Quotes about air
air sky smell
The hostility of this landscape teaches me how to be quiet and unobtrusive, how to find grace among spiders with a poisonous bite. I sat on a lone boulder in the midst of the curlews. By now, they had grown accustomed to me. This too, I found encouraging-that in the face of stressful intrusions, we can eventually settle in. One begins to almost trust the intruder as a presence that demands greater intent toward life. On a day like today when the air is dry and smells of salt, I have found my open space, my solitude, and sky. And I have found the birds who require it. Terry Tempest Williams
air sound loud
It was so loud and so deep, it wasn't really sound at all, just something that turned the air hard and then hit you with it. Terry Pratchett
air sunrise pollution
There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises. Terry Pratchett
air facts aliens
Aliens don't get stuck in air ducts. It's practically a well-known fact. Terry Pratchett
airplane grandfather pilots
My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes. Temple Grandin
airplane sky flying
If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky. Ted Danson
air people needs
People need their history like they need air and food. Randall Robinson
air roots yield
The earth is a machine which yields almost gratuitous service to every application of intellect. Every plant is a manufacturer of soil. In the stomach of the plant development begins. The tree can draw on the whole air, the whole earth, on all the rolling main. The plant is all suction-pipe,--imbibing from the ground by its root, from the air by its leaves, with all its might. Ralph Waldo Emerson
air agriculture clouds
Who are the farmer's servants? ... Geology and Chemistry, the quarry of the air, the water of the brook, the lightning of the cloud, the castings of the worm, the plough of the frost. Ralph Waldo Emerson
air breathing mountain
I feel like I'm on top of the world. Honestly, I feel like I've climbed a very giant mountain, and I'm just standing right on top with my arms wide open and breathing rarified air. Shania Twain
airplane one-day why-not
One day, someone said to me, 'Do you want to go jump out of an airplane?' I felt like I had nothing to lose anymore, so I said, 'Why not?' And every day since then, I ask myself that question. Shania Twain
air transformation uncertain
We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not. Sean Lennon
air justice world
When we inhale, the air comes into the inner world. When we exhale, the air goes out to the outer world. The inner world is limitless, and the outer world is also limitless. We say "inner world" or "outer world" but actually, There is just one whole world. Shunryu Suzuki
air years weather
Generally the first week in September brings the hottest weather of the year, and this was no exception. Overhead the fans turned slow, their paddle blades stirring the air up close to the ceiling but nowheres else... Shelby Foote
air way poor
Music should be poor. Music should be with out air conditioning. That's just the way it is. Shelby Lynne
air people house
Odors can be highly transitory, depending on the air currents. If this is happening in your house, ask if there are any possessions of that deceased loved one still around. If it happens elsewhere, consider just how many millions of people use the same perfume or smoke the same brand of cigar as someone you knew. Seth Shostak
airports buying sunglasses
Being stuck in airports, you always end up buying perfume and sunglasses. Lexa Doig
air cities challenges
Air pollution is my biggest concern right now. Maybe because I live in Beijing, and in this city we have such severe challenges due to bad air quality. It has affected our daily lives and health. I do not go outdoors because of it. I desperately hope that we can improve the current situation. Li Bingbing
air trying tolls
St. Louis is more humid. But after a while, the heat started taking a toll on us, so we started rotating a little more up front trying to stay fresh out here. Leonard Little
air mexico funny-political
In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well. Len Deighton
air squares pillars
Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were. Lawrence Durrell
air work-out pilots
Now that I know what goes into making a pilot, keeping it on the air, and keeping your fans, I'm at a point now where I do a pilot and just hope for the best. If it doesn't work out, it doesn't work out. Laura Prepon
airplane men slave-ships
And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of the men and women who built here the nation that saved the world. Marco Rubio
airplane giving important
The triad is our ability of the United States to conduct nuclear attacks using airplanes, using missiles launched from silos or from the ground, and also from our nuclear subs' ability to attack. And it's important - all three of them are critical. It gives us the ability at deterrence. Marco Rubio
air soul atheism
If souls continue to exist, how does the air contain them from eternity? Marcus Aurelius
air legs path
I will march on in the path of nature till my legs sink under me, and then I shall be at rest, and expire into that air which has given me my daily breath. Marcus Aurelius
air wickedness pestilence
The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious than that of a giddy libertine or drunken ravisher, not only because it extends its effects wider, as a pestilence that taints the air is more destructive than poison infused in a draught, but because it is committed with cool deliberation. Samuel Johnson
air soldier ships
A ship is worse than a gaol. There is, in a gaol, better air, better company, better conveniency of every kind; and a ship has the additional disadvantage of of being in danger. Samuel Johnson
air goal energy
I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy. Sam Wyly
airplane years
I've owned about 18 airplanes over the years, and I've never bought one of them new. Sam Walton
air diction want
You don't want a diction gathered from the newspapers, caught from the air, common and unsuggestive; but you want one whose every word is full-freighted with suggestion and association, with beauty and power. Rufus Choate
airports ships lucky
I've never been lucky. The day my ship came in, I was at the airport. Rodney Dangerfield
airplane ears fingers
Get that finger out of your ear! You don't know where that finger's been! Robert Stack