Quotes About Air

Most pillows are air supported; the air goes out of them, and then your cervical nerves get bent.

Flying was great. You have to think fast. You have to develop intuition about the physics of air moving quickly over a surface.

The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love.

spring rustling in the air, like a paper bag blowing along a concrete sidewalk.

All this stuff was like air: essential and expected, missed only when taken away.

Hershel Blau, son of the Chasidic wandering preacher, was not yet so distant from his father's world that he didn't know deep in his soul the yearning to fly. What is a Chasid's dance but one long, sustained attempt to arch away into suspended ascension, beyond laws of bodies, a thing of air and light and fire? (p. 261)

I find that this always happens when I try to interrupt Slavs who are quarreling. They draw all the energy out of the air by the passion of their debate, so that anything outside its orbit can only flutter trivially.

I felt afraid that the curtain between worlds was not sufficient. Air blew things in and away and water exiled its creatures onto dry land and rushed away from them. It seemed to be the nature of water and air, to be random, heartless.

For, how else to seize such an instant? How to shout out into the empty air just the right words, and on cue? Frame a moment to last a lifetime?

Incessant junk rhythm music thrashed the air as if this was the ventricle of some massive heart on tetrameth.

In the heavy air of a morning that foretells a blazing afternoon, these absurdist dreams hover, like the musk of an animal that passed the house before dawn. Lethargy, she thinks.

Costa Gavras, the most totally propagandistic director ever to breathe the air.

Suddenly you began to sob. It was an unnerving sound, like air escaping from a faucet when the water stops.

She had what the Councillor knew, in the technical language of the ballet, as ballon, a lightness that is not only the negation of weight, but which actually seems to carry upwards and make for flight, and which is rarely found in thin dancers - as if the matter itself had here become lighter than air, so that the more there is of it the better it works.

Some women -- the good ones -- are like a breath of fresh air, amusing and different and invigorating. The trouble is that it is damnably difficult to capture air and hold it for any length of time.

That much took no Force techniques to achieve, because a confident air of purpose often opened more doors than an ID pass. He

The smell of fresh air made Kate's eyes sting. She looked up. The pole lights were on. The sun was sinking like a stone. Maggie asked, "Where's your car parked?

For it is a dangerous book, a book filled with the apocalyptic air of judgement.

Ma curiosité est insatiable, je vampirise l'air du temps.

He spun in clear air, weightless again but traveling too fast to breathe the air that tore past his lips. As his vision darkened he turned and saw bike number two impact the side of the battleship, crumpling its hull and spreading a mushroom of flame that lit a name painted on the metal hull: Arrogance.

It was just as well the baby was strapped into his high chair, because every so often he would suddenly fling out his arms and legs and try to launch himself into the air like a suicidal starfish.

There was a strangeness in the shimmering air, a sense of imminence that made Ursula's chest feel full, as if her heart was growing. It was a kind of high holiness—she could think of no other way of describing it. Perhaps it was the future, she thought, coming nearer all the time.

The man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.

Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended.