Air Quotes - Page 18

• Especially once those poetry events began, because, yeah, the stuff was still on the page, but the page was starting to spill into real space, spill into air, once you could hear it, once there was a typewriter, once there was a body of a typist, it was getting rid of the confines of the page.

  Vito Acconci

  Real, Typewriters, Space

  Interview with Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. January 1, 2007.

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• When you're writing a sketch, it has to be surrounded by a situation. It can't just be out of the air.

  Leslie Jones

  Writing, Situation

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• The water is clearer than the air, and the air is the air that angels breathe.

  Mark Twain

  Angel, Water, Breathe

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• On the prairie one can see the colour of the air.

  Emily Murphy

  Prairie, Colour

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• I think there's really no rhyme or reason as to what keeps a show on air. Surely it's a numbers game, but some of the best shows get canceled, and some shows where you don't totally understand why they're on the air stay on for 15 or 20 years.

  Jordana Spiro

  Thinking, Years, Games

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• Overpopulation in the United States will become THE single greatest issue facing Americans in the 21st century. We either solve it proactively or nature will solve it brutally for us via water shortages, energy crisis, air pollution, gridlock, species extinction and worse.

  Frosty Wooldridge

  Issues, Water, Energy

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• Wind is what happens when air falls in love with itself.

  Barry Webster

  Falling In Love, Wind, Happens

  Barry Webster (2012). “The Lava in My Bones”, p.54, arsenal pulp press

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• In time they sank and decayed, and nothing is left of them except an occasional impression in stones, in stones now found in deserts and on high mountain peaks. Birdless forests block the sun in uninhabited lands. Insects swirl in the air. And then, in a majestic, bloodthirsty, and mighty heave, the spinal columns of the vertebrates rise as monstrous lizards and fabulous creatures; dragons flinging their fearful bellows up to a steaming sky... Slowly they become birds, birds as light as undreamt dreams. The searing roars become birdsong, whimpering flutes on warm nights.

  Erik Fosnes Hansen

  Dream, Block, Night

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• The thing about TV is it's a meritocracy. I love that aspect of it - and I've had shows that have gone on the air and been canceled. I've seen the good and the bad of it.

  Doug Liman

  Gone, Tvs, Aspect

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• If fruit juices or sugar solutions are left to stand in the open air, they show after a few days the processes which are covered by the name of fermentation phenomena.

  Eduard Buchner

  Names, Fruit Juice, Sugar

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• I have such a respect and fascination for dance. I can be light as air or stay grounded. Dance is really another universe.

  Shakira

  Light, Fascination, Grounded

  "I Know What I Stand For". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. November 29, 2009.

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• Here is a good reply of a clever horse to the man who tries to ride and control it: Throwing him into the air!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Horse, Clever, Men

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• Everything is winged in this universe, even a rock! When the time comes, rock crumbles into tiny pieces and starts flying in the air!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Rocks, Flying, Pieces

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• For a city to be beautiful, it must have a mysterious air!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Cities, Mysterious

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• When I'm scrambling between dress and air, there are people I like more than other people.

  Lorne Michaels

  People, Dresses

  "Marc Maron Finally Asked Lorne Michaels About His Infamous SNL Audition in an Instant-Classic Episode of 'WTF'" by Jesse David Fox, www.vulture.com. November 9, 2015.

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• I understand travel. I understand the experience of travel. I mean there is something of the "air-conditioned gypsy" in me.

  Greg Lake

  Mean, Gypsy

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• The second means of attraction which He used is Emptiness, as we see when we place one end of a hollow pipe in water, and draw up it by suction; the water runs up the stem to the mouth, because the emptiness of the pipe, from which the air has been drawn, draws the water to itself.

  Meister Eckhart

  Running, Mean, Water

  Meister Eckhart (2007). “Meister Eckhart's Sermons”, p.16, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If you've as many films as I have, and missed as many opportunities as I have to do good work and been pissed off about it, you say, "Well, now you've got to start getting it right." If you get a chance, you really want to cook. And the tragedy is, when you finally feel that way about yourself, about your work, nobody wants to give you a chance. And that happens to a lot of actors. But I'm feeling very wanted these days, so there must be something in the air.

  Burt Reynolds

  Opportunity, Giving, Feelings

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

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• Patriots quarterback Tom Brady says he thinks it would be great if Donald Trump was president. Which is really weird because I thought Brady didn't like things that are filled with too much air.

  Conan O'Brien

  Thinking, President, Would Be

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• The hawk is aerial brother of the wave which he sails over and surveys, those his perfect air-inflated wings answering to the elemental unfledged pinions of the sea.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Brother, Sea, Wings

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.103, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The New Testament is an invaluable book, though I confess to having been slightly prejudiced against it in my very early days by the church and the Sabbath school, so that it seemed, before I read it, to be the yellowest book in the catalogue. Yet I early escaped from their meshes. It was hard to get the commentaries out of one's head and taste its true flavor. [...] It would be a poor story to be prejudiced against the Life of Christ because the book has been edited by Christians.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Bible, Christian, Dream

  "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1849.

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• Love, whose month is ever May,
  Spied a blossom passing fair,
  Playing in the wanton air:
  Through the velvet leaves the wind,
  All unseen can passage find;
  That the lover, sick to death,
  Wish'd himself the heaven's breath.

  William Shakespeare

  Wind, Sick, Heaven

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1847). “Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life”

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• Whether we're fighting climate change or going to space, everything is moved forward by computers, and we don't have enough people who can code. Teaching young people to code early on can help build skills and confidence and energize the classroom with learning-by-doing opportunities. I learned how to fly a hot air balloon when I was 30,000 feet up and my life was in the balance: you can learn skills at any age but why wait when we can teach everyone to code now!

  Richard Branson

  Teaching, Fighting, Opportunity

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• Silence is essential. We need silence just as much as we need air, just as much as plants need light. If our minds are crowded with words and thoughts, there is no space for us.

  Nhat Hanh

  Light, Space, Silence

  FaceBook post by Thich Nhat Hanh from Jan 27, 2015

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• I've got an air mattress for a bed...really living the high life.

  Clayton Kershaw

  Bed, Mattresses, Really Living

  "Prospect Q&A: Clayton Kershaw". Interview with Adam Foster, www.baseballamerica.com. July 25, 2007.

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