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Quotes About Respiration

He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.
~ Anthony Burgess
Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise you stop right away.
~ Umberto Eco
When I see an actress or actor drag deeply in a movie, I imagine the pyrenes and phenols ravaging the tender epithelial cells and hardworking cilia of their bronchi, the monoxide and cyanide binding to their hemoglobin, the heaving and straining of their chemically panicked hearts.
~ Jonathan Franzen
It is very difficult for me to breathe when it's hot and humid.
~ Paul Scholes
As llamas have never heard of oxygen, they do not miss it.
~ Will Cuppy
If you're short of breath, it's not because you aren't breathing in enough—it's because you're not breathing out enough.
~ Danny Dreyer
In most cases, having a shortness of breath isn't because you're not breathing in enough—it's because you're not breathing out enough. If you don't empty your lungs fully with each exhale, you'll be "recycling" some of the carbon dioxide left in your lungs from the previous breath, which will lower the concentration of oxygen getting to your muscles.
~ Danny Dreyer
All nature ... is a respiration Of the Spirit of God, who, in breathing hereafter Will inhale it into his bosom again, So that nothing but God alone will remain.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.
~ Norman Cousins
As llamas have never heard of oxygen, they do not miss it.
~ Will Cuppy
Shroud of dust now covers the beautiful earth, wonder when we respire in the fresh air of verdure.
~ Soumya V.
Breath does, in fact, connect us all in a very literal way. Take a breath now. And as you breathe, think about what is in your breath. There perhaps is the CO2 from the person sitting next-door to you.
~ Jane Poynter
There can be little doubt that fishes swimming rapidly do not make respiratory movements at all, but obtain the necessary ventilation of the gills simply by opening the mouth.
~ August Krogh
ventilation: 1. Tidal volume of 6 mL/kg PBW 2. Rate of 14-18 breaths per minute, with a decelerating flow pattern
~ William Owens
God, to breathe. Air. You dont know what it means until you cannot take a breath
~ Alice Borchardt
I'm telling you, you'd like him. He goes to a public school and just started at Spencer's. The other day, he was going off on unaerobic vs. aerobic respiration, and I was thinking, 'You know who this sounds like? Melbourne.'" -- Trey
~ Richelle Mead
Breathing is the first act of life, and the last.
~ Joseph Pilates
Exercise tells your cells that you are alive. All bodies need oxygenation.
~ Suzanne Somers
There might be some residue in my mouth, but if I can breathe from my nasal passage, the air won't come from my mouth or my diaphragm.
~ Alexandra Robbins
No food or drug will ever do for you what a fresh supply of oxygen will.
~ Tony Robbins
Basically, in the fight-or-flight response, the objective is to get away from the source of threat. All of our muscles prepare for this escape by increasing their tension level, our heart rate and respiration increase, and our whole basic metabolic system is flooded with adrenaline.
~ Peter A. Levine
He took a deep breath that whispered into his lungs.
~ Robin Hobb
Oxygen tanks.
~ Lisa Gardner
Every day that you live without proper breathing is another little step of submitting to stress and deterioration of your health.
~ Vladimir Vasiliev