Air Quotes - Page 120

And of course there is nothing better than wearing the same T-shirt for days and not brushing my hair for weeks.

And when he had put his hand on mine with a cheerful look, wherefrom I took courage, he brought me within to the secret things. Here sighs, laments, and deep wailings were resounding through the starless air; wherefore at first I wept thereat. Strange tongues, horrible utterances, words of woe, accents of anger, voices high and faint, and sounds of hands with them, were making a tumult which whirls always in that air forever dark, like the sand when the whirlwind breathes.

Recently started flat ironing my ball hair. Come on ladies, you know how it is; if you have curly hair you just want straight hair.

I moved to New Zealand from Winnipeg when I was almost five. I hated it. It was to a city in the south of New Zealand called Invercargill and there was constant rain. There was a depressing sensation in the air.

One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.

You don't usually get treated unfairly. You usually get what you deserve.

The black­est des­pair that can take hold of any soci­ety is the fear that liv­ing hon­estly is futile.

I don't know if my hairstyles reflect that, but I am someone who enjoys change.

The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.

We are very encouraged that the results from our monitoring of air quality and drinking water conditions in both New York and near the Pentagon show that the public in these areas is not being exposed to excessive levels of asbestos or other harmful substances. I am glad to reassure the people of New York and Washington, D.C. that their air is safe to breathe and their water is safe to drink.

I dyed my hair about 42 different colours, and kids can be pretty judgmental about people who are different. But instead of breaking down and conforming, I stood firm. That is also probably why I was unhappy.

Given the prevailing lack of discipline, it would have been impossible to use Congolese machine-gunners to defend the base from air attack: they did not know how to handle their weapons and did not want to learn.

I regard it as very unfair, but capitalism without failure is like religion without hell.

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.

There are certain kinds of silence that make you walk on air.

He had electric blue hair that had stuck around his head like tendrils of a startled octopus.

I've got the long hair and kind of androgynous look. It's love-hate; it's sexy, but not sexy. So it's either you get it or you don't.

Life had taught her that we all require big and small lies in order to survive, just as much as we need air. She used to say that if during one single day, from dawn to dusk, we could see the naked reality of the world, and of ourselves, we would either take our own lives or lose our minds.

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

I actually don't shop very much. I have a tendency to rotate a few pairs of ripped jeans and an old cashmere sweater.

I wish my hair was thicker, and I wish my feet were prettier. My toes are really ugly. I wish my ears were smaller. And my nose could be smaller too.

I'm learning with the older that I get that some feelings are just universal and that I'm not the only one who hates their hair or their life at times.

The world's a rollercoaster and I am not strapped in. Maybe I should hold with care, but my hands are busy in the air.

I was a multi-millionaire from playing hockey. Then I got divorced, and now I'm a millionaire.