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“When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.”

Littles Said Used Mother Air Needed Draws Fingers Pencils

Author:Oscar Niemeyer

“Homesickness is a great teacher. It taught me, during an endless rainy fall, that I came from the arid lands, and like where I came from. I was used to dry clarity and sharpness in the air. I was used to horizons that either lifted into jagged ranges or rimmed the geometrical circle of the flat world. I was used to seeing a long way. I was used to earth colors--tan, rusty red, toned white--and the endless green of Iowa offended me. I was used to a sun that came up over mountains and went down behind other mountains. I missed the color and smell of sagebrush, and the sight of bare ground.”

“I've often used the extremes in my work to comment on the mainstream. I think that sometimes a subject that I'm working on, like popular culture, is so present all around us that they're hard to see. It's like: How do you see the air you breathe? How do you see how it affects you?”

Thinking Sometimes Hard Used Culture Air Subjects Extremes Breathe Comment Mainstream Popular Culture

Author:Lauren Greenfield

“Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind.”

Want Action Used Fall Water Air Wind Driven Instance Germany Sail Holland Velocity Windmills Falling Water

Book:Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

Source: Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

“The first of a thousand lies. Truth flowed to Micah Quill, was sucked in and disappeared, and emerged again looking ever so much like it used to, but changed subtly, at the edges, where none would notice, so that simple truth became a complicated fabric indeed, one that could wrap you up so tightly and close you off from the air until you suffocated in it.”

Firsts Used Lying Simple Air Changed Truth Is Thousand Edges Complicated Fabric Wraps Simple Truths Lies Truth Quills Micah

Book:Heartfire: The Tales of Alvin Maker

Source: Heartfire: The Tales of Alvin Maker

“He's a tremendous breath of fresh air. The things he [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact that he does not live in a huge papal mansion and just dropped by in the dining room where ordinary people have meals. You think of his background, where he didn't use limousines in South America, that he used public transport. I'm so, so thrilled that he is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.”

“I remember, when I was a child and wrote poems in little clasped books, I used to kiss the books and put them away tenderly because I had been happy near them, and take them out by turns when I was going from home, to cheer them by the change of air and the pleasure of the new place. This, not for the sake of the verses written in them, and not for the sake of writing more verses in them, but from pure gratitude.”

Source: The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846

“The children are designated as "Air Force aides of the Hitler youth" and wear military uniforms and become used to handling the anti-aircraft artillery flak guns. 15 and 16 year old children as warriors! If the war still continues to last for a long time, perhaps the babies will be also employed. Total war!!”

Ifs Years Children Long Stills War Lasts Used Force Air Military Youth Baby Long Time Gun Warrior Uniforms Employed Total War Air Force Aircraft Artillery Hitler Youth Military Uniform

Author:Friedrich Kellner

“It is an aphorism in physic, that unwholesome airs, because perpetually sucked into the lungs, do distemper health more than coarser diet used but at set times. The like may be said of society, which, if good, is a better refiner of the spirits than ordinary books.”

Ifs May Said Book Used Spirit Air Society Ordinary Diets Aphorism Lungs

Author:Frances Osborne

“Special care should be taken of the health of the inhabitants, which will depend chiefly on the healthiness of the locality and of the quarter to which they are exposed, and secondly on the use of pure water; this latter point is by no means a secondary consideration. For the elements which we use the most and oftenest for the support of the body contribute most to health, and among those are water and air. Wherefore, in all wise states, if there is want of pure water, and the supply is not all equally good, the drinking water ought to be separated from that which is used for other purposes.”

“I remember in 37 when trolley cars were so big in New York. It was five cents for a ride... There used to be open-air buses, and you could go up a spiral staircase and sit up on top. Those were great, great days.”

Bigs Remember Used Five Air Car New York Used To Be Bus Cents Spirals Great Day Staircases Trolleys Spiral Staircases

Author:Tiny Tim

“The idea of aerial military surveillance dates back to the Civil War, when both the Union and the Confederacy used hot-air balloons to spy on the other side, tracking troop movements and helping to direct artillery fire.”

