Top Air Quotes Collection - Page 19

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Image of David Hume
Enthusiasm produces the most cruel disorders in human society; but its fury is like that of thunder and tempest, which exhaust themselves in a little time, and leave the air more calm and serene than before.
- David Hume
Collection: Air
Image of David Hume
When I shall be dead, the principles of which I am composed will still perform their part in the universe, and will be equally useful in the grand fabric, as when they composed this individual creature. The difference to the whole will be no greater betwixt my being in a chamber and in the open air. The one change is of more importance to me than the other; but not more so to the universe.
- David Hume
Collection: Air
Image of Douglas Adams
The air was stifling, but he liked it because it was stifling city air, full of excitingly unpleasant smells, dangerous music, and the distant sound of warring police tribes.
- Douglas Adams
Collection: Air
Image of Richard Bach
I take the paraglider to the mountain or I roll Daisy out of her hangar and I pick the prettiest part of the sky and I melt into the wing and then into the air, till I'm just soul on a sunbeam.
- Richard Bach
Collection: Air
Image of Richard Bach
Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you.
- Richard Bach
Collection: Air
Image of Sherrilyn Kenyon
You know, I've walked this earth for over eleven thousand years, my lady. I have seen things in my life that are unimaginable to you, and you ask me if I doubt you? Lady, I doubt the very air you breathe. (Acheron)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Collection: Air
Image of Sherrilyn Kenyon
The slightest stirring in the air can set a hurricane in motion a thousand miles off. (Acheron)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Collection: Air
Image of John Keats
The air is all softness.
- John Keats
Collection: Air
Image of John Keats
... the open sky sits upon our senses like a sapphire crown - the Air is our robe of state - the Earth is our throne, and the Sea a mighty minstrel playing before it.
- John Keats
Collection: Air
Image of Jancee Dunn
I had this producer who became a friend, named Lou [Stellato]. Maybe it was a budget thing, but he never wanted to do any retakes. The more I would have a mental breakdown on the air.
- Jancee Dunn
Collection: Air
Image of Miranda July
He breathed out the bitter air that makes women doubt everything, and I breathed it in, as I had always done. I expelled my dust, the powder of everything I had destroyed with doubt, and he pulled it into his lungs.
- Miranda July
Collection: Air
Image of Robert Green Ingersoll
Don't you know that if people could bottle the air they would? Don't you know that there would be an American Air-bottling Association? And don't you know that they would allow thousands and millions to die for want of breath, if they could not pay for air? I am not blaming anybody. I am just telling how it is.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
Collection: Air
Image of Robert Kennedy
The gross national product includes air pollution and advertising for cigarettes, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors, and jails for the people who break them ... It does not allow for the health of our families, the quality of thier education, or the joy of their play.
- Robert Kennedy
Collection: Air
Image of Victor Hugo
Gavroche had fallen only to rise again; he sat up, a long stream of blood rolled down his face, he raised both arms in air, looked in the direction whence the shot came, and began to sing.
- Victor Hugo
Collection: Air
Image of Curtis Jackson
If you're not doin anything and you don't have goals and you got nothing to do then you might as well go jump off something, you just wasting the air.
- Curtis Jackson
Collection: Air
Image of John F. Kennedy
All of us in the Senate live in an iron lung-the iron lung of politics, and it is no easy task to emerge from that rarified atmosphere in order to breathe the same fresh air our constituents breathe.
- John F. Kennedy
Collection: Air
Image of John F. Kennedy
Our national conservation effort must include the complete spectrum of resources: air, water, and land; fuels, energy, and minerals; soils, forests, and forage; fish and wildlife. Together they make up the world of nature which surrounds us- of the American heritage.
- John F. Kennedy
Collection: Air
Image of Jay-Z
I keep my enemies close/ I give 'em enough rope/ They put themselves in the air/ I just kick away the chair.
- Jay-Z
Collection: Air
Image of Gaston Bachelard
Air is the very substance of our freedom, the substance of superhuman joy.... aerial joy is freedom.
- Gaston Bachelard
Collection: Air
Image of Walter Isaacson
One of the great pressures we're facing in journalism now is it's a lot cheaper to hire thumb suckers and pundits and have talk shows on the air than actually have bureaus and reporters
- Walter Isaacson
Collection: Air
Image of Arianna Huffington
Market forces have no intrinsically moral direction, which is why, before he wrote The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith wrote The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Ethics should precede economics. But it doesn't have to. . . . We know this because we've seen the results of capitalism without conscience: the pollution of the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat; the endangerment of workers; and the sale of dangerous products - from cars to toys to drugs. All in pursuit of ever-greater profits.
