Iron Lung Quotes

#1. I have a vague memory of seeing an image of a child in an iron lung and the phrase "sad little breathing machine" coming into my head. The more I thought about it, the more I felt that on certain days - the worse ones - we could all be described as sad little breathing machines.

Matthea Harvey

#2. Who decides which defects are funny and which ones are tragic? Nobody laughs at blind people or makes iron lung jokes.

David Mitchell

#3. It's you people dying from nothing that are screwed. I got all sorts of neat gadgets waiting for me ... oxygen tent, iron lung.

Bill Hicks

#4. Think of a field of daisies: they bloom, they wither, and in the spring they grow again. Who wants to see the same stupid daisy year after year, especially with a bunch of crappy iron-lung-type equipment bolted to it?

Rudy Rucker

#5. All of us in the Senate live in an iron lung-the iron lung of politics, and it is no easy task to emerge from that rarified atmosphere in order to breathe the same fresh air our constituents breathe.

John F. Kennedy

#6. I was actually in an iron lung for about a year, and then I was paralysed from the neck down for another year after that. So I spent a lotta time just lying down as a kid. And some of my earliest memories from then are of listening to the radio.

David Sanborn

#7. On Broadway money rules. Like a host of vultures, the ticket brokers, the speculators, the craft unions, the agents, the backers, the real estate owners move in on the creative body and take their bite. The world of dreams breathes in an iron lung; and without this mechanical pumping it dies.

Marya Mannes

#8. When I was a teenager, I was in an iron-lung.

Creed Bratton

#9. An iron lung looks like an enormous metal coffin or a 19th-century rocket ship: only its occupant's head is left outside, a tight seal around the neck.

Elizabeth McCracken

#10. If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung.

Billie Holiday

#11. He dreamt ... he was a huge white egg floating in the sea of turquoise blue, and he was everything that there was.

Iris Murdoch

#12. It had always been a breathtaking view, the kind that made him inhale and forget to exhale . . .

Sere Prince Halverson

#13. That you've got to do anything that you feel is precious. I especially believe that about cultures and languages. You've got to be really conscious because time is running out.

Gwenno

#14. That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#15. I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

Samuel Johnson

#16. Mark in what order: first, our calling; then, our election; not beginning with our election first. By our calling, arguing our election.

Joseph Hall