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Quotes About Air

Look up at the miracle of the falling snow,—the air a dizzy maze of whirling, eddying flakes, noiselessly transforming the world, the exquisite crystals dropping in ditch and gutter, and disguising in the same suit of spotless livery all objects upon which they fall.
~ John Burroughs
All sounds are sharper in winter; the air transmits better. At night I hear more distinctly the steady roar of the North Mountain. In summer it is a sort of complacent purr, as the breezes stroke down its sides; but in winter always the same low, sullen growl.
~ John Burroughs
It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
~ John Burroughs
In the old house, the past hung in the air like motes of dust waiting to be illuminated by the sharp rays of memory
~ John Connolly
The room stank like the scene of a gunfight, so I opened the window and let the hot New Orleans air slip heavily into the room like a clumsy burglar.
~ John Connolly
Relate to softness of heart like the air that you need to breathe. It's your living connection to goodness. Open your heart and it lives.
~ John de Ruiter
Everything was simple, physical, painful, exalting. The world consisted of the four elements - land and water, firepower and distancing air.
~ Susan Sontag
you cannot operate on the sea during war unless you have command of the sea, the air above it, and the depths beneath it.
~ Edward L. Beach
A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom -- it's gone.
~ Edward R. Murrow
Love only breathes when its visibility waves itself. However, love is silence, or it sounds; it airs its fragrance.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
It was one of those nights when the air is blood-temperature and it's impossible to tell where you leave off and it begins.
~ Elaine Dundy
We had dry martinis; great wing-shaped glasses of perfumed fire, tangy as the early morning air.
~ Elaine Dundy
Spring was ravishing around town, bursting and budding and blooming. It was one of those nights when the air is blood-temperature and it's impossible to tell where you leave off and it begins.
~ Elaine Dundy
Usefulness, whatever form it may take, is the price we should pay for the air we breathe and the food we eat and the privilege of being alive.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
But what my less easily verbalized emotions recorded under the word Caserta was a spinning nausea, vertigo, and a lack of air.
~ Elena Ferrante
forma de escuadra y un jardín lleno de plantas y de polvo. Allí no corre el tiempo: el aire quedó inmóvil después de tantas lágrimas.
~ Elena Garro
Better on ground with a mentally sound person who stays often in solitude than be found around a self-proclaimed master who lives in air of being important and spends time usually in air-conditioned environment and remains surrounded often by many dumb or selfish people.
~ Anuj Somany
The pollution is more in the majority of population's mind than that taken together on air, water and land.
~ Anuj Somany
Love is fragile and rare and cannot live long in open air.
~ Ari Berk
Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.
~ Arne Jacobsen
I think I have experience in rowing, and that has given me some ability to go about racing. I'm lucky genetically. I have a good VO2 max - I can hold a lot of air in my lungs - and that definitely helps.
~ Bryan Volpenhein
A cake overpopulated with air is due to either too much chemical raising agent, an over zealous whisker, or a yeasted dough/batter that has had too long a rising stage.
~ John Whaite
For me, clean fuels translates into cleaner air for Oregonians. I think that's a good thing.
~ Kate Brown
How long the party lasted Forrester did not know. He remembered a long harangue in which the drunken ballet dancer was trying to explain to him that the accent was Martian, not German; something to do with six-hundred-millibar oxyhelium air, which got them out of the habit of hearing certain frequencies.
~ Frederik Pohl