Air Quotes - page 3

But strictly held by none, is loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round, And only by one's going slightly taut In the capriciousness of summer air Is of the slightest bondage made aware. (Robert Frost)
The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroke the air And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense. View quote
Ben Jonson
Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty. View quote
Joseph Addison
And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air, Full of spirit's melancholy And eternity's despair And they heard the words it said, 'Pan is dead great Pan is dead Pan, Pan is dead' View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. View quote
Christopher Marlowe
It is sweet to dance to violins When Love and Life are fair To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare But it is not sweet with nimble feet To dance upon the air. View quote
Oscar Wilde
I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it. View quote
Hugh Downs
He'd once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way. The air was full of rage and complaint. People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it. View quote
Don DeLillo
Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing. View quote
Kenneth Grahame
Slaves cannot breathe in England if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free They touch our country, and their shackles fall. (William Cowper)
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better. View quote
Henry Rollins
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air. View quote
Doris Lessing
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers. View quote
Jonathan Swift
My silks and fine array, My smiles and languished air, By love are driv'n away And mournful lean Despair Brings me yew to deck my grave Such end true lovers have. View quote
William Blake
Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise. View quote
Ivan Pavlov
And 't is my faith, that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes. View quote
William Wordsworth
Of all that is most beauteous, imaged there In happier beauty more pellucid streams, An ampler ether, a diviner air, And fields invested with purpureal gleams. View quote
William Wordsworth
Thou has left behind Powers that will work for thee,air, earth, and skies There 's not a breathing of the common wind That will forget thee thou hast great allies Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind. View quote
William Wordsworth
What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man. (Robert G. Ingersoll)
Fir: it contains a great deal of air and fire with very little moisture and the earthy, so that, as its natural properties are of the lighter class, it is not heavy. Hence, its consistence being naturally stiff, it does not easily bend under the load, and keeps its straightness when used in the framework. But it contains so much heat that it generates and encourages decay, which spoils it; and it also kindles fire quickly because of the air in its body, which is so open that it takes in fire and so gives out a great flame. View quote
Vitruvius
While all bodies are composed of the four elements, that is, of heat, moisture, the earthy, and air, yet there are mixtures according to natural temperament which make up the natures of all the different animals of the world, each after its kind. View quote
Vitruvius
It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it. View quote
Dan Quayle
Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun. View quote
Edward Young