Oxygen Tank Quotes

#1. On my job I end up jumping out of planes. Last week I got in an 18-wheeler and drove down a runway onto a skid track. The week before that they put me in a car and sunk me to the bottom of a lake to see if I could escape without an oxygen tank.

Rick Mercer

#2. Grammar to a writer is to a mountaineer a good pair of hiking boots or, more precisely, to a deep-sea diver an oxygen tank.

A.A. Patawaran

#3. When Grandma Mazur is talking about the reason for the improved play of her 91-year-old bowling teammate, she said:
She's doing better now that we got her the longer tubing to her oxygen tank.

Janet Evanovich

#4. I saw an oxygen tank in the cluttered room - what had been Atkins's "study," as his son had explained, now converted for a deathwatch.

John Irving

#5. He's getting older," Charles said darkly. "Shall I hit him with my walker or my oxygen tank?

Suzanne Brockmann

#6. He looks at you like you're the only person in the room. Like he's trapped underwater and you're an oxygen tank. Like he's in anaphylactic shock and you're an EpiPen.

Autumn Doughton

#7. My favourite writer is Beckett and I keep going back to wallow in his work like a deep pool of dark humour or like an oxygen tank when you can't breath in a world consumed by piety, hypocrisy and self-satisfaction.

Simon Critchley

#8. Question for your life: If we were to kiss passionately for 30 minutes, would you refill my oxygen tank in the process?

Jarod Kintz

#9. I was such a wallflower in high school. I did a lot of extracurricular theatre shows, but at school, I spent a lot of time by myself. I ate lunch by myself, and I was always okay with it. But I was definitely made fun of, and I always felt like an outsider.

Melissa Benoist

#10. I'm with you; it's only me.

Kyra Gregory

#11. You know it gets me hot when you're mad. What are you wearing right now under your stethoscope?'
'You're not funny.'
'Oh, come on. I'm a little funny.

Meg Cabot

#12. As usual, I'm working with stuff that was deliberately designed not to burn. But no amount of careful design by NASA can get around a determined arsonist with a tank of pure oxygen.

Andy Weir

#13. You're working-class heroes, even though you don't work.

Adam Carolla

#14. Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.

Willie Mays

#15. A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

Henry David Thoreau

#16. Was it possible? She had taken me with her hoping that as a punishment my parents would not send me to middle school? Or had she brought me back in such a hurry so that I would avoid punishment? Or - I wonder today - did she want at different moments both things?

Elena Ferrante

#17. Waiting for him I check behind me, to be sure I haven't accidentally activated my backup tank of oxygen, and that's when I notice the universe. The scale is graphically shocking. The colors, too. The incongruity is stupefying: there I was, inside a small box, but now - how is this possible?

Chris Hadfield