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  • Pain! Deep, tearing, throbbing, needle-sharp, hammer-blunt pain – ripping through his body and through his mind, twisting deep in his guts and slicing at his skin with razors and broken glass. Oskan wanted to scream, but his vocal cords had burned away. He was desperate for water and he could hear it dripping all around him, but his charred tongue found nothing in his mouth but blisters and scorched flesh. For hours he lay on the ropes of the low bed, unable to move, the pressure of the hemp on his destroyed skin sending new agonies deep into his body.

    Pain   Moving   Glasses  
    Stuart Hill (2011). “The Icemark Chronicles #1: Cry of the Icemark”, p.352, Scholastic Inc.
  • Well, any time Im preparing for a performance or even a rehearsal, its as if in a way, like any other athletes, these are muscles that support the vocal cords which are just I believe cartilage. It demands a kind of constant warming up and a constant feeling of where is the voice today.

    Believe   Athlete   Voice  
  • Musically, it's difficult to believe Jim has only two hands and one set of vocal cords. You would think that there were a dozen of him if you closed your eyes and listened. From a visual artist's standpoint, Jim is a man of a thousand faces, all spellbinding.

    Believe   Eye   Artist  
  • Crying is really bad for your vocal cords.

    Cry   Vocal Cords   Vocal  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • I sing all day. And it's good for you. Good for your vocal cords.

    "Dick Van Dyke talks to one of our grandmas about his new book on aging, Keep Moving". Interview with Caitlin PenzeyMoog, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2015.
  • And my voice now is a struggle, it's a daily struggle to keep it up. Gravity has begun to fight the vocal cords the way it does with everybody. So I have a vocal therapist, and we record the sessions and I use them on tour every day.

    "Q&A with Joan Baez: Even Taylor Swift thinks she's cool". Interview with Roger Catlin, www.washingtonpost.com. March 4, 2016.
  • Three things it would be extremely difficult to play a show without: makeup, my vocal cords and pants.

    Makeup   Play   Would Be  
  • It [my vocal] didn't sound like what I wanted to hear; the vibrato isn't what I liked anymore. So I got myself to an ear, nose and throat guy who does a lot of work with singers, and I was hoping there was a big wart on my vocal cords or something and they could scrape it off and I could have the voice I wanted. But he said, "No, for 71, that's your voice."

    Voice   Guy   Sound  
    Source: www.chicagotribune.com
  • Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.

    Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.31, Penguin
  • I'm completely happy not having children. I mean, everybody does not have to live in the same way. And as somebody said, "Everybody with a womb doesn't have to have a child any more than everybody with vocal cords has to be an opera singer."

    Children   Mean   Way  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I have as many pictures of my vocal cords as I do of my children. I have a great ear, nose and throat doctor, and we look at them - if there's some redness, maybe I'll take a little time off.

  • I'm not a rock and roller, a hitmaker. I'm highly dependent on what's coming out of these vocal cords.

    Source: www.azcentral.com
  • By focusing on the interior of a speaker's larynx and using infrared, he was able to convert the visible vibrations of the vocal cords into sound of fair quality, but that did not satisfy him. He worked for a while on vibrations picked up from panes of glass in windows and on framed pictures, and he experimented briefly with the diaphragms in speaker systems, intercoms and telephones. He kept on into October without stopping, and finally achieved a device that would give tinny but recognizable sound from any vibrating surface - a wall, a floor, even the speaker's own cheek or forehead.

    Wall   Glasses   Giving  
  • Dysphonia is not a singing problem. It's a voice box issue in the muscle on the voice, very different from having a nodule on the vocal cords, which I've never had. I'm lucky that I've never had that. It needs a long renewal time, and even today, I am still addressing it.

    Voice   Issues   Long  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I try to be cognisant of when and how and what I eat and get as much rest as I possibly can, as that helps the vocal cords.

  • And singing is a physical thing - your vocal cords are these muscles.

  • Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.

    "Björk: what inspires me" by Rebecca Nicholson, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2012.
  • Because God gave you your makeup and superintended every moment of your past, including all the hardship, pain, and struggles, He wants to use your words in a unique manner. No one else can speak through your vocal cords, and, equally important, no one else has your story.

    Pain   Struggle   Unique  
  • The music I want to hear in my head sounds somewhere between Jimi Hendrix and Massive Attack. It's not really like my dad, but there will always be similarities because we have the same vocal cords, and I learnt the guitar the way he taught me.

    Dad   Guitar   Sound  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • A giraffe has a black tongue twenty-seven inches long and no vocal cords. A giraffe has nothing to say. He just goes on giraffing.

    Long   Black   Twenties  
  • I am fussy, about my diet and straining my voice. I know, sounds a bit over the top. But I'm not as bad as I used to be. These days I don't drink alcohol for five days before a show - very dehydrating for the vocal cords, and all that acid reflux. I used to ban it for a fortnight. Nightmare.

    Voice   Alcohol   Sound  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The only reason I don't kill him," he remember the woman saying, her voice sounding like the scrape of iron against iron, a corrosion of vocal cords, "is because he's not important enough.

    Voice   Iron   Important  
  • Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much. Language consists of five basic sounds produced by the vocal cords. They are the vowels a, e, i, o, u. The other sounds are consonants produced by air pressure: s, f, g, and so forth. Do you believe some combination of such basic sounds could ever explain who you are, or the ultimate purpose of the universe, or even what a tree or stone is in its depth?

    Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.31, Penguin
  • Shut up, already. Just once, could I get a demon with no vocal cords? (Anonymous) At least they’re not puking on us this time. (Wynter) Small favor that. (Anonymous)

    Favors   Shut Up   Demon  
  • People who share the same language, French or Chinese or whatever, have the same vocal cords and emit sounds which are basically the same, as they come from the same throats and lungs.

    People   Chinese   Sound  
  • If you actually relax your vocal cords they actually work better.

    Relax   Vocal Cords   Ifs  
  • Michael Jackson carried urban America and eventually American society on his vocal cords for a good 25 to 30 years before even hip-hop became the vox populi of America, and then as an adult he shattered racial barriers.

    America   Years   Hip Hop  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • You know how it is with some girls. They seem to take the stuffing right out of you. I mean to say, there is something about their personality that paralyses the vocal cords and reduces the contents of the brain to cauliflower.

    Girl   Humorous   Mean  
    P. G. Wodehouse (2015). “Right Ho, Jeeves”, p.10, Booklassic
  • By a monstrous act of reductionism, the infinite depth of who you are is confused with a sound produced by the vocal cords." (p. 28)

    Confused   Sound   Depth  
  • My vocal cords lived their own life, wild and free.

    Robert A. Heinlein (2013). “Double Star”, p.10, Hachette UK
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