Miranda Raison Quotes

This is the thing: I get motion sickness.

I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.

I get seasick quite badly.

Getting an upset tummy is never pleasant, and it's worse if you get a funny tummy a long way from home.

Seasick," Scatty mumbled. "That's exactly what it feels like. Only worse.

It is a curious fact, but nobody ever is sea-sick - on land. At sea, you come across plenty of people very bad indeed, whole boat-loads of them; but I never met a man yet, on land, who had ever known at all what it was to be sea-sick. Where the thousands upon thousands of bad sailors that swarm in every ship hide themselves when they are on land is a mystery.

It gives me vertigo to watch TV dramas.

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

I don't like rides. I take everything in life quite literally, and so I genuinely feel terrified on rides and liable to vomit at any moment, and I hate to vomit even more than I fear rides.

The vertigo is a difficult thing: it just comes and goes whenever it pleases. I wasn't expecting it. I've had it before, and there have been years between stretches, and unfortunately it happened at the U.S. Open, and that knocked me off my feet.

I'm constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out.

Vertigo, it was thought at the time, could only be caused by a disease of the cerebellum. He observed this kind of patient for years and saw absolutely no symptoms of brain disease.

How many people do you know who have thrown up on the Scrambler or a carnival ride? A lot of people, is the answer.

I've always dreaded the sea - in fact, I get terribly seasick.

Putting affects the nerves more than anything. I would actually get nauseated over three-footers.

Don't take me for a fool!" Dee interrupted angrily, but then had to lean over the boat as another bout of nausea gripped him. Virginia grinned and winked at Josh. "It's hard to sound masterful when you're throwing up, isn't it?" "I hate you, Virginia Dare," Dee mumbled. "I know you don't really mean that," she said lightly. "I do," he croaked.

I don't like rides. I take everything in life quite literally, and so I genuinely feel terrified on rides and liable to vomit at any moment, and I hate to vomit even more than I fear rides. So, all this to say, I don't have a favorite ride. I don't go on rides. Well, that's not true. A few years ago I had a beautiful, romantic moment on the Ferris wheel at Coney Island, known as the Wonder Wheel, and so I guess that's my favorite ride, though even that, to be frank, terrified me.

I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!

I'd take a Bromo, but I can't stand the noise.

Before I got in the car, I was puking all over the place and on the grid. I was just a shaking wreck.

I hate heights, that's the most terrifying thing for me.

An astonishing portion of my life is built around trying to evade vomiting and preparing for the eventuality that I might.

But I have vertigo... I lose my equilibrium easily. I can lean out to look at something and just keep leaning and not realize I'm about to fall.

I have a fear of heights that borders on mania.

I have been battling vertigo for a long time. It's something that I deal with on a daily basis.