#breath

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#good #good writing #holding #swimming #under

Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his tradition never saw it, in characters on the pages. It was all on the tongue and in the ear. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#breathed #certainly #characters #ear #formed

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#fame #often #people #unwholesome

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#breath #completely #i #mention #name

Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself. ↗

— Cordell Hull

#attendant #become #breathe #cast #circumstances

I don't even think when I'm walking down the runway. I don't really breathe either. ↗

— Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

#down #either #even #i #really

In 2008 I didn't take it all in enough. I was so wrapped up in just the competition that I missed what was going on around me. If I am given that opportunity again to go to the Olympics and be an athlete I want to take it all in because I feel like this is my last shot and I want to feel the team spirit. I want to really live and breathe the USA. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#am #around #athlete #because #breathe

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#always #breath #complacency #draw #first

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. ↗

— Jules Verne

#breath #covers #desert #everything #feels

Pranayama is the practice of breath control. The word prana refers not only to breath, but also to air and life itself. ↗

— Christy Turlington

#also #breath #control #itself #life