Air Quotes - Page 28

• Nowadays it's those hedonistic wastrels who pollute the air so that they can look at some pretty fish in the South Seas. It would be better if we only ever rode bikes. Oh, there's always someone wagging a finger in disapproval.

  Hans von Storch

  Sea, Would Be, Looks

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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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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• 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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• Velázquez, past the age of fifty, no longer painted specific objects. He drifted around things like the air, like twilight, catching unawares in the shimmering shadows the nuances of color that he transformed into the invisible core of his silent symphony.

  Elie Faure

  Twilight, Past, Symphony

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• I think hawking is the nearest thing to flying in this world. There you sit high up and poised light as air, the horse swift beneath you. You unhood your bird, let the jesses go and watch your falcon, its bells a-jingle, like some wild spirit take the air... and your own spirit goes with it.

  Hilda Lewis

  Horse, Thinking, Light

  "The Gentle Falcon". Book by Hilda Lewis, 1957.

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• The glass is always completely full-half air and half liquid.

  Mark Millar

  Glasses, Half, Liquid

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• When you get new people in, you're going to have a breath of fresh air and there's going to be a window when people will decide what direction to go. It'll be determined by outside events, by the personalities that occupy those positions, and by the treatment they receive both from the press and the public, of the honeymoon period.

  Ted Gup

  People, Personality, Events

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I wonder if politicians know less about the land, now that they campaign by air.

  Andre Dubus

  Land, Campaigns, Wonder

  Andre Dubus (2010). “Broken Vessels: Essays”, p.33, Open Road Media

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• There's a moment on the arch of a jump, when you are neither rising nor falling. All you can see is the sky. All you can feel is the air and all you can hear is your heartbeat. That is all you are. Muscle and motion. It's called the deadpoint. I live for that.

  Rhianna Pratchett

  Fall, Sky, Rising

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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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• 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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• Everything that breathes, breathes by air and cannot live without air; similarly all reasonable free creatures live by the Holy Spirit, as though by air, and cannot live without Him. "Every soul is quickened by the Holy Spirit." Recognise that the Holy Spirit stands in the same relation to your soul as air stands in relation to your body.

  John of Kronstadt

  Soul, Body, Spirit

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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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• There is a peacefulness, an air of reflection, about a rocking-chair that attaches to no other moving object.

  Wallis Simpson

  Moving, Reflection, Furniture

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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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• We are able to walk on air, but only as long as our illusion supports us.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Long, Support, Able

  E.L. Doctorow (2010). “The Book of Daniel: A Novel”, p.287, Random House

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• I support special forces. I support trainers. I support the air campaign. And I think we're making some progress. I want to continue to intensify that, and that's exactly what the president is doing.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Support, Special

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

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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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• Man needs air, man needs water, man needs food and man needs adventure also! Adventure is a medicine for the infinite boredom.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Adventure, Men, Medicine

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• No man is disbeliever! Everyone is believer! All men believe in something! If a man does not believe in God, He is a believer too, because he simply believes that God does not exist! Don't give yourself airs just because you believe in something since everyman believes in something! Always be humble!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Believe, Humble, Men

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• Join with the Earth and each other, to bring new life to the land, to restore the waters, to refresh the air, to renew the forests, to care for the plants, to protect the creatures, to celebrate the seas, to rejoice in the sunlight, to sing the song of the stars, to recall our destiny, to renew our spirits, to reinvigorate our bodies, to recreate the human community, to promote justice and peace, to love our children and love one another, to join together as many and diverse expressions of one loving mystery, for the healing of the Earth and the renewal of all life.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Song, Stars, Children

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• But the air's so appetizin'; and the landscape through the haze Of a crisp and sunny morning of the airly autumn days Is a pictur' that no painter has the colorin' to mock-When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.

  James Whitcomb Riley

  Morning, Autumn, Frost

  James Whitcomb Riley (1994). “Little Orphant Annie and Other Poems”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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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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