T Quotes
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“The air down here doesn't smell of sugar and coffee. It smells damp, rotten.”
Source: The Merciless IV: Last Rites
“The air felt hot in Vic's lungs and he held it there. It was now an all-or-nothing game. He had the sense that he was alone, that all the Henrithvale players were alone; and in this tempest they must now sail for home or let the mast break and the hull fill with water and be damned.”
Source: faded yellow by the winter
“The air felt thick with the feeling between us, like it was filling the room: a room full of our carnal heat, our hot desire for each other.
Both my hands were clenched on the tablecloth, bunching it tightly, as he continued to swipe the belt against my quivering ass cheeks, and I could feel his tight fist yank repeatedly on my hair.”
Source: Naked and Sexual
“The Air Force comes in every morning and says, 'Bomb, bomb, bomb' ... And then the State Department comes in and says, 'Not now, or not there, or too much, or not at all.'”
“The Air Force had put out a secret order for its pilots to capture UFOs. For the last six months we have been working with a congressional committee for investigating official secrecy concerning proof that UFOs are real machines under intelligent.”
“The Air Force is pulling nine cargo aircraft from military operations to support President Obama's stepped-up visits to campaign events. Good, now he can carry his entire ego with him on the trail.”
“The Air Force pinned a medal on me for killing a man and discharged me for making love to one.”
“The Air Force was confused about what it wanted me to be when I grew up. I applied for an ROTC scholarship out of high school because I wanted to be an astronaut. None of my teachers had ever broken the news to me that I couldn’t fly into space, so the third-grade dream remained.”
Source: The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows
“The air had borrowed wind from the wildernesses of our hills. It had stolen the fragrance from the jasmines and was blowing it around as its own. It carried the scent of crushed grapes from the surrounding grapevines and released it in occasional whiffs. The saffron fields were in full bloom, it was spring.”
Source: Game of Big Numbers
“The air has finally gotten to the place that we can breathe it together.”
Source: Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement
“The air in a man's lungs 10,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000 atoms, so that sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has ever lived - Michelangelo or George Washington or Moses.”
“The air in Africa is more significant in the landscape than in Europe, it is filled with loomings and mirages, and is in a way the real stage of activities. In the heat of the midday the air oscillates and vibrates like the string of a violin, lifts up long layers of grass-land with thorn-trees and hills on it, and creates vast silvery expanses of water in the dry grass.”
“The air in my home is heavy with my mom's unhappiness. And her exhaustion. And her sheer dissatisfaction with her life. And I hate it. I can be up in my room when she's in the kitchen below and I feel her despair seeping up through the floorboards. You can hear her banging pots and pans or cursing the vacuum cleaner”
Source: Love and Other Perishable Items
“The air in Provence is impregnated with the aroma of garlic, which makes it very healthful to breathe.”
“The air inside her room was thick with the scent of eucalyptus and lemon. He materialized near her dresser. His hand automatically turned her alarm clock to face the wall, then brushed across a tray filled with Vicks, cough syrup, aspirin, and a thermometer. He tenderly touched the lemon slices near an empty teacup. Could a simple illness have filled him with so much fear that he had risked coming to see her?
A dim light from a purple Lava lamp cast an amber glow across the bed where Serena lay, the leopard-print sheets twisted in a knot beside her leg. Her long curly hair was half caught in a scrunchy that matched her flannel pajamas. The words Diamonds are a girl's best friend- they're sharper than knives curled around a dozen marching Marilyns in army fatigues on the blue fabric. Stanton had been with her when she bought the Sergeant Marilyn pajamas three months back.”
Source: The Sacrifice
“The air is all softness.”
Source: The Complete Works of John Keats
“The air is an extremely dangerous, jealous and exacting mistress. Once under the spell most lovers are faithful to the end, which is not always old age. Even those masters and princes of aerial fighting, the survivors of fifty mortal duels in the high air who have come scatheless through the War and all its perils, have returned again and again to their love and perished too often in some ordinary commonplace flight undertaken for pure amusement.”
Source: Churchill on men and events: a selection from
“The air is annoyingly potted with a multitude of minor vertical disturbances which sicken the passengers and keep us captives of our seat belts. We sweat in the cockpit, though much of the time we fly with the side windows open. The airplanes smell of hot oil and simmering aluminum, disinfectant, feces, leather, and puke ... the stewardesses, short-tempered and reeking of vomit, come forward as often as they can for what is a breath of comparatively fresh air.”
