Quotes About Air

now the Great Fear's rolled round the world and washes over Newspaper Grey air

Sunflower poised against the sunset, crackly bleak and dusty with the smut and smog and smoke of olden locomotives in its eye— corolla of bleary spikes pushed down and broken like a battered crown, seeds fallen out of its face, soon-to-be-toothless mouth of sunny air, sunrays obliterated on its hairy head like a dried wire spiderweb, leaves stuck out like arms out of the stem, gestures from the sawdust root, broke pieces of plaster fallen out of the black twigs, a dead fly in its ear

She left WCF and stepped into the still, chilly air. She loved walking and didn't even mind the cold that much—though she still missed sunny, temperate So-Cal.

relinquished her hand to another admirer with a nattering air of reluctance, and as he moved

There is no place, it seems, free from the intrusion of Man, who stretches out his hand for everything, even that which is in the air.

AIR, n. A nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful Providence for the fattening of the poor.

The house seemed almost without smells at all, pleasant or foul, leaving me to wonder if the upper class existed on a different sort of air from the rest of the world, a breeze piped into their homes from above the clouds, so clean you had to pay for it.

Whenever he was asked what somebody had died of he'd reply (with immense gravity), Lack of breath.

Memories sharp enough to cut himself on - the smells, the sounds, the feel of the air on his skin, the desperate hope and mad anger.

She knew even before she opened her eyes that she was home—or not home, but in her woods at least. She knew they were her woods by the smell of pines and the quality of the air, a scrubbed, cool, clean sensation that she associated with the Merrimack River. She could hear the river, distantly, a gentle, soothing rush of sound that was really in no way like static.

Sounds could suggest shapes, painted a picture of the pocket of air in which they'd been given form

Le gomme dell'auto erano così lisce che si poteva vedere quasi l'aria nelle ruote.

It was a place where water brought together all elements. Water glittered with fire, water touched the banks of earth, water rippled with the touch of air. As for the fifth element, the Spirit that created all, it was as if the shape of the pool itself was a mark of Its Presence.

Padecer depresión y ansiedad consiste en un proceso por el que te conviertes en prisionero de tu ego y no dejas que entre el aire del exterior.

The air is crowded with birds -- beautiful, tender, intelligent birds -- to whom life is a song.

Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.

Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance and in life, to breathe deeply and to take in more air than we usually take in.

Fame, they tell you, is air; but without air there is no life for any; without fame there is none for the best.

Lies are like garbage that you can't throw away. They clutter your life, foul your air, and make living unbearable.

I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness

And of course she had studied the civilization that had immediately preceded her own - the civilization that had mistaken the functions of the system, and had used it for bringing people to things, instead of for bringing things to people. Those funny old days, when men went for change of air instead of changing the air in their rooms!

Those funny old days, when men went for change of air instead of changing the air in their rooms! And

The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.

Ah, good conversation — there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.