Louis C. K. Quotes

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

What? I have a cold. Don’t get a look of terror on your face. The worst that could happen is that you’ll get a cold, too. You don’t have to theatrically Purell a thousand times a day and look all panicky every time I come into the room.

Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die.

I wish that person outside would stop coughing.

Over the past few days I have been fighting off a virus that has affected the majority of my band and crew.

There are some sick people in this world.

When an animal is infected, either naturally or by experimental injection, with a bacterium, virus, or other foreign body, the animal recognises this as an invader and acts in such a way as to remove or destroy it.

If a healthy person were placed on the other side of a room from a person who was sick with AIDS, the AIDS virus would not be able to drift across the room through the air and infect the healthy person.

People may have said that without symptoms, you can't transmit Ebola. I'm not sure about that being 100 percent true. There's a lot of variation with viruses.

The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets.

Contagion has become very much a phenomenon, and it's a phenomenon of globalization.

Ebola isn't a respiratory virus. It doesn't spread through the airborne route. So it's not likely to spread like wildfire around the world and kill tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people. That's what I think of as the next big one.

As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood 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 sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection.

All infections, of whatever type, with no exceptions, are products of parasitic beings; that is, by living organisms that enter in other living organisms, in which they find nourishment, that is, food that suits them, here they hatch, grow and reproduce themselves.

We can't predict when infectios diseases will break out, but their breakout is inevitable. That is why we must be prepared.

Ebola is a horrific disease.

That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.

When I think of 'influence', I think of 'influenza', like somebody's picked up a germ.

Unfortunately, this past birthday, my son was up the entire night before, very sick with that horrible - I think it was called the Norovirus or whatever the hell that was that was going around. So I got it. And then my husband [Paul Scheer] got it. We were both fighting it because he had planned this whole day for me, and we were both pretending it wasn't happening. We were literally driving ourselves to a massage and facial that he had planned and at one point, I was like, "I can't drive anymore. I need to get in the passenger's seat."

I want to change something. I want to stop the germs from attacking my daughters.

Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together.

Tell them I have the headache--no, the plague! I need something nice and contagious.

We all know many people who have been through this reality, and how it changes them. This happens to be an area I know something about. It's a virus.