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Quotes About Air

There's a sweet sound," he said, slashing at the air. "Flap closer, Snow. I mean to make your feathers fly.
~ George R.R. Martin
The pale sword came shivering through the air
~ George R.R. Martin
When the armorer opened the door, the blast of hot air that came through made Ned feel as though he were walking into a dragon's mouth. Inside, a forge blazed in each corner,
~ George R.R. Martin
Society is like the air; necessary to breathe, but insufficient to live on.
~ George Santayana
Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
~ Georges Bernanos
The warm air smelled of the day's sunshine, of dew, and of a hundred aromatic leaf scents.
~ Gerald Durrell
Here Sally's hooves crushed the herbs underfoot and the warm air became redolent with the scent of sage and thyme.
~ Gerald Durrell
What a wine … like the blood of a dragon and as smooth as a fish … What a wine! When I came back the air was full of sleep, so here I am.
~ Gerald Durrell
fresh air down inta the mine. When the doors throughout the mine are shut, the air be trapped an' forced inta the side chutes an' minin' chambers. That's why ya be called trappers. Yur job is ta open the doors when a coal car approaches, then shut 'em agin." "Oh." David knew
~ Gerald N. Lund
It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown.
~ Diana Cooper
Who walketh upon the wings of the wind.
~ Bible
Peabody pursed her lips. You're really mean today. Yes. Yes, I am. Eve took a deep gulp of hideous air, and smiled. I feel good about that.
~ J.D. Robb
She could smell death there. No matter what was used to eradicate it, the sulky stink of it slid through cracks, around doorways, and it tainted the air with the grinning reminder of mortality.
~ J.D. Robb
Also the air: the air is full of sighs and cries. These are never lost: if you listen carefully, with a sympathetic ear, you can hear them echoing forever within the second sphere.
~ J.M. Coetzee
El pasado es historia, y ¿qué es la historia salvo un relato hecho de aire que nos contamos a nosotros mismos?
~ J.M. Coetzee
I'm losing air over here, you know," Lassiter bitched. "My inflatable is deflating." V cursed. "That's because it doesn't want to be around you any more than we do.
~ J.R. Ward
The cabin was warm, thanks to her, a little trick of molecular agitation of the air that was enhanced by her being pissed off. The heat she generated was not cheery like that from a fire however—more like the kind of hot flash you got along with a case of the shits.
~ J.R. Ward
All that Canada air coming south and turning us into Popsicles." She
~ J.R. Ward
Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
~ Jack Benny
The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual life is. All these people thinking they're hardheaded materialistic practical types, they don't know shit about matter, their heads are full of dreamy ideas and notions.
~ Jack Kerouac
My mind to me a kingdom is. That's another way of saying that you live up in the air. But you come back to earth at meal-time, I am sure, or when an earthquake happens along.
~ Jack London
The capsules of the geranium furnish admirable barometers. Fasten the beard, when fully ripe, upon a stand, and it will twist itself or untwist, according as the air is moist or dry.
~ Dorothea Dix
This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it.
~ Adelbert von Chamisso
Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air?
~ John Milton