Throat Quotations

I'm allergic to caffeine. When I have it, my throat gets sore, and I get a rash.

I had a sore throat for a long time and it scared me. I saw a lump in my throat and I was terrified. I wouldn't go to a doctor.

Many composers today don't know what the human throat is.

I thought I was Superman until I experienced that life-changing anaphylactic shock. I was eating lunch and gobbled down a couple of bowls of gumbo. Then, 15 minutes later, I'm in my dorm room resting up. My eyes started itching and my throat was swelling up. I could barely breathe.

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.

I'm always crying. I get a lump in my throat when I see intimacy between parents and their children.

It is a medical fact that children can have a better chance in life with better looks, better health and more vigor if the teeth, nose, throat and mouth are taken proper care of at the crucial time of childhood.

You need to put your hands around the throat of your business, and you need to run it. There's no other way.

After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat.

You'd have a good voice, if it ever came out of your throat

I loved rap, especially in the early days. But I wasn't trying to shove it down anybody's throats.

I would be a giraffe because I just want to experience what a sore throat and being a giraffe feels like. It would be really uncomfortable walking around in the Sahara and being like, 'I really need, like, 15 lozenges for my giraffe body.'

When I sing full-on I use my whole body. I open my throat and let it fly out.

When we were doing 'Live at Benaroya,' the song 'I Will' was hard to get through. I've always get a big lump in my throat when I sing that song. And also 'Before It Breaks.' So I'm just a different songwriter now. And the older I get, the more difficult it becomes to deliver those songs casually.

I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.

I had throat cancer, and I had to have radiation treatments, and I couldn't sing for a long time; and this was in '97. I had 28 radiation treatments. I didn't die, thank God.

I was a naturally aggressive left-back, a cut-throat tackler.

I went to one doctor who told me I wasn't exercising enough. I was so exhausted, I couldn't raise my arm. When this doctor called it psychosomatic, I was enraged. To think the constant sore throat and swollen glands were all in my head was infuriating.

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.

For me and accent work, I think once you've figured out where that energy is, where the sound is in your throat or your mouth, it's a whole lot easier to do.

The most famous rumor for me is that I had throat cancer. I never had throat cancer... I don't know why that started... The way I sing, probably.

We're in a world where masculinity, especially with these big spectacle movies, is often pushed by rippling six packs and forcing an image down someone's throat trying to prove masculinity. Whereas I think true masculinity comes from having a strong sense of self.

When you're part of a pop phenomenon, you have so many opinions shoved down your throat.

A philosophy can only be a route to knowledge. It cannot be knowledge crammed down one's throat. If one has a route, he can then find what is true for him. And that is Scientology.

What's stunning about their ability to raise reasonable doubt there is that the facts clearly show that he intentionally slit her throat despite his jailhouse confession to the contrary. Somehow Brittain and Williams raised enough reasonable doubt on that question to avoid the needle.

...her cry is a hook and it catches me in the throat.

Goodbys always make my throat hurt... I need more hellos...

Once you've tasted freedom, it stays in your throat.

I would have spoken, had my heart not been in my throat

A lump rises in our throat at the sight of beauty from an implicit knowledge that the happiness it hints at is the exception.

I have lived those lines and I know that if I had not been apprehended I would have slit some white throats.

We're not dead yet, ... The fat lady hasn't sung yet. She was spraying her throat there for a while but she didn't sing. We still have a chance.

So he has to overcome this attitude and go out on the court and say: 'Roger, I don't care what I'm going to have to do ... if I have to rip your throat out I'm going to beat you.

She's taking throat singing to a new realm. It's a great chance to see a world class group - they're the leading non-classical string quartet in the world.

She was diagnosed with cancer at Thanksgiving time in 2004. She went into her doctor complaining of a sore throat and they did some blood tests and discovered she had leukemia.

She's a little under the weather. She had a sore throat and people were trying to find her some cough drops and they finally found some. I didn't realize they had to go to Wal-Mart to get them, but they brought her a whole bag of 'em!

One of the two suspicions is that there was an indirect lightning strike which may have caused the zebra to go into the moat and drown. The other is she had a preexisting medical condition causing problems with her throat and lungs, causing breathing problems, and she may have gone into the moat and drowned as a result.

One of the things that Deep Throat did was at several crucial moments -- we knew we were right when we had a couple sources -- and then Deep Throat would say, 'That's right.'

My heart was in my throat 10 seconds earlier when I'd thrown the ball away. That was scary but I got a little lucky because it came right back to me. I knew that no three guys were going to be able to catch that guy in an open floor, so I thought it might be a good idea to get the ball to Mark and see what he could do with it.

My husband died just two weeks before the storm of a recurrence of throat cancer. I'm almost glad it happened before the storm, because this would have been a terrible blow to him. He was not as tough as I am.

