The Air Quotes
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?
Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.
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?
I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found.
In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.
You're looking at each and every potential corner for an air bubble to escape. Absolutely! You're on the best of your game.
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.
The chameleon, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, has of all animals the nimblest tongue.
Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.
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.
Does it make more sense to provide air conditioning or to limit CO2 emissions. I vote for more air conditioning in these susceptible regions.
If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory.
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.
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.
If we play genie and grant client wishes, we are apt to construct castles of code in the air.
Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.
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.
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.
When you're writing a sketch, it has to be surrounded by a situation. It can't just be out of the air.
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.
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.
The man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.
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 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 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.
Every time we start thinking we're the center of the universe, the universe turns around and says with a slightly distracted air, "I'm sorry. What'd you say your name was again?"
We must make organic the conventional choice and not the exception available only to the rich and educated.
The sweet air coming into your house on a fine day, from water etched with waves as formal as the scales on a fish.
Let's be in awe which doesn't mean anything but the courage to gape like fish at the surface breaking around our mouths as we meet the air.
The air and the sky seem to have been freshly washed and polished, and the people too.
We’ve always been involved with issues that deal with the fundamental human rights of people, whether that means the right to political freedom or the right to breathe air that’s clean.
Ah! the year is slowly dying, And the wind in tree-top sighing, Chant his requiem. Thick and fast the leaves are falling, High in air wild birds are calling, Nature's solemn hymn.
Today, our air, food, water-all are polluted. If we do not stop exploiting nature for our temporary selfish gains, we will destroy the world.
We've rewritten entire scenes and had them animated twelve hours before the show goes on the air. It's not fun.
Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show.
The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
The defeat of the Americans in Canada and the advantages gained by the British arms in the Jerseys, and indeed for some months in every other quarter, gave to the royal cause an air of triumph.
Air racing may not be better than your wedding night, but it's better than the second night.
Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.
If cities were built by the sound of music, then some edifices would appear to be constructed by grave, solemn tones,--others to have danced forth to light fantastic airs.
I watch Pretty Little Liars with my best friend Telly. We go to each other's houses when it airs and we watch it.
And for just a fleeting moment, a tiny wisp of time that hung in the air like fireflies in summer skies, she wondered if she was in love with him again.
Poetry is like air. It's one of the necessary things. Everyone benefits from poetry. And as you know, poetry is international. There are only two things that are truly international, poetry and wine.