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“Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.”

Feels Blue Breathing Life And Death Feeling Blue Breathing Again

Author:L. Frank Baum

“I like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It's not just about being able to run around the block a few times. It's about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It's about being balanced.”

Mind Body Running Able Stress Block Compromise Breathing Balanced Mind And Body Pilates

Author:Aimee Mullins

“Art for me is like breathing.”

Author:Yoko Ono

“Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.”

Ifs Art Art Is Breathing Choke

Author:Yoko Ono

“I've always been afraid of video games - not afraid that I wouldn't like them, but that I would like them too much, and that after mere seconds in front of any particularly bright and absorbing game, I would abandon all ambition, turn into a mouth-breathing zombie, and develop a wide, sofa-shaped rear end.”

Ends Turns Games Too Much Fronts Ambition Mouths Mere Wide Video Breathing Abandon Seconds Not Afraid Zombie Absorbing Sofas

Author:Susan Orlean

“I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.”

Feels Facts Home Used Feel Good Breathing Thrive Funeral Appreciate Life Fight Club Novel

Book:Fight Club: A Novel

Source: Fight Club: A Novel

“My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.”

Believe Might Form Dies Jesus Energy I Believe Possibility Kings Don't Believe Breathing Believe In God Luther Moses Muhammad Relativity Bobby Kennedy

Author:Mandy Patinkin

“I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes.”

Sides Gratitude Breathing Grass Thankfulness Being Thankful

Author:Ron Perlman

“Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.”

Shows Young Animal Quiet Creatures Passionate Breathing Ashamed Cows Tenderness Deprived Deep Love Animal Welfare Living Creatures Pet Animals

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Thomas De Quincey (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Thomas De Quincey (Illustrated)

“After all, at end of the day, when you're breathing your last, it's not your producer, director, or cast mates by your bedside; it's your children. Keep that in mind.”

Mind Children Ends Lasts Directors Casts Producers Breathing Your Children The End Of The Day Mates

Author:John Ratzenberger

“If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.”

Ifs Inspirational Motivational Actors Acting Breathing

Author:Ingrid Bergman

“There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.”

Ifs Men Love Should Years Doe Law Natural Mankind Diversity Hundred Neighbor Breathing Brotherhood Unity In Diversity Gait Upright Man

Author:Alfred Adler

“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”

World Way I Can Motivational Faith Quiet Optimistic Breathing Another World Mullahs

Book:The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy : Interviews

Source: The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy : Interviews

“Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it.”

Values Breathing Abstract Voting Alchemy Breathing Life

Author:Sharon Salzberg

“The noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant surf. Standing on the stirring ice one can imagine it is disturbed by the breathing and tossing of a mighty giant below.”

Imagine Standing Heavy Noise Ice Breathing Giants Surfing Disturbed Stirring Surf

Book:South

Source: South

“I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists.”

Done Fire Imagine Breathing Defeated Fists Breathing Fire

Author:Charlie Sheen

“If you ask someone if they like music, they look at you strangely. It seems to be a universal given. Like asking someone if they like breathing. It is like breathing. Or air, rather. Flowing without and within. A matrix within which our lives are set. The setting for the tableware of our beings.”

Ifs Looks Seems Asks Given Our Lives Air Universal Asking Setting Settings Breathing

Author:Jane Siberry

“I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after writing the book it seemed to me that there was at least one similarity between us and that was that Dickens loved to write and wrote with the ease and conviction of breathing. Me, too.”

Writing Book Felt Conviction Breathing Ease Similarity Dickens Kinship

Book:Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

Source: Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

“Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.”

Mean Animal Eating Greed Breathing

Author:Ben Stein

“Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next.”

Firsts Important Next Winning Economy Important Things Breathing Winning Losing I Will Win Great Winning

Author:George Steinbrenner

“Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room.”

Film Rooms Millions Dog Breathing Charm Reservoirs Reservoir Dogs

Author:Quentin Tarantino

“Growing up I always knew I had a deviated septum on the right side of my nose, which caused trouble breathing. The older I got, the worse it got.”

Sides Growing Up Growing Trouble Breathing Noses

Author:Ashley Tisdale

“I feel like I'm on top of the world. Honestly, I feel like I've climbed a very giant mountain, and I'm just standing right on top with my arms wide open and breathing rarified air.”

World Feels Air Arms Mountain Standing Wide Honestly Breathing Giants Top Of The World Arms Wide Open

Author:Shania Twain

“What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.”

“I know it is common nowadays for artists to start labels but this is a thoroughly constructed vehicle for inspired talent. This is a market that we've been living, breathing and eating for our entire lives - one where a huge void currently exists. Favored Nations is a long-term commitment.”

Knows Long Artist Nations Term Common Talent Huge Eating Commitment Inspired Labels Breathing Long Term Void Vehicle

Author:Steve Vai

“When it comes to sitting down and composing, there is no hesitation, no concern, no critics breathing fire down my neck. For me, writing a song is the purest part of all. No one can mess with that.”

Writing Song Fire Sitting Concern Down And Critics Mess Breathing Necks Hesitation Composing Sitting Down Breathing Fire

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.”

Girl Generations Fashion Eating Married Clothes Breathing Nun

Author:Vera Wang

“The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.”

Reason Running Funny Literature Sex Exercise Heavy Breathing Runners Jogging Physical Exercise Track Running Track Runners Inspirational Track Running Funny Funny Running Ultra Running Breathing Again

Author:Erma Bombeck

“The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.”

Ideas Inspiring Air Breathing

Book:The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

“I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages. I've learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure.”

