Air Quotes

• Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still. Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death Pray for us now and at the hour of our death.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Death
  • Small
  • Fly

• When I escaped from China and came to Hong Kong, the contrast was that China was like hell and Hong Kong like heaven. Though I was very poor, I smelled the air of freedom and was full of hope for the future. That's the way I thought heaven is.

  

  Jimmy Lai
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Freedom

• For the first time in my life I saw the horizon as a curved line. It was accentuated by a thin seam of dark blue light-our atmosphere. Obviously this was not the ocean of air I had been told it was so many times in my life. I was terrified by its fragile appearance.

  

  Ulf Merbold
  • Life
  • Time
  • Light

• You were cool if you had on a pair of Air Force 1s. It's still a staple for me while on tour.

  

  Bryson Tiller
  • Cool
  • Air

• I love you the way a drowning man loves air. And it would destroy me to have you just a little.

  

  Rae Carson
  • For Her
  • I Love
  • Destroy

• Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

  

  Sarah Kay
  • Way
  • Waiting
  • Faces

• Air travel survived decades of terrorism, including attacks which resulted in the deaths of everyone on the plane. It survived 9/11. It'll survive the next successful attack. The only real worry is that we'll scare ourselves into making air travel so onerous that we won't fly anymore.

  

  Bruce Schneier
  • Real
  • Worry
  • Travel

• Air Power is, above all, a psychological weapon - and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the importance of psychological factors in war.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Power
  • War
  • Air

• We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.

  

  Boris Yeltsin
  • Freedom
  • Air

• And then he realized that he could never make anything out of the Unmaker, could never make the Unmaker do or be anything because it was only Undoing and Unbeing. It wasn’t the Unmaker he needed to call to, it was all the living things around him, the trees, the grass, the earth, the air itself. It was the greensong that he needed to restore.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Earth
  • Air

• Before sight and sound hijacked our attention, we shared with all life a sort of common sense, a chemical sense that depended on direct contact with matter in the water or the air.

  

  Lyall Watson
  • Life
  • Attention
  • Water

• I just am a clean air freak. I grew up in the woods. I worked in China for a bit and was exposed to all the resources being used and the pollution and felt strongly that for our generation, the biggest economic and societal problem is energy.

  

  Lynn Jurich
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Air

• It's so many years of reading story. You leave work and it goes away till you see it air on television.

  

  Jacob Young
  • Work
  • Reading
  • Air

• In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Art
  • Air
  • Stories

• I'm a fast healer. I was on the air a week after I got shot.

  

  Curtis Sliwa
  • Air

• Christ is still in Christmas, and for one brief season the secular world broadcasts the message of Christ over every radio station and television channel in the land. Never does the church get as much free air time as during the Christmas season.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Time
  • World
  • Free

• I've always been excited by the strangeness of ballet, but I can't bear it when people just come forward and do a turn in the air for no reason.

  

  Matthew Bourne
  • People
  • Air
  • Ballet

• There is about him something that seems to soothe and hypnotize. To the best of my knowledge, he has never encountered a charging rhinoceros, but should this contingency occur, I have no doubt that the animal, meeting his eye, would check itself in mid-stride, roll over and lie purring with its legs in the air.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Knowledge
  • Doubt
  • Animal

• There's something about the air and the sky and the atmosphere in the South of France that must be very conducive to work, to being creative, because I have written several of my books there. I find it so much easier because you're cut off. If you don't want to speak to anybody, basically they don't know where you are. And it's so beautiful.

  

  Joan Collins
  • Work
  • Beautiful
  • Sky

• Do you think a champion is made out of thin air? It’s through the hardships you endure that you’ll gain real strength.

  

  Gail Tsukiyama
  • Real
  • Strength
  • Champion

• My dream is to have a house on the beach, even just a little shack somewhere so I can wake up, have coffee, look at dolphins, be quiet and breathe the air.

  

  Christina Applegate
  • Up
  • House
  • Dream

• If you were a cloud, and sailed up there, You'd sail on water as blue as air, And you'd see me here in the fields and say: 'Doesn't the sky look green today?

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Up
  • Today
  • Water

• When a car's ahead of you, as long as you can see it, you get a tow, just like the draft in NASCAR. Even if it's a long ways down the track, it punches a hole in the air that has to help. When you're running alone, you can feel the difference, and it shows on the clock, too.

  

  Mario Andretti
  • Long
  • Help
  • Running

• The bands you like and know that are French are always outsiders in the French music industry - Daft Punk, Air.

  

  Laurent Brancowitz Phoenix
  • Music
  • Air

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