Ideas War Helping Used Sides Fire Air Military Movement Direct Hot Unions Civil War Spy Surveillance Balloons Artillery Tracking Hot Air Air Balloons Hot Air Balloons

Author:Michael Hastings

“The young woman who brought me acquainted with Captain Murderer had a fiendish enjoyment of my terrors, and used to begin, I remember - as a sort of introductory overture - by clawing the air with both hands, and uttering a long low hollow groan. So acutely did I suffer from this ceremony in combination with this infernal Captain, that I sometimes used to plead I thought I was hardly strong enough and old enough to hear the story again just yet.”

Source: The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: The Uncommercial Traveller

“I'm a former skydiver, I jumped out of all kinds of things including a hot air balloon. Ironically, once I started skydiving, I felt nervous not having my rig on in case the plane went down because I wasn't used to landing.”

Kind Used Felt Cases Air Hot Including All Kinds Nervous Former Planes Landing Balloons Rigs Skydiving Hot Air Air Balloons Hot Air Balloons

Author:Carlos Alazraqui

“One of the saddest sights of the slums is to see the thrifty wife of the working man, with her rosy brood of children, used to country air and sunshine, used to space, privacy, good surroundings, cleanliness, quiet, shut up amid the noise and dirt and confusion, in the gloom of the slum.”

Source: Beauty for Ashes, by Albion Fellows Bacon; with Numerous Illustrations

“I must confess I am a fop in my heart; ill customs influence my very senses, and I have been so used to affectation that without the help of the air of the court what is natural cannot touch me.”

Heart Has Beens Helping Used Natural Air Influence My Heart Court Ill Senses Customs Touch Me

Author:George Etherege

“Fir : it contains a great deal of air and fire with very little moisture and the earthy, so that, as its natural properties are of the lighter class, it is not heavy. Hence, its consistence being naturally stiff, it does not easily bend under the load, and keeps its straightness when used in the framework. But it contains so much heat that it generates and encourages decay, which spoils it; and it also kindles fire quickly because of the air in its body, which is so open that it takes in fire and so gives out a great flame.”

Giving Littles Doe Body Used Natural Deals Class Fire Air Property Heavy Flames Heat Load Decay Framework Spoil Lighters Kindles Moisture Kindle Fire

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“We are committed to cleaning up the air and cleaning up the water. But we also are committed to a strong economy, and we are not going to allow the environmental issue to be used sometimes falsely and sometimes in a demagogic way basically to destroy the system-the industrial system that made this the great country it is.”

Way Made Country Sometimes Used Strong Water Economy Issues Air Environmental Committed Pollution Cleaning Great Country Cleaning Up Environmental Issues Strong Economy

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“People say that I'm a tree hugger, but I do a lot more than hug trees. I like having my drinking water without faecal matter, that's really nice. Or acceptable levels of strychnine. I'm an air breather, I've gotten used to that over the years.”

People Years Matter Used Water Levels Nice Air Tree Drinking Acceptable Hug Really Nice Drinking Water

Author:Robin Williams

“I used to say that I wanted to make great art with people I love. Now I have an addendum to that goal: to get things on the air.”

People Art Wanted Used Goal Air Great Art

Author:Amy Poehler

“We all know we have a problem, a broad problem. Ninety-eight percent of the fuel that is used by our vehicles, our autos and trucks for personal and commercial purposes, for highway and air travel operates on oil. The world has the same problem.”

Knows World Problem Used Purpose Air Travel Percent Eight Oil Fuel Broads Vehicle Funny Travel Highways Truck Ninety Air Travel Ninety Eight

Author:John Olver

“I write, and I feel how the correct and precise use of words is sometimes like a remedy to an illness. Like a contraption for purifying the air, I breathe in and exhale the murkiness and manipulations of linguistic scoundrels and language rapists of all shades and colors. I write and I feel how the tenderness and intimacy I maintain with language, with its different layers, its eroticism and humor and soul, give me back the person I used to be, me, before my self became nationalized and confiscated by the conflict, by governments and armies, by despair and tragedy.”

“I'm pretty outdoorsy. My family used to live in the hills in the middle of nowhere pretty much. We literally used to have bow and arrows and air rifles and were throwing knives.”

Used Air Middle My Family Hills Throwing Knives Bows Arrows Rifles Middle Of Nowhere Bows And Arrows

Author:Liam Hemsworth

“Air is one we hold in common; it has a limited carrying capacity for pollutants and that's being used up by those who pollute the atmosphere. So we have to stop that externality. We would never allow a utility to put their coal slag in a dump truck and back it up to the city park and dump it in unlimited amounts for free. But that is exactly what we do with carbon dioxide and methane.”

