Sciatica Quotes

• Movie music is noise. It's even more painful than my sciatica.

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  Thomas Beecham

  Movie   Musical   Noise  

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• I am not man or beast; I am bibliosexual, and a seedy bibliosexual who haunts the streets, laden with carrier bags held by blistered fingers, stooping under the weight of the rucksack that has brought on sciatica and a Dickensian demeanour.

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  Robin Ince

  Men   Bags   Weight  

  Robin Ince (2010). “Robin Ince's Bad Book Club: One man's quest to uncover the books that taste forgot”, p.6, Hachette UK

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• I'm on the verge of a total breakdown. Sciatica. Taxes. Cars. Fleas, possibly. It's an absurd existence.

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  Jonathan Ames

  Car   Fleas   Absurd  

  Jonathan Ames (2012). “The Extra Man”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

  1844

• There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or if you have slept or if you have head ache or sciatica or leprosy or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace and not pollute the morning.

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  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning   Attitude   Angel  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.392

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• To a gentleman, a gentleman-someone who dies without ever pronouncing the word-is a man who climbs Everest, never mentions it to a soul, and listens politely to Pochet's account of how in 1937 in spite of his sciatica, he conquered the Puy de Dome.

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  Pierre Daninos

  Men   Soul   Gentleman  

  5116

• There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.

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  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Complaining   Leprosy   Topics  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.104, Harvard University Press

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