Air Quotes · Page 147

I hate this feeling. Like I'm here, but I'm not. Like someone cares. But they don't. Like I belong somewhere else, anywhere…

— Ellen Hopkins

Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber, for a bird of the…

— Doris Lessing

Acting was something I needed like air. It wasn't something I could walk away from.

— Wentworth Miller

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

— Anton Chekhov

The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts…

— Anonymous

My 'awakened dreams' are about shifts. Thought shifts, reality shifts, gender shifts: one person metamorphoses into another in a world where people…

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

We live in an ocean of air like fish in a body of water. By our breathing we are attuned to our…

— Alexander Lowen

It is fun to just see the ball just get blasted off my foot and go 75 yards in the air.

— Justin Tucker

It has sometimes been said that the success of the Origin proved "that the subject was in the air," or "that men's…

— Charles Darwin

On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam…

— Diane Ackerman

People say that I'm a tree hugger, but I do a lot more than hug trees. I like having my drinking water…

— Robin Williams

It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear…

— Garrison Keillor

Throughout the lead-up to the war, CNN worked hard to air all sides of the story. We had a regular segment called…

— Anonymous

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got…

— Terry Pratchett

Concentrate on how good if feels to be alive. No matter what. Just to see the color of the sky, just to…

— Judy Blume

I think food is the great equalizer. Other than the ocean and the air, food is the thing that we all share…

— Brett Dennen

Clean air is a basic right. The responsibility to ensure that falls to Congress and the president.

— Thomas Carper

Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long…

— Anonymous

Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that…

— Thomas Carlyle

All living beings, things that move, are equally important, whether they are human beings, dogs, birds, fish, trees, ants, weeds, rivers, wind…

— John Africa

The air is full of souls those who are nearest to earth descending to be tied to mortal bodies return to other…

— Philo

While working with a camera crew supervising flight testing of advanced aircraft at Edward's Air Force Base, California, the camera crew filmed…

— Gordon Cooper

It's an attitude of superiority. We are superior to the rest of life. The Book of Genesis says: 'Increase and multiply and…

— W. S. Merwin

Whenever I did sitcoms, that always happened on your show. Once the show was on the air, it takes on a life…

— Larry Wilmore

[Henry Cavendish] fixed the weight of the earth; he established the proportions of the constituents of the air; he occupied himself with…

— Thomas Edward Thorpe

It was as if she lived only on clear, salty air, and when the day came for her to pass away, she…

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

I think there’s no greater joy than completing a song out of thin air. It’s like inventing something, but it’s invisible, you…

— Jason Mraz

I am very fond of fresh air and royalties.

— Daisy Ashford

Faith receiveth the promise, embraceth it, and comforteth the soul unspeakably with it. Faith is so great an artist in arguing and…

— John Bunyan

One of the most painful things for me was Jay Leno, Jay Leno going back on the air and saying to people…

— Edward Allen Bernero

Everywhere was singing, all over the house was singing, and outside the house was alive with singing, and the very air was…

— Richard Llewellyn

After the demands of the ego and its greed surrendered, the struggle for fulfillment of personal desires lessens; life takes on a…

— Sivananda Radha Saraswati

I made lasagna for dinner," Tamsyn called out. "That work for you?" He continued to look at her, as if he'd drink…

— Nalini Singh

Don't let the bastards grind you down. I repeat this to myself but it conveys nothing. You might as well say, Don't…

— Margaret Atwood

I sat on the bench outside of class today and talked to Jon. I read to him from my journal, it was…

— Sabrina Ward Harrison

Up in this air you breathed easily, drawing in a vital assurance and lightness of heart. In the highlands you woke up…

— Anonymous

A peril of the night road is that flecks of dust and streaks of bug blood on the windshield look to me…

— James Thurber

There's no light at the end of the tunnel, there isn't even a tunnel. The best thing I can do is get…

— Charles Bukowski

Man is a creature adapted for life under circumstances which are very narrowly limited. A few degrees of temperature more or less,…

— Robert Stawell Ball

Take possession of the air, submit the elements, penetrate the last redoubts of nature, make space retreat, make death retreat.

— Romain Rolland