Jonathan Swift Quotes

He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.

Jonathan Swift

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• At the end of the seven years, 'Family Ties' voluntarily went off the air. And, we went off as the #1 show on TV that week. We cut down the nets on stage 24 and moved on with the rest of our lives. Always to carry with us the blessing of what we had gone through together.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • Family
  • Together
  • Rest

• I had one of the most outdoorsy childhoods you could imagine. I basically lived in the woods until I was 13. My dad and I built a huge treehouse in our backyard in Chesterfield, about 30 feet in the air. And we'd vacation on an island in Michigan, where I hunted a deer that we ate.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • Dad
  • Air
  • Feet

• The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality - what a joke. In my district, we caught them lying to us about the results of air quality studies in the Barnett Shale. They are playing with the health and safety of our communities, and we are going to tell them that is not acceptable.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Health
  • Quality
  • Air

• The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there's also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the older generation and so on. But then that's well blended into a happy balance and crystallised into common sense.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Happy
  • Earth
  • Culture

• I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Remember
  • American
  • Air

• She said it had been hijacked shortly after takeoff. By this time, the plane had been in the air - again, I'm presuming that it took off on time - for over an hour.

  

  Ted Olson
  • Time
  • She
  • Air

• We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We're borrowing a million dollars a minute. It's got to stop somewhere.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Power
  • Stop
  • Project

• I like to reinvent with each project, in any which way possible.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Way
  • Possible
  • Project

• I would like the thrill of making a new project every time.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Time
  • New
  • Project

• Writing for the theatre is so different to writing for anything else. Because what you write is eventually going to be spoken. That's why I think so many really powerful novelists can't write a play - because they don't understand that it's spoken - that it hits the air. They don't get that.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Why

• What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Way
  • Me
  • Project

• No data on air propellers was available, but we had always understood that it was not a difficult matter to secure an efficiency of 50% with marine propellers.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Air
  • Difficult
  • Marine

• Everything can't be a postage-stamp-sized project. Everything can't be a chamber piece. Musicals aren't even meant to be that, or identified with it... It's none of it simple.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Simple
  • Project
  • Meant To Be

• I grew up in a courtroom kind of like the one you saw in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - big, big courtroom, sometimes it didn't even have air conditioning.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Up
  • You
  • Kind

• The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Control

• In our sun-down perambulations, of late, through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of youngsters playing 'base', a certain game of ball ... Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our close rooms ... the game of ball is glorious.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Game
  • Air
  • Sun

• So blend the turrets and shadows thereThat all seem pendulous in air,While from a proud tower in the townDeath looks gigantically down.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Proud
  • Air

• Y'see, when you start to lick a national problem you have to go after the fundamentables. You want to cut down air pollution? Cut down the original source... Breathin!

  

  Walt Kelly
  • Air

• The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.

  

  Jacob Riis
  • Live

• It's horrible being ashamed of someone you care about; it eats away at you. And if you let it get to you, if you give up the fight and surrender, eventually that shame turns to hate.

  

  Tabitha Suzuma
  • Up
  • Hate
  • Fighting

• When depicting Asian people in movies, books, and television or as historical figures, it's more important to humanize them and give them all of the dimensions of humanity, and that includes sexuality. Ascribe the human the full range of human qualities.

  

  Alex Tizon
  • People
  • Important
  • Humanity

• Despite his [Artie Shaw's] affectations of reclusiveness, he never tired of talking about himself, as countless long interviews reveal. I do not recall an anecdote he ever told me that was not in some way intended to convey a sense of his own superiority to everyone. . One wonders how a person of his character could produce such beauty.

  

  Gene Lees
  • Character
  • Persons
  • Produce

• He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Air
  • Project
  • Cucumbers