Quotes about air
airplane people economist
When I meet people on airplanes and they find out I'm an economist, they usually ask about stock tips. Emily Oster
air prairie colour
On the prairie one can see the colour of the air. Emily Murphy
air space tiny
One very great annoyance in open air gatherings is cigar smoke when blown directly in one's face or worse yet the smoke from a smouldering cigar. It is almost worthy of a study in air currents to discover why with plenty of space all around, a tiny column of smoke will make straight for the nostrils of the very one most nauseated by it! Emily Post
airplane perfect paper-airplanes
....a perfect paper airplane. Ellen Hopkins
air hands fire
Astonishingly, at some point, a sputtering torch was thrust into her hands. Alma did not see who gave it to her. She had never before been entrusted with fire. The torch spit sparks and sent chunks of flaming tar spinning into the air behind her as she bolted across the cosmos-the only body in the heavens who was not held to a strict elliptical path. Nobody stopped her. She was a comet. She did not know that she was not flying. Elizabeth Gilbert
airports waiting nervous
With each reunion (we) had to learn each other all over again. There was always that nervous moment at the airport when I would stand there waiting for him to arrive, wondering, Will I still know him? Will he still know me?
airports littles misery
As anyone who has ever fallen foul of an airport, a conventional hospital or a bad restaurant knows, misery is made up of little things ... Katharine Whitehorn
airplane thinking down-and
I didn't really because I know myself well enough to know that if I actually sit down and think about sort of I can spook myself out like anyone, you know? It's sort of like you've got to sort of jump out of the airplane when you're skydiving. If you spend 20 minutes sitting on the lip you probably won't do it. Justin Theroux
air atmosphere paper
The atmosphere of officialdom would kill anything that breathes the air of human endeavour, would extinguish hope and fear alike in the supremacy of paper and ink. Joseph Conrad
air sea sky
... the open sky sits upon our senses like a sapphire crown - the Air is our robe of state - the Earth is our throne, and the Sea a mighty minstrel playing before it. John Keats
air softness
The air is all softness.
air lines facts
Seaboard Air Line, which was thought by numerous innocents to provide a foothold in aviation, was another favorite, although, in fact, it was a railroad. John Kenneth Galbraith
air cities long
The family which takes it mauve and cerise, air conditioned, power-steered, and power braked automobile out for a tour passes through cities that are badly paved, made hideous by litter, blighted buildings, billboards, and posts for wires that should long since have been put underground.
air balls public-opinion
According to the experience of all but the most accomplished jugglers, it is easier to keep one ball in the air than many.
air elements wealth
I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there, like air or food, or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it. John D. Rockefeller
air water leaving
I’ve blamed her for all of this, for leaving, for ruining me. And maybe that was the seed of it, but from that one little seed grew this tumor of a flowering plant. And I’m the one who nurtures it. I water it. I care for it.I nibble from its poison berries. I let it wrap around my neck, choking the air right out of me. I’ve done that. All by myself. All to myself. Gayle Forman
airplane glue looks
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue. Lloyd Bridges
air years cities
Air pollution is a threat to health, especially of older persons. It contributes significantly to the rising rates of chronic respiratory ailments. It stains our cities and towns with ugliness, soiling and corroding whatever it touches. Its damage extends to our forests and farmlands as well. The economic toll for our neglect amounts to billions of dollars each year. Lyndon B. Johnson
air years two
I'll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years. [Touting his underlying intentions for the "Great Society" programs, LBJ confided with two like-minded governors on Air Force One]
air ideas rights
The idea of equal rights was in the air. Lucy Stone
air smell space
The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. The effect that they make in space is as bound up with them as might be their colour or smell ... Therefore the painter must be as concerned with the air surrounding his subject as with the subject itself. It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out. Lucian Freud
airplane tanks aspiration
Moderate aspirations lead to a contended life. I don't have to buy the airplane and I can't drive the tank!! Mahesh Babu
air enjoy-life grace
Like the air, God's Grace is available to us. It is permeating every fibre of Being and the Being of the entire universe. When we take our attention to that Being, finer than the finest, then we establish ourselves on the level of God's Grace. Immediately we just enjoy. Life is Bliss! Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
air littles castles
I have built little. But, I have built many castles in the air. Frei Otto
air house degrees
[The doctrine of air] I was led into in consequence of inhabiting a house adjoining to a public brewery, where I at first amused myself with making experiments on the fixed air [carbon dioxide] which I found ready made in the process of fermentation . When I removed from that house I was under the necessity of making the fixed air for myself; and one experiment leading to another, as I have distinctly and faithfully noted in my various publications on the subject, I by degrees contrived a convenient apparatus for the purpose, but of the cheapest kind. Joseph Priestley
air breathing two
The feeling of it to my lungs was not sensibly different from that of common air; but I fancied that my breast felt peculiarly light and easy for some time afterwards. Who can tell but that, in time, this pure air may become a fashionable article in luxury. Hitherto only two mice and myself have had the privilege of breathing it.
air pilates vacuums
You must squeeze every atom of impure air from lungs until they are almost as free of air as a vacuum. Joseph Pilates
air grace add
In portraits, the grace and, we may add, the likeness consists more in taking the general air than in observing the exact similitude of every feature. Joshua Reynolds
air echoes gossip
Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of "echo,"--babbling gossips of the air. Josh Billings
airplane psychology bus
Psychology is a bus that accompanies an airplane. Karl Kraus
air people brain
Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it.
air way tvs
I am like a TV antenna. I catch everything that is in the air, and then I do it my way. Karl Lagerfeld
air water force-of-will
The dizzy rapture of starving. The power of needing nothing. By force of will I make myself the impossible sprite who lives on air, on water, on purity. Kathryn Harrison