Air Quote by Joseph Heller

“Clevinger was already on the way, half out of his chair with emotion, his eyes moist and his lips quivering and pale. As always…

— Joseph Heller

“His manner showed a curious mixture of longing and enthusiasm, which is to say that his enthusiasms were always of a wistful sort, and…

— Eleanor Catton

“The causes of his embitterment were many, remote and near. He was angry with himself for being young and the prey of restless foolish…

— James Joyce

“He's always had a nameless, unanchored longing; and when, at critical points in his life, a period of intense longing coincided with the appearance…

— Josephine Humphreys

“He could be boastful in a way pleasantly at odds with his native fatalism, and his youthful stubbornness had a way of ameliorating into…

— Dan Lopez

Well, He had known what love was-a sharp pang, a fierce experience, in the midst of whose flames he was struggling! but, through that…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“Though he had determined upon this in the first moment of joyful enthusiasm, yet the delay of four-and-twenty hours had made a material change…

— Maria Edgeworth

“He had sharpened every aspect of his method: "Find passion in your conscience. Focus on the idea, not the man. Develop multiple and independent…

— Michael Signer

“He seemed to be buffeted from both sides, challenged by his dreams, which revolted at the compromises of reality, and assaulted by reality which…

— Walter Lippmann

“would sometimes say, that if life were made what it might be, by good government and good education, it would be worth having: but…

— Christopher Hitchens

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion…

— Edmund Burke

“Physically he was tired and his body relaxed throughout its entire length; his mind was in much the same state, floating free, detached, as…

— Patrick O'Brian