Virginia Woolf Quotes, Reading Quotes, Air Quotes

Reading [poetry], you know, is rather like opening the door to a horde of rebels who swarm out attacking one in twenty places at once - hit, roused, scraped, bared, swung through the air, so that life seems to flash by; then again blinded, knocked on the head - all of which are agreeable sensations for a reader (since nothing is more dismal than to open the door and get no response).

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It is the 1st mild day of March. Each minute sweeter than before... there is a blessing in the air.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Blessing 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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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Air Quotes

Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.

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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Men Quotes , Air Quotes

Music is to the mind as air is to the body.

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Air Quotes , Mind Quotes

The challenge there is that ISIL doesn't have an air force, so the damage done there is not against ISIL, it's against the Syrian regime.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Air Quotes , Challenges Quotes

You can't control the audience. When you're on the air and they're not coming to the party, it's time to shut down the party.

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Tags : Adam Baldwin Quotes , Party Quotes , Air Quotes

The morrow was a bright September morn; The earth was beautiful as if newborn; There was nameless splendor everywhere, That wild exhilaration in the air, Which makes the passers in the city street Congratulate each other as they meet.

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

The great grindstone, Earth, had turned when Mr. Lorry looked out again, and the sun was red on the courtyard. But, the lesser grindstone stood alone there in the calm morning air, with red upon it that the sun had never give, and would never take away.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Morning Quotes , Air Quotes

They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale---and yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Air Quotes , Unhappy Quotes

And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters

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

For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Writing Quotes , Air Quotes

My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Men Quotes , Air Quotes

The first rule of all air combat is to see the opponent first. Like the hunter who stalks his prey and maneuvers himself unnoticed into the most favourable position for the kill, the fighter in the opening of a dogfight must detect the opponent as early as possible in order to attain a superior position for the attack.

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Tags : Adolf Galland Quotes , Air Quotes , Order Quotes

A circle swoop, and a quick parabola under the bridge arches Where light pushes through; A sudden turning upon itself of a thing in the air. A dip to the water.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Air Quotes , Bridges Quotes

An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with factory smoke, sewer gas and similar products of civilization.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Air Quotes , Civilization Quotes

I simply can't imagine the world will ever be normal again for us. I do talk about "after the war," but it's as if I'm talking about a castle in the air, something that can never come true.

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Tags : Anne Frank Quotes , War Quotes , Air Quotes

Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.

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Tags : Al Pacino Quotes , Air Quotes , Actors Quotes

That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother's palm and fingertips, he was also removing all traces of any tiny leftover parts, and suddenly a ritual which I'd always found incestuous and gross seemed to me more like a desperate act on Joseph's part to get out, to leave, to extract every little last remnant and bring it into open air.

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Tags : Aimee Bender Quotes , Mother Quotes , Air Quotes

I thought I could not breathe in that fine air That pure severity of perfect light I yearned for warmth and colour which I found In Lancelot.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Light Quotes , Air Quotes