Ernest Hemingway
Novelist
"A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe."
Arteries quotes
Arteries
14 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Tim McCarthy
Politician
"It takes a strong heart to drive on clogged arteries."
Rachel Vincent
Author
"I'm searching for a shred of humanity in that shriveled tangle of arteries you call a heart."
Geoffrey West
Physicist
"Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads arteries and so forth."
George Carlin
Comedian, Actor
"My left descending septal branch artery decided to close without consultation with any of my other organs. It happened on Saint Patrick's Day, 1978."
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"...you don't care because you're all that and I'm just an artery in a dress."
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