Bill Bryson Quotes

Laughing is also good for your respiratory system.

I have exercise-induced asthma.

I'm an asthmatic. I have to be on that treadmill singing to get my lungs right.

If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.

We have so much lung capacity that we don't even notice a problem until we are in our 40s.

Singing really oxygenates your blood. You stretch your lungs and take in much more air into them than before. It's really good for your health.

I live in L.A. - I love L.A., first off - but I didn't realize how much better the air quality was in Vancouver until I went back to L.A. for a weekend and I literally felt like I was breathing fire.

I wish that person outside would stop coughing.

If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one.

When I was a medical student, a pulmonary professor of mine cajoled me into joining a clinical trial that she was running. The general aim of the tests was to determine whether prolonged periods of short and shallow breathing would cause a person's lungs to go into spasm. It turns out, as I can attest, that they do.

When you drink water and stay hydrated all the time, it's good for all the organs in your body.

Improper breathing is a common cause of ill health.

We cough because we can't help it, but others do it on purpose.

Lazy breathing converts the lungs, literally and figuratively speaking, into a cemetery for the deposition of diseased, dying and dead germs as well as supplying an ideal haven for the multiplication of other harmful germs.

Improper breathing is a common cause of ill health. If I had to limit my advice on healthier living to just one tip, it would be simply to learn how to breathe correctly. There is no single more powerful -or more simple- daily practice to further your health and well being than breathwork.

To breathe properly is to live properly.

Air you breathe is bad for your lungs so you've got to careful and don't overdue any bad air. Too much pot, too much anything is not good. Your lung is a piece of flesh, a piece of bone. You can injure it.

Above all, learn how to breathe correctly.

They sat on a bench and Sproule held his wounded arm to his chest and rocked back and forth and blinked in the sun. What do you want to do? said the kid. Get a drink of water. Other than that. I dont know. You want to try and head back? To Texas? I don't know where else. We'd never make it. Well you say. I aint got no say. He was coughing again. He held his chest with his good hand and sat as if he'd get his breath. What have you got, a cold? I got consumption. Consumption? He nodded. I come out here for my health.

The bottom line is that Dennis Brown is alive and well, and he's got two lungs and they're kicking and I'm still spitting out them notes.

Lungs, they do not like to be messed with. I give pneumonia one star and that's for the silent p.

The stomach, liver, lungs and brain are suffering for want of deep, full inspirations of air which would electrify the blood and impart to it a bright, lively color, and which alone can keep it pure, and give tone and vigor to every part of the living machinery.

I do not cough for my own amusement.

I pulled in a soft breath. My lungs were starving, crying out for air. I lay still, and a cough tickled at the back of my throat. It always happens when you're hiding, a cough, a sneeze, something. It's stupid. The body decides to screw around with you, even though it knows being quiet is the only way it's going to go on living.

A cough is something that you yourself cant help, but everybody else does on purpose just to torment you.