Thin Air Quotes - Page 2

• He's like one of those weird birds in India who dissolve themselves into thin air and nip through space in a sort of disembodied way and assemble the parts again just where they want them. I've got a cousin who's what they call a Theosophist, and he says he's often nearly worked the thing himself, but couldn't quite bring it off, probably owing to having fed in his boyhood on the flesh of animals slain in anger and pie.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Cousin, Animal, Air

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• The truth is that only 1% of all new words are totally new, and of those an even smaller percentage are conjured up out of thin air. The vast majority of coinages are the product of some kind of repurposing, and the result has always been a mix of tradition and innovation.

  Susie Dent

  Air, Innovation, Majority

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• You can't write a song out of thin air you have to feel and know what you are writing about.

  Irving Berlin

  Song, Writing, Air

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• Vice President Cheney is also on vacation. He's in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. What better place for a guy who has had 4 heart attacks than a place with thin air, rugged hiking and all-beef dinners? Why don't they get some snow for him to shovel while he's out there, too?

  Jay Leno

  Heart, Vacation, Air

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• Nothing is more rewarding than to take a song, create it out of thin air and then watch it affect people.

  Luke Bryan

  Song, Air, People

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• There can be no possible question that cold is felt much more keenly in the thin air of nineteen thousand feet than it is below.

  Hudson Stuck

  Air, Feet, Nineteen

  Hudson Stuck (2007). “Ascent of Denali”, p.63, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I want to have enough data, so I won't write myself into thin air, so that I can extrapolate and give you this secret human infrastructure. The only way I sate my own curiosity is to create this from scratch. There must be commanding love stories. There must be great moral cost.

  James Ellroy

  Writing, Air, Data

  Interview by Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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• Maybe all of us at Hailsam had little secrets like that -- little private nooks created out of thin air where we could go off alone without fears and longing.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Air, Secret, Littles

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• But I don’t think I’ve ever known such a natural at Potions!” said Slughorn. “Instinctive, you know — like his mother! I’ve only ever taught a few with this kind of ability, I can tell you that, Sybill — why even Severus —” And to Harry’s horror, Slughorn threw out an arm and seemed to scoop Snape out of thin air toward them.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mother, Thinking, Air

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• Toward the end of their relationship she'd told him once, "I wish I could give you what you're looking for, but I don't know what it is. There's a part of you that you keep closed off from everyone, including me. Its as if I'm not the one you're really with. Your mind is on someone else." He tried to deny it, but she didn't believe him. "I'm a woman - I know these things. When you look at me sometimes, I know you're seeing someone else. Its like you keep waiting for her to pop out of thin air to take you away from all this.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Believe, Air, Giving

  Nicholas Sparks (2014). “The Notebook: Student edition”, p.20, Hachette UK

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• I learned a lot that night. For example, that part of being the magician's assistant means coming face-to-face with illusion. That invisibility is really just knotting your body in a certain way and letting the black curtain fall over you. That people don't vanish into thin air; that when you can't find someone, it's because you've been misdirected to look elsewhere.

  Jodi Picoult

  Fall, Mean, Night

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• All I know is that once Julián told the kids in the building that he had a sister only he could see. He said she came out of mirrors as if she were made of thin air and that she lived with Satan himself in a palace at the bottom of a lake.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Kids, Lakes, Mirrors

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.117, Penguin

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• Sometimes you just create a joke out of thin air in the editing room. So I'm really glad I've had that experience. It gives me a little more confidence in front of the camera.

  Ed Helms

  Air, Editing, Giving

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. June 3, 2009.

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• Historically, very few discoveries were made out of thin air. Most of the greatest insights depended upon the intellectual ecology in which the scientists lived. A certain critical mass of "new findings" occurred, and bright people all over the world found out about it, and several read the tea leaves the same way.

  John Medina

  Air, Discovery, Tea Leaves

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I'm not vanishing into thin air.

  Kate Bush

  Air, Vanishing

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• My definition of fake news is a content-like object that is a story, an article, a video, a tweet that has been fabricated, completely invented out of thin air, intentionally for the purpose of misleading.

  Vivian Schiller

  Air, Fake, Definitions

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Thats usually what I gravitate to, I read The Perfect Storm, then I read Into Thin Air .

  Max Lucado

  Air, Perfect, Storm

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

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• For when man comes to front the everlasting God, and look the splendor of His judgments in the face, personal integrity, the dream of spotlessness and innocence, vanishes into thin air: your decencies and your church-goings and your regularities and your attachment to a correct school and party, your gospel formulas of sound doctrine--what is all that, in front of the blaze of the wrath to come?

  Frederick William Robertson

  Dream, Integrity, Party

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.109

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• [Her life with Tony Curtis in 1961:] We were beginning the climb to a higher plateau. Acceptance. Recognition. Status. Security. We only had to hold on and hope the thin air didn't make us dizzy and cause a tumble. We also needed to remember that the inside had to ascend together with the outside.

  Janet Leigh

  Acceptance, Air, Together

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• Any money the government spends must be taxed, borrowed or conjured out of thin air by the Federal Reserve, and that will reduce sound private investment. Obama has no real wealth to inject into the economy. He can only move around existing money while inflation robs us of purchasing power. Meanwhile, private investors who might have produced a better engine, battery, computer, cancer treatment or other wealth-creating and life-enhancing innovations hold back for fear that big government will undermine productive efforts.

  John Stossel

  Real, Cancer, Moving

  "Arrogant Conceit". townhall.com. December 24, 2008.

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• The reason I invest in technology is it's the only work humans do that actually is creative. All other types of economic activity are just moving money from one pool to another, whereas technology is what allows us to create value out of thin air.

  D.A. Wallach

  Moving, Technology, Air

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• An actor must communicate his author's given message--comedy, tragedy, serio- comedy; then comes his unique moment, as he is confronted by the looked-for, yet at times unexpected, reaction of the audience. This split second is his; he is in command of his medium; the effect vanishes into thin air; but that moment has a power all its own and, like power in any form, is stimulating and alluring.

  Eleanor Robson Belmont

  Power, Unique, Air

  Eleanor Robson Belmont (1957). “The Fabric of Memory”

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• The world starts to exist, for Americans, when we are in conflict with a place. And then all of a sudden, Afghanistan pops up on the TV screen and it becomes a place. And it exists for three weeks and then it disappears into thin air.

  Isabel Allende

  Air, Three, World

  Interview with Laura Flanders, www.counterpunch.org. June 06, 2003.

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• My power vanishes into thin air the instant that my fellow citizens, who are straight and honest, cease to believe that I represent them and fight for what is straight and honest. That is all the strength that I have.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Leadership, Believe, Fighting

  Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

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• I used to be surprised and a little annoyed when characters would reappear in my mind, itching to be in another story. Now I realize it's part of the deal, that you create these people out of thin air but then, if you do it right, they actually live.

  Peter Orner

  Character, Air, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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