“The figures... are not supposed to reveal anything... It's like seeing a stranger in some place like an air terminal for the first time. You look at him, you notice his shoes, his suit, the pin in his lapel, but you don't have any particular feeling about him.” FirstsLooksFeelingsHumanitySeeingAirFiguresParticularFirst TimeShoesStrangerSuitsPinsTerminal Author:Wayne Thiebaud
“The sea, as well as the air, is a free and common thing to all; and a particular nation cannot pretend to have the right to the exclusion of all others, without violating the rights of nature and public usage.” WellsNationsFreedomCommonRightsAirSeaParticularExclusionUsageCommon Things Author:Elizabeth I
“He had a certain air of being a handsome man-which he was not; and a certain air of being a well-bred man-which he was not. It was mere swagger and challenge; but in this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world.” MenWorldWellsCharacterCertainChallengesInterestingHalfAirParticularMereProofHandsomeAssertionSwaggerInteresting CharactersHandsome Men Book:LITTLE DORRIT Source: LITTLE DORRIT
“As a mode of perception that often becomes a style of life, paranoia weaves around the vulnerable self or group an air-tight metaphysic and world view. Paranoia is an antireligious mysticism based on the feeling or perception that the world in general, and others in particular, are against me or us. Reality is perceived as hostile. By contrast, the religious mystic experiences the ground of being as basically friendly to the deepest needs of the self. That which is unknown, strange, or beyond our comprehension is with and for rather than against us.” WorldNeedsSelfFeelingsRealityReligiousViewsGroupsAirStyleParticularStrangePerceptionVulnerableFriendlyMysticismContrastHostileComprehensionMysticParanoiaWorld View Author:Sam Keen
“There is no man who has not some interesting associations with particular scenes, or airs, or books, and who does not feel their beauty or sublimity enhanced to him by such connections.” MenFeelsDoeBookInterestingAirParticularSceneConnectionsAssociationSublimitySome Interesting Author:Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet
“Once I learned how to talk, personally, by myself to any number of people, which means do radio without talking to anyone in particular on the air - I just found that my brain became very free to engage in a sort of stream-of-consciousness style of doing what I do.” PeopleMeanFoundNumbersBrainConsciousnessTalkingAirStyleParticularRadioStreamsStream Of Consciousness Author:Marc Maron
“The Book of Air and Shadows' was born during a conference with an intellectual property lawyer on a particular afternoon in November of 2003.” BookBornAirParticularIntellectualShadowPropertyLawyerAfternoonConferencesNovemberIntellectual Property Author:Michael Gruber