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Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else. -- William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle
You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else. -- William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle
Everybody puts on airs, regardless of race. -- Keegan-Michael Key
I certainly don't have any airs about myself. -- Jamie Farr
What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs. -- David Duchovny
I don't believe in putting on airs. I call it like I see it. -- Ellen Pompeo
There's always room for improvement, but the judges are looking for big airs and stylish tricks. -- Shaun White
One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs. -- Josh Billings
I'm not somebody who goes online after every episode airs because that would be, for me, getting too much feedback and too much information. -- Jason Katims
I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies. -- Rickie Lee Jones
Hackney at certain epochs has given itself suburban airs and graces, before being slapped down and consigned once more to the dump bin of aborted ambition. -- Iain Sinclair
The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep tonight. -- William C. Bryant
The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent. -- Quentin Crisp
If we had to choose one American Idol to go out to dinner with, it would be Fantasia. There are no airs and graces about her... I like her. -- Simon Cowell
If you're going to be part of a nationally televised show that airs live and do sketches that haven't even been brainstormed a week earlier, you really can't be afraid to fail. -- Casey Wilson
His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufacturing fashionable toys; but, in her conversation, he sought in vain for that refined and fertile mind which he had fondly expected. -- Emma Willard
The British monarchy has the political and constitutional task of subtracting from the government and governors of Britain the papal and kingly airs that in America, because we have no such institution, unfortunately adhere to the president. -- Mark Helprin
My favorite day at '30 Rock' is Thursday when the show airs. At lunch, we screen the episodes. For everyone to watch together, to see the stuff we all worked on, to hear the crew laugh - it's great fun. -- Tina Fey
I think the thing about it is when you grow up in Chicago there's such a thing as putting on airs, you know? And you just learn not to put on airs. Don't act like, 'Oh boy, I'm somebody.' They'll slap you down. -- Bob Newhart
Some version of 'Deal or No Deal' airs in 120 countries. And they play it exactly the same way, with models and briefcases. It crosses language and culture and gender, because it's the simplest game in the world, and everyone wants to press their luck. -- Howie Mandel
I'm me. I can't put on airs. I'm not a phony. I know the way I am hurts me more times than it helps. But somehow it's all tied up with my integrity, and my integrity is the last thing I'm going to let you take from me. -- Tony Dorsett
It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars today with all their airs and graces, they need to remember it is an honour and a privilege to make money from acting. How hard is it? -- Larry Hagman
It's funny because when I got 'Jarhead' and 'Avatar' and all those movies, 'Leprechaun' still to this day airs on BET. I was thinking, 'Will they just let it go? I finally have a body of work that can speak much better to what I can do than just Leprechaun.' -- Laz Alonso
I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but you also see it in someone like Richard Petty, who may be a multimillionaire stock car driver, but he's also beloved because he has a nice self-deprecatory way about him. -- John Shelton Reed
When you're doing a network show in the States, you're just a slave to the ratings. There's so much money invested that there's this pervasive atmosphere of fear and anxiety. Every morning after an episode of your show airs, everyone is fixated on the numbers to try and determine how the show did. -- Jeffrey Klarik
I am always going to be in the hood in my heart, but what I did was added on the masters of arts, fine arts and the doctorate... if you want me to pull that out, I can get very distinguished... but I'm not going there... I don't have to put on airs; the knowledge comes out - just listen. -- Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Toyish airs please trivial ears. -- Francis Quarles
They who prosper take on airs of vanity. -- Aeschylus
I certainly dont have any airs about myself. -- Jamie Farr
In a tavern everybody puts on airs except the landlord. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What airs outblown from ferny dells And clover-bloom and sweet brier smells. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers? -- John Milton
Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing. -- Julia Cameron
... why do people who live in the country always give themselves such airs? -- Virginia Woolf
And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse -- John Milton
Oprah Winfrey is so powerful that she had the Rapture postponed until after her final show airs. -- Joan Rivers
Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence; he has no reason to give himself airs about it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you are wise you won't be deceived by the innocent airs of those whom you have once found to be dangerous. -- Aesop
It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man of character. -- Osamu Dazai
Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood? -- William C. Bryant
I'm not trying to put on airs for anybody. I'm only trying to impress myself by doing the best job I can do. -- Matthew McConaughey
I watch Pretty Little Liars with my best friend Telly. We go to each other's houses when it airs and we watch it. -- Naya Rivera
Always be natural. Putting on airs will make a giggle out of you. Be yourself and if you don't know something say so. -- Twiggy
Who rant by note, and through the gamut rage; in songs and airs express their martial fire; combat in trills, and in a fugue expire. -- Joseph Addison
Our kids haven't any airs about them. I don't like posh kids who don't like dirty dolls or expect a chauffeur every time they go out. -- Linda McCartney
Our television program airs to a potential audience of over 3 billion people, in many places where the people living there may have never even heard of Jesus. -- Joyce Meyer
The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep to-night. -- William C. Bryant
Physics is unable to stand on its own feet, but needs a metaphysics on which to support itself, whatever fine airs it may assume towards the latter. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
The human race likes to give itself airs. One good volcano can produce more greenhouse gases in a year than the human race has in its entire history. -- Ray Bradbury
Above all do not give yourself airs. Breaking the moment of past habits is the challenge here: In the life of the spirit you are always at the beginning. -- Jeff Buckley
How much the more in judging of the human heart should we distrust all fashionable airs and graces, all tricks and smartness, learnt only to please the outward gaze -- Murasaki Shikibu
If cities were built by the sound of music, then some edifices would appear to be constructed by grave, solemn tones,--others to have danced forth to light fantastic airs. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
I fear I shall never be...good for anything in this world, but composing airs, building towers, forming gardens, collecting old Japan, and writing a journey to China or the Moon. -- William Thomas Beckford
Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social science is little more than observation putting on airs. -- Michael Kinsley
A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest. -- George Eliot
There is no man who has not some interesting associations with particular scenes, or airs, or books, and who does not feel their beauty or sublimity enhanced to him by such connections. -- Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet
What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail. -- Alexander Pope
Washington was no politician as we understand the word," replied Ratcliffe abruptly. "He stood outside of politics. The thing couldn't be done today. The people don't like that sort of royal airs. -- Henry Adams
This was why I loved my Grana. Being with her always made me laugh. She accepted life for what it was. She didnâ??t pretend or put on airs. She was just Grana. -- Abbi Glines
O'er Egypt's land of memory floods are level, And they are thine, O Nile! and well thou knowest The soul-sustaining airs and blasts of evil, And fruits, and poisons spring where'er thou flowest. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The domestic man, who loves no music so well as his kitchen clock, and the airs which the logs sing to him as they burn on the hearth, has solaces which others never dream of. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where lurk sweet echoes of the dear homevoices, Each note of which calls like a little sister, Those airs slow, slow ascending, as the smokewreaths Rise from the hearthstones of our native hamlets Cyrano Act 5. -- Edmond Rostand

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