Used Common Cities Air Amount Capacity Atmosphere Parks Carbon Unlimited Coal Truck Utility Dump Carbon Dioxide Methane Externalities Slag City Parks

Author:Jay Inslee

“Laughter brightens the eye, increases the perspiration, expands the chest, forces the poisoned air from the least-used cells, and tends to restore that exquisite poise or balance which we call health.”

Eye Used Force Air Balance Laughter Increase Cells Chests Exquisite Poise Perspiration

Book:Cheerfulness As A Life Power (Unabridged): How to Avoid the Soul-Consuming and Friction-Wearing Tendencies of Everyday Life

Source: Cheerfulness As A Life Power (Unabridged): How to Avoid the Soul-Consuming and Friction-Wearing Tendencies of Everyday Life

“The second means of attraction which He used is Emptiness, as we see when we place one end of a hollow pipe in water, and draw up it by suction; the water runs up the stem to the mouth, because the emptiness of the pipe, from which the air has been drawn, draws the water to itself.”

Mean Has Beens Ends Running Used Water Air Draws Mouths Attraction Emptiness Stem Hollow Pipe

Book:Meister Eckhart's Sermons

Source: Meister Eckhart's Sermons

“We [Afghanistan] are constantly dealing with situations in which we must ensure that provinces or major cities do not fall into enemy hands. People need to understand that we don't have an air force and the forces that we do have used to get air support from NATO, which is no longer available. Our pilots have done wonders, but they are stretched thin. We are dealing with resources that have been spread thin.”

People Needs Has Beens Done Hands Used Fall Force Cities Situation Wonder Enemy Support Air Majors Resources Available Spread Afghanistan Pilots Provinces Nato Air Force

Author:Ashraf Ghani

“Faith is not simply a private matter, or something we practice once a week at church. Rather, it should have a contagious effect on the broader world. Jesus used these images to illustrate His kingdom.: a sprinkle of yeast causing the whole loaf to rise, a pinch of salt preserving a slab of meat, the smallest seed in the garden growing into a great tree in which birds of the air come to nest.”

World Should Matter Whole Used Jesus Church Practice Growing Air Tree Week Effects Bird Garden Should Have Seeds Kingdoms Meat Salt Smallest Nests Contagious Sprinkles Yeast Slabs

Author:Philip Yancey

“It is a ludicrous statistic plucked out of the air and used to justify a quite appalling attack on many of the poorest people in this country.”

People Country Used Air Justify Poorest

Author:Jeremy Corbyn

“I had to learn that slower is faster. If you practice every day with patience and correctness, you will get there. It's like preparing for a jump. You can't rush. You must summon the appropriate energy with split-second timing and have an understanding of purpose to get up in the air. It requires training, confidence and mental effort. You can't have a vocabulary without the alphabet. Balanchine used to say, "Do you want to be a poet of gesture or do you want to be a physical entity?"”

Ifs Want Used Purpose Energy Understanding Effort Practice Air Poet Training Get Up Faster Appropriate Gestures Splits Timing Entity Preparing Vocabulary Correctness Alphabet Up In The Air

Author:Edward Villella

“I used to live in New York and now I live in L.A., and somehow I've become a different person because of the air and what I see every day, and I think we all do.”

Thinking Persons Different Used Air New York

Author:Veena Sud

“No country can hope to beat the Yanks off with conventional weapons - they've got air, sea and land completely covered. The only recourse is chemical, biological and nuclear weapons (the Yanks used them in Vietnam, and have not ruled out using them in this war).”

War Country Used Air Sea Land Weapons Beats Nuclear Covered Chemicals Vietnam Nuclear Weapons Conventional Recourse

Author:Margo Kingston

“I had no idea what effect something blockbustering would have. To me, it was just a job that I was trying to do the best I could. We had shot the first five shows before it went on the air. Then, it was this firecracker hit, and people were recognizing me, so it was just nuts. It was overwhelming, insane, wonderful and scary all at the same time. It's really peculiar that people see you on television and then think they have a personal relationship with you. So, they want to touch you, and grab you, and sit down and have lunch with you. It's strange, and you never get used to that.”

