrible." "Hey! You're still here, aren't you?

  Cressida Cowell

  Hey, Terrible, Plans

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• When you are five, you know your age down to the month. Even in your twenties, you know how old you are. I'm twenty-three you say, or maybe twenty-seven. But then in your thirties, something strange starts to happen. It is a mere hiccup at first, an instant of hesitation. How old are you? Oh, I'm--you start confidently, but then you stop. You were going to say thirty-three, but you are not. You're thirty-five. And then you're bothered, because you wonder if this is the beginning of the end. It is, of course, but it's decades before you admit it.

  Sara Gruen

  Age, Months, Firsts

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• Baby Girl," I say. "I need you remember everything I told you. Do you remember what I told you?" She still crying steady, but the hiccups are gone. "To wipe my bottom good when I'm done?" "No, baby, the other one. About who you are.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Girl, Baby, Remembers Everything

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• It's not an easy task building a motorcycle company. Your window for success is relatively small. You can't afford a lot of hiccups if you don't have another business supporting you.

  Robert Evans

  Motorcycle, Tasks, Bikers

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• Oh, for Thor's sake..." said Hiccup. "I thought that was just a story..." "Stories come from somewhere," said the witch. "The past haunts the present in more ways than we realise.

  Cressida Cowell

  Past, Stories, Sake

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• Masturbation is an absolutely peerless cure for the hiccups

  Inga Muscio

  Masturbation, Cures

  Inga Muscio (2002). “Cunt: A Declaration of Independence”, p.54, Seal Press

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• This is the hallmark of a robust biological system: political parties can perish in a tragic accident and the society will still run, sometimes with little more than a hiccup to the system. It may be that for every strange clinical case in which brain damage leads to a bizarre change in behavior or perception, there are hundreds of cases in which parts of the brain are damaged with no detectable clinical sign.

  David Eagleman

  Running, Party, Political

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• Lincoln?” she (Beth) asked. “Yes?” “Do you believe in love at first sight?” He made himself look at her face, at her wide-open eyes and earnest forehead. At her unbearably sweet mouth. “I don’t know,” he said. “Do you believe in love before that?” Her breath caught in her throat like a sore hiccup. And then it was too much to keep trying not to kiss her.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Sweet, Believe, Eye

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• There are three things in the world that he held in the smallest esteem - slugs, poets and caddies with hiccups.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Golf, Three, Caddies

  P. G. Wodehouse, D. R. Bensen (1999). “Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf”, p.159, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There must be something wrong with those people who think Audrey Hepburn doesn’t perspire, hiccup or sneeze, because they know that’s not true. I n fact, I hiccup more than most.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Thinking, People, Facts

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• Hiccup: Thank You For Nothing You Stupid Reptile.

  Cressida Cowell

  Stupid, Reptiles

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• The semi-colon is a burp, a hiccup. It's a drunk staggering out of the saloon at 2 a.m., grabbing your lapels on the way and asking you to listen to one more story.

  James Scott Bell

  Drunk, Asking, Stories

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• There's no such thing as im-POSSIBLE, Hiccup, only im-PROBABLE. The only thing that limits us are the limits to our imagination

  Cressida Cowell

  Imagination, Limits

  Cressida Cowell (2015). “How To Train Your Dragon: How to Fight a Dragon's Fury”, p.201, Hachette UK

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• Throwing a knuckleball for a strike is like throwing a butterfly with hiccups across the street into your neighbor's mailbox.

  Willie Stargell

  Butterfly, Knuckleballs, Neighbor

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• I love hiccups and I love sneezes and I love blinks and I love belches and I love gluttons. I love hair. I love bears. For me, the round. For me, the world.

  Giannina Braschi

  Life, Love Is, Hair

  "Empire of Dreams". Book by Giannina Braschi, 2012.

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• I like the songs to appear very simple and to flow by without any kind of hiccup, but there has to be this impression of other currents underneath. Like if the songs aren't, on some level, multidimensional, we lose interest in them.

  Gillian Welch

  Song, Simple, Levels

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• The government-sponsored institution Fannie Mae, when I look at its risks, seems to be sitting on a barrel of dynamite, vulnerable to the slightest hiccup. But not to worry: their large staff of scientists deemed these events "unlikely."

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Government, Worry, Risk

  "The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable". Book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, April 17, 2007.

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• For a decision-the freest of my actions just happens like hiccups inside me or like a bird singing outside me.

  Alan Watts

  Bird, Decision, Singing

  Alan Watts (1989). “The way of Zen”, Vintage

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• At once I feel that comedy is this amazing sort of transcendent thing, and I'm also open to the fact that maybe it's just an evolutionary hiccup, something that upright apes do in their free time.

  Bo Burnham

  Apes, Facts, Comedy

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