Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut speaking to John Irving while Irving was administering the Heimlich maneuver in response to Vonnegut's uncontrollable coughing..."John,stop- I am not choking. I have emphysema.

When we were leaving, Jerry (Narron) said, 'You're going to come to Cincinnati and see us play next year,' ... He moved his thumb. His mother said that means 'OK.' I got pretty choked up. Jerry did, too.

We failed to make the routine plays in the field. We choked in that situation." ()

Kurt Eichenwald

The myth that people with epilepsy swallow their tongues is very injurious. When I had seizures without my roommates present, I would often wake up with my gums bleeding, my teeth hurting or my jaw aching. Often, well-intentioned people, believing I would choke on my tongue, tried to force open my clenched jaw to put in a hard object.

We're at a point in our history where we need to make some tough decisions about how we want to live, work and play over the next several years or we are going ... to choke on our own growth.

Charles Bukowski

It’s when you hide things that you choke on them.

The past staff said they (cats) are pretty much choked to death.

William Shakespeare

Now 'tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted;Suffer them now, and they'll outgrow the garden,And choke the herbs for want of husbandry.

Chris Quinn

I found myself getting choked up a little bit. Seeing all the fans, seeing everything I've been through for four years just going through my head.

Mark Lane

I am expecting it to be done sometime in June or July next year. That's a real difficult job to do because there are several places where it gets choked down. In front of Sexton foods, Race is already three lanes, and they will widen it a little there. But further down in front of Midnight Oil, it's just two lanes so it will cut it down to one lane when they close a lane for construction.

Curtis Strange

We all choke. You're not human if you haven t.

I was just choked up inside. To me it's a close family. I don't know what happened.

He choked up a little bit, but he tried to suck it up in front of us. You know Coach Williams, he's a real tough guy.

Larry Ellison

Guys were knocked down time and time again, but kept getting up to do what had to be done to keep us alive. It's a tough crew, but the guys were choked up. We were learning of people dying.

Zab Judah

I was detained by a police officer and proceeded to get choked by Roger Mayweather.

Mary Roach

When I was 16, I had a job on the cleaning crew at a local hospital. I wore a pink uniform and cleaned bathrooms and buffed the hallway linoleum. Oddly, I don't recall hating the job. I recall getting choked up at the end of the summer when I went to turn in my uniform and say goodbye to the ladies.

I think it's silly. Losing those seats for teams like the Yankees and Angels, they'll lose revenue. They're going to choke themselves. I think Lew Wolff is a good owner, but I don't think closing the upper deck is going to do it for them.

Alan Faneca

He had me choked up a little bit, it means so much to him, to be in the league this long, - to give him a shot like this, it definitely means something.

Brendan Shanahan

For me, you always feel like you're in it right up until the buzzer goes. But ever since I've been a little kid, I've always gotten choked up when the season ended, other than when you win the championship. It's usually in the dressing room when you realize they won't let you play another period.

We're trying to mobilize the financial industry to choke off the money.

This was a great tribute to Hector. ... I got a little choked up on the starting line. ... Over 500 runners in the heat of the summer. There are guys here who drove from Jupiter and South Miami.

Torry Holt

When I watch him on film, I always get a little choked up,

Michelle Collins

Up until now all the information is going in one direction to law enforcement. But the financial institutions get a lot of feedback and they honestly have a lot of impact in being able to choke the money flow.

Ike Barinholtz

I love 'Love Actually.' 'Love Actually,' there's, like, nine stories in that movie. Three of them are good. But watching that movie, I get emotional, I get choked up, my wife makes fun of me. I don't know if as you get older you get sappier and sentimental.

Seth Meyers

When my girlfriend and I talk about being happy, I'll get choked up, which I think is the greatest gift you can give a girlfriend.

Last night was the worst night of my life, ... This man up here, well, he was trying to choke this little boy. They whipped him down. Then they threw him over the railing.

Steve Price

That will be something new for Eddie, to go and watch a team that actually wins, or at least doesn't choke in grand finals.

Those are some of the steps taken to make sure the Visa Waiver Program ( search ) is a safe and effective way to letting people get into the United States, because obviously we don't want to choke off travel here altogether.

Joe Nemechek

Well, in the heat of the battle, I wanted to choke him. I wanted to get out and wrestle right there.

We think she grabbed a piece of food and choked on it.

Gayle Forman

You?' is all I can manage to choke out. 'Always me,' she replies softly, bashfully. 'Who else?

Excuse me if I get a little choked up.

Sathya Baba

See God in every one you meet; see God in every thing you handle. Live together, revere each other, let not the seeds of envy and hate grow and choke the clear stream of Love.