Lungs Quotations

I think I have experience in rowing, and that has given me some ability to go about racing. I'm lucky genetically. I have a good VO2 max - I can hold a lot of air in my lungs - and that definitely helps.

I am the only 'celebrity' to be public about my lung cancer.

When we breathe it in, soot can interfere with our lungs and increase the risk of asthma attacks, lung cancer and even premature death. The smallest particles can pass into the blood stream and cause heart disease, stroke and reproductive complications.

Cold is not without its risks to runners, of course, especially ones who don't head south when winter visits their neighborhood. Even pooh-pooh-ers of frozen lungs and lovers of dark jogs over permafrost have been known to be careful about certain hazards.

One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.

What light is to the eyes -- what air is to the lungs -- what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.

I'll scream!" "Likely. If not before, certainly during. I expect they'll hear ye at the next farm; you've got good lungs.

Gareth Bale literally has three lungs

Shorting, ... is a very easy way to have your lungs ripped out in a very short space of time.

My lungs are still burning. Yesterday, I was scratching my eyes all day. I've had allergies in Belgium but not this bad.

One of his lungs had collapsed. He couldn't breathe. You could see him struggling for air.

My father, Simon Hoggart, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in June 2010. By this point, it had spread to his spleen and metastasised in his lungs and so was pronounced terminal.

People who are diabetic may be more susceptible to day-to-day fluctuations in air pollution. They may experience a state of greater inflammation-related to insulin resistance-that makes their lungs more receptive to receiving harmful particles.

Having golf courses is one good way of preserving the green lungs of the city. Personally, I find them very invigorating to come out in the morning and spend a couple of hours, walking on the grass. It is very relaxing.

The purpose of fear, clearly, is to help you get away - which it does. If your heart rate increases, there is more blood pumping so you can use that blood to fuel your muscles to run away. Oxygen is sent to the lungs so you can run fast. Pupils dilating help you see in the dark. All of that prepares your body to fight or escape.

Her lungs were fine. It was just her heart.

I yelled for help so many times my lungs were getting hoarse. If my alderman, Alan Atherton, had not come out to smoke, he would not have seen me.

I support the Celtic football team, which was in the semi-final for the European cup, and it was the first time they've been in for many years. I went to the game the night before in Glasgow with all my crazy Glaswegian friends who screamed at the top of their lungs the whole night, and I had to sit there and clap to protect my voice because I was singing for Andrew Lloyd Webber the next day in London.

irrelevant. It's like pumping air into the lungs of a dead man. He needs life; he doesn't need air.

I sat Lindsay down and turned Tammy over, and I could hear the air escaping from her lungs and she had already had some discoloration in her lips and started to turn bluish.

I think people have been having trouble for three or up to four weeks of symptoms, and that's a little unusual. We're seeing people complaining of persistent problems. Something that's been described by some of our patients is that after the infection is over, the lungs stay irritated and reactive.

It allows them to have the experience of being the lungs for their instrument.

It is not only by the pores of the skin that this aqueous emaciation takes place. A considerable quantity of humidity is also exhaled by the lungs at each expiration.

I was really anemic. We still haven't figured out what happened, but as I started training harder and breathing more heavily and intensely, scar tissue started cutting my lungs and I started bleeding inside. I kept racing so it never healed. I have been working on with a breathing machine the past six months to strengthen my lungs.

Trees breath just like we do, and their lungs were tainted by all this bad air.

You know, we practice with it (noise). We practiced it out there today (Wednesday). I scream at the top of my lungs so that they can hear the snap count in practice. We work at it, but I think the biggest thing is just concentration.

We get into this huge tussle with him. He's screaming at the top of his lungs and we end up gagging him at some point,

You have that weird tension of puffiness in your face. If you have air in your lungs you're holding that air and your face shows it, but if you let it all out, you have this soft, very receptive face, which is the kind of face I'm looking for.

When I go to LA if I have the weekend off, I go play on the beach. I'm kind of hard, because I'm not in the same shape. Because of my job, I've gotten, like, unhealthier because I don't exercise or do anything to have get my lungs good. But I think I'm still giving trouble to a few people who think they can play against me.

You don't only just use your voice, you use support form the lungs and diaphragm and everything gets old, whether you like it or not.

We don't know the exact cause of this. But it is probably because lungs of women are generally smaller (than men's),

When I was a teenager, I was in an iron-lung.

