Air Quote by D. H. Lawrence

You know, you throw rocks in the lake and scientists will tell you you're raising the level of the lake, but all you get…

— Norman Lear

“Entering by a wide gateway, but without gates, into an inner court, surrounded on all sides by great marble pillars supporting galleries above, I…

— George MacDonald

What a splendid thing watercolour is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe in it.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Every wave is a water sprite who swims in the current, each current is a path which snakes towards my palace, and my palace…

— Emile Zola

Be like the rocky headland on which the waves constantly break. It stands firm, and round it the seething waters are laid to rest.

— Marcus Aurelius

You are a pool of clear water where the light plays

— Jeanette Winterson

“When the Golden Temple reflected the evening sun or shone in the moon, it was the light of the water (in the pond before…

— Yukio Mishima

Morn on the waters, and purple and bright Bursts on the billows the flushing of light O'er the glad waves, like a child of…

— Thomas Kibble Hervey

As to the effect of the wave on the air, we will suppose the water to be quite flat and the air motionless, a…

— Lawrence Hargrave

To me the front is a mysterious whirlpool. Though I am in still water far away from its centre, I feel the whirl of…

— Erich Maria Remarque

Into the air, over the valleys, under the stars, above a river, a pond, a road, flew Cecy. Invisible as new spring winds, fresh…

— Ray Bradbury

“Water, like God, moves in mysterious ways. Once inside a house, it obeys the force of gravity indirectly. Inside walls and under floors it…

— Diane Setterfield