Quotes with night-air

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  • Archibald Macleish To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night - brothers who see now they are truly brothers.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • John Boyle O'Reilly ''You gave me the key of your heart, my love; then why did you make me knock?'' Oh that was yesterday, saints above! And last night - I changed the lock!
    John Boyle O'Reilly
    Irish poet, journalist, author and activist (1844 - 1890)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch 'Frankenstein' was all about the idea that, through electricity and the destruction of night, man creating light and darkness, we took on god-like powers and then abused them like gods, and we are only men. That's a story about man making a man in his own image. The inversion of natural order.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Candace Bushnell 'Lipstick Jungle' was on the air for 20 episodes - I loved 'Lipstick Jungle.'
    Candace Bushnell
    American author and journalist (1958 - )
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  • Bud Grant 'Monday Night Football' has the good and the bad points. The bad point is you have to wait around all day, and it disrupts your schedule for the next week. Now you have one less day to prepare for the following week.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • B. J. Novak 'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.
    B. J. Novak
    American actor, writer, comedian, and director (1979 - )
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  • Ezra Pound 'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Joseph Conrad A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • William Wycherley A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.
    William Wycherley
    British drama writer (1640 - 1715)
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  • Carlos Gershenson A one-night-stander is someone who does not dare to explore the full potential of a relationship, just like a child who is afraid to go to the deep part of the pool. The latter does not want to learn how to swim, the former does not want to learn how to live.
    Source: Zire Notes May 2004 December 2006
    Carlos Gershenson
    Mexican author and academic (1978 - )
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  • Bob Dylan A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Walter Winchell A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.
    Walter Winchell
    American newspaper and radio commentator (1897 - 1972)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Barry Cornwall A single star is rising in the east, and from afar sheds a most tremulous lustre; silent Night doth wear it like a jewel on her brow.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Walter Bagehot 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
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • O. Henry A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
    O. Henry
    American short story writer, pen name of William S. Porter (1862 - 1910)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Bruce Schneier Air travel survived decades of terrorism, including attacks which resulted in the deaths of everyone on the plane. It survived 9/11. It'll survive the next successful attack. The only real worry is that we'll scare ourselves into making air travel so onerous that we won't fly anymore.
    Bruce Schneier
    American cryptographer, computer security professional and writer (1963 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.
    Source: Major Barbara (1907)
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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