The Air Quotes

Tomorrow. The word hangs in the air for a moment, both a promise and a threat. Then it floats away like a paper boat, taken from her by the water licking at her ankles.

I went to school for about 2 years on a technical course, and I learned a lot. I learned about air mixture ratios and all the stuff; I learned how to draw blood.

I was on the Johnny Carson show, I believe 114 or 104 times. And aside from those times on the air, I never spoke to him. I never met him

Politics is not just about voting one day every four years. Politics is the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the road we walk on.

Nice friendship is like the breathing air, you will never see it but you will always feel its presence.

What a splendid thing watercolour is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe in it.

... why do people who live in the country always give themselves such airs?

Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.

Fame, they tell you, is air; but without air there is no life for any; without fame there is none for the best.

A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season.

Late one brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking about him with the pleased air of a man of taste who does not very often get to Boston.

The spirits of the air live on the smells Of fruit; and joy, with pinions light, roves round The gardens, or sits singing in the trees.

Unless a love of virtue light the flame, Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others' bare.

Genius is native to the soil where it grows — is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun — and is not a hot - house plant or an exotic.

I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their faces, beat the ground for kissing of their feet.

That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair; The ornament of beauty is suspect, A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.

Promising is the very air o' the time; it opens the eyes of expectation.

Will you walk out of the air, my lord? HAMLET Into my grave.

I'm not going to have a tombstone. I'm going to be tossed in the air. Ashes, tossed like a salad.

Movement is most of what a bird is. When they're dead, they're only feathers and air.

Air superiority is the ultimate expression of military power.

At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air.

We can't be in the business of carting fresh air around the country.

I am very fond of fresh air and royalties.

With air travel there is no distance, there is only time.

I came into the music world in 1988 with a song called Ooh La La, that was like a breath of fresh air in Haitian music.

It's kind of a shock to your skin, changing climates. It's new water, and new air quality.

Wishes, like castles in the air, are inexpensive and not taxable.

He said something was unique: I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do, and see if the officials take air out of it.

Men expect too much, do too little, Put the contraption before the accomplishment, Lack skill of the interior mind To fashion dignity with shapes of air. Luxury, yes but not elegance!

The way a source strains toward the light, toward the air. Its laboring work, its effort, its black passageways like despair. That’s the way a poet looks for words. With muscles, gestures.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you're doomed; you're finished.

The air of one's native country is the most healthy air.

A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.

Someone once told me that God figured that I was a pretty good juggler. I could keep a lot of balls in the air at one time. So He said, "Let's see if he can juggle another one."

Physics is unable to stand on its own feet, but needs a metaphysics on which to support itself, whatever fine airs it may assume towards the latter.

[On speaking of family secrets:] I don't know how you heal a wound and not let it get some air.

The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective.

Love is like air we can't see it but feel it.

Whether you're on TV or on the stage, you have to work hard to stay fresh, real, and full of energy. You can't settle back. You always have to stay on your toes.

I will beg, will take to my knees, will listen to snow stroking air, a sky of gasps, will open my mouth, swallow, somewhere else the sky is falling, somewhere else it gets back up.

I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.

The gift of water, air, soap, and time allows us to heal and relieve our psyche and soul.

Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.

The Romans believed that what no man controls, no man can own. Justinian, writing in the sixth century AD, said that the air, flowing water, the sea and the seashore were common to all.

I wouldn't mind dying for France, but not for Air France.

Those trees are your lungs. The earth recycles as your body. The rivers recycle as your circulation. The air is your breath. So what do we call the environment?

We wept, Brooklyn was a lovely place to hit. If you got a ball in the air, you had a chance to get it out. When they tore down Ebbets Field, they tore down a little piece of me.

The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.

I opened the doors and windows of America, and let the air and sunshine in.