Air Quotes - Page 24

• As we begin to plan for a new human society, we need to foster common values about clean air, water, and other elements of self-sustenance. These, along with a complete inventory of Earth's resources, will form the basis for a holistic approach to cybernated decision-making.

  Jacque Fresco

  Self, Water, Decision

  "The Best That Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty, & War". Book by Jacque Fresco, 2002.

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• I belong to a group of men who fly alone. There is only one seat in the cockpit of a fighter airplane. There is no space alotted for another pilot to tune the radios in the weather or make the calls to air traffic control centers or to help with the emergency procedures or to call off the airspeed down final approach. There is no one else to break the solitude of a long cross-country flight. There is no one else to make decisions.

  Richard Bach

  Country, Airplane, Men

  Richard Bach (2003). “Flying: The Aviation Trilogy”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• INITIATIVE, AGGRESSION, AIR DISCIPLINE, and TEAM WORK are words that MEAN something in Air Fighting.

  Adolph Malan

  Team, Mean, Fighting

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• I want to be like the air. The good-hearted person whose kindness overflows and people realize how important she was to them, once she is gone. I want to be that kind of person.

  Aya Kito

  Kindness, People, Important

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• Creative energy manifests in the 'aura' of the environment - the distinct atmosphere, quality and 'air of the place.' It has a contagious effect on people. When we walk into the environment, we know immediately whether or not the energy is present. Most of us need communities as sources of motivation and vitality; and in keeping with the basic movements of energy in nature, people charge one another in positive and negative ways.

  Shaun McNiff

  Motivation, People, Creative

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• When I started out, I was a television writer, and we wrote a television show that was on live every week. And you didn't have the luxury of coming in and waiting to be inspired. You came in and you had to write. And you wrote, because it was going to be live on the air. So I can do that.

  Woody Allen

  Writing, Luxury, Waiting

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• Whenever I watched this movie ["How to Train Your Dragon"], I thought, "That's where I want to be. I want to be up in that sky. I want to be flying through the clouds and be living in that environment." So I think if I had a dragon, I would spend most of my time up in the air all over the place and taking in this beautiful planet.

  Gerard Butler

  Beautiful, Thinking, Clouds

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• In a nut shell, air travel is the worst part about touring.

  Eric Burdon

  Nuts, Shells, Touring

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• People say that I'm a tree hugger, but I do a lot more than hug trees. I like having my drinking water without faecal matter, that's really nice. Or acceptable levels of strychnine. I'm an air breather, I've gotten used to that over the years.

  Robin Williams

  Nice, Drinking, Years

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth.

  John Milton

  Men, Earth, Shapes

  1634 Comus, A Mask, opening lines.

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• It is therefore absurd to approach the subject of health piecemeal with a departmentalized band of specialists. A medical doctor uninterested in nutrition, in agriculture, in the wholesomeness of mind and spirit is as absurd as a farmer who is uninterested in health. Our fragmentation of this subject cannot be our cure, because it is our disease. The body cannot be whole alone. Persons cannot be whole alone. It is wrong to think that bodily health is compatible with spiritual confusion or cultural disorder, or with polluted air and water or impoverished soil.

  Wendell Berry

  Spiritual, Thinking, Agriculture

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.99, Counterpoint

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• Lots of cosy sky That God and I can share. I need air. I need air.

  Alan Jay Lerner

  Sky, Needs, Aviation

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• Yet I do seriously and on good grounds affirm it possible to make a flying chariot in which a man may sit and give such a motion unto it as shall convey him through the air. And this perhaps might be made large enough to carry divers men at the same time, together with food for their viaticum and commodities for traffic.

  John Wilkins

  Men, Giving, Flying

  A Discourse Concerning a New World and Another Planet book 1, proposition 14 (1640)

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• It is not the bigness of anything in this kind that can hinder its motion, if the motive faculty be answerable thereunto. We see a great ship swims as well as a small cork, and an eagle flies in the air as well as a little gnat. 'Tis likely enough that there may be means invented of journeying to the Moon; and how happy they shall be that are first successful in this attempt.

  John Wilkins

  Mean, Successful, Moon

  "A Discourse Concerning a New World and Another Planet". Book by John Wilkins, Book 1, Chapter 14, p. 238-239, 1640.

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• The labor of rising from the ground will be great, ... but as we mount higher, the earth's attraction, and the body's gravity, will be gradually diminished till we arrive at a region where the man will float in the air without any tendency to fall.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fall, Men, Rising

  Samuel Johnson (1940). “The reader's Johnson: a representative selection from his writings”

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• Sir, Your letter of the 15th is received, but Age has long since obliged me to withhold my mind from Speculations of the difficulty of those of your letter, that their are means of artificial buoyancy by which man may be supported in the Air, the Balloon has proved, and that means of directing it may be discovered is against no law of Nature and is therefore possible as in the case of Birds, but to do this by mechanical means alone in a medium so rare and unassisting as air must have the aid of some principal not yet generally known.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mean, Men, Law

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• You must squeeze every atom of impure air from lungs until they are almost as free of air as a vacuum.

  Joseph Pilates

  Vacuums, Atoms, Pilates

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• It's important for a director to provide as much information, especially when we're working with things that we have to conceive out of thin air. You can't just expect an actor to understand: 'Oh, there's a dinosaur coming at you". OK, so I'm going to automatically know how big it is and what it sounds like? I need details. How close does he get to me? How tall is he? What will the impact be of his cry when he's screaming at me or when he's blowing smoke or air in my face?

  Zoe Saldana

  Impact, Important, Actors

  "Zoe Saldana on Make-up, Stunts, & being a Guardian of the Galaxy". ComicMix Interview, www.comicmix.com. December 8, 2014.

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• We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air.

  Richard J. Foster

  Toxic Waste, Earth, Consumerism

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• After reading ... accounts ... of minor accidents of light, it is little wonder that the average man would far rather watch someone else fly and read of the narrow escapes from death when some pilot has had a forced landing or a blowout, than to ride himself. Even in the postwar days of now obsolete equipment, nearly all of the serious accidents were caused by inexperienced pilots who where then allowed to fly or attempt to fly-without license or restrictions about anything they could coax into the air.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Reading, Men, Light

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• I think that the movement against the World Bank, against the globalization process that is happening, is very positive. We need a globalization, a globalization of people who are committed to social justice, to economic justice. We need a globalization of people who are committed to saving this earth, to making sure that the water is drinkable, that the air is breathable.

  Assata Shakur

  Thinking, People, Justice

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• If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks with little Nike swishes on them.

  Assata Shakur

  Nike, Filters, Earth

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• I'm not trying to put on airs for anybody. I'm only trying to impress myself by doing the best job I can do.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Jobs, Best Job, Trying

  Source: www.stylist.co.uk

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• For me I always need to have two sides to me when I play! I need to be a performer and at the same time the producer. So I need to be somewhere up in the air and producing my music. I can't just be the performer; otherwise I can't see the whole view. I need the big view!

  Hiromi

  Up In The Air, Play, Two Sides

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• In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.

  John Webster

  Greatness, Boys, Care

  John Webster “The Duchess of Malfi”, W. W. Norton & Company

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