Choke Quotes

• Actors! The mechanics of cheap melodrama! That isn't death! You scream and choke and sink to your knees but it doesn't bring death home to anyone- it doesn't catch them unawares and start the whisper in their skulls that says- 'One day you are going to die.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Home
  • Death
  • Die

• The majority of the time with two strikes I'll choke up on the bat a little bit to try to stay as short as possible. It doesn't always work out like that, but that's the goal.

  

  Chase Utley
  • Trying
  • Goal
  • Littles

• When truth is buried, it grows. It chokes. It gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Force

• If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I'd spend it choking a white man. I'd do it nice and slow.

  

  Miles Davis
  • Hours
  • White
  • Choke

• When I'm performing, sometimes a lyric will touch on my personal life, and it can be difficult to sing. For instance, when I sing 'How I Love You,' I'll choke up.

  

  Engelbert Humperdinck
  • Sing
  • Performing
  • I Love You

• Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I want to treat the sincerity of your love by comparing it to the earnestness of others. The words made me choke up again, and just as I was about to cry, the meaning of it suddenly became clear. God had finally answered me, and I suddenly knew what I had to do.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Remember
  • Cry
  • Compare

• My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Life
  • Joke
  • Choke

• The thing that bothers me the most is the recklessness and greed of the local ranchers, who run too many cattle back here, choking with waste the creek that runs through my property. There's certain times of day that the cowboys like to send them turds down the river. Them f**kers piss me off. if you gotta mess up the ecology of the world in order to raise a bunch of cows, well eat somethin else. I'm not a fan of the cowboys.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • World
  • Running
  • Greed

• habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Passion
  • Habit
  • Thug

• We all choke. You're not human if you haven't.

  

  Curtis Strange
  • You
  • Not
  • Not Human

• Every game we have a period of time when we slack. We grab teams by the neck and choke them until they can't breathe. Then we start relaxing and my blood pressure goes up.

  

  C. Vivian Stringer
  • Breathe
  • Teams
  • Neck

• I hope you lay down in your sleep and you choke on every lie you told

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Hope
  • Sleep
  • Lying

• Forged in the fires of human passion, choking on the fumes of human rage, with these out hells and our heavens, so few inches apart, we must be awfully small, and not as strong as we think we are.

  

  Rich Mullins
  • Strong
  • Passion
  • Heaven

• When life gives you lemons... choke on them and die... you stupid lemon eater.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Die
  • Choke
  • Lemon

• There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.

  

  Alec Baldwin
  • People
  • Movies
  • Choke

• Maybe, he said hesitantly, maybe there is a beast. The assembly cried out savagely and Ralph stood up in amazement. You, Simon? You believe in this? I don't know, said Simon. His heartbeats were choking him. [...] Ralph shouted. Hear him! He's got the conch! What I mean is . . . maybe it's only us. Nuts! That was from Piggy, shocked out of decorum.

  

  William Golding
  • Believe
  • Mean
  • Beast

• Riches, both material and spiritual, can choke you if you do not use them fairly. For not even God can put anything in a heart that is already full.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Heart
  • Spiritual
  • Generosity

• What's memory but the ash That chokes our fires that have begun to sink?

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Fire
  • Memories
  • Ashes

• I have seen your despatch expressing your unwillingness to break your hold where you are. Neither am I willing. Hold on with a bull-dog gripe, and chew & choke, as much as possible.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Willing
  • Choke
  • Despatch

• She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of other plants, out of the soil itself, selfish and unstoppable. Tally Youngblood was a weed. And, unlike the orchids, she wasn't even a pretty one.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Plant
  • Selfish
  • Weed

• Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Worry
  • Dreams
  • Choke

• Walk through this with me. Through this church birthed of blood and muscle where every move our arms take, every breath we swallow is worship. Bend with me. There are bones in our throats. If we choke it is only on songs.

  

  Anis Mojgani
  • Song
  • Church
  • Moving

• I have cried even when the laugh did choke me. But no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for the laugh he come just the same. Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, ‘May I come in?’ is not true laughter. No! He is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person, he choose no time of suitability. He say, ‘I am here.

  

  Bram Stoker
  • Time
  • Sorry
  • Laughter

• We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • First Love
  • Discretion
  • Choke

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