Air Quote by Dave Barry

I want to write a novel so profound that it would suffocate a fly.

— Gao Xingjian

The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.

— Dorothea Brande

The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.

— Charles Kettering

“The Air Loom, for all its florid craziness, can be seen to have a function and a rationale: as a miraculous, if temporary, fix…

— Mike Jay

“More than anything else, the sensation [of flying] is one of perfect peace mingled with an excitement that strains every nerve to the utmost…

— Wilbur Wright

“The air was full of human essence, of artificial enticement, of coquetry, indolence, pleasure—the man-made sense of existence.”

— O. Henry

In a world without air all you breathe is adventure!

— Helen Dunmore

Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of…

— H. P. Lovecraft

In every one of these haunting and hungry poems, Howell draws a map for how to enter the heat and dew of the human…

— Nikky Finney

“I was once told that flying involves long hours of boredom, interrupted by moments of extreme fright.”

— Franklin W. Dixon

When I wrote 'Lord of the Flies' - I had no idea it would even get published.

— William Golding

“The wind of the world was wild, and it mocked human expectations. But it wasn't the wind that carried you. It was the flex…

— Alex London