Airless Quotes

#1. And another way of explaining it is to say that shit happens, and there's no space too small, too dark and airless and fucking hopeless, for people to crawl into.

Nick Hornby

#2. If you're the very luckiest kind of astronaut ever, your big payoff is that you get to visit a barren airless wasteland for five minutes, do some more math, and then go home - ice cream not guaranteed.

Lindy West

#3. The great purpose of school can be realized better in dark, airless, ugly places ... It is to master the physical self, to transcend the beauty of nature. School should develop the power to withdraw from the external world.

William Torrey Harris

#4. The House Rules Committee is perhaps the free world's outstanding bureaucratic abomination - a tiny, airless closet deep in the labyrinth of the Capitol where some of the very meanest people on earth spend their days cleaning democracy like a fish.

Matt Taibbi

#5. The house was immaculate, as always, not a stray hair anywhere, not a flake of dandruff or a crumpled towel. Even the roses on the dining-room table held their breath. A kind of airless cleanliness that always made me want to sneeze.

Sandra Cisneros

#6. The rooms were small and airless and cramped. To make matters worse, somebody in our group was making the most dreadful silent farts. Fortunately, it was me, so I wasn't nearly as bothered as the others.

Bill Bryson

#7. I would find the words to tell him how I was so scared, as if I were being stuffed farther and farther into a black, airless sack with no way out.

Sylvia Plath

#8. Working is bad enough in the winter, but in the summer it can become completely intolerable. Stuck in airless offices, every fibre of our being seems to cry out for freedom. We're reminded of being stuck in double maths while the birds sing outside.

Tom Hodgkinson

#9. they can all stand quiescent in airless venues for extended periods, their eyes' expressions that unique NYC combination of Zen meditation and clinical depression, clearly unhappy but never complaining.

David Foster Wallace

#10. He was alone in an airless, partially disabled ship, all communication with Earth cut off. There was not another human being within half a billion miles. And yet, in one very real sense, he was not alone. Before he could be safe, he must be lonelier still.

Arthur C. Clarke

#11. And my loneliness, always my loneliness - that airless bubble of despair that is slowing stifling me.

Tabitha Suzuma

#12. It was just one push/pull in our twenty-three years on the push/pull continuum. When my own was airless and warm, I would reach out, pat, find that unoccupied part, the cool part of his pillow.

Rodney Ross

#13. A plumped feather bed may have looked divine, but occupants quickly found themselves sinking into a hard, airless fissure between billowy hills. Support was on a lattice of ropes, which could be tightened with a key when they began to sag (hence the expression "sleep tight").

Bill Bryson

#14. Mars is a rock - cold, empty, almost airless, dead. Yet it's heaven in a way. We can see it in the night sky, a whole other world, but too nearby, too close within the reach of the people who've made such a hell of life here on Earth.

Octavia E. Butler

#15. The sky is but a looking glass into a pool of airless oceans, cast off into a dance of light and energy, leaving only a facet of guidance to navigate. Such an existence lays but within the mind man.

Indiana Lang

#16. It was true that I had traveled great distances for one so young, but my spirit had remained landlocked, unacquainted with love and all but a stranger to death ... I had absented myself in my smug and airless self-deprivation.

William Styron

#17. The air smelled of gunpowder when Daniel emerged from the Angel tube stop and headed for Islington Police Station. It was midsummer and airless, the moon slipping unseen into a bright, troubled sky. The day was gravid, ready to burst. As

Lisa Ballantyne

#18. My life felt so cluttered and obstructed that I could hardly breathe. I inhabited a closed, concentrated world, airless and without exits.

Nell Casey

#19. Crabgrass can grow on bowling balls in airless rooms, and there is no known way to kill it that does not involve nuclear weapons.

Dave Barry

#20. Some popular quotations smell of airless closets. They exhale the stale imagination of the intellectual lower middle class. "Suspension of disbelief" has become one of them. Dressed up as a scintillating double negation, it serves the pedestrian notion of art as illusion.

Rudolf Arnheim

#21. Duty is a good thing, a calling without which no civilization can survive, but it is also a weight and chain that sometimes seems sure to sink you to the airless bottom of a dark pool

Dean Koontz

#22. She pictured a dandelion gone by, the white, almost airless pieces of her family scattered so far.

Elizabeth Strout

#23. When you're entertaining all day long and that's your work, you end up really very tired. You don't have a lot of energy left over for your loved ones.

Sia Furler

#24. A guesstimate?" prompted the man Enrique. "About your dad?" "Ballpark will do," the Korean lady said.

Donna Tartt

#25. You don't apologize for this Samm, it's love, and love doesn't weigh it's options and pick the best one. Love just wants things and it doesn't know why, and it doesn't matter why, because love is the only explanation love needs.

Dan Wells

#26. I think I get almost every piece of clothing that I buy altered and taken in just to fit me exactly the way it should.

Misty Copeland

#27. A man without a wife is like a house without a roof."
- Abdulazeez Henry Musa.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#28. It was just that he was fun in such an exhausting way because, being in advertising, he always wanted you to know how much fun he was having and where he had got his jacket from.

Douglas Adams

#29. abandoned their mother for the gorgeous girl who had shared

Danielle Steel

#30. As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.

Laurie Anderson

#31. My father had to go to work, I used to think he was a jerk. I didn't know his heart was broken, and not another word was spoken.

Madonna Ciccone

#32. We're all dangerous in our own way, I guess.

Cinda Williams Chima

#33. Help each other to live and to grow in the Christian faith so as to be valiant witnesses of the Lord. Be united, but not closed. Be humble, but not fearful. Be simple, but not naive. Be thoughtful, but not complicated. Enter into dialogue with others, but be yourselves.

Pope Benedict XVI

#34. Nothing about 'Brotherhood' is ever wrapped up in a nice package.

Annabeth Gish