“I used to be surprised and a little annoyed when characters would reappear in my mind, itching to be in another story. Now I realize it's part of the deal, that you create these people out of thin air but then, if you do it right, they actually live.”

People Ifs Mind Littles Character Stories Used Realizing Deals Air Used To Be Annoyed Thin Air Itching

Author:Peter Orner

“And it doesn't matter to me whether you're running a coffee shop or you're an intellectual or you're in business or flying hot air balloons. People who can spread ideas, regardless of what those ideas are, win. But consumers, they got way more choices than they used to and way less time.”

People Way Ideas Matter Running Used Choices Winning Air Intellectual Hot Spread Coffee Flying Consumers Shops Balloons Coffee Shop Hot Air Air Balloons Hot Air Balloons

Author:Seth Godin

“Gabriel Batistuta. He was a spectacular No 9 - great at finding space, shooting from outside the box, good in the air. He was always a reference for me and I used to watch the way he played.”

Way Used Space Watches Air Findings Boxes Shooting Spectacular Gabriel Outside The Box

Author:Luis Suarez

“I think we ought to use the same formula that we used when we took out Moammar Gadhafi in Libya. We have unique resources that no other country has, especially in the air. Intelligence and the ability to find where things are. I think the governments need to get together, because this is getting very serious.”

Thinking Needs Country Use Government Together Used Ability Air Military Serious Ought Unique Resources Iraq Formulas Other Countries Get Together Libya

Author:Dutch Ruppersberger

“Anaximander used to assert that the primary cause of all things was the Infinite,-not defining exactly whether he meant air or water or anything else.”

Used Causes Water Air All Things Infinite Primaries Defining

Author:Diogenes Laertius

“But, to the extent that I cannot solve MY problem with the same thinking I used when I created it, you're right. We need the fresh air that comes from others to see things in other ways.”

Thinking Way Needs Problem Used Air Solve Fresh Air Same Thinking

Author:Lewis Schiff

“I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now. You've probably never woken up early on a winter morning to the acid stink of coal smoke in the air, which was everywhere when I was a little kid. My grade school was heated with coal. Not only was coal used to generate electricity, it was without any scrubbers in the stacks.”

“In the Air Force, I had an old Wilcox Gay recorder, and I used to hear guitar runs on that recorder going (vocalizing) like the chords on "I Walk The Line." And I always wanted to write a love song using that theme, that tune.”

Writing Running Wanted Used Song Force Lines Walks Air Gay Guitar Theme Tunes Chords Air Force Recorders

Author:Johnny Cash

“What happened in Kosovo was the exact reversal of what happened in 'Fortress Europe' in 1943-45. Let me explain. Air Marshall 'Bomber' Harris used to say that 'Fortress Europe' was a fortress without a roof, since the Allies had air supremacy. Now, if we look at the Kosovo War, what do we see? We see a fortress without walls but with a roof! Isn't that disappearance extraordinary?!”

Ifs Looks War Used Happened Air Wall Europe Let Me Extraordinary Allies Roof Supremacy Disappearance Fortresses Bombers Reversal Kosovo

Author:Paul Virilio

“I remember I used to go to The Laugh Factory and just goof off onstage, and then I'd see Dane Cook. He did a bit about his Mom making the bed in the summertime when he was a kid. He just said "Vroom!" and threw the sheet up in the air and the sheet would just stay over the bed for like a minute and a half. All he had were his arms out, but I could see the sheet. And he didn't do anything. He just kept it there. And I went, "I have to write more."”

Writing Said Kids Remember Used Bits Half Laughing Air Minutes Arms Mom Bed Cooks Factories Sheets Summertime Up In The Air Goofs

Author:Jay Mohr

“In America there are people advocating for trans rights and people like Vice President Pence, who is vehemently opposed. In Pakistan, too, you have all kinds of folks - from flamboyant gay fashion designers and female Air Force pilots to the Taliban. A cross-dressed man used to be the top TV talk show host. It was actually quite radical. So the diversity of these societies is often lost on people.”

“We have long had emigration in Ireland. But the nature of emigration has changed. With ferries to Britain and the continent, as well as air travel, emigration isn't the cutoff it used to be. In addition, some of our young people are being educated to levels beyond our present capacity to provide the jobs they are qualified to do. So they go abroad. Many want to come back, especially when they have children they would want to be raised in the Irish society and in the Irish educational system.”

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