#breath

Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe. ↗

— Truman Capote

#breathe #good #hardly #how #i

God, you have a beautiful laugh, and your smile. Jesus, it knocks the breath out of me." "You can't talk to me like that, nobody says things like that to a woman he just met. It's insane." "I just did. And I plan to keep saying them until you believe every word. ↗

— Maya Banks

#fever #jace-crestwell #maya-banks #beauty

We found out the Gemini spacesuit was, well, oxygen was flowing to keep me cool as well as to breathe, and it wasn't good enough. My visor got fogged. ↗

— Gene Cernan

#cool #enough #flowing #found #gemini

I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe. ↗

— Mary Chesnut

#i #laugh #laughable #while #will

In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#clashing #could #crushing #discords #feel

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe. ↗

— Georges Clemenceau

#acting #action #anything #before #believe

In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless pace, we are apt to forget that not all can ride and that he also serves who waits and who applies what the horseman discovers. ↗

— Harvey Cushing

#also #applies #apt #breathless #clearly

Poetry is composing for the breath. ↗

— Peter Davison

#composing #poetry

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth. ↗

— David Duchovny

#breathing #cliche #day #down #every

For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic. ↗

— Adam Duritz

#fantastic #i #just #just do it #like