The Air Quotes

Superior technical achievements - used correctly both strategically and tactically - can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.

There is a peacefulness, an air of reflection, about a rocking-chair that attaches to no other moving object.

Sweet is the air with the budding haws, and the valley stretching for miles below Is white with blossoming cherry-trees, as if just covered with lighted snow.

First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.

When you look at Clark Kent when he's working at the Daily Planet, he's a reporter. He doesn't fly through the air in his glasses and his suit.

She said it had been hijacked shortly after takeoff. By this time, the plane had been in the air - again, I'm presuming that it took off on time - for over an hour.

Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.

I say that we are wound With mercy round and round As if with air.

I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.

This upper limit, of earth at our feet is visible and touches the air, but below it reaches to infinity

There's always room for improvement, but the judges are looking for big airs and stylish tricks.

Through primrose tufts, in that sweet bower, The periwinkle trailed its wreaths; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes.

Within the next few decades, autos will have folding wings that can be spread when on a straight stretch of road so that the machine can take to the air.

There is a peculiar gratification in receiving congratulations from one's squadron for a victory in the air. It is worth more to a pilot than the applause of the whole outside world.

Take possession of the air, submit the elements, penetrate the last redoubts of nature, make space retreat, make death retreat.

As the warm air blew in the car, simple snapshots of the life they'd lived together surfaced in his mind; but as always, those images led inexorably to their final day together.

I find a great deal of comfort and care in my faith and prayer. I'd sooner do without air than prayer.

He cold, he dope, he might sell coke He always in the air but he never fly coach

Ruin seize thee, ruthless king! Confusion on thy banners wait! Though fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state.

Cities with clean air gain an economic advantage, because where people want to live and work, businesses want to invest.

All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy, a fleeting taste wrapped around nothing but air.

The crucial point is always the own cost structure. Therefore I created a Low Cost alliance with air Berlin.

Oh, this beer here is cold, cold and hop-bitter, no point coming up for air, gulp, till it's all--hahhhh.

The first and absolute requirement of strategic air power in this war was control of the air in order to carry out sustained operations without prohibitive losses.

'I beg your pardon?' Alice said with a puzzled air. 'I'm not offended,' said Humpty Dumpty.

America is ripe for lies and lethargy. The pure mountain air is going and gone. It is a huge burden and a sadness for us all.

Air transport is just a glorified bus operation.

It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.

"He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing," is one of the fundamental rules of defense.

All you can do for another person is be an environment in which if they wanted to come up for air, they could.

This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young.

The trees like lungs filling with air. My sister, the mean one, pulling my hair.

We still have too much air and water pollution and we still need to work to reduce it. But we also need to put the problem of pollution into a historical as well as scientific perspective.

With my old man I got no respect. I asked him, "How can I get my kite in the air?" He told me to run off a cliff.

Access by kids to the Internet should be like kids breathing clean air.

With a written agreement you have a prayer; with a verbal agreement you have nothing but air.

In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty.

Beauty is but a flower Which wrinkles will devour; Brightness falls from the air; Queens have died young and fair; Dust hath closed Helen's eye.

I do not like to be a prophet. I like better to paint than to predict what the next painters will do. Though I have a feeling that consideration of order is very much in the air.

I am deeply devoted to the 27,000 songs I can take anywhere on my iPod Classic as well as the exquisitely engineered MacBook Air on which I typed this column.

The air we breathe, the water we drink, and the land we inhabit are not only critical elements in the quality of life we enjoy - they are a reflection of the majesty of our Creator.

Nothing is more rewarding than to take a song, create it out of thin air and then watch it affect people.

I thought I was raptured up into the air today; turns out, it was just my gas oven exploding.

There is a certain degree of satisfaction in having the courage to admit one's errors. It not only clears up the air of guilt and defensiveness, but often helps solve the problem created by the error

The 1970s must be the years when America pays its debt to the past by reclaiming the purity of its air, its waters, and our living environment. It is literally now or never.

Much to popular disbelief, horses walking around during the elections with their tails straight up in the air are not showing off their Bush/Quale buttons.

Once I step on the court in San Antonio, I feel the support in the air.

The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.

Where I used to strive for movement and restlessness I now attempt to sense and express the complete total calm of objects and the surrounding air.