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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
- Nov 07, 2020
Vote Labor, and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative, and you can live in them.
- Civil Rights Act
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- Nov 07, 2020
Frederick Douglass had charged the air with rebellion and redemption, and these in turn had supported him in the heat of abolitionism. But the atmosphere changed to one of repression after the Civil Rights Act of 1875.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I moved to New Zealand from Winnipeg when I was almost five. I hated it. It was to a city in the south of New Zealand called Invercargill and there was constant rain. There was a depressing sensation in the air.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first thing they gave me at 'Sports Illustrated' was a first-class air card. 'And oh, by the way, there's the petty cash drawer,' they told me. 'Take a few thousand dollars for expenses.'
- Nov 07, 2020
I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves.
- Nov 07, 2020
I shoot an arrow into the air, where it lands I do not care: I get my arrows wholesale!
- Drunks
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- Nov 07, 2020
When cars honk and hoot and drunks squeeze out of car windows and scream, you can be sure that football is in the air.
- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot going on in the Bassett-Vance household, a lot of balls in the air.
- Kid
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Carpooling is important for urban density, air pollution and other reasons, but carpooling is not the kind of thing that actually changes the energy equation.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stuntwork... once, I've really only done one thing, which is take a punch and transport myself into the air onto a mat.
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.