Rarefied Air Quotes

#1. I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief-in which the panting breast expires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath.

Jean Paul

#2. The older you get, the closer your loves are to the surface. She was breathing rarefied air, the ether you come upon at high altitudes. I understood finally how long-held grievances and petty smallnesses might get burned off, and pure creativity and humour remain.

Elizabeth Hay

#3. Tell your readers to use it or lose it. If you don't use your muscles, they get weak. If you don't use your mind it begins to fail.

John Templeton

#4. Alternate currents, especially of high frequencies, pass with astonishing freedom through even slightly rarefied gases. The upper strata of the air are rarefied. To reach a number of miles out into space requires the overcoming of difficulties of a merely mechanical nature.

Nikola Tesla

#5. Sometimes, I wake up and the skies are grey and everything's horrible.

Patricia Kaas

#6. Movie stars, rich people - oh, they have so many beautiful cars!

Bikram Choudhury

#7. I hadn't been looking for trouble, but it seemed that now that I'd found it, I wasn't running from it, either.

Chanel Cleeton

#8. Now I know how Joan of Arc felt, As the flames rose to her Roman nose And her Walkman started to melt ...

Steven Morrissey

#9. Become conscious of what you think during the day. A negative thought will enter you. At first it will be vague, innocuous, but then it will root in your consciousness and soon it will be impossible to eradicate.

Frederick Lenz

#10. [Emily Litella line:] Never mind.

Gilda Radner

#11. When you're on a long running series, you reach a very rarefied, high oxygen area and after a while to keep a show on the air they have to make some very drastic changes.

Joan Van Ark

#12. We don't protect them because they're weak. We protect them because they are strong, and strong people make enemies.

Cinda Williams Chima

#13. In all the years I played, he (Stan Williams) was the only guy who ever scared me and he was on my team.

Ron Fairly

#14. I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean.

John Sayles