"Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy……" — Robert Burns

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• Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture. — Henry Ward Beecher
• Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I… — William Shakespeare
• My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like… — Alexander Smith
• No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or… — Samuel Johnson
• We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and… — Henry Ward Beecher
• When I feel the joy of receiving a gift my heart nudges me to join creation's ballet, the airy dance… — Lewis B. Smedes
• It is necessary to introduce light vibrations, represented by reds and yellows, and a sufficient amount of blues, to obtain… — Paul Cezanne
• If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
• To become informed and hold government accountable, the general public needs to obtain news that is comprehensive yet interesting and… — Eric Alterman
• If you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass. — Tori Amos
• Aristotle's opinion... that comets were nothing else than sublunary vapors or airy meteors... prevailed so far amongst the Greeks, that… — Edmond Halley
• There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging… — Gregory Benford

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