Air Quotes - Page 26

• There is no gravity in the Planet of Love; everything floats in the air.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Gravity, Planets

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• The previous Governments took pride in making laws, but I am happier removing laws. Let's open the windows, let some fresh air come in.

  Narendra Modi

  Pride, Government, Law

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• What's somewhat puzzling is that Churchill himself knew what the reaction would be to any sort of aerial attack on cities, because in 1938 he said that in a future war British cities would be attacked by bombing, and that the response would be that all men would want to join the fight because they would be so incensed by this cowardly manner of attack. Which is a very natural response: when something drops on you from the air and blows up a bunch of buildings and kills people in their sleep, the reaction is going to be rage, confusion, and a search for something to destroy in retaliation.

  Nicholson Baker

  War, Sleep, Fighting

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• Those herbs which perfume the air most delightfully, not passed by as the rest, but, being trodden upon and crushed, are three; that is, burnet, wild thyme and watermints. Therefore, you are to set whole alleys of them, to have the pleasure when you walk or tread.

  Francis Bacon

  Nature, Smell, Healthy

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• Fills The air around with beauty.

  Lord Byron

  Beauty

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.144, Cambridge University Press

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• On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they [the Colonies] raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared,-a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.

  Daniel Webster

  Morning, Military, Power

  Speech in the Senate on the President's Protest, 7 May 1834

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• Farewell! if ever fondest prayer For other's weal avail'd on high, Mine will not all be lost in air, But waft thy name beyond the sky.

  Lord Byron

  Prayer, Farewell, Sky

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.381, Delphi Classics

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• The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave,
  The moon, their mistress, had expir'd before;
  The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air,
  And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need
  Of aid from them-She was the Universe.

  Lord Byron

  Moon, Clouds, Wind

  George Gordon Byron, “Darkness”

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• When important decisions have to be taken, the natural anxiety to come to a right decision will often keep you awake. Nothing, however, is more conducive to healthful sleep than plenty of open air.

  John Lubbock

  Taken, Sleep, Decision

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• I write, and I feel how the correct and precise use of words is sometimes like a remedy to an illness. Like a contraption for purifying the air, I breathe in and exhale the murkiness and manipulations of linguistic scoundrels and language rapists of all shades and colors. I write and I feel how the tenderness and intimacy I maintain with language, with its different layers, its eroticism and humor and soul, give me back the person I used to be, me, before my self became nationalized and confiscated by the conflict, by governments and armies, by despair and tragedy.

  David Grossman

  Writing, Army, Government

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• Vote Labor and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative and you can live in them.

  David Frost

  Castles, Conservative, Vote

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

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• I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, let's say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing!

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Thinking, Toilets

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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• There's a pizza place near where I live that sells only slices. In the back, you can see a guy tossing a triangle in the air.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Guy

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• I want people to understand and recognize that when it comes to dating, you're not as crazy as you think you are. Everyone needs love. We need it like air or water. We just don't know how to get it.

  Leslye Headland

  Crazy, Thinking, Water

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.

  Dan O'Brien

  Trying, Events, Balls

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• The abode of God, too, is wherever is earth and sea and air, and sky and virtue. Why further do we seek the Gods of heaven? Whatever thou dost behold and whatever thou dost touch, that is Jupiter.

  Lucan

  Sea, Sky, Heaven

  Lucan (1853). “The Pharsalia of Lucan”, p.362

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• The grapes on a score of rolling hills are red with autumn flame. Across Sonoma Mountain wisps of sea fog are stealing. The afternoon sun smoulders in the drowsy sky. I have everything to make me glad I am alive. I am filled with dreams and mysteries. I am all sun and air and sparkle. I am vitalized, organic.

  Jack London

  Dream, Autumn, Flames

  Jack London (2016). “John Barleycorn”, p.152, Xist Publishing

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• I never, with important air, In conversation overbear. . . . . My tongue within my lips I rein; For who talks much must talk in vain.

  John Gay

  Important, Tongue, Lips

  John Gay (1808). “Gay's Fables: In One Volume Complete”, p.8

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• You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?.

  Graham Greene

  Wine, Thinking, Blood

  "Monsignor Quixote". Book by Graham Greene, 1982.

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• If policymakers are serious about avoiding a society of TV 'haves and have-nots,' they should refrain from policies that favor pay-TV operators over the providers of our nation's only free and local communications system: over-the-air broadcasting.

  Gordon Smith

  Communication, Favors, Pay

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• Fresh air is as good for the mind as for the body. Nature always seems trying to talk to us as if she had some great secret to tell. And so she has.

  John Lubbock

  Secret, Mind, Trying

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• The effect of civilization is to impose human law upon environment until it becomes machine-like in its regularity. The objectionable is eliminated, the inevitable is foreseen. One is not even made wet by the rain nor cold by the frost; while death, instead of stalking about gruesome and accidental, becomes a prearranged pageant, moving along a well-oiled groove to the family vault, where the hinges are kept from rusting and the dust from the air is swept continually away.

  Jack London

  Rain, Moving, Dust

  Jack London (2015). “Love of life and Other Stories by Jack London”, p.68, Editora Dracaena

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• It is the nature of the noble and the good and the wise that they impart to us of their nobility and their goodness and their wisdom while they live, making it natural for us to breathe the air they breathe and giving us confidence in our own untested powers. And the same influence in more ethereal fashion they continue to exert after they are gone.

  Felix Adler

  Wise, Fashion, Giving

  "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.

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• We breathe the free air, we have the best looking men and handsomest women, and if they envy our position, well they may, for they are a poor, narrow minded, pinch-backed race of man, who chain themselves down to the law of monogamy and live all their days under the dominion of one wife. They aught to be ashamed of such conduct, and the still fouler channel which flows from their practices.

  George A. Smith

  Men, Race, Law

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• The flash of rain, the shining rainbow riding completely around the plane, the lift over mountain ridges, the steady, pure air at dawn take-offs. ... It was so alive and rich a life that any other conceivable choice seemed dull, prosaic, and humdrum.

  Dean Smith

  Rain, Shining, Choices

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