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Quotes About Air

The air is like being wanted, we say, and they nod approvingly. The air is like getting older, they say, and they touch our arms gently.
~ Dave Eggers
the air over the table like the sparkling space just above a fresh-poured seltzer.
~ David Foster Wallace
My silent response to the expectant silence begins to affect the air of the room, the bits of dust and sportcoat-lint stirred around by the AC's vents dancing jaggedly in the slanted plane of windowlight, the air over the table like the sparkling space just above a fresh-poured seltzer.
~ David Foster Wallace
He's of the colour of the nutmeg. And of the heat of the ginger.... he is pure air and fire; and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him, but only in patient stillness while his rider mounts him; he is indeed a horse, and all other jades you may call beasts.
~ William Shakespeare
You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize As the dead carcasses of unburied men That do corrupt my air, I banish you; And here remain with your uncertainty!
~ William Shakespeare
What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no.
~ William Shakespeare
Will you walk out of the air, my lord? HAMLET Into my grave.
~ William Shakespeare
Ay, but hearken, sir; though the chameleon Love can feed on the air, I am one that am nourished by my victuals, and would fain have meat.
~ William Shakespeare
We do it wrong, being so majestical, To offer it the show of violence, For it is as the air, invulnerable, And our vain blows malicious mockery.
~ William Shakespeare
Then to the elements be free...
~ William Shakespeare
I still don't know where the evil comes from that makes men bestial to others like you have told . . . . Perhaps it is because you have so little evil in yourself. No, no, I do not think so. That is not what I meant at all. I do not believe that ordinary men have this evil. Perhaps it is like a fever that blows in the air, like cholera, like the plague; it blows in the air and settles on men -- or a town -- or a nation -- and everyone in it, or nearly everyone, falls a victim.
~ Winston Graham
Germany could not gain complete air superiority unless she could knock out our Air Force, and the aircraft industries, some vital portions of which are concentrated at Coventry and Birmingham.
~ Winston S. Churchill
What a relief to be confronted by an Earl Marshal instead of an Air Marshal.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Los personajes femeninos de Lovborg: una evaluación Los dos se conocieron en el aire y se casaron antes de llegar al suelo.
~ Woody Allen
One pacer got a little freaked out after she saw her runner stare into space for a while and then tell the empty air, "I know you're not real.
~ Christopher McDougall
I would look up at the moon and see that it was not the smooth orb we had all believed, but a pitted and scarred world with no air.
~ Christopher Pike
Christmas Air Christmas Air means peace, knowledge and wisdom.
~ Unknown
Why don't clouds fall, since everything else does? Because gravity is less than the strength of the air that keeps them up there. Clever, right? Yes, but one day they fall as rain. That is my revenge.
~ Clarice Lispector
I want the shining gravel in a dark brook. I want the sparkle of the stone beneath the rays of sun, I want death that frees me. I could manage to have pleasure if I abstained from thinking. Then I'd feel the ebb and flow of air in my lungs.
~ Clarice Lispector
Speaking for myself, I am only true when I'm alone. As a child, I always feared that I was about to fall off the face of the earth at any minute. Why do the clouds keep afloat when everything else drops to the ground? The explanation is simple: the gravity is less than the force of air that sustains the clouds. Clever, don't you think? Yes, but sooner or later they fall in the form of rain. That is my revenge.
~ Clarice Lispector
Everything struck her at times as too precious, impossible to touch. And, at times, what people used as air to breathe, was weight and death for her.
~ Clarice Lispector
The eroticism inherent in living things is scattered through the air, in the sea, in the plants, in us, scattered in the vehemence of my voice, I'm writing you with my voice...
~ Clarice Lispector
I want geometric streaks that cross in the air and form a disharmony that I understand. Pure 'it
~ Clarice Lispector
For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.
~ Claude Monet