Quotes About Phlegm

#1. A cough so robust that I tapped into two new seams of phlegm.

Bill Bryson

#2. Being a mother gives you a singular sort of vision, a prism through which you can see your child with many different faces all at once. It is the reason you can watch him shatter a ceramic lamp, and still remember him as an angel.

Jodi Picoult

#3. Embarrassment thickened in his throat like phlegm.

Ross Macdonald

#4. You have wavered uncertainly between two systems, between drawing and coloring, between the painstaking phlegm, the stiff precision, of the old German masters, and the dazzling ardor, the happy fertility, of the Italian painters.

Honore De Balzac

#5. But in this Second Work if thou extract our Air and our Fire with the phlegm water, they will the more naturally and easily be drawn out of their infernal prison, and with less losse of their Spirits, than by the former way before described.

George Ripley

#6. As to spelling the very frequent word though with six letters instead of two, it is impossible to discuss it, as it is outside the range of common sanity. In comparison such a monstrosity as phlegm for flem is merely disgusting.

George Bernard Shaw

#7. 'Escargot' is French for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm'.

Dave Barry

#8. German reminded her of an old man hacking up phlegm.

Sara Shepard

#9. Rose took my nose, I suppose," he repeated; the bubble of phlegm in his throat made a disgusting crackle. "And it really blows.

James Dashner

#10. To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid for silence, a creditsystem in which a paper promise to pay answers for the time instead of liquidation. We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. Mr. Heathcliff and his man climbed the cellar stairs with vexatious phlegm.

Emily Bronte

#12. People were made up of shit and piss and phlegm and bits and pieces of experience.

Sarah Hall

#13. Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.

Aaron Hill

#14. Unreadable. I've always said my mother is the biggest bitch on the hill, and the kindest flower in the garden.

Lisa Renee Jones

#15. The Tyr had tried. It had really tried. It must have gone over every element of human psychology, tried desperately to understand the nature of human aesthetic sense ... and then failed, miserably, in every regard.

C.S. Friedman

#16. How about a drop of something to cut the phlegm?
Why don't you stay sober today?
We didn't come to New York to stay sober.

Dashiell Hammett

#17. I settle for a radio station that's currently playing a Tom Waits track. That man has so much gravel in his voice that, if he coughed, you could build a road with the contents of his phlegm.

Mark Capell

#18. Whether a character in your novel is full of choler, bile, phlegm, blood or plain old buffalo chips, the fire of life is in there, too, as long as that character lives.

James Alexander Thom

#19. The kind of people who spoke mostly Yiddish, which is a combination of German and phlegm. This is a language of coughing and spitting; until I was eleven, I wore a raincoat.

Billy Crystal

#20. Give yourself something to work toward
constantly.

Mary Kay Ash

#21. The concept of evolution postulates that living organisms have common roots, and in turn, the existence of common features is powerful support for the concept of evolution.

Hans Adolf Krebs

#22. Shudder, in fact, is not quite the word for the feeling. Feeling is not quite the word for the feeling. How's bathing at knifepoint in the phlegm of the dead? Is that a feeling?

Sam Lipsyte

#23. All I'm out for is a good time - all the rest is propaganda.

Alan Sillitoe

#24. Imperturbability means coolness and presence of mind under all circumstances, calmness amid storm, clearness of judgment in moments of grave peril, immobility, impassiveness, or, to use an old and expressive word, phlegm.

William Osler

#25. Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions.

Julia Ward Howe

#26. Set this world on fire, Enzo. With everything you have.

Marie Lu

#27. Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings.

Mae West

#28. Going home means going back in time. It's not a trip you care to take alone, and anyway, isn't that the main reason to take a mate? So you have an ally in the civil war against your parents?

Diana Joseph

#29. Wednesday is pizza day at Chadham High. The lunchroom smells like a cross between a sewer and a dead skunk. Chadham High pizza consists of a cardboard crust and sauce made of mud, topped with some kind of fungus that looks suspiciously like phlegm pretending to be cheese.

Huston Piner

#30. What's the bravest thing you ever did?
He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.

Cormac McCarthy

#31. Josh Hutchins's battered old Pontiac gave a wheeze like an old man with phlegm in his lungs.

Robert McCammon