Air Quotes
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A few days ago I walked along the edge of the lake and was treated to the crunch and rustle of leaves with each step I made. The acoustics of this season are different and all sounds, no matter how hushed, are as crisp as autumn air.
Eric Sloane
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The Rosalie really did not want to go like the clappers and performed its usual consumptive drama every time we came to an uphill slope, coughing and gasping like a dying Dickens heroine, and finally just stopped—engine still gasping a bit but the car just stopped. Simply could not move forward up the hill. Choke full out but cylinders firing pathetically as though we were trying to make the poor thing run on nothing but air.
Elizabeth Wein
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People sometimes say we need to be really almost on a wartime footing if you want to change. Our whole economy is based on burning fossil fuels, which is taking CO2 out of the ground and putting it up into the air.
Elizabeth Kolbert
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The Prince of the power of the air seems to bend all the force of his attack against the spirit of prayer.
Bonar Law
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You know that our breathing is the inhaling and exhaling of air. The organ that serves for this is the lungs that lie round the heart, so that the air passing through them thereby envelops the heart. Thus breathing is a natural way to the heart.
Nikephoros of Chios
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It's a whole new world as far as getting a show on the air. There's good things and bad things.
Bill Burr
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Prayer is as necessary as the air, as the blood in our bodies, as anything to keep us alive-to keep us alive to the grace of God.
Mother Teresa
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I'm interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under them.
Ray Bradbury
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Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the water.
D. T. Suzuki
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Light, air and comfort - these three things I must always have in a room.
Elsie de Wolfe
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Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air!
Tom Lehrer
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The land, the earth God gave to man for his home ... should never be the possession of any man, corporation, (or) society ... any more than the air or water.
Abraham Lincoln
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But I am the songbird running out of air, and I must breathe.
Amal El-Mohtar
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It could happen anytime. The finger tightens, pulls, and a bullet goes flying through the air. That's how remembering is.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Wind is what happens when air falls in love with itself.
Barry Webster
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I need some air. I`m still feeling a tad... dead.
Elijah
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My father was stationed at Clark Air Base in the Philippines, which had a hospital where they brought casualties straight from the battlefield. My mother was kind of a sophisticated bohemian, and my father was in the military to make a living.
Annie Leibovitz
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I thought I could not breathe in that fine air That pure severity of perfect light I yearned for warmth and colour which I found In Lancelot.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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The eagles ruled the air as the tribes ruled the land.
Conn Iggulden
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If we are serious about moving toward energy independence in a cost-effective way, we should invest in solar energy. If we are serious about cutting air and water pollution and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, we should invest in solar energy.
Bernie Sanders
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Like the air you breathe, abundance in all things is available to you. Your life will simply be as good as you allow it to be.
Esther Hicks
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What a splendid thing watercolour is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe in it.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Half of the days in 2014, I had to confine my daughter to my home like a prisoner because the air quality in Beijing was so poor. One morning, I saw my daughter banging on the window... The day will come when she asks me, 'Why do you keep me here? What is going to hurt me when I go outside?'
Chai Jing
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Because it's cheaper and easier to fly than ever before, air travel is becoming democratized.
Peter Diamandis