Breathe Quotes - Page 8

• Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave?

  James Russell Lowell

  Father, Men, Brave

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.52

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• The soul, cramped among the petty vexations of Earth, needs to keep its windows constantly open to the invigorating air of large and free ideas: and what thought is so grand as that of an ever-present God, in whom all that is vital in humanity breathes and grows?

  Lucy Larcom

  Air, Ideas, Soul

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• Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Suicide, Crazy, Sorrow

  'The Two Voices' (1842) st. 132

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• When a book is alive, really alive, you feel it. You put it to your ear here, and you feel it breathe, sometimes laugh, sometimes cry, just like a person, a little person.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Book, Laughing, Ears

  Interview with Kevin Murphy, www.oregonlive.com. July 2, 2009.

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• It is the crushed grape that gives out the blood-red wine: it is the suffering soul that breathes the sweetest melodies.

  Mary Abigail Dodge

  Wine, Blood, Giving

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• The Japanese eat, sleep, and breathe golf; the only thing they don't do is actually play it, because to get on a course, you have to make a reservation roughly 137 years in advance, which means that by the time you actually get to the first tee you are deceased. Of course, in golf this is not really a handicap.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Mean

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Does Japan”, p.144, Ballantine Books

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• I love the language, it sounds as if it should be writ on satin with syllables which breathe of the sweet South

  Lord Byron

  Sweet, Sound, Language

  Lord Byron (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.350, Routledge

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• Most really good fiction is compelled into being. It comes from a kind of uncalculated innocence. You need not have your ending in mind before you commence. Indeed, you need not be certain of exactly what's going to transpire on page 2. If you know the whole story in advance, your novel is probably dead before you begin it. Give it some room to breathe, to change direction, to surprise you. Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure.

  Tom Robbins

  Writing, Adventure, Journey

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• Live. And Live Well. BREATHE. Breathe in and Breathe deeply. Be PRESENT. Do not be past. Do not be future. Be now. On a crystal clear, breezy 70 degree day, roll down the windows and FEEL the wind against your skin. Feel the warmth of the sun. If you run, then allow those first few breaths on a cool Autumn day to FREEZE your lungs and do not just be alarmed, be ALIVE. Get knee-deep in a novel and LOSE track of time. If you bike, pedal HARD

  Kyle Lake

  Running, Autumn, Past

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• For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement of neurons that gives rise to consciousness. Our consciousness, like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.

  Alan Lightman

  Intelligent, Air, Giving

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• When you reach a certain level, you live in a bubble when all you think, dream and breathe is becoming the best athlete in the world.

  Katarina Witt

  Dream, Athlete, Thinking

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• For some people, you know, Garrison Keillor, Rush Limbaugh, really the stars, they've got a passion. They eat, drink and breathe radio, and I'm not like that. I used to think I wanted to be. But I need to be away from it, too, and that's the difference, I think.

  Tom Bodett

  Stars, Passion, Thinking

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• I like celluloid, I like film, I like the way that when a movie is projected it sort of breathes a little in the gate. That's the magic of it to me.

  Gary Oldman

  Movie, Magic, Actors

  "Actor Gary Oldman". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. December 14, 2011.

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• I love my kids with all my heart and the last thing I want to worry about is the air they breathe.

  Julianne Moore

  Kids, Heart, Air

  "Julianne Moore Fights Air Pollution With The Moms Clean Air Force". www.huffingtonpost.com. February 02, 2012.

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• I want to do an intelligent talk show where you have room to breathe...

  Joy Behar

  Intelligent, Want, Rooms

  "What Might Have Been If These Media Rumors Had Come True" by Catherine Taibi, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 1, 2014.

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• I am a pastor so I eat and breathe the Church.

  Mark Batterson

  Church, Pastor

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• Only when I am by seawater can I truly breathe, to say nothing of my ability to think.

  Thomas Bernhard

  Thinking, Ability

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• Sometimes we think of a creature like a person in a suit, but then you have limitations of two eyes and two legs - they have to see and breathe. I got more into puppetry because it offered more possibilities.

  Rick Baker

  Eye, Thinking, Two

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• 'Fast & Furious' is a well-oiled machine. Those guys really know what they're doing. The guys that work behind the scenes are just as important as the ones in front of the cameras. They are car enthusiasts. They live and breathe this world.

  Laz Alonso

  Car, Guy, Important

  "Laz Alonso talks James Cameron's AVATAR - Could it be the first of a Trilogy?". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. April 5, 2009.

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• I'm a creature of adaptation. I take advantage of the second and the moment. My comedy breathes; it's not really that predictable. I do have a linear style, but other than that, there's a lot of abstract. I just go off on what I'm thinking. I'm not that topical. I like to talk about me and my experiences.

  Tommy Davidson

  Thinking, Style, Comedy

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• If anything in your life is more important than writing - anything at all - you should walk away now while you still can. Forewarned is forearmed. For those who cannot or will not walk away, you need only to remember this. Writing is life. Breathe deeply of it.

  Terry Brooks

  Writing, Important, Needs

  Terry Brooks (2003). “Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life”, p.165, Del Rey

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• You speak to me in riddles, you speak to me in rhymes, my body aches to breathe your breath, your word keeps me alive.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Relationship, Alive, Body

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• Our own body is in the world as the heart is in the organism: it keeps the visible spectacle constantly alive, it breathes life into it and sustains it inwardly, and with it forms a system.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Heart, Alive, World

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty (2002). “Phenomenology of Perception”, p.235, Psychology Press

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• Writers, actors, anybody working on an ensemble-type thing, there are going to be some creaks in the beginning. It seems like there's tremendous potential in just letting things sort of breathe a little bit. It's tremendously important.

  Edie Falco

  Important, Ensemble, Actors

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• I don't like to fly. What's it called when the plane shakes? Turbulence, takeoffs... I grab my chair, close my eyes, count to 30, breathe, and pray.

  Chanel Iman

  Eye, Praying, Chairs

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