Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Conrad

The atmosphere of officialdom would kill anything that breathes the air of human endeavour, would extinguish hope and fear alike in the supremacy of paper and ink.

John Keats

... the open sky sits upon our senses like a sapphire crown - the Air is our robe of state - the Earth is our throne, and the Sea a mighty minstrel playing before it.

John Keats

The air is all softness.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The family which takes it mauve and cerise, air conditioned, power-steered, and power braked automobile out for a tour passes through cities that are badly paved, made hideous by litter, blighted buildings, billboards, and posts for wires that should long since have been put underground.

John Kenneth Galbraith

According to the experience of all but the most accomplished jugglers, it is easier to keep one ball in the air than many.

John D. Rockefeller

I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there, like air or food, or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it.

Linus Pauling

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

Lloyd Bridges

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Air pollution is a threat to health, especially of older persons. It contributes significantly to the rising rates of chronic respiratory ailments. It stains our cities and towns with ugliness, soiling and corroding whatever it touches. Its damage extends to our forests and farmlands as well. The economic toll for our neglect amounts to billions of dollars each year.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I'll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years. [Touting his underlying intentions for the "Great Society" programs, LBJ confided with two like-minded governors on Air Force One]

Lucy Stone

The idea of equal rights was in the air.

Lucian Freud

The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. The effect that they make in space is as bound up with them as might be their colour or smell ... Therefore the painter must be as concerned with the air surrounding his subject as with the subject itself. It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.

Mahesh Babu

Moderate aspirations lead to a contended life. I don't have to buy the airplane and I can't drive the tank!!

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Like the air, God's Grace is available to us. It is permeating every fibre of Being and the Being of the entire universe. When we take our attention to that Being, finer than the finest, then we establish ourselves on the level of God's Grace. Immediately we just enjoy. Life is Bliss!

Frei Otto

I have built little. But, I have built many castles in the air.

Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani

Of course we are coming to invest in Germany - that is certain. Most airplanes in the fleet of Qatar Airways are from Airbus.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is content to go without air, space, quiet, decency and good manners, need be without anything whatever that he wants; or at least a reasonably cheap imitation of it.

John Lubbock

Fresh air is as good for the mind as for the body. Nature always seems trying to talk to us as if she had some great secret to tell. And so she has.

Jimmy Carr

How many airports are there in the world?

Jim Lovell

The Moon is essentially gray - no color - looks like plaster of paris - soft of gray sand.

Jim Lovell

I was born a year after Lindbergh made his historic trip across the Atlantic. Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy.

Joanna Noelle Levesque

Oh, lighten up, Clark. I'm the one having scalding hot air directed at my genitals.

Emily Oster

When I meet people on airplanes and they find out I'm an economist, they usually ask about stock tips.

Emily Murphy

On the prairie one can see the colour of the air.

Emily Post

One very great annoyance in open air gatherings is cigar smoke when blown directly in one's face or worse yet the smoke from a smouldering cigar. It is almost worthy of a study in air currents to discover why with plenty of space all around, a tiny column of smoke will make straight for the nostrils of the very one most nauseated by it!

Ellen Hopkins

....a perfect paper airplane.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Astonishingly, at some point, a sputtering torch was thrust into her hands. Alma did not see who gave it to her. She had never before been entrusted with fire. The torch spit sparks and sent chunks of flaming tar spinning into the air behind her as she bolted across the cosmos-the only body in the heavens who was not held to a strict elliptical path. Nobody stopped her. She was a comet. She did not know that she was not flying.

Elizabeth Gilbert

With each reunion (we) had to learn each other all over again. There was always that nervous moment at the airport when I would stand there waiting for him to arrive, wondering, Will I still know him? Will he still know me?

John Bunyan

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark, when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.

Joan Collins

Yes, I remember the bombings. Yes, I remember, because - yes, I remember being in air raid shelters. Even though I was evacuated because I was very young, I remember being in air raid shelters and the tremendous feeling of compatibility with everybody.

Lois Lowry

He was free to enjoy the breathless glee that overwhelmed him: the speed, the clear cold air, the total silence, the feeling of balance and excitement and peace.

LL Cool J

Once the referee throws the ball in the air, it's either your ball or their ball and you have to just take your shot.

Manu Ginobili

Once I step on the court in San Antonio, I feel the support in the air.