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Letter "I" » in the air
«A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth»
Author: Jacques Barzun
(Educator)
| About:
Conservatism,
Liberalism
| Keywords:
Air Can, conservative, firmly, in the air, liberal, opposed, planted, safely
«Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood»
Author: Jean Giraudoux
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
element, falsehood, in the air
«A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.»
Author: Jerome Lawrence
| Keywords:
builds, castle, castle in the air, collects, in the air, psychiatrist, psychotic, psychotics, rent
«Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.»
«[Golden eagles have an interesting way of mating, where they connect in the air while flying at eighty miles an hour] and then they start dropping and they don't stop dropping until the act is completed. So it's not uncommon that they both fall all the way to the ground, hit the ground and both of them die. That's how committed they are to this. I thought to myself, 'Boy, don't we feel like wimps for stopping to answer the phone.' I don't know about you, but if I'm one of these two birds, you're getting close to the ground... I would serioulsy consider fakin' it.»
Author: Ellen DeGeneres
(Actress, Comedian)
| Keywords:
all the way, close to, committed, completed, connect, dropping, droppings, eagles, eighty, feel like, flying, flying start, golden, in the air, mated, mating, miles, one of the boys, phone, stopping, uncommon
«Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid flower had prospered, and in the air that had been the purest and brightest in the house an unbearable smell of rotten memories floated.»
Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
| About:
Books,
Reading
| Keywords:
brightest, covers, damaged, dampness, floated, in the air, In the House, livid, parchment, parchments, prospered, purest, rotten, smell, the books, unbearable
«Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.»
«If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. There is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Dreams
| Keywords:
castles, Castles in The Air, castle in the air, foundations, in the air
«By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated.»
Author: John Dewey
(Educator, Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Reading
| Keywords:
castles, Castles in The Air, castle in the air, characteristic, features, frustrated, in the air, shrewd, shrewdest, underlie, underlies, underlying
«Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Worry
| Keywords:
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