#breathe

He grumbles incoherently, opens the window a fraction and continues to smoke away. It’s like every time Sidney Drake enters a new location he has to readjust the atmosphere, akin to one of those sci-fi shows where they oxygenate the planet, but for my dad it’s in a suffocating reverse. He replaces the clean wholesome air with a non-stop puff of toxic poison. ↗

— Tom Conrad

#apocalypse #breathe #end-of-the-world #family-saga #oxygen

Do you know how diamonds are made?" She gazed steadily at him, the light turning her green eyes transparent. He didn't wait for her to answer. "They're made of a single element - carbon. But, over millions of years, the carbon had to undergo incredible pressure-something like a minimum of four hundred pounds per square inch-and cook to at least seven hundred degrees. The amazing thing is that if there's not enough pressure or heat, instead of a diamond, plain old graphite is made. Imagine that-instead of the world's most indestructible and beautiful thing, you get just graphite. Something to make pencils with. Sure, pencils are nice and useful. But they aren't diamonds. ↗

— Karen White

#learning-to-breathe #beauty

We lived and breathed acting. ↗

— David Naughton

#breathed #lived

Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance and in life, to breathe deeply and to take in more air than we usually take in. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#aware #breathe #dance #deeply #i

Do not be afraid that joy will make the pain worse; it is needed like the air we breathe. ↗

— Goran Persson

#air #breathe #joy #like #make

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#freedom #must #oxygen #science

I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema. ↗

— Giovanni Ribisi

#breathe #cinema #could #guess #i

As long as I breathe, I attack. ↗