Breath Quotes - page 7

I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath. (Lynn Abbey)
Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark. View quote
Bryce Courtenay
In West Virginia yesterday, a man was arrested for stealing several blow-up dolls. Reportedly, police didn't have any trouble catching the man because he was completely out of breath. View quote
Conan O'Brien
However in the world did her skin come green?" Nanny wondered, stupidly, for Melena blanched and Frex reddened, and the baby held her breath as if trying to turn blue to please them all. Nanny had to slap her to make her breath again. View quote
Gregory Maguire
Your breath upon the wind shall surely lodge within some breast. Ask not whose breast it is. See only that the breath itself be pure. View quote
Mikha'il Na'ima
... this beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath... View quote
Gary Paulsen
I ran into Ellen at a photo shoot. She took my breath away. That had never happened to me in my life. View quote
Portia de Rossi
I love the dancing and the music from Latin cultures. I went to a Flamenco show in Spain once, and it completely took my breath away! View quote
Torrey DeVitto
If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now. View quote
Flannery O’Connor
Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard. View quote
Helene Cixous
We are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for the creatures to whom He has given the breath of life. We die in order to live. (Elisabeth Elliot)
The Vatican takes your breath away. View quote
Joe Elliott
I wouldn't treat a romantic scene any differently than any other scene. I would really say the biggest preparation was chewing gum and breath mints! For a kissing scene, it's all about the breath mints! View quote
Alice Englert
In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath. View quote
Breyten Breytenbach
I just want people to take a step back, take a deep breath and actually look at something with a different perspective. But most people will never do that. View quote
Brian McKnight
Most people know that forests are the lungs of our planet, literally playing a critical role in every breath we take. And that they're also home to incredible animals like the orangutan and elephant, which will go extinct if we keep cutting down their forests. View quote
Chris Noth
Pranayama is the practice of breath control. The word prana refers not only to breath, but also to air and life itself. View quote
Christy Turlington
Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song. View quote
Conrad Gessner
Folks, this is perfect weather for today's game. Not a breath of air. View quote
Curt Gowdy
I think once we started directing separately - we each have different kinds of interests now, and the kinds of movies we want to do. I wouldn't hold your breath for that one. View quote
David Zucker
It is desirable that people make music on the breath, with the breath. (Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau)
One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism - there is an epidemic in this country. This is like, the air that we breath. View quote
Daphne Zuniga
Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end. View quote
Emanuel Ax
If the year 2000 can help us move into the future, that's fine, but I am afraid that people see it as a full stop and that one can take a big breath afterwards - you can't. View quote
Graeme Murphy
We sat down and read it for the first time and I thanked God under my breath, because they were all so good. And my leading ladies are both exceptional. I mean, everybody in the play. I could just go on all night about them. View quote
Gavin MacLeod