We've wrestled with this idea of doing local shows for a long time. We finally found a place where we don't have to go through our lungs to rent it.

. . . we got our lungs from Daddy, and we exercised them early and often during those years up in the hills gathering cattle and becoming lost, when that famous McEntire yell saved our hides more than once.

There have been many tons of hazardous air pollutants that have been released into the air and breathed into the lungs of Arizona citizens over the last 12 years. They should have been regulated and were not.

Fantastic days are what you wish upon those who have so few sunrises left, those whose lungs are so lesion-spangled with new cancer that they should be embracing as much life as they can. Time's a-wasting, go out and have yourself a fantastic day! Fantastic days are for goners.

Every year on her birthday, she would pick out a song which she would force me to sing at the top of my lungs with perverted lyrics. And she loved it. I tried to get in touch a few times, but she really wanted to be on her own.

The sight of cancer-ridden lungs and yellowing teeth may reinforce a non-smoker's decision not to light up, but does nothing to convince those already addicted. The reason for this is a mixture of denial and familiarity.

The M.O. of the cancer is, it usually appears in the extremities. If it does happen go to the lungs or the brain, it's typically fatal.

Any patients who are critically ill at this point, have either died - and there have been a few that have literally died in the parking deck waiting to be taken out by choppers - or they are still having their bags - air pumped into their lungs by handbag as doctors and hospital officials sat there pushing air into their lungs.

Although we breathe mainly through our nose when resting, during exercise when we begin breathing harder, the air coming in is predominately supplied via the mouth. It may improve airflow through the nose, but there is no evidence that it reaches the lungs and boosts performance.

Although it will be some years before we are able to build actual human lungs for transplantation, this is a major step towards deriving cells that could be used to repair damaged lungs.

It's the idea of haggis that concerns people because they have this image of stomachs and lungs bubbling out over a big cauldron. The one that passes for culinary acceptability these days really doesn't have much in the way of lungs or hearts or stomach bags. It's mostly oatmeal and liver, I guess. It's a mild sausage compared to what it used to be hundreds of years ago.

It's the most explosive, intense rock phenomenon ever seen. I am in awe every night, ... (Grohl) has such endless energy and intensity night after night screaming his lungs out. I don't see how he does it.

Everyone knows soccer is a grueling sport. You have to be physically fit. You can't do that in two weeks or in a month. It takes time to get back to running up and down the field and getting your lungs opened up and building back stamina and fitness.

Its weird, your lungs are working, there's no, no air's coming in. Yea, they can't generate the strength to get the air in.

They can stand on that street corner and yell their lungs out, ... They did not have to bow down to the abuse of power in their midst.

These particles can damage the cells in the lining of our lungs and produce lung cancer.

I frequently find after a rehearsal of a performance that I have more breath, and can walk better and climb stairs better than I could before. It's as if I've expanded my lungs doing it. Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.

His lungs were so bad they couldn't supply the oxygen his body needed. A respiratory therapist told us his lungs were so hard and infected that it was like trying to pump air into a brick.

His lungs were full of water, and his brain shut the body down.

Generally, (Evergreen) releases them in bursts, like when equipment breaks or (through) other pulp mill problems. And if you're breathing (PM-10s), they can lodge very deeply in the lungs and are absorbed in the blood stream and can have very toxic effects on the body.

I couldn't get him because I couldn't breathe. It was felt like my lungs were on fire. I was trying to get some air so I could go back.

I asked (the doctors) how bad it would be if we did nothing. He said you'd last less than three months, and your lungs would probably bleed and that's gonna be the end of you.

You have what is known as a lot of character, meaning you can be wrong at the top of your lungs.

We dont invent our natures. Theyre issued to us along with our lungs, our pancreas and everything else.

Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs.

The infection in his lungs advanced a bit more last night. His condition is now worse than yesterday.

The doctors told us that in 99 percent of the cases the babies' lungs explode.

The long-term goal is to develop new ways to evaluate a patient's asthma to allow us to design individualized therapy for that patient based on the type of inflammation in their lungs or the genes they have. We are a long way from being there, but this research is a start.

my lungs sucked at being lungs.

Never slouch as doing so compresses the lungs, overcrowds other vital organs, rounds the back, and throws you off balance.

And blue-lung'd combers lumbered to the kill.

Thy food is such As hath been belch'd on by infected lungs.

A nation that destroys it's soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.

Ahimsa and Truth are my two lungs. I cannot live without them.