Breathing Quotes - Page 35

• I feel like I'm on top of the world. Honestly, I feel like I've climbed a very giant mountain, and I'm just standing right on top with my arms wide open and breathing rarified air.

  Shania Twain

  Air, Mountain, Giants

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  55 Copy quote

  Show source

• I know it is common nowadays for artists to start labels but this is a thoroughly constructed vehicle for inspired talent. This is a market that we've been living, breathing and eating for our entire lives - one where a huge void currently exists. Favored Nations is a long-term commitment.

  Steve Vai

  Commitment, Artist, Long

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• When it comes to sitting down and composing, there is no hesitation, no concern, no critics breathing fire down my neck. For me, writing a song is the purest part of all. No one can mess with that.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Song, Writing, Fire

  4 Copy quote

• I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.

  Vera Wang

  Girl, Fashion, Clothes

  16 Copy quote

• After I had given up to go, the thoughts of the journey were often attended with unusual sadness, at which times my heart was frequently turned to the Lord with inward breathings for his heavenly support, that I might not fail to follow him wheresoever he might lead me.

  John Woolman

  Heart, Sadness, Journey

  John Woolman (2013). “journal”, p.87, Lulu.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• America has to be not just an idea but a living, breathing thing.

  will.i.am

  Ideas, America

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• People don't appreciate that when you're on the Internet, it's a 24/7 job. Even if you're not releasing episodes, your show is living and breathing on the Internet because there's a community around it. Ninety percent of the work is after the web series is shot, and you have to constantly maintain your community, because it's all you have.

  Felicia Day

  Jobs, People, Appreciate

  "Felicia Day slays the Internet with 'The Guild'". Interview with Maureen Ryan, featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com. July 13, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What do you think? I'm not a starfish or a pepper tree. I'm a living, breathing human being. Of course I've been in love.

  Haruki Murakami

  Thinking, Tree, Peppers

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from May 07, 2014

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames.

  Lloyd Jones

  Book, Eye, Flames

  Lloyd Jones (2011). “Mister Pip”, p.157, ReadHowYouWant.com

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• And if these mountains had eyes, they would wake to find two strangers in their fences, standing in admiration as a breathing red pours its tinge upon earth's shore. These mountains, which have seen untold sunrises, long to thunder praise but stand reverent, silent so that man's weak praise should be given God's attention.

  Donald Miller

  Nature, Eye, Men

  Donald Miller (2005). “Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road”, p.253, Harper Collins

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• I want what everybody wants, that's how I know I'm still breathing.

  Mark Doty

  Want, Stills, Knows

  4 Copy quote

• Eating and sleeping are not like loving and breathing. Washing is not like eating and sleeping. Believing is like breathing and loving. Religion can be believing, it can be like breathing, it can be like loving, it can be like eating or sleeping, it can be like washing, it can be something to fill up a place when someone has lost out of them a piece that it was not natural for them to have in them.

  Gertrude Stein

  Believe, Sleep, Pieces

  Gertrude Stein (2016). “GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Memoirs & Essays: Three Lives, Tender Buttons, Geography and Plays, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas…”, p.327, e-artnow

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• As much as I admire and value intellectualism and experimentation, I've discovered that unless a book has a throbbing heart as well as a sexy brain, I feel like the story is a specimen in a sealed glass jar and not a living, breathing creature I want to take by the hand and talk to for hours on end.

  Myla Goldberg

  Sexy, Book, Heart

  4 Copy quote

• nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility:whose texture compels me with the colour of its countries, rendering death and forever with each breathing (i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands -excerpt of #35 from "100 Selected Poems

  e. e. cummings

  Country, Rain, Eye

  E. E. Cummings, “Somewhere I Have Never Travelled, Gladly Beyond”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• WE two boys together clinging, One the other never leaving, Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making, Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching, Arm'd and fearless, eating, drinking, sleeping, loving. No law less than ourselves owning, sailing, soldiering, thieving, threatening, Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, on the turf or the sea-beach dancing, Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness chasing, Fulfilling our foray.

  Walt Whitman

  Beach, Drinking, Sleep

  Walt Whitman (2011). “Walt Whitman's Songs of Male Intimacy and Love: "Live Oak, with Moss" and "Calamus"”, p.94, University of Iowa Press

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.

  Mark Rothko

  Silence, Solitude, Arms

  Mark Rothko (1997). “Mark Rothko”, Stewart Tabori & Chang

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• in the nineteenth year and the eleventh month speak your tattered Kaddish for all suicides: Praise to life though it crumbled in like a tunnel on ones we knew and loved Praise to life though its windows blew shut on the breathing-room of ones we knew and loved Praise to life though ones we knew and loved loved it badly, too well, and not enough Praise to life though it tightened like a knot on the hearts of ones we thought we knew loved us Praise to life giving room and reason to ones we knew and loved who felt unpraisable. Praise to them, how they loved it, when they could.

  Adrienne Rich

  Suicide, Heart, Years

  5 Copy quote

• When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so-called good and tolerable days, I feel so bad in my childish soul that I smash my rusty lyre of thanksgiving in the face of the slumbering god of contentment and would rather feel the most devilish pain burn in me than this warmth of a well-heated room. - Harry Haller

  Hermann Hesse

  Pain, Air, Soul

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph; I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them,-- Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Glasses, Nymphs

  'Richard III' (1591) act 1, sc. 1, l. 9

  59 Copy quote

  Show source

• But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Simple, Cities, Paris

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.451, Simon and Schuster

  34 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's the arrangement of events which makes the stories. It's throwing away, compressing, underlining. Hindsight can give structure to anything, but you have to be able to see it. Breathing, waking and sleeping: our lives are steamed and shaped into stories. Knowing that is what keeps me from going insane, and though I don't like to admit it, sometimes it's the only thing.

  Carol Shields

  Sleep, Knowing, Giving

  9 Copy quote

• Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually.

  William Ellery Channing

  Book, Reading, Past

  19 Copy quote

• Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air - moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh - felt as if it were being exhaled into one's face. Sometimes it even sounded like heavy breathing.

  Tom Robbins

  Phones, Air, Louisiana

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.74, Bantam

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Your true passion should feel like breathing; it’s that natural.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Positive, Passion

  7 Copy quote

• He must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about...like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Real, Sky

  "The Great Gatsby". Book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Chapter 8, 1925.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source