Quotes about air
air rights democracy
We’re at a point in history that whether the Internet is going to evolve in a way that’s compatible with democracy and human rights is really kind of up in the air. Rebecca MacKinnon
airports railroads towns
A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it. Russell Baker
air space car
Discount air fares, a car in every parking space and the interstate highway system have made every place accessible - and every place alike. Ronald Steel
airplane sky giving
Flying radio-controlled airplanes is the only time where I am able to focus and concentrate on nothing but looking up. Only God would give me a hobby where I'm looking up to the sky. It's a fascinating hobby. Tyler Perry
air stuff royal
Royal Canadian Air Farce, and I was in three sketches there. And they wrote some really great stuff for me. Trish Stratus
air doubt goats
Percy looked at Coach Hedge and Frank. “A trap?” “Probably,” Frank said. “She’s not mortal,” Hedge said, sniffing the air. “Probably some kind of goat-eating, demigod-destroying fiend from Tartarus.” “No doubt,” Percy agreed. “Awesome.” Hedge grinned. “Let’s go. Rick Riordan
air bored want
I got quite bored when I was hanging in the air. I want to do it without a parachute next. Rhona Mitra
air bars firsts
I like bars just after they open in the evening. When the air inside is still cool and clean and everything is shiny. The first quiet drink of the evening in a quiet bar -- that's wonderful. Raymond Chandler
air ashes cold
The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love. Raymond Chandler
air theatre four
She lowered her lashes until they almost cuddled her cheeks and slowly raised them again, like a theatre curtain. I was to get to know that trick. That was supposed to make me roll over on my back with all four paws in the air. Raymond Chandler
airplane jumping use
The metaphor that I frequently use for entrepreneurship is jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane plane on the way down. Reid Hoffman
airplane journey jumping
The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down. Reid Hoffman
airplane two interesting
For me, being in a car or on an airplane is like being in limbo. It's this dead zone between two places. But to walk, you're some place that's already interesting. You're not just between places. Things are happening. Rebecca Solnit
airplane sky nuclear
She stared at me. "Fly, ;ole, in an airplane, which you were warned never to do lest Zeus strike you out of the sky, AND carrying a weapon that has more destructive power than a nuclear bomb?" "Yeah," I said. "Pretty much exactly like that. Rick Riordan
air grace jason
[Jason] faltered when he looked at Leo, who was mimicking taking notes with an air pencil. “Go on, Professor Grace!” he said, wide-eyed. “I wanna get an A on the test. Rick Riordan
air knowing water
Today knowledge is free. It's like air, it's like water... There's no competitive advantage to knowing more than the person next to you. The world doesn't care what you know. What the world cares about is what you can do with what you know. Tony Wagner
airplane games two
We have two tables on our airplane that are set up with the games. Steve Yzerman
air breathing people
I'm a guy who gets more out of life than some people - more out of one big breath of fresh air than most people get from breathing in and out for a lifetime. Vince McMahon
airports clouds seven
I was thirty-seven then, strapped in my seat as the huge 747 plunged through dense cloud cover on approach to the Hamburg airport. Haruki Murakami
air people brain
Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it. Karl Kraus
air way tvs
I am like a TV antenna. I catch everything that is in the air, and then I do it my way. Karl Lagerfeld
air water force-of-will
The dizzy rapture of starving. The power of needing nothing. By force of will I make myself the impossible sprite who lives on air, on water, on purity. Kathryn Harrison
airplane past night
Perhaps if human desire is said out loud, the urban planes, the prisons, the architectural mirrors will take off, as airplanes do. The black planes will take off into the night air and the night winds, sliding past and behind each other, zooming, turning and turning in the redness of the winds, living, never to return. Kathy Acker
air long sound
Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long. William Faulkner
air half mail
I got more mail than anybody on the history of The Today Show, but half of it was to get me off the air. Willard Scott
airplane paper tailors
Tailor gang they rolling up those paper planes. Wiz Khalifa
airplane dark blue
I saw for the first time the earth's shape. I could easily see the shores of continents, islands, great rivers, folds of the terrain, large bodies of water. The horizon is dark blue, smoothly turning to black. . . the feelings which filled me I can express with one word-joy. Yuri Gagarin
air wind waiting
Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air. Sarah Kay
air swim different
He that can swim needs not despair to fly; to swim is to fly in a grosser fluid, and to fly is to swim in a subtler. We are only to proportion our power of resistance to the different density of matter through which we are to pass. You will be necessarily upborne by the air if you can renew any impulse upon it faster than the air can recede from the pressure... Samuel Johnson
air steps hell
It is easy to go down into Hell...; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air---there's the rub... Virgil
air feelings watches
Confession: When I went to see The Empire Strikes Back I found myself glancing at my watch. The Force is with us, indeed, and a lot of it is hot air. It's a measure of my mixed feelings about The Empire Strikes Back that I'm not at all sure that I understand the plot. The Empire Strikes Back is about as personal as a Christmas card from a bank. Vincent Canby
air actors firsts
The first time that I performed as an actor was the first day on the set of 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.' Will Smith
air talking trying
I was trying so hard. I would memorize the entire script, then I'd be lipping everybody's lines while they were talking. When I watch those episodes, it's disgusting. My performances were horrible." [On his first season of THE FRESH PRINCE OF BEL-AIR (1990)] Will Smith