Quotes About Air

There was mist in the nighttime air, like a note on a calendar. The end of summer was coming. Fall was on its way.

I felt laden. Air itself has weight and mass, and Kansas had the most air of anywhere I'd ever been.

curtseying as you're falling through the air! Do you think you could manage it?) 'And what an ignorant little girl

Duchess's knee, while plates and dishes crashed around it--once more the shriek of the Gryphon, the squeaking of the Lizard's slate-pencil, and the choking of the suppressed guinea-pigs, filled the air, mixed up with the

When it comes to basic survival, you want to remember the rule of threes: You can go three minutes without air, three hours without shelter, three days without water, and three weeks without food. Prioritize accordingly.

The nonchalance and dolce-far-niente air of nature and society hint at infinite periods in the progress of mankind.

In the good times of Dada, we detested polished works, the distracted air of spiritual struggle, the titans, and we rejected them with all out being.

There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.

Silence, silence.' All the air of the fourteenth floor was sibilant with the categorical imperative. Fifty

only the rustle of those colours waving in the air, impenetrable, lighter than nothingness

there's a sense of incomprehensible apocalypse in the air—we all feel it—and there's a rumor going around: the barbarians are coming.

Isabel saw the intimacy of the gestures and felt immediately empty, a sensation so physical and so overwhelming that she felt for a moment that she might stop breathing, being empty of air

He felt the touch of cool air wafted out from the interior of the church—the feeble breath of a dying building.

It will be good for them to get out of London and get some country air. All those people in London breathing the air in and out; just think of it, Emma. Just think of all that breathing going on in London—it's a wonder there's any air left for the rest of us.

Angus turned to Domenica. This view always makes me feel sad. I don't know why, but it does. He drew in his breath, savouring the freshness of the air. Freshly mown grass was upon it, and the smell of lavender, too, from Elspeth's kitchen garden. Well, perhaps not sad--more wistful, perhaps, which is one notch below actual sadness.

And they both had the land about them; the sky that went on forever, it seemed, and was filled with sun and with the air that they all needed, that the cattle needed, that the animals in the Kalahari needed--there was plenty of that; they had Botswana. So everybody had the things that mattered, when you came to think of it...

A large bird, a buzzard perhaps, was circling on high on a current of air, a tiny, soaring point of black, looking for food, of course, as all of us did, in one way or another.

It's the centuries, Scarlett darling. All the life lived there, all the joy and all the sorrow, all the feasts and battles, they're in the air around and the land beneath you. It's time, years beyond our counting weighing without weight on the earth. You cannot see it or smell it or hear it or touch it, but you feel it brushing your skin and speaking without sound. Time. And mystery.

There might be some residue in my mouth, but if I can breathe from my nasal passage, the air won't come from my mouth or my diaphragm.

The days were lengthening. A wet primrose light lay over Wells Road. The lamps were like jewels, pale but piercingly bright. The air... fresh and mild.

Ah, Brynn," Vercleese boomed at one tall, extremely thin man with a dreamy air about him and a face dusted with fine white flour. "How's the bread business?" The man pulled himself from whatever reverie gripped him and smiled wanly. "Rising, Sir Vercleese, always rising." Vercleese

Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all!

Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.

No food or drug will ever do for you what a fresh supply of oxygen will.