Air Quote by Ambrose Bierce

The air smelled of paper and dust and years.

— Anonymous

The Deadwood dirt they painted on us with powder. The air always smelled of livestock and something burning, gave a sooty, dense feel to…

— Robin Weigert

The atmosphere of our time is fast being cleared of the fumes and deadly gases that arose during the carboniferous age of theology.

— John Burroughs

The air and the sky seem to have been freshly washed and polished, and the people too.

— Marlene Dietrich

It was very dark; but in the murky sky there were masses of cloud which shone with a lurid light, like monstrous heaps of…

— Charles Dickens

Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue…

— Francis Parkman

The air was heavy with the smell of leather and dust, of old parchment and binding glue. It smelled of secrets.

— Patrick Rothfuss

Anaximenes ... also says that the underlying nature is one and infinite ... but not undefined as Anaximander said but definite, for he identifies…

— Theophrastus

The air is the most mysterious, the most exciting, the most challenging of all the elements. We leave the planet, we leave the sea,…

— Anonymous

Everything was simple, physical, painful, exalting. The world consisted of the four elements - land and water, firepower and distancing air.

— Susan Sontag

It was cold. Space, the air we breathed, the yellow rocks, were deadly cold. There was something ultimate, passionless, and eternal in this cold.…

— Frank Smythe

“It was a large room, heavily outfitted with the usual badly ventilated furnaces, rows of bubbling crucibles, and one stuffed alligator. Things floated in…

— Terry Pratchett