The Air Quotes

No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest.

The deeds we do, the words we say,Into still air they seem to fleet;We count them ever past;But they shall last -In the dread judgment theyAnd we shall meet.

Seaboard Air Line, which was thought by numerous innocents to provide a foothold in aviation, was another favorite, although, in fact, it was a railroad.

When important decisions have to be taken, the natural anxiety to come to a right decision will often keep you awake. Nothing, however, is more conducive to healthful sleep than plenty of open air.

Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers?

My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth.

For the air of youth, Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign A melancholy damp of cold and dry To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume The balm of life.

So scented the grim Feature, and upturn'd His nostril wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far.

Without mountains the air could not be purified, nor the flowing of the rivers sustained.

It is not possible . . . to concentrate enough military planes with military loads over a modern city to destroy that city.

When I was a very little boy I lived underneath the air pattern of LaGuardia airport in New York and I watched the planes fly to their destinations. I was in love with the design of these airplanes.

Love makes the air light.

How sad, how strange, we make companions out of air and hurt them, so they will defy us, completing creation.

Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?

A sound precipitates air, then fire, then water and earth- and that's how the world becomes.

I saw him open his mouth wide. . . as though he had wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the men before him.

If more people rode bikes and less people drove cars, the air would be in better shape and people would be in better shape.

Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don't attempt to live in them.

You couldn't hurt a fly." Actually I was pretty good at pinging flies right out of the air, but I tried to look appropriately harmless.

Our television program airs to a potential audience of over 3 billion people, in many places where the people living there may have never even heard of Jesus.

Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them

When you walk into a room,” he said softly, “the air changes.

I don't think men see any lusty sexiness in me. The appealing thing is an air of abandonment. Men don't want any responsibility, and neither do I.

For as long as I could push air in and out of my chest, I would remember this moment that could never be measured.

He breathed once more, holding the air in his chest, as if it were not air but something more--a sweet taste of freedom, of all cares lifted, everything over and done.

I grew up speaking English and Punjabi. Just living and working in Punjab and smelling the early morning air and sitting down and having paranthas and lassi and all that was marvellous.

The only kind of water that should fly through the air is rain.

I'm typing so f-ing hard I might break my f-ing Mac book Air!!!!!!!!

Air ye deaf, lass?" I think. He might have called me a hairy jackass

Good and evil are merely opposite sides of a coin. Get tossed in the air enough, it's easy to come down on the wrong side.

Both in their origins and effects, boredom and stuffy air resemble each other. They are usually generated whenever a large number of people gather together in a closed room.

Fish don't know much about water, and people didn't know much about air.

I've heard it said that children born to stressful times never shake the air of woe . . . .

President Reagan rushed home from Santa Barbara vacation, from the Reagan ranch when the Korean jetliner was shot out of the air by the Russians.

The air is full of a farewell- deserted by the silver lake lies the wild world, overturned. Cities rise where the mountains fell, the furnace where the phoenix burned

I have a very hard time picturing myself in a room with some type of goo oozing out of an air vent and killing me; that doesn't really scare me because I don't think that's going to happen to me.

Everybody puts on airs, regardless of race.

I can't think of an instance at MSNBC where anything I said on the air was influenced by what was going on behind the scenes.

I believe everyone who breathes air on this earth, regardless of their job or their bank account, must give back more than just carbon dioxide.

Women's clutches are too small. I open my purse, and with some hydraulic force, a tampon shoots 12 feet into the air.

People tend to romanticize this job. So, it's fun to let the air out of it.

Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks.

Hovering near panic, trying to focus but finding it hard to open my eyes. My heart was pounding. I couldn’t get enough air, and I couldn’t find the desire to push her away

Everyone has an opinion; the question is which opinions are actually relevant to your journey and which are just static in the air?

Most people forget that even in Iraq, by the time the air and no-fly zone was established, the air defence system had been removed through the first Gulf war. All of them had been neutralised.

I've always hated the big United Way drive at work. Not because of the United Way. Great organization. Because of the smell of solicitation in the air, and because we are usually in the middle of it.

I'm just happy our nations are on the same page of keeping shitty reality TV on the air. Small world!

I don't know: Why aren't people fascinated by air traffic controllers?

He had the air of a spy in a melodrama, missing nothing, liking nothing, looking forward to the great day when everything would be turned upside down.

Apparently, when Twin Peaks was on the air in Spain, something like 50 percent of televisions were tuned to it.