Top 36 Quotes About Coughs
#1. Sometimes life coughs up coincidences no writer of fiction would dare copy.
Stephen King
#2. ...grabbing failure by the throat and squeezing it until it coughs up a hairball of success.
Scott Adams
#3. Morning exercise, walking in the free, invigorating air of heaven, or cultivating flowers, small fruits, and vegetables, is the surest safeguard against colds, coughs, congestion of the brain, inflammation of the liver, the kidneys, and the lungs, and a hundred other diseases.
Ellen G. White
#4. I knew I recognized your voice from somewhere.' He coughs. Blood bubbles out of his mouth. 'Been a long time. So long I thought it was a torture dream.
Susan Ee
#5. When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child?
George Bernard Shaw
#6. At a music hall, I'll get upset if someone coughs or if someone's cellphone goes off.
Joshua Bell
#7. Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts and random collisions.
Lauren Oliver
#8. Baby, Andy once said that beauty is a sign of intelligence.'
She turns slowly to look at me. 'Who, Victor? Who? Andy who?' She coughs, blowing her nose. 'Andy Kaufman? Andy Griffith? Who in the hell told you this? Andy Rooney?'
'Warhol,' I say softly, hurt. 'Baby ...
Bret Easton Ellis
#9. There are moments on stage when everything comes together. Then the kid in the front row coughs.
Connie Brockway
#10. Yes, Doc, I'm not feeling too well.'
Which was true enough, Kwang Meng considered.
He had honestly not been feeling too well since he contracted poverty, loneliness, boredom, sexual frustration and periodic coughs and colds. Not to speak of his dreary job.
Goh Poh Seng
#11. You done a number on him, Colt. He needs a doctor, or he ain't gonna make it." "He tried to rape her, Split. Then he punched her." "To be fair," Nell puts in, "he only punched me after I put a knife to his throat." Split coughs a laugh. "You what? Girl, you crazy.
Jasinda Wilder
#12. He works at the kennel with Nana," Ben piped up. "And I think him and Mom are dating."
At that, a stillness fell over a throng of admirers, punctuated by a few uncomfortable coughs.
Nicholas Sparks
#13. Many in the audience consider leaving.
If anyone leaves, let them leave.
The theatre is not a prison.
If anyone coughs, cough also.
The Theatre is not a sickbed.
We minister to the audience.
We revere the pains of the audience.
Lem Doolittle
#14. I haven't been one since I did a film called (coughs) Encino Man (laughing). After two or three runs with Pauly Shore, I had enough. Watching this film in 3D as far as rollercoasters go really fills it for me.
Brendan Fraser
#15. Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.
Willa Cather
#16. I just love having little vocal snippets like laughs and coughs, not necessarily stuff that has huge significance, just little human qualities.
Ryan Hemsworth
#17. Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life.
Terry Pratchett
#18. Often children came in with minor colds or coughs or diarrhea and then suddenly, they were dead.
Barbara Demick
#19. Gazzy: (Hugging himself and jumping up and down) "I'm brilliant! I'm a genius! I can blow up the world!"
Max: (Raises her eyebrows)
Gazzy: "Not that I would want to, of course," (coughs)
James Patterson
#20. The demon coughed nervously. Demons do not breathe; however, every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life. And this was one of them as far as the demon was concerned.
Terry Pratchett
#21. It?" "Friday, April fourth, ma'am." She coughs. Then she doubles over and coughs
Christina Baker Kline
#22. Every time a book opens, an angel coughs up a hairball.
Bart Yates
#23. This is what life is about: seeing new places, meeting new people, grabbing life by the balls and squeezing until it coughs up a story worth telling.
Ruth Cardello
#24. You know how in every heist movie they get past the security cameras that show the hallway leading to the diamonds by jamming the screens with a fake signal of everything looking safe and quiet? Usually a guard coughs so they don't notice the blip from switching to the bogus feed.
Adam McKay
#26. Nick? Any idea?"
Nick coughs too. "Nope. No idea at all."
Wilbur gives him a stern look. "So what was the point in doing all the Jane Austen stuff if she doesn't know about it, Poodle-bottom?
Holly Smale
#27. Our best chance of contentment lies in taking up the wisdom offered to us in coded form through our coughs, allergies, social gaffes, and emotional betrayals, and avoid the ingratitude of those who blame the peas, the bores, the time, and the weather.
Alain De Botton
#28. He coughs. Not a good sound. Too deep, too full of coffins.
Why is mankind so fucking cruel?
Why?
Sally Gardner
#29. A layer of fine powder coats his skin.
"My lungs are turning to concrete," Rob wheezes, hacking and spitting.
"So are my eyes. How do I always get roped into these things?" Avery coughs and pats Rob's back in sympathy. A poof of dust billows from the contact.
Laura Kreitzer
#30. It was one of those problematic occasions with long silences, sporadic coughs, and people saying isolated things like, Well, isn't this nice.
Terry Pratchett
#31. Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not.
Edward Burnett Tylor
#32. Kitty has no discretion in her coughs," said her father; "she times them ill.
Jane Austen
#33. He brings the cigarette butt to his mouth and lights up. He breathes in, and coughs; a rattling helicopter with a broken blade crashing into a herd of trombone playing sheep falling off a cliff into a DIY shop with a discount on spanners.
Craig Stone
#34. We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim on the company.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#35. Annabelle coughs and glares at Blue. "What did you do? Did I just swallow something?"
Blue pulls her into a hug. "You're my best friend in the whole world."
"Get off me, leech," she says, smiling.
Victoria Scott
#36. And while from inside we would hear coughs and stirrings, there was never a rustle in the listeners out the door.
Corrie Ten Boom
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