Best air & distance Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In a few hours one could cover that incalculable distance; from the winter country and homely neighbours, to the city where the air trembled like a tuning-fork with unimaginable possibilities.”

Country Hours Cities Air Possibility Distance Winter Neighbour Forks Unimaginable Tuning Homely

Book:Lucy Gayheart

Source: Lucy Gayheart

“A melancholy sound is in the air, A deep sigh in the distance, a shrill wail Around my dwelling. 'Tis the Wind of night.”

Night Sound Air Wind Distance Melancholy Sigh Dwelling

Author:William C. Bryant

“With respect to duels, indeed, I have my own ideas. Few things in this so surprising world strike me with more surprise. Two little visual spectra of men, hovering with insecure enough cohesion in the midst of the unfathomable, and to dissolve therein, at any rate, very soon, make pause at the distance of twelve paces asunder; whirl around, and simultaneously by the cunningest mechanism, explode one another into dissolution; and, offhand, become air, and non-extant--the little spitfires!”

Source: Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh

“Long distance is the next best thing to being there. But a dove in love would rather reach out and touch someone. Spring is in the air and all lines are busy with local calls as the wooing and cooing commences.”

Long Next Lines Air Spring Distance Busy Locals Best Things Reach Out Being There Dove Long Distance Wooing Touch Someone

Book:Beguiled by the wild: the art of Charley Harper

Source: Beguiled by the wild: the art of Charley Harper

“Your wits can't thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on those hillsides of granite rocks and magenta heather. You've no such colours in the sky, no such lure in the distances, no such sadness in the evenings. Oh the dreaming! the dreaming! the torturing, heart-scalding, never satisfying dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming!”

Source: George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit

“With air travel there is no distance, there is only time.”

Air Distance Flying Only Time Time Flies Air Travel

Book:Danger in the Comfort Zone: From Boardroom to Mailroom--how to Break the Entitlement Habit That's Killing American Business

Source: Danger in the Comfort Zone: From Boardroom to Mailroom--how to Break the Entitlement Habit That's Killing American Business

“If you perform on a stage or you sing a song, it's like you sing your song, and then the words go into the air, and then they go into somebody's body through their ears, so it's kind of like penetrating somebody. It's kind of like having sex with somebody - but, obviously, from a great distance.”

Ifs Kind Body Song Sex Air Stage Like You Ears Distance Having Sex

Author:Jarvis Cocker

“What a splendid thing watercolour is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe in it.”

Air Figures Distance Breathe Atmosphere Splendid

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

“Already, viral contamination offers an initial response to the question of the downside of electronic circuits, but another area of research beckons the area of ecological pollution. The pollution not only of air, water, and other substances, but also the unperceived pollution of distances.”

Water Air Offers Research Areas Distance Response Substance Pollution Initials Ecological Circuits Viral Contamination

Book:Open Sky

Source: Open Sky

“Dolphins frequently leap above the water surface. One reason for this behaviour could be that, when travelling longer distances, jumping can save the dolphins energy as there is less friction while in the air.”

Reason Energy Water Air Distance Surface Leap Behaviour Jumping Dolphins Friction

Author:Thomas Metzinger

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