Air Quotes - Page 77

Those herbs which perfume the air most delightfully, not passed by as the rest, but, being trodden upon and crushed, are three; that is, burnet, wild thyme and watermints. Therefore, you are to set whole alleys of them, to have the pleasure when you walk or tread.

Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants.

Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.

If God had meant us to walk around naked, he would never have invented the wicker chair.

This modern craze for putting the young in positions of authority - headmasters in their thirties, bishops without a gray hair on their heads, generals who scarcely need to use a razor - ever since it took hold the world's gone steadily downhill.

Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.

Pour away despair and rinse the cup. Eat happiness like bread.

People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.

Within the next few decades, autos will have folding wings that can be spread when on a straight stretch of road so that the machine can take to the air.

There is a peculiar gratification in receiving congratulations from one's squadron for a victory in the air. It is worth more to a pilot than the applause of the whole outside world.

And you should never cut your hair 'cos I love the way you flick it off your shoulders

Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.

Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.

The evil of technology was not technology itself, Lindbergh came to see after the war, not in airplanes or the myriad contrivances of modern technical igenuity, but in the extent to which they can distance us from our better moral nature, or sense of personal accountability.

Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.

What do I bring to the Democratic National Convention that other reporters don't? Hair.

I shoot an arrow into the air, where it lands I do not care: I get my arrows wholesale!

I don't like the same old thing all the time.

You have no time for the prayer meeting, but you have time enough to be brushing your hair to all eternity; you have no time to bend your knee, but plenty of time to make yourselves look smart and grand.

Maybe she was being so hoity-toity because she didn't have her own fairy godmother.

Will pushed his hands through his damp hair. “Oh, yes,” he said bitterly. “Perhaps in some other life, beyond this one, when we have passed beyond the river, or turned upon the Wheel, or whatever kind words you want to use to describe leaving this world, I shall find my friend again, my parabatai. But I have lost you now—now, when I need you more than I ever did!

The most exciting business ideas fit on the back of an airplane napkin.

But if you really want to get involved in making a difference, you can stay at home with your family and have a job and make a reasonable living without having to be on an airplane all of the time, then you ought to go back home and run for School Board.

I've always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I still have a photo of Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon in my living room.

I like to walk around with bare feet and I don't like to comb my hair.