Breath Quotes - page 5

I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone. I get drunk, and I drive my wife away with a breath like mustard gas and roses. And then, speaking gravely and elegantly into the telephone, I ask the telephone operators to connect me with this friend or that one, from whom I have not heard in years. (Kurt Vonnegut)
Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more. View quote
Stokely Carmichael
The breath of the mind is attention. View quote
Joseph Joubert
A French critic referred to me as a gay pessimist, with gay used in its older sense, and talked of Cocteau in the same breath. View quote
Peter Greenaway
Spare your breath to cool your porridge. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
I like living, breathing better than working... my art is that of living. Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral, it's a sort of constant euphoria. View quote
Marcel Duchamp
But a man's life breath cannot come back again- no raiders in force, no trading brings it back, once it slips through a man's clenched teeth. View quote
Homer
Thou weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath. View quote
William Shakespeare
You common cry of curs whose breath I hate As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize As the dead carcasses of unburied men That do corrupt my air, -I banish you. View quote
William Shakespeare
Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty. View quote
William Shakespeare
I was a-trembling because Id got to decide forever betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied for a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself, 'All right, then Ill go to hell.' (Mark Twain)
The puritanic potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a religion, hierarchically organized, things more than anything else will be done in the name of "decency". The coarse fumes of tobacco and liquors, the consequent tainting of the breath and staining of white fingers and teeth, which is so offensive to many women, will be the first things attended to. View quote
Wyndham Lewis
My opinion has always been this, that you ought to never give up as long as you live, even though they have stolen everything from you. If nothing else, you can always call the air you breath your own, or at any rate you can claim that you have it on loan. Yes, lass, last night I ate stolen bread and left my son among men who are going to use pick-handles on the authorities, so I thought I might just as well look you up this morning. View quote
Halldór Laxness
For the truly creative mind in any field is no more than this - a human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create - to create - to create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of beauty and meaning his very breath is cut off from him. He must create. He must pour out creation. By some strange unknown pressing inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
From scenes like these, old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad: Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, "An honest man's the noblest work of God." View quote
Robert Burns
Bring forward what is true, Write it so that it is clear, Defend it to your last breath! View quote
Ludwig Boltzmann
Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency. View quote
Franz Kafka
The effect of the great and sudden change of altitude made itself felt at once; when I wanted to turn round in my bag, I had to do it a bit at a time, so as not to get out of breath. View quote
Roald Amundsen
Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever reach her? Her soul is a scorching noon time, without a single breath of a breeze, nothing moves, nothing changes, nothing lives there; a great emaciated sun, an immobile sun eternally consumes her. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
The watchers below pulled in their breath all at once. The air felt suddenly shared. The man above was a word they seemed to know, though they had not heard it before. View quote
Colum McCann
I am going the way of my fathers, as the Scripture says, for I see myself called by the Lord. Be you wary and undo not your long service of God, but be earnest to keep your strong purpose, as though you were but now beginning. You know the demons who plot against you, you know how savage they are and how powerless; therefore, fear them not. Let Christ be as the breath you breathe; in Him put your trust. Live as dying daily, heeding yourselves and remembering the counsels you have heard from me. ... So do you also be earnest always to be in union first with the Lord and then with the Saints, that after death, they also may receive you into everlasting tabernacles as known friends. Ponder these things, and mean them. ... And now God save you, children, for Antony departs and is with you no more. (Anthony the Great)
I would pick them when they bloomed. And when she called me home for supper, I'd place them in her hair and the contrast would take my breath away. View quote
Melina Marchetta
Imagine who she would be if we unleashed her onto the world. I think she would rip the breath from all of us. View quote
Melina Marchetta
See them together and you will feel a force that will take your breath away. View quote
Melina Marchetta
He was not used to the smell of dragon breath, which is best described as a combination of the stench of burning rubber and the stink of old socks, with overtones of a hamster cage in dire need of a cleaning. View quote
Angie Sage