They started to try and keep us off the air in the beginning.
Della Reese

I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
George Burns

It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
George Burns

The defeat of the Americans in Canada and the advantages gained by the British arms in the Jerseys, and indeed for some months in every other quarter, gave to the royal cause an air of triumph.
Mercy Otis Warren

It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
Erica Jong

It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.
Garrison Keillor

A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.
Walter Winchell

The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned.
Henry A. Wallace

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
Izaak Walton

Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
Earl Wilson

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
George Santayana

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
John Muir

He lives most life whoever breathes most air.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.
Jean Giraudoux

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
Frank Zappa

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.
Frank Zappa

I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me.
Wilma Rudolph

Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
Jack Nicklaus

Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.
Rita Rudner

Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.
George Soros