Air Quotes - Page 21

• Statistically, 2012 was the safest year to travel on a plane, in the history of aviation. Not one major passenger plane crashed. It's pretty amazing. And when you see them being taken apart and you see the work that goes into keeping those things in the air, you think, "Wow!"

  Dallas Campbell

  Taken, Thinking, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• Journalism and the questions of journalistic ethics, and why certain stories are put on the air, when, how and for what reasons, are big questions in our culture and society.

  Thomas Sadoski

  Stories, Culture, Ethics

  Source: collider.com

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• We [Afghanistan] are constantly dealing with situations in which we must ensure that provinces or major cities do not fall into enemy hands. People need to understand that we don't have an air force and the forces that we do have used to get air support from NATO, which is no longer available. Our pilots have done wonders, but they are stretched thin. We are dealing with resources that have been spread thin.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Fall, Hands, Cities

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The apparition of an evil, sick unconscious wild city rose before me in visible semblance, and about the dead buildings in the barren air, the bodies of the soul that built the wonderland shuffled and stalked and stalked and lurched in attitudes of immemorial nightmare all around.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Attitude, Cities, Evil

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• 'Fire' does not matter, 'earth' and 'air' and 'water' do not matter. 'I' do not matter. No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. The more words he remembers, the cleverer do his fellows esteem him. He looks upon the great transformations of the world, but he does not see them as they were seen when man looked upon reality for the first time. Their names come to his lips and he smiles as he tastes them, thinking he knows them in the naming.

  Roger Zelazny

  Reality, Men, Thinking

  "Lord of Light". Book by Roger Zelazny, 1967.

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• Meanwhile let us cast one shadow in air and water.

  Maxine Kumin

  Water, Shadow, Casts

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• Go out into the world uncorrupted, a breath of fresh air in this squalid and polluted society. Provide people with a glimpse of good living and of the living God.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  People, Glimpse, World

  Eugene H. Peterson (2006). “God's Message for Each Day: Wisdom from the Word of God”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Faith is not simply a private matter, or something we practice once a week at church. Rather, it should have a contagious effect on the broader world. Jesus used these images to illustrate His kingdom.: a sprinkle of yeast causing the whole loaf to rise, a pinch of salt preserving a slab of meat, the smallest seed in the garden growing into a great tree in which birds of the air come to nest.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Garden, Should Have

  FaceBook post by Philip Yancey from Jun 23, 2016

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• 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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• Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with an its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Covered Up, Direct Action, Medicine

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “Why we can't wait”

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• When I was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight.

  Billy Connolly

  School, Aberdeen, Glasgow

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• Everyone has an opinion; the question is which opinions are actually relevant to your journey and which are just static in the air?

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  Journey, Opinion, Static

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• Ever since I assumed my present office my main purpose has been to work for the pacification of Europe, for the removal of those suspicions and those animosities which have so long poisoned the air. The path which leads to appeasement is long and bristles with obstacles. The question of Czechoslovakia is the latest and perhaps the most dangerous. Now that we have got past it, I feel that it may be possible to make further progress along the road to sanity.

  Neville Chamberlain

  Past, Europe, Long

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• We study health, and we deliberate upon our meats and drink and air and exercises, and we hew and we polish every stone that goes to that building; and so our health is a long and regular work. But in a minute a cannon batters all, overthrows all, demolishes all; a sickness unprevented for all our diligence, unsuspected for all our curiosity, nay, undeserved, if we consider only disorder, summons us, seizes us, possesses us, destroys us in an instant.

  John Donne

  Exercise, Long, Curiosity

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: Sermons. Devotions upon emergent occasions”, p.496

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• I love being in London because it means I am breathing the same air as the Queen.

  Melissa George

  Queens, Mean, Love Is

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• I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Recovery, Light, Self

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.233, Vintage

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• Johnny Depp, as far as I'm concerned, is number one. Of his generation, there's no one who can touch him. Some performers, today, it's like looking at holes in the air.

  Christopher Lee

  Numbers, Generations, Today

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• Watching a movie with an audience is so exciting. For me, coming from TV, you finish an episode and then it airs, and I'm at home. There's no gratification and there's no audience interaction with it.

  Genndy Tartakovsky

  Home, Tvs, Episodes

  Source: collider.com

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• I had to learn that slower is faster. If you practice every day with patience and correctness, you will get there. It's like preparing for a jump. You can't rush. You must summon the appropriate energy with split-second timing and have an understanding of purpose to get up in the air. It requires training, confidence and mental effort. You can't have a vocabulary without the alphabet. Balanchine used to say, "Do you want to be a poet of gesture or do you want to be a physical entity?"

  Edward Villella

  Vocabulary, Practice, Effort

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• Raw, naked truth exchanged between the black man and the white man is what a whole lot more of is needed in this country - to clear the air of the racial mirages, cliches, and lies that this country's very atmosphere has been filled with for four hundred years.

  Alex Haley

  Country, Lying, Men

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• When you make a mistake, throw your hands in the air and say "How fascinating!"

  Benjamin Zander

  Mistake, Hands, Fascinating

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• Much to popular disbelief, horses walking around during the elections with their tails straight up in the air are not showing off their Bush/Quale buttons.

  Dan Quayle

  Horse, Buttons, Tails

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• I grew up in the South but I started dancing in my twenties when I got out of the Air Force, and studying dance, you're surrounded by gay guys all the time. You get to know them and you have to shift gears!

  Morgan Freeman

  Gay, Dancing, Guy

  "'Dark Knight Rises' Star Morgan Freeman Sounds Off on Pot Legalization, Gay Marriage" by Erin Carlson, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 19, 2012.

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