The Air Quotes

The first thing a genius needs is to breath free air.

The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous and individualistic air, a much more bracing rivalry.

The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions and ideas become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use.

The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American

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

Our kids haven't any airs about them. I don't like posh kids who don't like dirty dolls or expect a chauffeur every time they go out.

I bring a poofy gray down jacket with me wherever I go. It's meant for winter, but I use it most in the summer, when everyone cranks up the air-conditioning.

When you're writing a sketch, it has to be surrounded by a situation. It can't just be out of the air.

I have discovered that a screw-shaped device such as this, if it is well made from starched linen, will rise in the air if turned quickly.

St. Louis is more humid. But after a while, the heat started taking a toll on us, so we started rotating a little more up front trying to stay fresh out here.

Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.

Rainstorms are incredible: falling shards of glass, the air full of diamonds.

If we play genie and grant client wishes, we are apt to construct castles of code in the air.

Of course you don't make any noise in space, because there's no air.

Retention of operational control of its air is important to the Corps' air-ground team, as air constitutes a significant part of its offensive firepower.

A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.

If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory.

Does it make more sense to provide air conditioning or to limit CO2 emissions. I vote for more air conditioning in these susceptible regions.

Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship's wake.

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.

The chameleon, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, has of all animals the nimblest tongue.

I have remained someone who believes that the only things indispensable to human life are air, food, drink and excretion, and the search for truth. The rest is optional.

You're looking at each and every potential corner for an air bubble to escape. Absolutely! You're on the best of your game.

In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.

Take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that which way the wind is.

I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found.

What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, and all these at thy command to come and play before thee?

Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.

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?

How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator?

Since when is the intelligence agency supposed to be an air force of drones that goes around killing people? I believe that it's a job for the department of defense.

No sooner had I stepp'd into these pleasures Than I began to think of rhymes and measures: The air that floated by me seem'd to say 'Write! thou wilt never have a better day.

I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.

The wise may find in trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind.

The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

That's what being a leader is all about. If the other players see you in a non-positive mind set, that affects them. I have to present an air of confidence at all times.

We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images.

Do we need a top-flight quarterback? Do human beings need air to breath?

Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.

The relationship between talent — a term loosely applied to those who work on-air — and management is uneasy, at best.

Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.

I think, because I'm an artist, part of my job is to be a barometer, an antenna. It's in the air and it resonates with a lot of people to lighten up.

A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence.

In order to keep pace with the influx of work I had to take on fresh hands.

We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security.

I... wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain.

In one year I travelled 450,000 miles by air.

We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were nearby.

Without sounding cliché, music is like air. It provides for me. I don't necessarily look for what I can get out of it. It's a compulsion. I've always gotten out of it everything.