Air Quotes - Page 25

What is wild cannot be bought or sold, borrowed or copied. It is. Unmistakeable, unforgettable, unshamable, elemental as earth and ice, water, fire and air, a quintessence, pure spirit, resolving into no constituents. Don't waste your wildness: it is precious and necessary.

It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.

I usually take a walk after breakfast, write for three hours, have lunch and read in the afternoon. Demons don’t like fresh air - they prefer it if you stay in bed with cold feet; for a person who is as chaotic as me, who struggles to be in control, it is an absolute necessity to follow these rules and routines. If I let myself go, nothing will get done.

Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.

Today, people are talking about many things: the danger of war and frequent clashes, water and air pollution, hunger, the increasing erosion of moral values, and so on. As a result, many other concerns have come to the fore: peace, contentment, ecology, justice, tolerance, and dialogue. Unfortunately, despite certain promising precautions, those who should be tackling these problems tend to do so by seeking further ways to conquer and control nature and produce more lethal weapons.

A chair must be really important as an object, because my mother always told me to offer my chair to a lady

Armchair warriors often fail - and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales

I always say, the bigger the hair, the smaller the hips!

No one ever said life was fair. Just Eventful.

The universe and the observer exist as a pair. I cannot imagine a consistent theory of the universe that ignores consciousness.

Look on beauty, and you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight; which therein works a miracle in Nature, making them lightest that wear most of it: so are those crisped snaky golden locks which make such wanton gambols with the wind upon supposed fairness, often known to be the dowry of a second head, the skull that bred them in the sepulchre.

Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.

To make a poem, take one newspaper, one pair of scissors, snip the words one by one and put them in a bag. Shake gently, draw them out at random, and copy them conscientiously... DADA est mort. DADA est idiot. Vive DADA!

As a girl, I used to believe that I could see and taste the air. I was TOLD that was impossible and forgot how to do so.

If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear a flower in your hair.

A pilot who says he has never been frightened in an airplane is, I'm afraid, lying.

I am fascinated by air. If you remove the air from the sky, all the birds would fall to the ground. And all the planes, too.

Critics play a dangerous game when they denounce the science and law EPA has used to defend clean air for more than 40 years. The American people know better.

All economic activity is dependent upon that environment and its underlying resource base of forests, water, air, soil, and minerals. When the environment is finally forced to file for bankruptcy because its resource base has been polluted, degraded, dissipated, and irretrievably compromised, the economy goes into bankruptcy with it.

It's not the hair on your head that matters. It's the kind of hair you have inside.

I look my best when I take my helmet off after a long motorcycle ride. I have a glow and a bit of helmet hair.

People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air

If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.

Generally the first week in September brings the hottest weather of the year, and this was no exception. Overhead the fans turned slow, their paddle blades stirring the air up close to the ceiling but nowheres else.