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Quotes About Throat

Look at those vines,' he said. 'Nature is wearing her prettiest clothes.' The effect of this unexpectedly poetic observation was slight spoiled when Massot cleared his throat nosily and spat, but he was right;
~ Peter Mayle
I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.
~ Zakk Wylde
I've had problems with my throat over the years, playing with loud bands for years, and I've had bruised vocal chords and nodules.
~ Aaron Neville
I have a routine to work on my vocals. I always get some honey and some extra virgin olive oil to coat my throat, and I go to bed.
~ Charles Bradley
And yet there's other species even closer to zero. I know that. And I hope to God somebody else is worrying about 'em. I often ask myself, would I slit my own throat if I was guaranteed I could save one species by slitting it? We all know one human life is worth more than one bird's life. But is my miserable little life worth a whole species?
~ Jonathan Franzen
I'm one of those people who when I go over a bridge, I want to jump. It's just this intense tickle in the back of my throat. It's like I'm on the verge the whole time I'm walking over that bridge, and I'm not going to get a release until I jump.
~ Willem Dafoe
He ran on the white tiles up through the tunnels, ignoring the escalators, because he wanted to feel his feet move, arms swing, lungs clench, unclench, feel his throat go raw with air.
~ Ray Bradbury
In the throat, the male is as vulnerable as the female. Once the sharp points of the shears pierce his skin, puncture the artery, there will be no turning back for either of them.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Mr. Lecky could see well enough to eat. He brought his chair over and sat down gratefully while he consumed, but with appetite now, the ham and biscuits which he had disdained in the morning. Even the fact that he was using to cut his ham the knife which had cut a human throat did not disturb him. He had taken care to see that the blade was wiped clean.
~ James Gould Cozzens
he appeared to be struggling with something trapped in his throat; it turned out to be a word. thanks, he said.
~ Dorothy Gilman
I heard them saying something about a razor—Miss Vane! What killed him?' There were no kindly words for this—not even a long, scientific, Latin name. 'His throat was cut, Mrs Weldon.' (Brutal Saxon monosyllables.)
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
The best way to get a drink out of a Vogon is to stick your finger down his throat.
~ Douglas Adams
He seemed nervous of the expectant awed hush, He cleared his throat.
~ Douglas Adams
Her voice became an icy drawl. Take me away from here, if you will be so kind. I'm quite sure I'd like to go home. You won't be a sister to me? If I had a razor, I'd cut your throat Ã¢â'¬â€ just to see what ran out of it.
~ Raymond Chandler
I twitched a smile, resisting the temptation to kick his teeth down his throat, and folded myself into the deck chair.
~ Richard K. Morgan
my premonitions, darker than the inside of a monster's throat, spewed out ominous vapor.
~ K?b? Abe
Nature is like a wild animal that you have trained to work for you. So long as you are vigilant and walk warily with thought and care, so long will it give you its aid; but look away for an instant, be heedless or forgetful, and it has you by the throat.
~ Kamala Markandaya
He cleared his throat. He was going to tell us more. We moved to close off the opportunity. Wheeled like a school of fish, practiced, synchronized. It was beautiful. It was Pavlovian. It was a goddamn dance of avoidance conditioning.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
The singing man keepes his shop in his throate.
~ George Herbert
They say it grows so cold up here in winter that a man's laughter freezes in his throat and chokes him to death," Ned said evenly. "Perhaps that is why the Starks have so little humor.
~ George R. R. Martin
I have mugs of hot water every morning because the studio is cold, and also because it makes my throat sound clearer.
~ Mika Brzezinski
Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.
~ John Boyes
Perhaps you considered yourself an oracle, Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other. Thirty years now I have labored To dredge the silt from your throat. I am none the wiser.
~ Sylvia Plath
Hope is a song in a weary throat.
~ Pauli Murray