Air Quotes
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The young woman had turned toward him and thrust her pink gloves up in the air in a gesture that, from a man, meant 'Touchdown!' and, from a woman, 'I will hug you now!'
Neal Stephenson
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Later in life, I'd like to end up doing air races.
Jimmy Graham
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Just look at my face. Its an extraordinary experience. All of my friends who are grandparents have been saying, just wait, a bit cynically, but its just extraordinary. You feel like a child again yourself. Just walking on air.
Blythe Danner
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As hard as you try and create narratives about sports, once the ball is in the air, there's not a damn thing you can do about it, it's just very real.
Ian MacKaye
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Love is fragile and rare and cannot live long in open air.
Ari Berk
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There's a lot going on in the Bassett-Vance household, a lot of balls in the air.
Courtney B. Vance
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We did make use, from time to time, of candles, neckties, scarves, shoelaces, a little water-color paintbrush, her hairbrush, butter, whipped cream, strawberry jam, Johnson’s Baby Oil, my Swedish hand vibrator, a fascinating bead necklace she had, miscellaneous common household items, and every molecule of flesh that was exposed to air or could be located with strenuous search.
Spider Robinson
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Just because you might have a sparring match on the air doesn't mean there's any personal animosity.
Megyn Kelly
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The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.
Seneca the Younger
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Terror is the poor man's war, war is the rich man's terror. Ultimately, all wars will end either in annihilation or at the negotiating table. (#) A terrorist is someone who has a bomb but can't afford an air force.
William Blum
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I was never one to paint space, I paint air.
Fairfield Porter
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The impression of strength came from an extraordinary vitality that seemed to pulse in the very air around him
Elizabeth George Speare
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When you're on this major English estate, breathing in the English air, and it's untouched, you can feel its presence. It's a whole different feel. It really felt like we were there living it. It didn't feel modern, ever.
Jennifer Coolidge
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In addition to fines, violators of decency standards could be required to air public service announcements serving educational and informational needs of children.
Charles W. Pickering
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We've got to maintain freedom of navigation of the seas and in the air.
Tony Abbott
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Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting about their migrations, the trees are putting on the hectic or the pallid hues of decay, and begin to strew the ground, that one's very footsteps may not disturb the repose of earth and air, while they give us a scent that is a perfect anodyne to the restless spirit. Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
George Eliot
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This City now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
William Wordsworth
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I want to gather up all the words in the world and write them down on little pieces of paper—then throw them in the air. They would look like tiny sparrows flying toward the sun. Without all those words, the sky would be clear and perfect and blue. The deafening world would be beautiful in all that silence.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
