Oxygen Quotes

322 Oxygen quotes by 271 unique authors

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom. — John Charles Polanyi
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. — Ronald Reagan
I have never experienced anything like walking out onto the stage of an oversold venue and, before the first note is struck, realizing that there… — Henry Rollins
If your oxygen mask drops down, it's time to take a breather! — Richard Simmons
Activating oxygen can produce compounds called radicals that put oxidative stress on cells. Such stress could ultimately lead to cancer and other diseases. — John Simon
I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who… — Tom Stoppard
Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend. — Margaret Thatcher
Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask. — Fareed Zakaria
Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale. — Zig Ziglar
Films are like oxygen for me. — Anurag Kashyap
Self pity becomes your oxygen. But you learned to breathe it without a gasp. So, nobody even notices you're hurting. — Paul Monette
The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen. — Alice Walker
The former stewardess glared at her ex-pilot husband as if he had been speaking, and thinking, in the absence of sufficient oxygen. — John Irving
Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock… — Arundhati Roy
At 17, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept… — Jodi Picoult
Her visits to her former hometown were infrequent and often painful. Pilgrimages fueled by the tepid oxygen of family duty, unease, guilt. The more Esther… — Joyce Carol Oates
A drop of water is not immortal; it can be resolved into oxygen and hydrogen. If, therefore, a drop of water were to maintain that… — Bertrand Russell
Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the… — Jodi Picoult
Do you ever wonder if--well, if there are people living on the third planet?' 'The third planet is incapable of supporting life,' stated the husband… — Ray Bradbury
Put on your own oxygen mask before assisting others. — Randy Pausch

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