Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shatner

So many dot-com companies were formulated on air.

William Gilmore Simms

The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth.... It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly expended in the air.

Will Cuppy

Male penguins are unfaithful up to an advanced age, a phenomenon sometimes attributed to the sea air.

Will Durant

The finger that turns the dial rules the air.

Sarah Palin

As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where– where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border.

Sara Zarr

He felt it too, the air between us, the invisible lines that something or someone had drawn to connect us. That's the way I remember it.

Sarah Addison Allen

When you know something’s wrong, but you don’t know exactly what it is, the air around you changes.

Sarah Addison Allen

The words were strung in the air like garland. She could almost see them.

Sarah Addison Allen

Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails.

Sappho

Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.

Richard M. Nixon

We can no longer afford to consider air and water common property, free to be abused by anyone without regard to the consequences. Instead, we should begin now to treat them as scarce resources, which we are no more free to contaminate than we are free to throw garbage into our neighbor's yard.

Red Adair

I've done made a deal with the devil. He said he's going to give me an air-conditioned place when I go down there, if I go there, so I won't put all the fires out.

Ritchie Blackmore

I like leaping around on stage as long as it's done with class. None of this jumping up in the air and doing the splits

Richard Corliss

Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space.

Venus Williams

I guess it's a little bit sentimental, but at the time I was really very focused in on really my performance. Afterwards, it was really just a breath of fresh air, just like, 'Oh, yes, I'm back now. I'm doing good.'

Robin Williams

Texting and driving at the same time is like jerking off and juggling at the same time. Too many balls in the air, if you catch my drift.

Robert Pinsky

The medium of poetry is not words, the medium of poetry is not lines-it is the motion of air inside the human body, coming out through the chest and the voice box and through the mouth to shape sounds that have meaning. It's bodily.

Robert Rauschenberg

And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting.

Robert M. Gates

When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early '90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didn't want to, because they had no pilots.

Sarah Waters

How will a person know, Selina, when the soul that has the affinity with hers is near it?" She answered, "She will know. Does she look for air, before she breathes it? This love will be guided to her; and when it comes, she will know. And she will do anything to keep that love about her, then. Because to lose it will be like a death to her.

Samuel Johnson

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...

Virgil

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...

Vincent Canby

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.

Will Smith

The first time that I performed as an actor was the first day on the set of 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.'

Warren Buffett

Trust is like the air we breathe--when it's present, nobody really notices; when it's absent, everybody notices.

Walter Bagehot

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

Walter Cronkite

Television [is] a high-impact medium. It does some things no other force can do-transmitting electronic pictures through the air. Still, as an explored, comprehensive medium, it is not a substitute for print.

Virginia Woolf

Outside the trees dragged their leaves like nets through the depths of the air; the sound of water was in the room and through the waves came the voices of birds singing.

William Blum

A terrorist is someone who has a bomb, but doesn't have an air force.

Wentworth Miller

You have to love what you do, and you have to need it like you need air. And there's nothing else that would give me the same degree of satisfaction as acting, which is why I can't walk away from it.

Wallace Stevens

Poetry is a finikin thing of air That lives uncertainly and not for long Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.

Samuel Richardson

Air and manners are more expressive than words.

Samuel Beckett

We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.