Air Quotes

• I was lucky enough to first meet Elvis at his house in Bel Air and he used to invite different artists, singers and musicians, to come and jam with him at his house.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Different
  • House
  • Lucky

• When you go to auditions, pretend you already have the job and you're just presenting - almost like you're at the table read. Don't go in with an air of, 'Please like me,' or, 'Please hire me.' You're like, 'Here's my take on it. Take it or leave it. I've got a lot of other things to do today.'

  

  Mary Lynn Rajskub
  • Job
  • Today
  • Air

• My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us, the world is full of it and you simply take as much as you require.

  

  Edward Elgar
  • World
  • Music
  • Air

• The trains that travel the Chunnel are massive machines. The Eurostars are bullet-shaped and a quarter-mile long. They are pulled by a 136,000-pound locomotive and move in the open air at 185 m.p.h. and through the tunnel at 100 m.p.h.

  

  Peter Landesman
  • Long
  • Air
  • Travel

• Of course, the wind sort of swept up and the music was flying around in mid air and they were trying to play off it. You had to be there. It was quite funny.

  

  Roy Wood Electric Light Orchestra
  • Music
  • Funny
  • Wind

• A grenade launcher will easily take out a tank; a Molotov cocktail placed in its air intake will destroy one as well.

  

  Sebastian Junger
  • Air
  • Cocktails
  • Grenade

• After high school, I had $2,000 saved, and I packed everything I could into my '95 Nissan Sentra with no air-conditioning, and I drove out to L.A.

  

  Emayatzy Corinealdi
  • School
  • High
  • Air

• Too often, the air conditioners we use to cool down also contribute to climate change - the very force that's fueling extreme heat.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Change
  • Cool
  • Climate Change

• If we allow responsible management of our forests and end the nonsense litigation from radical environmental groups, we can get our timber mills up and running, reduce the risk of wildfires, and ensure healthier forests and cleaner air.

  

  Matt Rosendale
  • Up
  • Running
  • Risk

• I thought I would go out, and see if the air would make me feel any better.

  

  Lizzie Andrew Borden
  • Air

• When I was at school, I wanted to play a piano, and they said, 'No, that's for the classical students.' There's always been this air around pianos, which can very often discourage a young person from having a go.

  

  Jamie Cullum
  • School
  • Air

• That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Guy
  • Thoughts
  • Ground

• I am like a TV antenna. I catch everything that is in the air, and then I do it my way.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • TV
  • Catch
  • Antenna

• Strip away the usual hot air, and bin Laden's audiotape is the sign of a seriously weakened man.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Air

• I think, because I'm an artist, part of my job is to be a barometer, an antenna. It's in the air and it resonates with a lot of people to lighten up.

  

  Jane Siberry
  • People
  • Up
  • Job

• If I was on the air and was just kind of a plain-vanilla personality that took the safe road and the safe way trying to please all of the people all of the time, I'd been gone in two weeks.

  

  Phil McGraw
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• It seems like we have a rivalry every week. CU hates us. BYU hates us. Air Force doesn't care for us and Wyoming really hates us. Every week, we're playing for some sort of trophy or plaque. That's what is unique about college football.

  

  Dave Anderson
  • College
  • Football
  • Unique

• I've been hitting up Hooters since 1983, and I can assure you nothin' says football season is here quite like watching the game on wall-to-wall flat screen TVs with the smell of Hooters world-famous chicken wings in the air and an ice-cold beer in your hand, served up with one-and-only Hooters hospitality, of course.

  

  Jon Gruden
  • Up
  • World
  • Game

• A true fascist is anyone who wants to take away my air conditioning or force me to ride a bike.

  

  David Harsanyi
  • True
  • Air
  • Bike

• I was in the New Zealand army for like four years, the exact period of when it was on the air, so I never saw it.

  

  Rhys Darby
  • Army
  • Periods
  • Saws

• We have a group of friends of the museum who try to raise, if they can, periodically something to help us. Of course, the main thing about a building like this is its upkeep. It needs central heating and it needs central air conditioning.

  

  Katherine Dunham
  • Friends
  • Help
  • Air

• Stuntwork... once, I've really only done one thing, which is take a punch and transport myself into the air onto a mat.

  

  Ciaran Hinds
  • Done
  • Air

• A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.

  

  William R. Alger
  • Air
  • Sigh
  • Castle

• I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the application of poultices. It ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet - all at the least expense of vital power to the patient.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Power
  • Light
  • Air

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