Elspeth Huxley Quotes

How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness from water.

Elspeth Huxley

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• I am a huge supporter for cash for caulkers - which allows people to make improvement for energy efficient in their homes. We should do the same for Americans purchasing appliances and computers and for that matter, new air-conditioner and heating units.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • People
  • Energy
  • Air

• I don't want to worry about maintaining an air of decorum that's not natural to me.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Want
  • Me
  • Air

• Without electricity, the air would rot.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Air
  • Without
  • Electricity

• I think the bottom line for Oregonians is that cleaner fuels mean cleaner air, and we need that, and we want that.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Think
  • Want
  • Air

• Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you'd never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper - something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season - and so memories stir and startle.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Time
  • Long
  • Book

• If fruit juices or sugar solutions are left to stand in the open air, they show after a few days the processes which are covered by the name of fermentation phenomena.

  

  Eduard Buchner
  • Air
  • Name
  • Stand

• 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

• I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord. And I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, Oh Lord. Can you feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord, oh Lord.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Life
  • Air
  • Waiting

• I love it when you call me Big Poppa; throw your hands in the air if you's a true player.

  

  The Notorious B.I.G.
  • True
  • Player
  • Air

• Adam was a super being when God created him...he had dominion over the fowls of the air which means he used to fly...well of course how could you have dominion over the birds and not be able to do what they do. Adam flew into space, with one thought he would be on the moon.

  

  Benny Hinn
  • God
  • Space
  • Air

• If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Money
  • Water
  • Air

• Mobile notifications put people in a state of perpetual emergency interruption - similar to what 911 operators and air traffic controllers experienced back in the '70s and '80s.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • People
  • Air

• My kids are fanatical about 'Scooby-Doo', and I think that the creators of 'Scooby-Doo' somehow tripped across some kind of magical hypnotic formula that lures children. It's far more fascinating to them than anything else on the air.

  

  Dave Willis
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Air

• Artificial lighting, air-conditioning, and automobiles, all powered by fossil fuels, swaddle us in our giddy modernity. In our ergonomic chairs and acoustical-panel cubicles, we sit cozy as kings atop 300 years of flaming carbon.

  

  Charles C. Mann
  • Air

• Being able to play basketball at a high level, adjusting to the ball in the air, quick feet, quick hands and all that stuff definitely translates to playing tight end in the National Football League.

  

  Austin Seferian-Jenkins
  • High
  • Football
  • Air

• I don't judge my effectiveness by how many words I say. I think liberals often see nuances in things... Conservatives tend to see things in black and white. It gives them an air of certainty and conviction that might make them more comfortable to watch.

  

  Alan Colmes
  • Black
  • Words
  • Air

• The way I grew up playing, and the way most Americans have grown up, is that you hit the ball up in the air and then it stops where it lands.

  

  David Duval
  • Up
  • Air

• I love being outside, and I love the fresh air.

  

  Brian Stokes Mitchell
  • Air

• [Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem but it hurt me. She did not say jungle fear. She did not say jungle hatred wild jungle weeping chop it back chop it. She said self-government she said end of the road. She did not say humming in the middle of the air what you came for chop.

  

  Anne Carson
  • She
  • Mother
  • Fear

• You can't just be reactive to the things going on in your life. You have to imagine, and you have to plunder other people's work, books, poems, ideas, observations.

  

  David Gray
  • Work
  • Imagine
  • Poems

• Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'cos you don't realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.

  

  B. B. King
  • America
  • You
  • Forever

• Our top plank really is a Green New Deal to transform our economy to a green economy, 100 percent wind, water and sun by the year 2030 - we can do it; this is an emergency, and we must do it - but to use that as an opportunity to put America back to work, to renew our infrastructure, and to basically assure that everyone has a job.

  

  Jill Stein
  • Work
  • Job
  • America

• I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write.

  

  Maya Rudolph
  • People
  • Writing
  • Women

• How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness from water.

  

  Elspeth Huxley
  • Air
  • Imagine
  • Observe