Heimlich Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Demetri Martin

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. I enjoy inventing things out of fun. After all, life is a game, not a career.

Brion Gysin

#9. Bob Dole revealed he is one of the test subjects for Viagra. He said on Larry King, 'I wish I had bought stock in it.' Only a Republican would think the best part of Viagra is the fact that you could make money off of it.

Jay Leno

#10. Religion can bring great comfort to children.
It can also turn their lives into a living hell.

Janet Heimlich

#11. What cause then, to have me in hysterics of unknown kind?
Far-off the clandestine black where my road I cannot find,
What cause then, to submit me not here?

Mpho Leteng

#12. Creative ideas are often attacked because people oppose change or do not understand new concepts.

Henry Heimlich

#13. When I listen to a symphony I love, I don't get from it what the composer got. His 'Yes' was different from mine. He could have no concern for mine and no exact conception of it. That answer is too personal to each man. But in giving himself what he wanted, he gave me a great experience.

Ayn Rand

#14. Most animal experimentation is useless.

Henry Heimlich

#15. If all your peers understand what you've done, it's not creative.

Henry Heimlich

#16. How good it is to be well-fed, healthy, and kind all at the same time.

Henry Heimlich

#17. is another possibility.

P.K. Darling

#18. The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day.

Sinclair Lewis