Quotes About Air

I maintain that when I finally retire from my career in music, I will go and live back in Wales - when I am an old person, if I live to be an old person. The water I miss, and the air, there's something different about it. And I miss the simple life.

There was something aggressively masculine about Toloose . . . perhaps it was the look in his eye. Or the way he was holding his billiard cue. It was amazing the way a man in an embroidered coat could take on the air of a dockworker.

She leaped away from Villiers the moment the note sounded in the air, sadness falling from her like a discarded cloak.

Pero volvamos al aire y la luz de la primavera, que deberían ser los únicos protagonistas. Se trataba de una luz incomprensible. Siendo así que la adolescencia consiste en ese aire que no es posible explicarse. Podría escribirse en esa luz (ya que no es posible escribir sobre esa luz), conseguir que la suave carne de pomelo de esa luz quedase inscrita, en cierto modo «pensada». Aún está por ver si se puede, si yo puedo.

Their color slowly faded from out of the flowers; but their scent lingered to honey the air he breathed.

Something like lust, something like hatred, seems to hover in the air along the country roads, shifting like mist or steam, but always there, gripping the city streets like fog, making every corner a dangerous corner.

Music is at once a science and an art. It is rooted in physics and mathematics, hence it is a science; inspiration makes it an art, unconsciously utilizing the theorems of science. It is founded in physics by the very nature of the matter it works on. Sound is air in motion. The air is formed of constituents which, in us, no doubt, meet with analogous elements that respond to them, sympathize, and magnify them by the power of the mind.

She could warm up the air, and then gently blow it out, just like a lily. She smelled of a syrup made of boiled-down despair.

I felt like I'd discovered the source of his peculiarly translucent darkness, the air of loneliness and heaviness that hung around him wherever he went.

When she reached the house the sun had turned the morning air into a shimmering mirage of heat and dust devils. Hannah wished the rains had not finished so early. The land was already parched, stubbled with broken stalks of bleached grass.

Among houseplants, the most efficient air purifiers are heavy transpirers, or species that cycle a lot of water from roots to leaves, such as palms, rubber plants, and corn plants (Dracaena). However, any green plant deserves some credit for making indoor air better for people to breathe.

Nothing can stop an enemy from picking wireless messages out of the free air - and nothing did.

Do you remember that little vent that cars used to have on the front windows, so on coolish days you could let a little fresh air in without causing a big draft? WHO THE HELL TOOK THAT LITTLE VENT AWAY?

This is what she really thought of him; he was an engineer, not an artist. And yet, there was art in his work, in the soar of a structure and the arch of a bridge, in every framework of light and air and iron.

We actually all care about the environment, and most people believe in climate change and believe that mankind has something to do with that - how much is scientifically debatable, but there is some effect and we all have an interest in reducing carbon emissions, just having cleaner air, cleaner oceans. It's something we can get behind.

America is a global leader on clean air progress and carbon dioxide reductions, and we are the envy of the world when it comes to clean water.

The word 'eavesdropper' originally referred to people who, under the pretence of taking in some fresh air, would stand under the 'eavesdrip' of their house - from which the collected raindrops would fall - in the hopes of catching any juicy tid-bits of information that might come their way from their neighbour's property.

When I do a concert and people put their hands in the air, they're doing it on their own.

No matter how rich you are, you can't get healthy air.

Too often, the air conditioners we use to cool down also contribute to climate change - the very force that's fueling extreme heat.

Fans are essential in the California heat. The ones with movement keep the air flow active - I need that.

Thy beauty filleth the very air, Never saw I a woman so fair.

Tutti abbiamo coscienza che la vita è una parodia e che non ha un'interpretazione. Così il piombo è la parodia dell'oro. L'aria la parodia dell'acqua. Il cervello è la parodia dell'equatore. Il coito è la parodia del delitto.

From outside the open window came a gust of cool air. The children snuggled deeper under the fluffy blankets that Aunt Judy had set out for them, and one by one they drifted asleep.