Oxygen Quotes - Page 2

• Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water and nobody knows what that is.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Science, Two, Water

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6710, Delphi Classics

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• Relationships are the oxygen of the psyche.

  Jane Fonda

  Friendliness

  Jane Fonda (2011). “Prime Time (with Bonus Content): Love, health, sex, fitness, friendship, spirit; Making the most of all of your life”, p.168, Random House

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• Activating oxygen can produce compounds called radicals that put oxidative stress on cells. Such stress could ultimately lead to cancer and other diseases.

  John Simon

  Cancer, Stress, Cells

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• Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.

  Dave Barry

  Fun, Drinking, Book

  "Vegetable Magnetism" by Dave Barry, www.washingtonpost.com. March 17, 1991.

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• Artists make art. Singers sing. Players play. Gypsies travel. Music lights fires everywhere. It's like oxygen!

  Ann Wilson

  Art, Player, Fire

  FaceBook post by Ann Wilson from Nov 12, 2013

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• Illness is the result of improper removal of toxins from the body. Oxygen is the vital factor which assists the body in removing toxins.

  Ed McCabe

  Breathing, Toxins, Body

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• Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.

  Bjork

  Singing, Celebration

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Oxigen [oxygen], as you well know, is my hero as well as my foe, and being not only strong but inexhaustible in strategies and full of tricks, I was obliged to call up all my forces to lay hold of him, and make the subtle Being my prisoner.

  Christian Friedrich Schonbein

  Strong, Hero, Science

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• Unfortunately it's also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen - it's invisible and you don't notice its presence until it's gone, and then you're sorry.

  Charles Stross

  Sorry, Gone, Management

  Charles Stross (2010). “The Fuller Memorandum”, p.33, Penguin

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• My fear is a fear of being obsolete. This is a world that changes very fast, and one of the main human desires is to belong to, to be part of something. It's probably one of our greatest needs next to oxygen.

  Paul Polman

  Desire, Needs, World

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• Ninety percent of metabolic oxygen comes from breathing. Ten percent comes from food.

  Gabriel Cousens

  Breathing, Ninety, Percent

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• Information is the oxygen of the modern age.

  Ronald Reagan

  Age, Borders, Information

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• The marathon is all about energy management. I had planned to run it like a track race with strategic surges to blow up my competitors by putting them into oxygen debt, so that is the way I prepared.

  Frank Shorter

  Sports, Running, Blow

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• Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.

  Otto Weininger

  Fire, Flames, Enemy

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• We have seen pictures [of mars] where there there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.

  Dan Quayle

  Believe, Mean, Science

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• I just learned how to scuba dive. Id been scared to rely on one little air hose for oxygen, but swimming with all those fish is exhilarating.

  Cheryl Hines

  Swimming, Air, Scuba

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• If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.

  Martha Beck

  Lonely, Being Alone, Feelings

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• I love having debates with people when they are debates but some people, you just can't. Some people shouldn't be given the oxygen.

  Russell T Davies

  People, Debate, Given

  "Amy Winehouse would be a great Doctor" by Ben Dowell, www.theguardian.com. July 6, 2008.

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• If your breath is very deep in the lungs, it will give you a good red blood. Good red blood, with the oxygen, is quite sufficiently empowered to take away impurities. When the lungs start clearing the blood, then the liver, spleen, and kidneys have much less work to do.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Healing, Blood, Giving

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• Reading wasn't my religion - it was my oxygen.

  Linda Grant

  Reading

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• Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.

  Martha Beck

  Eye, Feelings, Brain

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• Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

  Ronald Reagan

  Wall, Humor, Political

  The Guardian, June 14, 1989.

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• Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Military, Hymns, History

  Speech to American Bar Association in London, 15 July 1985, in The Times 16 July 1985

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• Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

  Bill Moyers

  Hyperbole, Johnson

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• If you don't participate, you're just taking up oxygen. (Bunny) Life is a banquet. Approach it with hunger. (Chuck)

  Deb Caletti

  Bunnies, Life Is, Hunger

  Deb Caletti (2013). “Love Is All You Need: Wild Roses; The Nature of Jade”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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