Windpipe Quotes

#1. Always grab the reader by the throat in the first paragraph, send your thumbs into his windpipe in the second, and hold him against the wall until the tagline.

Paul O'Neill

#2. I stopped the blade two inches before it touched Andrea's neck. Because she was my best friend, and sticking knives into your best friend's windpipe was generally considered to be a social faux pas.

Ilona Andrews

#3. The Count commenced to cough into his napkin, as he had determined long ago that this was the most effective means of removing wine from his windpipe.

Amor Towles

#4. Driver had the keys bunched in his hand, one braced and protruding between second and third fingers. Stepping directly forward, he punched his fist at alpha dog's windpipe, feeling the key tear through layers of flesh, looking down as he lay gasping for air.

James Sallis

#5. I would simply crush his windpipe so he could say no more offensive things to women.

Joe Schreiber

#6. Blood erupted in great throbbing gouts from a severed artery at the side of his neck. His open windpipe blew clouds of red mist as he struggled to breathe.

Terry Goodkind

#7. Donald crouched down, purple commas punctuating his vision, his windpipe feeling as if someone had shoved a flue-brush down it.

Lissa Evans

#8. He said she went around with her feelings out in front of her with an arm around the feelings' windpipe and a Glock 9mm. to the feelings' temple like a terrorist with a hostage, daring you to shoot.

David Foster Wallace

#9. I'll do him in, so help me fucking Christ! I'll wring the bastard fucker's bleeding blasted fucking windpipe!

James Joyce

#10. Sometimes it seemed to him he was allergic to expressing himself. Often, when he desperately wanted to say a thing, he could actually feel his windpipe closing up on him, cutting off his air.

Joe Hill

#11. Joe Barbera's s always complaining that he can't get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You've got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives?

John Kricfalusi

#12. Jon gave Simon a patronizing pat on the shoulder. "I'm going to miss your witty repartee this summer, Lewis."
"I'm going to hope you get eaten by a spider demon this summer, Cartwright."
George slipped an arm around both of them, grinning maniacally and humming "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?

Cassandra Clare

#13. And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
That I scarce was sure I heard you - here I opened wide the door;
Darkness there, and nothing more.

Edgar Allan Poe

#14. I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

Maya Angelou

#15. Man is fallible, but maybe men are less so.

Atul Gawande

#16. Clever move. Using humour to deflate my murderous intent.

Nicholas Briggs

#17. And so it is with us; we serve as handmaidens to Death. When we are guided by His will, killing is a sacrament.

R.L. LaFevers

#18. She climbed into his embrace. Bryan stayed awake until he heard her breathing steadily. "When you find your wings, don't fly away," he whispered.

Laura Bacchi

#19. I have learned that a woman can be a fighter, a freedom fighter, a political activist, and that she can fall in love and be loved. She can be married, have children, be a mother. Revolution must mean life also; every aspect of life.

Leila Khaled

#20. My interest is always to get as deeply as I can into the minds and spirits of the characters and let the readers empathize or judge as they will.

Adam Haslett

#21. See others as yourself. See families as your family. See towns as your town. See countries as your country. See worlds as your world.

Laozi

#22. Students, like most of us, want answers, even to intractable mysteries. It is hard for anyone to come to terms with the raw truth that sometimes there just are none.

Harvey Cox

#23. I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.

Erica Jong

#24. I did business the same way President Lee did, and from what I read in the papers, the same way President Ma has done. But I have been charged for misuse and misappropriation. People need to learn at the most basic level that valid charges have not been brought against me.

Chen Shui-bian