quotes about Coughing

last updated: November 28, 2023

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
-- Alan Jay Lerner

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I know two kinds of audiences only--one coughing, and one not coughing.
-- Artur Schnabel

Source : 'My Life and Music' (1961) pt. 2, ch. 10

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Acting is the ability to keep an audience from coughing.
-- Jean-Louis Barrault

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It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding.
-- Markus Zusak

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Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.
-- Ralph Richardson

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I'm not angry. I can't sing that loud for that long anyway, I'll start coughing - I don't have the instrument for it. I don't feel that emotional. I'm at peace.
-- Lizz Wright

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I really like playing with Mike Doughty from Soul Coughing. He was cool. He opened up some shows for us. I liked playing with G. Love, he's amazing. God Damn, it was like the best live I had ever seen.
-- Mason Jennings

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“Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.”
“Indianapolis, Indiana is the first place in the United States of America where a white man was hanged for the murder of an Indian. The kind of people who'll hang a white man for murdering an Indian--that's the kind of people for me.”
“In tears I tossed my coin from Trevi's edge. A coin unsordid as a bond of love-- And, with the instinct of the homing dove, I gave to Rome my rendezvous and pledge. And when imperious Death Has quenched my flame of breath, Oh, let me join the faithful shades that throng that fount above.”

Source : Robert Underwood Johnson (1908). “Poems”
“It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.”
“Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honor and everlasting joy.”
“One man's poison ivy is another man's spinach.”
“In music I feel most deeply the passing of things.”
“What better can parents and children give to each other than respectful, understanding attention.”
“There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.”

Source : Thomas Paine (1830). “The Political Writings of Thomas Paine ...: Prospects on the Rubicon. Rights of man, part I. Rights of man, part II. Letter to the authors of the Republican. Letter to the Abbe Sieyes. Address to the addressers. Letters to Lord Onslow. Dissertation on the first principles of government. Speech delivered in the French National convention. Letter to Mr. Secretary Dundas. The decline and fall of the English system of finance. Letter to the people of France. Reasons for preserving the life of Louis”, p.281
“Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old.”

Source : "Coming of Age with Judy Blume". www.nytimes.com. December 3, 1978.