Breathing Quotes - Page 33

• It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people.

  Christopher Hampton

  Real, People, Study

  "My week: Christopher Hampton" by Christopher Hampton, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2009.

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• Now that I have kids, I'm probably more overprotective than I've ever been. My wife's nickname for me is "red alert." I sometimes check just to see if the kids are breathing. But I try not to be a helicopter parent.

  Matt Damon

  Kids, Wife, Parent

  "Matt Damon Reveals His Insecurities". Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com. September 17, 2011.

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• I will say a lot of dancers do such beautiful things for their body and then they smoke a cigarette. I've never been a smoker, but I realized after taking yoga . . . in ballet you're not encouraged to do a lot of breathing. I think in a weird way, a lot of dancers find relief in actually breathing.

  Elizabeth Berkley

  Beautiful, Yoga, Thinking

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• Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We want their trousers tied round their middle: steady lending growth; particularly to productive British business, especially small scale enterprise.

  Vince Cable

  Men, Growth, Ankles

  "Vince Cable and the pants of doom" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2011.

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• I live in L.A. - I love L.A., first off - but I didn't realize how much better the air quality was in Vancouver until I went back to L.A. for a weekend and I literally felt like I was breathing fire.

  Emma Bell

  Weekend, Fire, Air

  "Emma Bell and Nicholas D’Agosto On Set Interview FINAL DESTINATION 5". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. July 12, 2011.

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• These changes-the more rapid pulse, the deeper breathing, the increase of sugar in the blood, the secretion from the adrenal glands-were very diverse and seemed unrelated. Then, one wakeful night, after a considerable collection of these changes had been disclosed, the idea flashed through my mind that they could be nicely integrated if conceived as bodily preparations for supreme effort in flight or in fighting. Further investigation added to the collection and confirmed the general scheme suggested by the hunch.

  Walter Bradford Cannon

  Fighting, Science, Night

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• The point is to get a good rhythm, to make it mindless, almost as a daydream. To walk like breathing. To make it what the body wants, what the air wants, what time wants.

  Susan Sontag

  Air, Body, Want

  Susan Sontag (1992). “The Volcano Lover”

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• Nothing replaces being in the same room, face to face, breathing the same air and reading and feeling each other's micro-expressions.

  Peter Guber

  Reading, Air, Expression

  "How to Harness the Power of Storytelling for Your Small Business". Interview with Melinda Emerson, succeedasyourownboss.com. November 21, 2012.

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• Get your product in front of actual, living, breathing strangers. Your college roommate's approval does not mean there's market demand.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Mean, College, Doe

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• Now the old boy may be barely breathing, but the heart of rock and roll is still beating.

  Huey Lewis

  Heart, Boys, Rocks

  Song: The Heart Of Rock and Roll

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• My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time of her death, because none of us thought to look at a clock for a while after she stopped breathing.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Mother, Cancer, Three

  Meghan O'Rourke (2011). “The Long Goodbye: A Memoir”, p.14, Penguin

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• As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.

  Criss Jami

  Ambition, New Beginnings, Eye

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.82, Criss Jami

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• Breathing can and should bring you into a ready-to-act condition instantly.

  Vladimir Vasiliev

  Should, Ready, Conditions

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• Empires rise and fall like the abdomen of God. It's just the universe breathing.

  Wes Nisker

  Fall, History, Empires

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• What we are expecting, after 2012, is a one hundred more times, more harmonious, Utopian world, where things like, time travel, levitation, instant telepathy, instant healing, telekinesis are as common and as everyday, as breathing. And I look forward to that time ...I see a very, very positive future coming.

  David Wilcock

  Healing, Everyday, Looks

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• I would like you to show me, if you can, where the line can be drawn between an organism and it's environment. The environment is in you. It's passing through you. You're breathing it in and out. You and every other creature.

  Wendell Berry

  Lines, Environment, Like You

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• It's a morbid observation, but if every one on earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenhouse effect would no longer be a problem.

  Jerry Adler

  Earth, Problem, Morbid

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• Without intention, all these postures, these breathing practices, meditations, and the like can become little more than ineffectual gestures. When animated by intention, however, the simplest movement, the briefest meditation, and the contents of one breath cycle are made potent.

  Donna Farhi

  Yoga, Practice, Meditation

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• A simple yet profound way to create a healthy body, a stress-free mind, and a peaceful sense of well-being.

  Aaron Hoopes

  Peace, Stress, Simple

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• We can learn to trust ourselves by inquiring within. To practice doing this, sit quietly, close your eyes, and for a minute focus your attention on your breathing. Gently visualize your inner wisdom as a graceful butterfly. Admire her beauty, and encourage your butterfly to sit on your shoulder and whisper her wisdom in your ear. Be still and listen.

  Sue Thoele

  Butterfly, Eye, Reflection

  Sue Patton Thoele (2003). “The Woman's Book of Courage: Meditations for Empowerment and Peace of Mind”, p.137, Conari Press

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• How do you deal with meditating when you stop breathing? The trick is to meditate just a little higher and you won't even know that you're not breathing.

  Frederick Lenz

  Littles, Tricks, Deals

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• I have always used the burqa because men are using the burqa in the name of culture and religion to take freedom from women. Women are alive, they have their own wishes and desires, but all the time they have to sacrifice that. They are a kind of skeleton, which doesn't have muscles. They're just breathing, like a kind of puppet that barely exists. If women spoke for their rights, they were beaten by their husbands. So they don't have a voice. They lose their voices and their wishes and their happiness.

  Malina Suliman

  Husband, Sacrifice, Men

  "Afghan graffiti artist risks her life to challenge the burqa under the Taliban". Interview with Katie Booth, womenintheworld.com. May 21, 2015.

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• When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.

  Nathan Fillion

  Character, People, Moments

  "Nathan Fillion Interview CASTLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 19, 2010.

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• In Hollywood, lying is something that people do like breathing.

  Neil Gaiman

  Lying, People, Hollywood

  "Stardust - Matthew Vaughn and Neil Gaiman interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Moving, Heart, Sleep

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