People Thinking I Can Different Would Be Christian Speak Language Term Fire Various Tongue Contemporary Breathing I've Learned I Have Learned Interfaces Fervent Different Languages Lexicon

Author:Bono

“After I had given up to go, the thoughts of the journey were often attended with unusual sadness, at which times my heart was frequently turned to the Lord with inward breathings for his heavenly support, that I might not fail to follow him wheresoever he might lead me.”

Heart Might Given Lord Support Failing Journey Sadness My Heart Breathing Heavenly Unusual Inward Given Up Follow Your Heart Leading Me

Book:journal

Source: journal

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”

Source: The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: Volume VIII. A Supplement of New Letters

“America has to be not just an idea but a living, breathing thing.”

Ideas America Breathing

Author:will.i.am

“People don't appreciate that when you're on the Internet, it's a 24/7 job. Even if you're not releasing episodes, your show is living and breathing on the Internet because there's a community around it. Ninety percent of the work is after the web series is shot, and you have to constantly maintain your community, because it's all you have.”

People Ifs Shows Jobs Community Internet Percent Shots Appreciate Series Breathing Episodes Ninety

Author:Felicia Day

“You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames.”

Giving Looks Persons Book Eye House Forget Reader Breathe Breathing Flames Look Up

Book:Mister Pip

Source: Mister Pip

“Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?”

Life Littles Calling Travel Breathing

Book:New and Selected Poems, Volume Two

Source: New and Selected Poems, Volume Two

“And if these mountains had eyes, they would wake to find two strangers in their fences, standing in admiration as a breathing red pours its tinge upon earth's shore. These mountains, which have seen untold sunrises, long to thunder praise but stand reverent, silent so that man's weak praise should be given God's attention.”

Source: Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road

“I want what everybody wants, that's how I know I'm still breathing.”

Knows Want Stills Breathing

Author:Mark Doty

“Ah, good conversation - there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.”

Ideas Air Conversation Breathing Good Conversation

Book:The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

“Eating and sleeping are not like loving and breathing. Washing is not like eating and sleeping. Believing is like breathing and loving. Religion can be believing, it can be like breathing, it can be like loving, it can be like eating or sleeping, it can be like washing, it can be something to fill up a place when someone has lost out of them a piece that it was not natural for them to have in them.”

Believe Lost Natural Sleep Pieces Eating Breathing Washing

Book:GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Memoirs & Essays: Three Lives, Tender Buttons, Geography and Plays, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas…

Source: GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Memoirs & Essays: Three Lives, Tender Buttons, Geography and Plays, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas…

“As much as I admire and value intellectualism and experimentation, I've discovered that unless a book has a throbbing heart as well as a sexy brain, I feel like the story is a specimen in a sealed glass jar and not a living, breathing creature I want to take by the hand and talk to for hours on end.”

Want Feels Wells Heart Book Ends Stories Hands Values Hours Brain Creatures Glasses Sexy Admire Breathing Jars Experimentation Intellectualism

Author:Myla Goldberg

“nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility:whose texture compels me with the colour of its countries, rendering death and forever with each breathing (i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands -excerpt of #35 from "100 Selected Poems”

Knows World Country Hands Eye Voice Forever This World Rain Rose Deeper Intense Breathing Perceive Colour Texture Selected Fragility Rendering Small Hands

Author:e. e. cummings

“WE two boys together clinging, One the other never leaving, Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making, Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching, Arm'd and fearless, eating, drinking, sleeping, loving. No law less than ourselves owning, sailing, soldiering, thieving, threatening, Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, on the turf or the sea-beach dancing, Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness chasing, Fulfilling our foray.”

Source: Walt Whitman's Songs of Male Intimacy and Love:

“It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.”

Matter Silence Arms Solitude Breathing Stretching

Book:Mark Rothko

Source: Mark Rothko

“in the nineteenth year and the eleventh month speak your tattered Kaddish for all suicides: Praise to life though it crumbled in like a tunnel on ones we knew and loved Praise to life though its windows blew shut on the breathing-room of ones we knew and loved Praise to life though ones we knew and loved loved it badly, too well, and not enough Praise to life though it tightened like a knot on the hearts of ones we thought we knew loved us Praise to life giving room and reason to ones we knew and loved who felt unpraisable. Praise to them, how they loved it, when they could.”

Giving Years Wells Heart Reason Enough Speak Felt Rooms Months Window Praise Suicide Breathing Tunnels Knots

Author:Adrienne Rich

“When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so-called good and tolerable days, I feel so bad in my childish soul that I smash my rusty lyre of thanksgiving in the face of the slumbering god of contentment and would rather feel the most devilish pain burn in me than this warmth of a well-heated room. - Harry Haller”

Feels Wells Has Beens Soul Pain Faces Pleasure Rooms Air Breathing Contentment Warmth Tolerable Lukewarm Insipid Devilish

Book:Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays

Source: Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays

“But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph; I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them,-- Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun.”

“But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.”

Young Simple Cities Poverty Lays Breathing Paris Moonlight Beside You France Paris Moveable Feast

Book:The Hemingway Collection

Source: The Hemingway Collection

“It's the arrangement of events which makes the stories. It's throwing away, compressing, underlining. Hindsight can give structure to anything, but you have to be able to see it. Breathing, waking and sleeping: our lives are steamed and shaped into stories. Knowing that is what keeps me from going insane, and though I don't like to admit it, sometimes it's the only thing.”

Giving Sometimes Stories Able Sleep Knowing Our Lives Events Structure Insane Breathing Throwing Waking Arrangements Hindsight Throwing Away

Author:Carol Shields

“Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually.”

Book Soul Past Reading Mines Genius Intellectual Breathing Royal Good Book Great Souls Eminence

Author:William Ellery Channing