logo

Quotes About Coughs

You know how in every heist movie they get past the security cameras that show the hallway leading to the diamonds by jamming the screens with a fake signal of everything looking safe and quiet? Usually a guard coughs so they don't notice the blip from switching to the bogus feed.
~ Adam McKay
You know what, December's a funny time of the year, because the weather changes, the central heating comes on; sometimes you can get colds and coughs and flu.
~ Phil Taylor
The moral? To recognize that our best chance of contentment lies in taking up the wisdom offered to us in coded form through our coughs, allergies, social gaffes, and emotional betrayals, and to avoid the ingratitude of those who blame the peas, the bores, the time, and the weather.
~ Alain de Botton
senseless, senseless coughs of emotion
~ Allen Ginsberg
provenance." The judge coughs and examines his notes. Paul murmurs to the woman director
~ Jojo Moyes
I just love having little vocal snippets like laughs and coughs, not necessarily stuff that has huge significance, just little human qualities.
~ Ryan Hemsworth
Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life.
~ Terry Pratchett
Unintentional spreading of infection due to poor hygiene (e.g., neglecting to cover coughs) and lack of vaccination is a more likely way in which influenza will be disseminated during the next pandemic.
~ Steven Taylor
My kettle coughs a steamy tea.
~ Terri Guillemets
Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not.
~ Edward Burnett Tylor
Kitty has no discretion in her coughs, said her father; she times them ill.
~ Jane Austen
The Crone tires quickly and reaches out for the velvet draperies, sits on the divan, breathing heavily. She's too ancient to have a name any longer. When she coughs you can hear the ages rattling inside her shrunken frame. No human names can cling to her any more- they slip from her dusty shriveled flesh like a young girl's whimsies.
~ Unknown
My team. A Spiritual Humanist cleaner, an old mobster, an addled swamp rat, and an angry food columnist. We'll get 'em next time, Garth said between coughs. Wasn't all your fault, Joey said, trying to get his shirttail up to his eyes. Go team, Shane thought, and pointed them in the direction of the Defender.
~ Jennifer Crusie
We both developed coughs by the end of the trip, however, and we decided it was vacation pneumonia, caused by excessive lying down. We walk a fine line, don't you know, between a "therapeutic" dose and "overmedication.
~ Jill Conner Browne
In the burrows of the Nightmare Where Justice naked is, Time watches from the shadow And coughs when you would kiss. 'In headaches and in worry Vaguely life leaks away, And Time will have his fancy To-morrow or to-day.
~ W.H. Auden