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Quotes About Air

Maybe where there's clarity of air, there's clarity of thought.
~ Chet Huntley
I don't get claustrophobic.
~ Ian Ziering
Access by kids to the Internet should be like kids breathing clean air.
~ Nicholas Negroponte
The coal industry is a huge industry when we're talking about polluting the environment, our air and our waterways.
~ Gloria Reuben
I'm a comedian who happens to be Latino. What's the difference? The difference is, my special will air on Comedy Central, not Telemundo.
~ Gabriel Iglesias
Even when I do commercials, I try to tell a story about the product. With music, I try to tell the story of the person's struggle for success. And I believe every word I say. I never read anything on the air I don't believe in. I think people sense that about me, and they respond to it.
~ Casey Kasem
Every soldier should learn survival on land, sea, and in the air.
~ Louis Zamperini
There is that stereotype of a nerd with the high pants and pocket protector and that kind of thing. That can sustain comedy for maybe a movie - hence the 'Revenge of the Nerds' franchise - but not for hopefully years on the air. It's a sight gag, not a story.
~ Johnny Galecki
The interval allowed was only five minutes, at the end of which I resumed the lecture; but so refreshing was the effects of the brief rest and, above all, the admission of pure air, that during the second hour the attention was as completely sustained as during the first.
~ George Combe
I don't know if the goal is necessarily to hit the ball in the air; I think when my swing is right it just happens on its own.
~ Buster Posey
Actual grace is constantly offered to us for the accomplishment of the duty of the present moment, just as air comes constantly into our lungs to permit us to breathe.
~ Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange
Friends, snow is awaiting snow, for a task to perform, simple and pure, at the boundary of earth and air.
~ Rene Char
I pick the prettiest part of the sky and I melt into the wing and then into the air, till I'm just soul on a sunbeam.
~ Richard Bach
my father often stopped to breathe in, for he had told me time and time again that trouble will not stop in a man whose lungs are filled with fresh air.
~ Richard Llewellyn
The fraction of an ounce of beechnut now weighs more than she does. But the soil weighs just what it did, minus an ounce or two. There's no other explanation: almost all the tree's mass has come from the very air.
~ Richard Powers
First there was nothing. Then there was everything. Then, in a park above a western city after dusk, the air is raining messages.
~ Richard Powers
The secret of life; plants eat light and air and water, and the stored energy goes on to make and do all things.
~ Richard Powers
Teaching is like photosynthesis: making food from air and light. It tilts the prospects for life a little.
~ Richard Powers
Teaching is like photosynthesis: making food from air and light. It tilts the prospects for life a little. For me, the best class sessions are right up there with lying in the sun, listening to bluegrass, or swimming in a mountain stream.
~ Richard Powers
EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY turns her into someone else. Patricia blooms like something southern-facing. The air of the sixties crackles as she crosses campus, a change in the weather, the smell of days lengthening, the scent of possibility breaking the cast of outdated thought, a clear wind rolling down from the hills.
~ Richard Powers
Redwoods flourish in fog, but they don't like salt air. They tend to appear in valleys that are just out of sight of the sea. In their relationship with the sea, redwoods are like cats that long to be stroked but are shy to the touch.
~ Richard Preston
he was pouring vinegar onto the hot grill, where it sputtered and foamed and hissed. The air was full of it for a few seconds, enough to get everyone at the counter teared up, but just as quickly it was gone, with an implicit promise that anything so intensely horrible would be design pass swiftly.
~ Richard Russo
Pale yellow sunshine fell through high windows and slashed the air.
~ Richard Wright
I went up to the cliff and sat and felt my heart thumping inside. I breathed the cold air and watched the moon climb higher until it, and all of the country below, was mine again.
~ Rick Bass