Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, Air Quotes

Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of SHAKSPEARE's wit. The men who lived with him became Poets, for the air was fame.

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'I beg your pardon?' Alice said with a puzzled air. 'I'm not offended,' said Humpty Dumpty.

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Air Quotes , Confusion Quotes

When you know you are of worth, you don't have to raise your voice, you don't have to become rude, you don't have to become vulgar; you just are. And you are like the sky is, as the air is, the same way water is wet. It doesn't have to protest.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Air Quotes , Sky Quotes

I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Air Quotes , Ideas Quotes

To behold the day-break! The little light fades the immense and diaphanous shadows, The air tastes good to my palate.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Light Quotes , Air Quotes

... why do people who live in the country always give themselves such airs?

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Country Quotes , Air Quotes

This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Air Quotes , Soul Quotes

Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Men Quotes , Air Quotes

Where do I begin and end in space? I have relations to the sun and air which are just as vital parts of my existence as my heart.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Heart Quotes , Air Quotes

I love a film where I get squished by two dumpsters or I fly through the air.

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Tags : Alan Cumming Quotes , Air Quotes , Two Quotes

The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.

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Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Light Quotes , Air Quotes

There are, indeed, few merrier spectacles than that of many windmills bickering together in a fresh breeze over a woody country; their halting alacrity of movement, their pleasant business, making bread all day with uncouth gesticulation; their air, gigantically human, as of a creature half alive, put a spirit of romance into the tamest landscape.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Country Quotes , Air Quotes

War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , War Quotes , Air Quotes

The bright, frosty day declined as they walked and spoke together. The sun dipped in the river far behind them, and the old city lay red before them, as their walk drew to a close. The moaning water cast its seaweed duskily at their feet, when they turned to leave its margin; and the rooks hovered above them with hoarse cries, darker splashes in the darkening air.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Nature Quotes , Air Quotes

Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure.

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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Air Quotes , Singing Quotes

[The poets' role is that of] capturing on their instruments the secret stir of life in the air and giving it voice in the music of prophecy

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Tags : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes , Air Quotes , Voice Quotes

Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is content to go without air, space, quiet, decency and good manners, need be without anything whatever that he wants; or at least a reasonably cheap imitation of it.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Air Quotes , Space Quotes

Truths that startled the generation in which they were first announced become in the next age the commonplaces of conversation; as the famous airs of operas which thrilled the first audiences come to be played on hand-organs in the streets.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Hands Quotes , Air Quotes

The water is clearer than the air, and the air is the air that angels breathe.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Angel Quotes , Air Quotes

So scented the grim Feature, and upturn'd His nostril wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Air Quotes , Quarry Quotes