- Arianna Huffington
Collection: Air
Image of Maureen Johnson
I still have a whopping bad case of what you call scag magnetism. I thought i had gotten rid of it there, but it looks like scary guys still materialize from thin air in my presence. They are drawn to me. I am the North Pole, and they are the explorers of love.
- Maureen Johnson
Collection: Air
Image of Samuel Johnson
A ship is worse than a gaol. There is, in a gaol, better air, better company, better conveniency of every kind; and a ship has the additional disadvantage of of being in danger.
- Samuel Johnson
Collection: Air
Image of Mick Jagger
I like to have a peek, see what the audience is doing during the opening act, because it gives you a clue and gives you a good feeling of where you are - the air can be different in different places.
- Mick Jagger
Collection: Air
Image of Mick Jagger
I wasn't taking so many drugs that it was messing up my creative processes. It was a very good period, 1968 - there was a good feeling in the air. It was a very creative period for everyone.
- Mick Jagger
Collection: Air
Image of David Hume
Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagerness for victory, and without any airs of superiority.
- David Hume
Collection: Air
Image of David Levithan
Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.
- David Levithan
Collection: Air
Image of Madeleine L'Engle
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
- Madeleine L'Engle
Collection: Air
Image of Stephen King
On that gray street, with the smell of industrial smokes in the air and the afternoon bleeding away to evening, downtown Derry looked only marginally more charming than a dead hooker in a church pew.
- Stephen King
Collection: Air
Image of Dov Davidoff
Big black guys fear air travel almost as much as old white women fear big black guys.
- Dov Davidoff
Collection: Air
Image of Anne Lamott
Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air.
- Anne Lamott
Collection: Air
Image of Fran Lebowitz
There are some short essays that are very grave, and most contemporary novels are lighter than air.
- Fran Lebowitz
Collection: Air
Image of Andre Holland
The surgeries were the hardest scenes for me because it's literally balancing so many balls in the air, at the same time, and each surgery is different.
- Andre Holland
Collection: Air
Image of Jack LaLanne
It's survival of the fittest. You can't have everything perfect, that's impossible, but the fit survive. The fit can handle the impurities in the air and in the water, but the poor people who are sick, it really affects them more.
- Jack LaLanne
Collection: Air
Image of Stephen King
There seems to be no air in the air she breaths.
- Stephen King
Collection: Air
Image of Lisa Kleypas
I had never felt the allure of another human being this strongly, warmth and curiosity mixing to form an unspoken question in the air.
- Lisa Kleypas
Collection: Air
Image of David Levithan
The tenderness between two people can turn the air tender, the room tender, time itself tender. As I step out of bed and slip on an oversize shirt, everything around me feels like it's the temperature of happiness.
- David Levithan
Collection: Air
Image of Walter Savage Landor
Fame, they tell you, is air; but without air there is no life for any; without fame there is none for the best.
- Walter Savage Landor
Collection: Air
Image of David Letterman
About half an hour before air time - that's when I become hyper. I put everything else out of my mind and just let that nervous energy surge through my body. I start talking faster and louder. My confidence comes up. It's actually a great feeling.
- David Letterman
Collection: Air
Image of Lisa Kleypas
You say the gentleman I knew has been replaced. How I wish I could offer better comfort than to say that no matter how you have changed, you wil be welcomed when you return. Do what you must. If it helps you to endure, put the feelings away for now, and lock the door. Perhaps someday we'll air them out together.
- Lisa Kleypas
Collection: Air
Image of Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Rivers perhaps are the only physical features of the world that are at their best from the air.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Collection: Air
Image of Evel Knievel
You can't ask a guy like me why [I performed]. I really wanted to fly through the air. I was a daredevil, a performer. I loved the thrill, the money, the whole macho thing. All those things made me Evel Knievel. Sure, I was scared. You gotta be an ass not to be scared. But I beat the hell out of death.
- Evel Knievel
Collection: Air
Image of Anne Lamott
Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks.
- Anne Lamott
Collection: Air
Image of D. H. Lawrence
A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
- D. H. Lawrence
Collection: Air
Image of Harper Lee
Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open.
- Harper Lee
Collection: Air
Image of Soren Kierkegaard
Geniuses are like thunderstorms: they go against the wind, terrify people, clear the air.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Collection: Air
Image of Kendrick Lamar
The times that we are in, it's something that you can only feel in the air. You don't even have to talk about it. You don't need the news or the Internet to watch it. You can walk outside and just feel it.
- Kendrick Lamar
Collection: Air
Image of Henry Adams
During an election campaign the air is full of speeches and vice versa.
- Henry Adams
Collection: Air