#oxygen

Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#i #mask #oxygen #reach #says

Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three. ↗

— Asa Gray

#ago #being #carbon #chemical #composed

Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared. ↗

— Otto Weininger

#also #among #burn #compared #enemy

Music was my oxygen. It's what saved me from being a really lonely and scared teenager. ↗

— Corey Hart

#lonely #me #music #oxygen #really

Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer. ↗

— Dave Barry

#beer #chemicals #example #for example #hydrogen

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

But on average, I go to the gym about four or five times a week. Today, I'm so experienced in training - I'm actually listening to my body now. My body needs freedom. When I train I create serenity and I produce oxygen in my blood. It helps me to think better and relax. By training, you accentuate the problem. ↗

— Jean Claude Van Damme

#accentuate #actually #average #better #blood

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life. ↗

— Bill Moyers

#johnson #life #lyndon #lyndon johnson #oxygen

Taking care of yourself is being there for your kids, like how on a plane, they tell you to put on your oxygen mask first. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#being there #care #first #how #kids

I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire. ↗

— Sam Phillips

#i #just #never #oxygen #retire