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 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

• 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

• 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

• There is, however, a strange, musty smell in the air that reminds me of something...hmm...yes...I've got it...there's a VMS nearby, or I'm a Blit.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Air

• It is actually quite exciting when you're flying headfirst into a barrier-the initial part, the initial part is actually quite fun, especially when you hit the gravel trap and you get some air, and then you see it coming and you think 'erk-it's gonna hurt!'

  

  Lewis Hamilton
  • Fun
  • Air
  • Hurt

• While Franklin's quiet memory climbs to heaven,Calming the lightning which he thence hath riven,Or drawing from the no less kindled earthFreedom and peace to that which boasts his birth;While Washington's a watchword, such as ne'erShall sink while there's an echo left to air.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Peace
  • Heaven
  • Air

• The state of perpetual emptiness is, of course, very good for business.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Good
  • Business

• I just realized I wanted to do more than ballet. I was offered an apprenticeship, so I was about to join a company and drop out of high school, and then it hit me: I didn't want that anymore.

  

  Margaret Qualley
  • School
  • High
  • Ballet

• Globalisation has powered economic growth in developing countries such as China. Global logistics, low domestic production costs, and strong consumer demand have let the country develop strong export-based manufacturing, making the country the workshop of the world.

  

  Ma Jun
  • World
  • Country
  • Strong

• I think poems return us to that place of mud and dirt and earth, sun and rain.

  

  Kevin Young
  • Earth
  • Sun
  • Rain

• I've had the luxury of owning my own studio, 24 analogue, 48 digital, endless effects, endless hardcore gear, that I don't have to rent, I don't get stuck with the bills, it's all mine.

  

  Billy Sherwood Yes

• 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