Quotes About The Iron Lung

#1. 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

#2. Though the body sleeps, the heart will never rest.

James Taylor

#3. Agnes like she was a baby bird. Dabney felt a combination of

Elin Hilderbrand

#4. 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

#5. Wait around and wait around and pretty soon you won't be around

George Woodman

#6. Discrimination is discrimination, even when people claim it's tradition.

DaShanne Stokes

#7. Whether you stay six weeks, six months or six years, always leave it better than you found it.

Jim Rohn

#8. 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

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

Creed Bratton

#10. When your actions and top values are in harmony, you feel calm and at peace.

Amey Hegde

#11. The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself.

Theodor Reik

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. Serving jury duty is a fascinating little slice of life, with its motley crew of personalities.

Nina Garcia

#15. I love that, even after jumping through hoops forever, I can still get that buzz, that hook. That's very healthy, but it's bittersweet, too, because if you don't get the part, you have to deal with the disappointment. I don't think I'll ever negotiate those peaks and troughs wholly healthily.

Gina McKee

#16. 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

#17. 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

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

David Mitchell

#19. 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