| "Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them." »Homer |
| "Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn." »Charlie Parker |
| "In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people. Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever and not this outer life of telegrams and anger." »Edward Morgan Forster |
| "Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise." »Ivan Pavlov |
| "I like to think of my best moment on the job as quiet victories. Victories over what Over the system, over the various bureaucracies not watching me, over my colleagues' indifference, over my patron's ignorance, over the very concept of horn-blowing pride." »Paul Wiener |
| "The air is precious to the red man, for all things share the same breath-the beast, the tree, the man, they all share the same breath. The white man does not seem to notice the air he breathes. Like a man dying for many days, he is numb to the stench." »Chief Seattle |
| "I bet when they weren't fighting, Vikings with horn helmets had to stick potatoes on the ends of the horns, so as to avoid eye pokings to fellow Vikings and lady Vikings." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "Weird, isn't it Somehow in the dead of winter when its 40 below, so cold your words just freeze in the air, you think you'll never hear a robin's song again or see a blossom on a cherry tree, when one day you wake up and bingo, light coming through the mini blinds is softened with a tick of rose and the cold morning air has lost its bite. It's spring once again, the streets are paved with mud and the hills are alive with the sound of mosquitos." »Andrew Schneider |
| "All the Padres need is a flyball in the air." »Jerry Coleman |
| "I shot an arrow into the air, and it stuck." »Graffito |
| "The morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| "I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty." »George Burns |
| "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." »Lord Kelvin |
| "There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all." »Robert Orben |
| "Building castles in the air, and making yourself a laughing-stock." »Miguel de Cervantes |
| "The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are in the air." »Julie Arabi |
| "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air" »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning." »A. E. Housman |
| "Why does the air Force need expensive new bombers Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining" »George Wallace |
| "Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them." »Rita Rudner |
| "Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth." »Walt Whitman |
| "Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air." »John Quincy Adams |
| "Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe a dungeon." »Robert Green Ingersoll |
| "The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air." »T. Starr King |
| "It is not known precisely where angels dwell-whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire |
| "A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom -- it's gone." »Edward R. Murrow |
| "Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art." »Izaak Walton |
| "Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies." »Alexander Pope |
| "When important decisions have to be taken, the natural anxiety to come to a right decision will often keep you awake. Nothing, however, is more conducive to healthful sleep than plenty of open air." »Sir John Lubbock |
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