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My first thought when I came here was that I understood why there are so many great Irish writers - because there is something mystical in the air. There's always this cloudy, moody sky and it's challenging.
Christopher Meloni

Great, Thought, Why

My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.
Ang Lee

Force, Hometown, Bases

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.
Walter Bagehot

Daily, Enjoyment, Gentle

I shoot an arrow into the air, where it lands I do not care: I get my arrows wholesale!
Curly Howard

Care, Lands, Arrow

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.
Doris Lessing

Fish, Water, Movement

My dream is to have a house on the beach, even just a little shack somewhere so I can wake up, have coffee, look at dolphins, be quiet and breathe the air.
Christina Applegate

Coffee, Dream, Quiet

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Build, Cards, Houses

A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
O. Henry

Vote, Hot, Shows

Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with, and in rising up in the air, but then you're at the mercy of those holding you down, and if it's your older brother, or Paul Wolfowitz, they leap up, so that you crash down and get hurt.
Anne Lamott

Hurt, Someone, Book

Vote Labor and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative and you can live in them.
David Frost

Live, Vote, Labor

An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.
Charles Mackay

May, Through, Thought

The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life. Yet such things are a part of our life, neither the least noble nor the most terrible.
Frederick Soddy

Life, Snow, Feeling

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
Linus Pauling

Facts, Fly, Scientists

I got space from Travis Air Force Base, went back to the Philippine Islands and made it a point to meet the only American casting director in the Philippines. I was off and running.
R. Lee Ermey

Made, American, Off

Trees will improve property values, take pollutants out of the air, help with water runoff.
Michael Bloomberg

Help, Water, Values

Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Young, Maturity, Lack

I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it.
Morgan Freeman

Romantic, Year, Days

Arguments are healthy. They clear the air.
John Deacon

I'm always amazed to hear of air crash victims so badly mutilated that they have to be identified by their dental records. What I can't understand is, if they don't know who you are, how do they know who your dentist is?
Paul Merton

Understand, Hear, Dentist

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
Hilaire Belloc

Friendship, Men, Loneliness

We do as much harm holding onto programs and people past their natural life span as we do when we employ massive organizational air strikes. However, destroying comes at the end of life's cycle, not as a first response.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Life, End, Past

I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face and the wind blowing through my hair.
Evel Knievel

Love, Feeling, Through

Once the referee throws the ball in the air, it's either your ball or their ball and you have to just take your shot.
LL Cool J

Once, Either, Ball

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

Once, City, Stone

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment, it's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
Al Gore

Water, Pollution, Harming

There is an air of unreality in debating these arcane points when the world is changing in such dramatic ways right in front of our eyes because of global warming.
Al Gore

Eyes, Ways, Front

There are five known gyres spinning around in our world's oceans. A gyre is a slowly moving spiral of currents created by a high pressure system of air currents. A spinning soup, so to speak, is made of what exists in the water. And in this case, the gyres are spinning with millions of tons of our discarded and forgotten about plastic waste!
Brandon Boyd

Moving, Made, Around

I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
Barbra Streisand

Hot, Streets, Brooklyn

Musicians from the beginning of time have been there to express the mood and the musical feelings in the air for whatever's going on in that particular culture. It's the greatest joy as a musician to be able to translate that, be part of something and watch the scenery around you.
Trey Anastasio

Time, Greatest, Feelings

I didn't have to wait six years to get my show on the air, worry that someone else had a similar idea, or wait around for notes that took my voice out of the show.
Lena Dunham

Someone, Around, Else

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