Famous Quotes & Sayings

Plato

Music is to the mind as air is to the body...

Philip Larkin

And immediately Rather than words comes the thought of high windows: The sun-comprehending glass, And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless.

Martin Schulz

It was a Russian airplane that was bombed over the Sinai Peninsula. When the Russians conduct air strikes on IS, they are doing so because they too are threatened by terror.

Lech Walesa

He who once became aware of the power of Solidarity and who breathed the air of freedom will not be crushed.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Ultimately what I'll do next is up in the air for me.

Pharrell Williams

It can't be all you. Just like you need air to fly a kite. It's not the kite. It's the air.

Pharrell Williams

So when I'm playing, I'm sort of painting a feeling in the air.

Pharrell Williams

You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard.

Paulo Coelho

Heaven and Earth are meeting in a storm that, when it's over, will leave the air purer and the leaves fertile, but before that happens, houses will be destroyed, centuries- old trees will topple, paradises will be flooded.

Marlene Dietrich

The air and the sky seem to have been freshly washed and polished, and the people too.

Megyn Kelly

The interesting thing is it's outside the statute of limitations for a civil suit by Leeds. It's actually is not outside of the statute of limitations under the criminal side. Because it occurred on an airplane and federal law doesn't have a statute of limitations I know off for that particular offense.

Max Lucado

You don't impress the officials at NASA with a paper airplane. You don't boast about your crayon sketches in the presence of Picasso. You don't claim equality with Einstein because you can write 'H20.' And you don't boast about your goodness in the presence of the Perfect.

Maurice Strong

Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, air-conditioning, and suburban housing - are not sustainable.

Maureen Johnson

I still have a whopping bad case of what you call scag magnetism. I thought i had gotten rid of it there, but it looks like scary guys still materialize from thin air in my presence. They are drawn to me. I am the North Pole, and they are the explorers of love.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

I miss that time. The cities back then, just after the forests died, were full of wonders, and you'd stumble on them--these princes of the air on common rooftops--the rivers that burst through the city streets so they ran like canals--the rabbits in parking garages--the deer foaling, nestled in Dumpsters like a Nativity.

Maya Rudolph

Because you want to keep an air of calm and cool.

Maya Angelou

People feel guilty. And guilt is stymieing. Guilt immobilizes. Guilt closes the air ducts and the veins, and makes people ignorant.

Maya Angelou

I have need of a friend. There is one and only one who will give the air from his failing lungs for my body's mend. And that one is my love.

Matt Salmon

I found the source of global warming is coming from the hot air coming out of Washington.

Mark Leibovich

The people who are doing really well and who are getting stopped in airports are the people who are going to say the more outrageous things and get on TV and state their opinion on a regular basis.

Michael K. Williams

It's weird, sometimes I still see myself as just starting out. I tend to forget how much I've been doing, but in the beginning it is about the hustle, being out there and doing the work. Nothing is going to come to you, you have to get out there and do the work, and I've been doing that. But sometimes it's good to take a break and let these things air out. Reflect and take it in.

Mel Tillis

I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away.

Mason Cooley

Old among the young, poor among the rich, I adopt an air of indefinable superiority.

Mark Ruffalo

The abundance that is offered to us by leaving behind the fossil fuel paradigm is very promising for the world and the people of the world. We will have cleaner air, water, and food; we will have more resources to share with our people. There will be more economic freedom because people will be able to harvest their own energy.

Marge Piercy

Your anger was a climate I inhabited like a desert in a dry frigid weather of high thin air and ivory sun, sand dunes the wind lifted into stinging clouds that blinded and choked me where the only ice was in the blood.

Ted Olson

I wanted it not to be true. I wanted it not to be her plane. I wanted it - I wanted, if it was her plane, to have somehow survived because she was in the back of the airplane. But we know that doesn't happen, not with those sorts of things.

Ted Olson

She said it had been hijacked shortly after takeoff. By this time, the plane had been in the air - again, I'm presuming that it took off on time - for over an hour.

Ted Cruz

You would carpet bomb where ISIS is, not a city, but the location of the troops. You use air power directed - and you have embedded special forces to direction the air power. But the object isn't to level a city. The object is to kill the ISIS terrorists.

Theodore Bikel

The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.

Terry Riley

I had already done Rainbow in Curved Air and had a big record on CBS. I was launched to have a long career and then I just dropped out and went to India.

Margaret Mitchell

She couldn't survey the wreck of the world with an air of casual unconcern.

Margaret Mead

The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.

Margaret Heffernan

Instead, we have found ourselves gasping for air in a sea of corruption, dysfunction, environmental degradation, waste, disenchantment and inequality—and the harder we compete, the more unequal we become.