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- Nov 07, 2020
Air Quotes
Most Famous Air Quotes of All Time!
Air turns up here as a versatile idiom - unresolved matters are said to hang unsettled overhead, while broadcast content only counts once it actually clears the airwaves. This wordplay runs through the collection much like the wit found in our Good quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Conflict
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
- Pilot
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is what I wanted all along, and after I finished my studies and begun the job of testing jet aircraft, well, there wasn't a happier pilot in the air force.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
We tax air passengers like cigarettes and alcohol - we impose sin taxes on travellers.
- Presence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence.
- Environment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The coal industry is a huge industry when we're talking about polluting the environment, our air and our waterways.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
The German Air Force was not sufficient to protect the sea crossing on its own. While the leading part of the forces might have landed, there was the danger that they might be cut off from supplies and reinforcements.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be an air hostess because I thought it was the most glamorous thing - and I'd never been on a plane.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
I called their attention also to the absence of all means of ventilating the hall, remarking that, as we had already breathed the air which it contained for a full hour, it must have lost much of its vital properties and needed to be renewed.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened. This proceeding caused some astonishment and alarm at first; for the Americans generally have a dread of cold air.
- Hear
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Pollution
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.
- Nov 07, 2020
Shooting is very challenging because 10 metre air rifle you have different rules, short gun you have different rules.
There's also a business angle, recalling how strong service once justified paying extra for air conditioners, and a wry image of a pessimist building imaginary dungeons in thin air. For more sharp one-liners, see our Like collection.