The Air Quotes

"Love is a luxury." "No. Love is an element." An element. Like air to breathe, earth to stand on.

...the air seeming to gather around her like held breath. As if this whole place were a story about her.

What does true even mean when it comes to a face? Only souls are true, and when you spill them to the air they melt away.

There is, however, a strange, musty smell in the air that reminds me of something...hmm...yes...I've got it...there's a VMS nearby, or I'm a Blit.

What I'm documenting can be hard to distill, because it's all around us like the air we breathe. I often need to go to a place where I can capture extreme moments.

The salt blowing off the sea makes the air feel textured and heavy.

Amazing how hope lives. Without air or water, with hardly anything at all to nurture it.

How many thousands of [lives] are there every year that comes cast away, (in all civilized countries at least)--and consider'd asnothing but common air, in competition of an hypothesis.

Lately I've been suffocating. Chan Young is my air, without him beside me, am I able to breathe?

I didn't have to wait six years to get my show on the air, worry that someone else had a similar idea, or wait around for notes that took my voice out of the show.

To any white body receiving the light from the sun, or the air, the shadows will be of a bluish cast.

I'm a professional actor. If I was a plumber, I wouldn't just do my plumbing in Beverly Hills bathrooms; I'd like to install air conditioning units and a few other things.

I want people to understand and recognize that when it comes to dating, you're not as crazy as you think you are. Everyone needs love. We need it like air or water. We just don't know how to get it.

See... What I felt they should have done, for our first public works project, is build a giant wall... across the entire border of Canada. Because that's where the cold air comes from.

From a cell to a jet call it Con-Air

His eyes were green chips of flame, and the growl was so thick it blurred the air around him, the sound of a very pissed off skinchanger.

I think the best thing, if you can't get an air-tight deal with every "I" dotted and every "t" crossed is let the next president have a chance to deal with the Iranians.

I had never felt the allure of another human being this strongly, warmth and curiosity mixing to form an unspoken question in the air.

He was free to enjoy the breathless glee that overwhelmed him: the speed, the clear cold air, the total silence, the feeling of balance and excitement and peace.

I suppose we shall soon travel by air-vessels; make air instead of sea voyages; and at length find our way to the moon, in spite of the want of atmosphere.

There is no passion, more spectral or fantastical than hate, not even its opposite, love, so peoples air, with phantoms, as this madness of the heart.

Fills The air around with beauty.

When I'm scrambling between dress and air, there are people I like more than other people.

Our military should be trained and structured around missions, not the elements of air, water, and land.

When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.

Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.

I feel as though I'm not breathing when I'm out of his presence. He's the oxygen in my air, the sun in my universe, the staff of my life. —Jane Gardiner

The bite of existence did not cut into one in Hollywood ... Life elsewhere was real and slippery and struggled in the arms like a big fish dying in air.

The man who eats to live, who is friends with the five powers - earth, water, ether, sun and air - who is a servant of God, the Creator of all these, ought not to fall ill.

The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water.

I live in Los Angeles, I know it exists. I know you're not supposed to taste air.

The stone that is thrown into the air is none the worse for falling down, and none the better for going up.

I will march on in the path of nature till my legs sink under me, and then I shall be at rest, and expire into that air which has given me my daily breath.

If souls continue to exist, how does the air contain them from eternity?

We were good reformers, but we weren't good enough. We elected a candidate and then, busy with our own affairs, we left him hanging in mid-air. Reformers are such part-time pillars of society!

She couldn't survey the wreck of the world with an air of casual unconcern.

I don't like the compression on compact discs. It's lacking in air, and it's lacking in majesty.

The sense of endings as well as beginnings in the air is now so obvious in so many dimensions of our experience that a critical mass has been reached.

I stand above the tree level I am a tree I catch wind storm breaths My branches claw I drink sky It stretches me I don't care I catch jokes and luck from tall thin blue air

Singing really oxygenates your blood. You stretch your lungs and take in much more air into them than before. It's really good for your health.

All great discoveries...are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents.

The water is clearer than the air, and the air is the air that angels breathe.

For a lot of explosions and stuff like that [in Transformers] you're harnessed to something getting swung in the air or dragged onto something or thrown onto something.

...they watched the humans disappear. They watched them dissolve, like moving tablets in the humid air.

The air itself was ebony, like the denial, the refutation, of the idea of light.

Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes.

Two devils rose from the water, and flew off through the air, crying, 'Oh, oh, oh!' and turning one over another, in sportive mockery.

My main worry is that after a certain point you become so identified with a character and a series that you might not be able to get work when your show goes off the air.

It was a Russian airplane that was bombed over the Sinai Peninsula. When the Russians conduct air strikes on IS, they are doing so because they too are threatened by terror.

Women who work at home rearing children and attending to various household tasks are expected to provide something that is absolutely essential yet costs nothing, like the air we breathe.