Catarrh Quotes & Sayings

Cadus spoke the local Greek better than I did; they stretch the vowels here, and round them off, so that words that look the same on the written page sound as if they are spoken by a goat with catarrh. — M.C. Scott

Her voice is hoarse. She's caught a catarrh from that dreadful draft. — Gregory Maguire

Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman. — Aldous Huxley

Peace is possible because it is today more than ever desperately necessary — Widad Akreyi

Medical journals from 1905 to 1915 are rife with articles on "vibratory massage" and the many things it cures. Weakened hearts and floating kidneys. Hysterical cramp of the esophagus and catarrh of the inner ear. Deafness, cancer, bad eyesight. And lots and lots of prostate problems. A Dr. Courtney W. Shropshire, writing in 1912, was impressed to note that by means of "a special prostatic applicator, well lubricated, attached to the vibrator, introduced to the rectum" he was "able to empty the seminal vesicles of their secretions." Indeedy. Shropshire's patients returned every other day for treatment, no doubt also developing a relationship with the vibration machine. — Mary Roach

It was great spending the nights with him, but sometimes, she needed a little break from him and the her that she became around him. — Peter Murphy

I sat down and put my fingertips to my temples, rubbing hard. "We have one fallen tree, one destroyed Rookery, one delusional butler and no good brandy. Is that what you are telling me?"
"And the cook's down with piles and more than half the staff are suffering from catarrh," she added maliciously.
I looked to Brisbane, who was smiling broadly. "God bless us, everyone," he said, spreading his arms wide. — Deanna Raybourn

[Springsteen] sort of catarrh-mumbles his ditties in a disgruntled mushmouth like Robbie Robertson on Quaaludes with Dylan barfing down the back of his neck. — Lester Bangs

A single twist of white-blonde hair blew across her face and stuck to her half-frozen lips. When she noticed me, the edges of her eyes crinkled as though she were smiling, as if she had been waiting. — Julia Ember

I'm the kind of person who would rather get my hopes up really high and watch them get dashed to pieces than wisely keep my expectations at bay and hope they are exceeded. This quality has made me a needy and theatrical friend, but has given me a spectacularly dramatic emotional life. — Mindy Kaling

I am willing to lend that hand, I will continue to stay involved with my charities as long as they need me. — Laura San Giacomo

The murmurs of many a famous river on the other side of the globe reach even to us here, as to more distant dwellers on its banks;many a poet's stream, floating the helms and shields of heroes on its bosom. — Henry David Thoreau

Sometimes it's hard to tell what's love and what's only indigestion, — Janet Evanovich

Sex hasn't been the same since women started enjoying it. — Lewis Grizzard

Imperfection is simply not a good enough excuse to have someone keep hurting you just because they feel like it. — Pandora Poikilos

I'm trying to read a book on how to relax, but I keep falling asleep. — James M. Loy

The left controls academia, the culture, and the news media. — Monica Crowley

Babies and language are the essential ingredients of civilization, and speakers of language no more know where it came from than babies know where they come from. — Charlton Laird

I liked maths because it meant solving problems, and these problems were difficult and interesting but there was always a straightforward answer at the end — Mark Haddon

But to procrastinate and prevaricate simply because you're afraid of erring, when others - I mean our brethren in Germany - must make infinitely more difficult decisions every day, seems to me almost to run counter to love. To delay or fail to make decisions may be more sinful than to make wrong decisions out of faith and love. (Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, 218) — Dietrich Bonhoeffer