“The air is charged, the beings making up the forest biome thrumming to a beat I can’t quite understand.”
Source: Devoured: The Extraordinary Story of Kudzu, the Vine That Ate the South
“The air is crowded with birds -- beautiful, tender, intelligent birds -- to whom life is a song.”
Source: Studies in animal life
“The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists.”
“The air is dry and light and its effect on the mind is similar to that of a glass of Champagne before dinner.”
Source: The Map of Love
“The air is full of a farewell- deserted by the silver lake lies the wild world, overturned. Cities rise where the mountains fell, the furnace where the phoenix burned”
Source: Selected poems
“The air is full of flying kisses sent by the people who are watching you.”
Source: I Love You Too
“The air is full of souls those who are nearest to earth descending to be tied to mortal bodies return to other bodies, desiring to live in them.”
“The air is humid and flowery like teenage perfume”
Source: Dandelion Yellow
“The air is like a butterfly
With frail blue wings.
The happy earth looks at the sky
And sings.”
Source: Joyce Kilmer
“The air is like a draught of wine.
The undertaker cleans his sign,
The Hull express goes off the line,
When it's raspberry time in Runcorn.”
“The air is like being wanted, we say, and they nod approvingly. The air is like getting older, they say, and they touch our arms gently.”
Source: How the Water Feels to the Fishes
“The air is not empty space to them, it is as solid as the earth to us, or water to a fish. It holds them up and it will hold us up.”
Source: Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures
“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.”
“The air is sharp, and I understand why years ago sea air was prescribed as a tonic for the body.”
Source: The Weight Of Water
“The air is so dry, so clear, and there's so few people, almost no lights. And you can lie on your back and look up and see the Milky Way. All the stars like a splash of milk in the sky. And you see them slowly move. Because the Earth is moving. And you feel like you're lying on a giant spinning ball in space.”
Source: Exit West
“The air is still, yet, danger stirs in the distance making its way further downtown, deeper into the heart of the city.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“The air is sweet,
though there is
a metallic morning tang to it
like the memory
of a future knife
drawn gently across
the tongue.”
Source: Thirty-Three Poems: Some Of Which Are About Death
“The air is the most mysterious, the most exciting, the most challenging of all the elements. We leave the planet, we leave the sea, we leave the earth. The air is no longer of this world .”
“The air is the only place free from prejudices.”
“The air is thick, the stone is cold,
These chains are rust, these years are old.
Darkness lingers, gnaws, decays,
A hollow tomb in endless days.”
Source: Gothic Poems to Love & Liberty: A Collection of Poems on Myths & Broken Hearts
“THE AIR IS THIN AMONG THE ELITE; THERE ISN’T ENOUGH OXYGEN FOR THE TRUTH TO SURVIVE.”
Source: Symphony Of Lies: A Psychological Thriller of Wealth, Power, and Lethal Secrets
“The air is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven, Zeus all that is, and what transcends them all.”
Source: The Tragedies of Aeschylos: A New Translation with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes
“The air itself is desperate to hold me back, because I can break it, because I am the tip of the spear. The pain-sharpened blade.”
Source: Bloodmarked
“The air itself was ebony, like the denial, the refutation, of the idea of light.”
“The air moved slowly around his body, somehow tangible, gold flaked, every dust mote a lantern.”
Source: The Raven Boys
“The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of clinical facts would seem to be a pursuit of the physician as harmless as it is indispensable. [But] it seemed irresistibly rational to certain minds that diseases should be as fully classifiable as are beetles and butterflies. This doctrine ... bore perhaps its richest fruit in the hands of Boissier de Sauvauges. In his Nosologia Methodica published in 1768 ... this Linnaeus of the bedside grouped diseases into ten classes, 295 genera, and 2400 species.”
“The air of England is too pure for a slave to breathe, and so everyone who breathes it becomes free. Everyone who comes to this island is entitled to the protection of English law, whatever oppression he may have suffered and whatever may be the colour of his skin.”
“the air of expectation, empty,
one last static slip, as if breaking
the circuit on the electric fence
but her mind had traveled miles
up to this point,
and she could only go alone”
Source: Reaching Marrakesh
“The air of fashion, which many young people are so eager to attain, always strikes me like the studied attitudes of some modern prints, copied with tasteless servility after the antigue; the soul is left out, and none of the parts are tied together by what may properly be termed character.”
“The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.”
Source: The Age of Innocence
“The air of one's native country is the most healthy air.”
“The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.”