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Air Quotes by Joseph Conrad
- The word 'ivory' rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it. A taint of imbecile rapacity blew…
- Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as…
- The atmosphere of officialdom would kill anything that breathes the air of human endeavour, would extinguish hope and fear alike in the supremacy of paper…
- A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the…
- Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you, smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean,…
- I saw him open his mouth wide. . . as though he had wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the men…
More Air Quotes
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which… — Matthew Arnold
- On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam… — Diane Ackerman
- It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually… — Lester Bangs
- Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense… — Stanley Baldwin
- Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported. — Jack Adams
- Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful. — Drew Barrymore
- I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into a row… — Drew Barrymore
- Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world. — Alexander Graham Bell
- A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the… — Clive Bell
- When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the… — Hilaire Belloc