My sense is, it's actually kind of an interesting dynamic. Microsoft, for reasons that I don't understand - but I welcome - seems to be trying to cram a proprietary Microsoft-only agenda down the throat of the entire consumer electronics industry, and the entire mobile industry, and the entire media industry.

On one play, I remember hitting him out of bounds, grabbing his throat and squeezing it like it was Silly Putty, ... 'You cheap shot artist!' Brunell screamed at me. 'You're going down, Brunell! I looked at your friggin' face every day for a friggin' year! I've waited all year for this!'

Based on the fact that she felt she was in a fight for her life, it constitutes attempted murder. It was his actions, with his hands wrapped around her throat and that she couldn't breathe.

I felt like there was something in my throat that wouldn't come out.

I feel the coast is getting something rammed down the throat by the rest of the state and in particular by Haley Barbour who used to be a lobbyist for the petroleum industry.

Frank Sobotka in 'The Wire' on HBO was one of the greatest characters I've ever played. They cut his throat at the end of that season. There's something about creative coupling that seems to go with great characters, and the fact that you can never play them again once you're done.

I got a lump in my throat when I saw those babies banking over there, and then cut off. You heard the roar. It was incredible, if you just looked up and saw them coming. If you're a red-blooded American, this is what you love.

I always got a lump in my throat whenever I walked up those marble steps to argue a case before the court.

He had his hands around his throat and his eyes were starting to roll back.

He himself (Miller) got a $3 million signing bonus, he gets a $1.5 million salary, he gets $4 million at the end, ... And then you talk about what you want to force down the throat of people who are working for a living.

He is not a vegetable. He is conscious. He understands what we say. He can shake, open and close his eyes and move his head. He cannot speak...all his body parts can move but without coordination. This is generally positive since doctors were worried that the left side of his body may be more affected than the right. So far that is not the case. He still has a tube in his throat for breathing. They tried to take it out but were obliged to put it back. He is fed through his nose.

He's always said that Deep Throat is a personality that was created by Bob Woodward, a name that was created. He likes to say that he's the person that they called Deep Throat.

He's going at the throat of unions, which is the heart of the Democratic Party. If they can reduce the role of unions, that would be a dream come true for Republicans.

He coughed when he was back in the tie-up stalls after the race, but we suspected that was just grit down his throat and a scope later proved that was the case,

I wouldn't say it brought a tear to my eye, but certainly a little bit of a lump in my throat when I (first) sat down here and looked out that window and said, OK, this is a great responsibility I have.

Just to have the impression that this comes naturally is just one way from the diaphragm I mean, until up to the throat and then outside... .and then you have to do this with every note.

I think we got a little lackadaisical in the second quarter. I was very glad to see that we took the ball in the third quarter and ran it down their throat twice.

I was actually in the house and heard the train brakes. You just get a knot in your throat knowing something's about to happen and that the outcome could be very bad. I knew it was probably a possibility of a fatality, so my heart goes out to the family of this young lady.

I went to see Harvey again in Fiddler. Harvey's throat is getting better.

Our fear also is for the tens of thousands of other people across the Coast that has the exact same camper. And the long term implications are, you survive Katrina only for ten years down the road only to have throat cancer, nose cancer or some other kind of aliment.

People only have guilty pleasures when they crowbar pleasure down their throat all the time and then they reach for the brownies. Then you should feel guilty because you're killing your body and that's something to be guilty about.

My sinuses suddenly went berserk, and my throat got really raw, ... I'm like a canary in a coal mine. So I know what that means.

I think I had my heart in my throat the whole game,

We're a little disappointed in the subscriber numbers at DirecTV, but it's not something to slit your throat over, ... If you look at the other numbers associated with the company, they overwhelm the subscriber numbers.

We're building the network because that's the way the technology is going, and frankly, this is what consumers want. If consumers have a choice, they want fewer companies delivering their service. They want one throat to choke versus multiple throats.

We've been guilty of that all year. There's a time you've got to put your foot on the throat and we let it off.

There is a throat sting associated with it.

The petitioner was held in a sealed underground cell, with no windows and no way to escape the poison chemicals that were pumped into his cell (ostensibly to kill cockroaches.) The petitioner's throat swelled up from the chemicals; he could not breathe. He began to choke. He vomited. His eyes swelled shut. He began shaking and was in great pain. His head began to throb. He lost consciousness. Before he passed out, he pleaded with the guards to remove him from his cell but they refused. The petitioner suffered from severe headaches, nausea and dizziness for weeks after this episode. It is not clear if there has been permanent damage to his respiratory system.

Every year, I give my dad an advance copy of my latest book. He reads it over the next several nights and says something incredibly supportive. Then he clears his throat nervously and changes the subject.

We've got a bit of bone stuck in our throat and we want to take it out of there. It would have been a wonderful thing to do that last year with so many people following us.

