Heimlich Maneuver Quotes

#1. If you're choking in a restaurant you can just say the magic words, 'Heimlich maneuver,' and all will be well. Trouble is, it's difficult to say 'Heimlich maneuver' when you're choking to death.

Eddie Izzard

#2. During our visits, he consumed an embarrassingly varied assortment of cheap beer and wine, vacillating between fury and melancholy as one might imagine Richard Nixon to be doing not far away. Sometimes he choked on his emotions so badly I feared I would have to perform the Heimlich maneuver on him.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#3. Their leader wore a Nazi helmet and had renamed himself Heimlich in honor of the man who ran the SS, not knowing he'd confused the Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choke victims and Heinrich Himmler.

William Kotzwinkle

#4. There's a very fine line between giving someone the Heimlich maneuver and dry-humping a stranger.

Demetri Martin

#5. I had a choice. My instincts told me to hurry up and give the choking man the Heimlich maneuver. My brain told me to stay still until he expired and chalk this one up to divine intervention.

Dinah Katt

#6. The Heimlich maneuver works on house pets. My pit bull was choking on his dinner. I squeezed his stomach and the neighbor's cat shot right out.

Scott Wood

#7. 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

#8. People do support themselves as artists and writers, so there's no need to be all doom and gloom about it. You just have to push forward. You have to follow your vision and hope for the best. You have to write for love.

Cheryl Strayed

#9. What do you call a person who keeps on talking even when people aren't interested? - A teacher!

John Jester

#10. Suffering is an illusion.

Gautama Buddha

#11. Human beings are naturally hierarchical beasts. Democracy is not their native religion.

Erica Jong

#12. Philosophy seeks to explain life and portray how life should be lived

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#13. It was the first morning of the first day of the new century. Snow blanketed the ground. Anything was possible.

Jacqueline Kelly

#14. Our bed of love is like a glove,
tender and warm, that we creep into

Marc Bolan

#15. Because you cannot see him, God is everywhere.

Yasunari Kawabata

#16. Focusing on what we ought to do for God creates only frustration and exhaustion; focusing on what Jesus has done for us produces abundant fruit. Resting in what Jesus has done for us releases the revolutionary power of the gospel.

J.D. Greear