- 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
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Up in the Air' is not a political movie. It won't be mistaken for either a Michael Moore or Any Rand polemic on capitalism.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
The kings of Spain brought us the conquistadores and masters, whose footprints remained in the circular land grants assigned to those searching for gold in the sands of rivers, an abusive and shameful form of exploitation, traces of which can be noted from the air in many places around the country.
- Carry
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- Nov 07, 2020
All sorts of artillery installations, rockets and tank units that are firing on civilians in Kosovo should be neutralized. If that means air strikes, then NATO should carry out air strikes.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you live in Beijing for a while, you gain a finely tuned understanding of air.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I love Halloween, and I love that feeling: the cold air, the spooky dangers lurking around the corner.
- Conducting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.
- Lawyer
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- Nov 07, 2020
Troops fighting for their lives should not have to ask a lawyer sitting in air conditioning 500 miles away for permission to drop a bomb.
- Nov 07, 2020
It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went into Harvard one way and came out a different person... It's the air at Harvard; it's like a Renaissance court.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did an episode of a show called 'Mind Games,' which is no longer on the air, and it was an intellectual comedy-drama. It was just really smart TV.
- Gothic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mike Mignola's 'Hellboy' comics have a drizzly, musty gothic ambience - the same fetid air that H. P. Lovecraft circulated in his fiction.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'Angels in America,' I got to fulfill a lifelong dream. I was in the air eight nights a week for two years, and I just loved it.
- Educating
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and the Senate becomes incapable of either properly evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public.
- Believer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a believer in air bags.
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.