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Quotes About Air

The sermon is merely a presence, a distant drone among the humming and singing that the air is already full of, borne away on the fragrance that draws through the windows.
~ Wendell Berry
I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs.
~ Wilkie Collins
Mr. Bruff, I'm ordered to take exercise and I don't like it. That, added Aunt Ablewhite, pointing out of window to an invalid going by in a chair on wheels, drawn by a man, is my idea of exercise. If it's air you want, you get it in your chair. And if it's fatique you want, I am sure it's fatiquing enough to look at the man.
~ Wilkie Collins
As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.
~ William Carlos Williams
the faucet of June that rings the triangle of the air
~ William Carlos Williams
RIPOSTE Love is like water or the air my townspeople; it cleanses, and dissipates evil gases. It is like poetry too and for the same reasons. Love is so precious my townspeople that if I were you I would have it under lock and key— like the air or the Atlantic or like poetry!
~ William Carlos Williams
I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
~ William Faulkner
Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long.
~ William Faulkner
Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar. Man the sum of his climatic experiences Father said. Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.
~ William Faulkner
Who owned no property and never desired to since the earth was no man's but all men's, as light and air and weather were.
~ William Faulkner
Something among dusty shelves of ordered certitudes long divorced from reality, desiccating peacefully, as if a breath of that air which sees injustice done
~ William Faulkner
Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar. Man the sum of his climatic experiences Father said. Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire. but now I know I'm dead I tell you
~ William Faulkner
the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar.
~ William Faulkner
Algunos días a finales de Agosto son en casa como éste, el aire fino y anhelante como éste, habiendo en él algo triste y nostálgico y familiar. El hombre la suma de sus experiencias climáticas, dijo Padre. El hombre la suma de lo que te dé la gana. Un problema de propiedades impuras tediosamente arrastrado hacia una inmutable nada: jaquemate de polvo y deseo.
~ William Faulkner
Japan Air's orbital terminus was a white toroid studded with domes and ringed with the dark-rimmed oval openings of docking bays.
~ William Gibson
We breathe love in and we breathe love out. It's the essence of our existence, the very air of our souls.
~ William Kent Krueger
The air was stained by shadows, a darkness burst by lightning like camera flashes.
~ China Mieville
Blockbusters are the exception, not the rule, and yet we see an entire industry through their rarefied air.
~ Chris Anderson
The balloons' snub noses swung left and right in the fickle breeze, giving them the anxious air of compasses abandoned by north.
~ Chris Cleave
Warmly, because my air conditioner is broken, Luigi L. Lemoncello
~ Chris Grabenstein
Your innocence is on at such a rakish angle it gives you quite an air of iniquity.
~ Christopher Fry
You have cut yourself a shape on the air, which may be My scar.
~ Christopher Fry
In Paris there are wide cityscapes like nowhere else. Habit has made us indifferent to them. But those who wander around the city—keenly sniffing the air, looking to be moved, to be amazed—are very familiar with these places.
~ Helen Constantine
In another experiment Guericke connects a small glass sphere that's filled with air with a larger evacuated one. As he opens the valve between the two, air from the small sphere penetrates the large, empty volume; in the process, water droplets appear and sink to the bottom. This effect- the formation of droplets during rapid expansion has been used routinely in our century as a detection method for elementary particle tracks in an instrument called a cloud chamber.
~ Henning Genz