Air Quotes - Page 89

I feel in my bones that Lady Gaga is a true strident feminist and good for my soul - but how do I square this with the fact that she's constantly walking around in her bra and pants, even at, like, airports and stuff, where even nudists wear a fleece and linen drawstring trousers?

She hissed, right there behind my ear, and I had the horrible idea she was spitting maggots into my hair. Why maggots were a problem when I was about to be dead, I didn’t know, but the idea completely grossed me out. “In the womb I heard you die, for no one lives when a banshee cries.” I wasn’t just going to die. I was going to be rhymed to death. That simply wasn’t fair.

I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization.

I never underestimate the power of hot rollers for your hair and eyelash curlers for your eyelashes.

I definitely can feel the third or fourth feminist wave in the air, so maybe this is a good time to open that Pandora’s box a little bit and air it out.

In 1903 the Wright brothers invented airplanes, because in 1902 they took a road trip across the country with their family.

I am with the angels and just completely happy.

Her hair was strawberry blond, and she had the shape of a popsicle stick: turn her sideways and she practically disappeared.

She sat leaning back in her chair, looking ahead, knowing that he was as aware of her as she was of him. She found pleasure in the special self-consciousness it gave her. When she crossed her legs, when she leaned on her arm against the window sill, when she brushed her hair off her forehead - every movement of her body was underscored by a feeling the unadmitted words for which were: Is he seeing it?

I've pretty much always had the same haircut my entire life.

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

I love New Orleans physically. I love the trees and the balmy air and the beautiful days. I have a beautiful house here.

The reason 'help' is such a great prayer is that God is the gift of desperation. When you're in despair, you're teachable.

A fair trial would have been no trial at all.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Talking to your hairdresser is almost like talking to your therapist.

Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight.

Surrender one hair, and you'll end up beardless.

Allied air power was the greatest single reason for the German defeat.

We can not escape tragic roads. It is like grasping at the sun & trying to catch air. We must take one step at-a-time. Keep going.

When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.

'Tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes!

Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.

In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.