Lee Konitz Quotes

I know intellectually that if I shake somebody's hand that I'm not going to get sick and die.

Bram Stoker's 'Dracula,' in my reading, is really obviously about disease and our relation to disease.

We had a week off in the middle of shooting, but as soon as everyone stopped, we all went down with six different types of flu and other unmentionable diseases.

I ain't afraid of germs, man. And I ain't afraid of getting sick.

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

There are some sick people in this world.

What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

The first day I arrived, they told me to go home and get rid of that cold.

I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.

The less we think or know about hygiene, the less we are predisposed to sickness.

When you think about the worst places humans come into contact with, they are often our health environments.

If you don't wash dishes properly, you will get ill. And you will lose friends because they'll come to your house, you'll give them tea in a filthy cup, and they'll never see you again.

They say you cannot make a noise to annoy yourself.

Don't put a lump of rock under my elbow again!

Last week I got a flu that I caught, 'cause my daughter coughed ... into my mouth.

How irritating it must be for people, to be bombarded with me!

I hate mules. I hate the noise when someone walks with mules. Clomp, clomp, clomp. I think it's very not chic. I don't even like a flip-flop. I don't like this noise.

Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.

I sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection.

Let him not throw urine or feces into the water, nor saliva, nor clothes defiled by impure substances, nor any other impurity, nor blood, nor poisonous things.

Infectious diseases ... have probably been the most dangerous of enemies of mankind, much more so than war and mass murder. When one studies the constant epidemics of the past and the deficiency diseases on land and at sea, one realizes that the whole of civilization could have succumbed, and one is constantly surprised that mankind has survived.

More people in the world have died in such a short time of plague than has been heard or seen since the beginning of time …. Whoever touched the sick and dead was immediately infected and died …. That pestilence deprived of human inhabitants villages and cities so that there was scarcely found a man to dwell therein.

The spread of the disease is under control. What I worry about is the spread of fear of the disease is not under control.

For some reason, every time I get a little bit under the weather, I've got zero patience.