This team has been such a great group to coach because they're so locked in on their goal. They all have colds and sore throats, but there are seven other teams right now. If you have a cold or sore throat that's not what you're going to remember in two months.

You have to be able to weather the storm. We knew we had a run in us and we knew they had a run in them. We weathered theirs and they couldn't handle our 18 points. That's immense. Give credit to the kids. We didn't slow down the ball, we went right at their throat and we're going to do that from now on.

What still alive at twenty-two. / A clean, upstanding chap like you! / Sure, if your throat is hard to slit, / Slit your girl's and swing for it.

When a man is small, he loves and hates food with a ferocity which soon dims. But at six years old his very bowels will heave when such a dish as creamed carrots or cold tapioca appears before him. His throat will close, and spots of nausea and rage swim in his vision.

This thing was shoved down people's throat whether we wanted it or not. You are here to do the will of the people. You know the people would have voted against it.

Every person's life is theirs by right. An individuals life can and must only belong to himself, no to any society or community, or he is then but a slave. No one can deny another person their right to their life, nor seize by force what is produced by someone else, because that is stealing their means to sustain their life. It is treason against mankind to hold a knife to a man's throat and dictate how he must live his life. No society is more important than the individuals who compose it, or else you ascribe supreme importance, not to man, but to any notion that strikes the fantasy of that society at a never ending cost of lives. Reason and reality are the only means to just laws; mindles wishes, if given sovereignty, become deadly masters.

There's no hard evidence offered whatsoever in this piece, no corroborating evidence, no inside information only Deep Throat would know,

Is it your opinion Dr. Reichardt that Nicole Brown deserved to have had her throat cut?

The word war itself has a kind of glazing abstraction to it that conjures up bombs and bullets and so on, whereas my goal is to try to, so much as I can, capture the heart and the stomach and the back of the throat of readers who can lie in bed at night and participate in a story.

It was akin to an animal being slaughtered. It was literally how you slaughter sheep. ...They slit the throat (at) the two carotid arteries, and they severed the head.

It was akin to an animal being slaughtered, ... It was literally how you slaughter sheep. ...They slit the throat (at) the two carotid arteries, and they severed the head.

These savages. These people. Think about it. To be on the floor and get your ... throat slit. They killed my brother in cold blood. That's the hard part. Someone grabs you by your hair and slits your throat on live TV.

The Sixties were an oyster decade: slippery, luxurious and reportedly aphrodisiac they slipped down the historical throat without touching the sides

Someone took my parking space and I just lost it. And I started screaming, not at her but in the car. And my throat was like (makes a burning gesture). I stopped and regrouped and then I got out of the car and screamed at her the right way.

Deep Throat was a journalistic joke; Mark Felt never accepted the name.

Deep Throat is a guy who could have your files and mine in his trust.

The bus was moving at freeway speeds when one passenger -- possibly two -- attacked the driver with a knife. He was attacked in the head and throat area.

This game means a lot to our whole team, specifically our defense, because we feel they took advantage of us, ... Every game is very important. I think those guys were the only team that really ran the ball down our throat last year. They really played well.

A lot of guys will think, 'Hey old man, you need to get out of the game,' ... They'll wonder if I can still play. And the only way to answer that is to grab them by the throat and show them who's who.

A malignant sore throat is a danger, a malignant throat not sore is worse.

Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,/ And sinks into my throat her tiger's tooth,/ Stealing my breath of life, I will confess/ I love this cultured hell that tests my youth!

This method of suffocating the chickens in polythene bags is easier and more humane than slitting their throat or strangling them.

It was one of times when you get a lump in your throat and try not to start crying in public, ... I was also proud I was a part of it. I was happy for him and his family.

It was already growling, and the growl was a low, rumbling snarl of spring-coiled menace, the sort of growl that starts in the back of one throat and ends up in someone else's.

It was a tough game against a tough team. They ran the ball down our throat and somehow we found a way to win the football game.

It's a cut throat world out there (on the course). It is hard enough on your own but then you've got three guys riding next to you. It is a great spectator sport.

That's something he's been doing since mini-camp. When you jump on someone's throat like we did (Thursday night), you're going to win 80 percent of the time.

It's tough because there are times when I just want to rip someone's throat out, but I've taken the approach of trying to steadily build something. The thing is -- and I've been criticized for it -- I've tended to take the positive out of every situation. I've insisted on it. They've called me 'Joey Blue Skies' and said that I'm not seeing what's actually going on here. Well, I am seeing what's really going on here: We're a young team trying to build something, and when it starts to work -- not if, but when -- we'll be a great football team.

They are going to grab Syria by the throat and squeeze and shake, and see what kind of change falls out of the Syrian pockets.... It's going to be the harshest isolation they can manufacture.