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Music is a plane of wisdom, because music is a universal language, it is a language of honor, it is a noble precept, a gift of the Airy Kingdom, music is air, a universal existence common to all the living. -- Sun Ra
Gold to airy thinness beat. -- Cassandra Clare
Society became my glittering bride, And airy hopes my children. -- William Wordsworth
Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not. -- Madeleine Albright
He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead. -- John Keats
Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names. -- John Milton
His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command. Ibid. -- John Milton
Turner has outdone himself; he seems to paint with tinted steam, so evanescent and so airy. -- John Constable
It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel. -- John Keats
What are fears but voices airy? Whispering harm where harm is not. And deluding the unwary Till the fatal bolt is shot! -- William Wordsworth
The other dry shampoo I was using was wet feeling but I love Prive's smell and how light and airy my hair feels afterwards! -- Sarah
Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. -- John Donne
Who is this that comes in grandeur, coming from the blazing East? This is he we had not thought of, this is he the airy Christ. -- Stevie Smith
Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up. -- William Cowper
No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. -- Samuel Johnson
A thousand trills and quivering sounds In airy circles o'er us fly, Till, wafted by a gentle breeze, They faint and languish by degrees, And at a distance die. -- Joseph Addison
A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses -- John Milton
The sun was set; the night came on apace, And falling dews bewet around the place; The bat takes airy rounds on leathern wings, And the hoarse owl his woeful dirges sings. -- John Gay
But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins. -- Lauren Oliver
Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air. -- Alexander Pope
For well-being and health, again, the homestead should be airy in summer, and sunny in winter. A homestead possessing these qualities would be longer than it is deep; and its main front would face the south. -- Aristotle
To become informed and hold government accountable, the general public needs to obtain news that is comprehensive yet interesting and understandable, that conveys facts and outcomes, not cosmetic images and airy promises. But that is not what the public demands. -- Eric Alterman
Sorrow itself is not so hard to bear As the thought of sorrow coming. Airy ghosts, That work no harm, do terrify us more Than men in steel with bloody purposes. Death is not dreadful; 'tis the dread of death? We die whene'er we think of it! -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet's pen turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name; such tricks hath strong imagination. -- William Shakespeare
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality. -- Samuel Johnson
For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, Argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'd a ghastly dew, From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue. -- Alfred the Great
Execute their airy purposes. -- John Milton
Sleeping or waking, we hear not the airy footsteps of the strange things that almost happen. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
My parents are a wonderful mixture of bohemian eccentric, but also incredibly practical and not airy-fairy. -- Sophie Kennedy Clark
Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture. -- Henry Ward Beecher
If you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass. -- Tori Amos
The mountains too, at a distance, appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand they are rough. -- Diogenes Laertius
Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale. -- John Milton
My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside. -- Rachel Zoe
Man is but lost in wishes, Of wealth, fame and riches, This airy castle he stitches, With logic that are his ditches. -- Munindra Misra
Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy dream; Pleasures, insects on the wing Round Peace, th' tend rest flow'r of spring. -- Robert Burns
And the day climbs down from its blue loft-bed on a slanting ladder of sunbeams, pauses a moment between the trees, airy-light, young. -- Hans BÃ¸rli
It is necessary to introduce light vibrations, represented by reds and yellows, and a sufficient amount of blues, to obtain an airy feeling. -- Paul Cezanne
How do you know but ev'ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos'd by your senses five? -- William Blake
Thoughts - even fears - were airy things, formless until you made them solid with your voice and once given that weight, they could crush you. -- Kristin Hannah
The first Care in building of Cities, is to make them airy and well perflated; infectious Distempers must necessarily be propagated amongst Mankind living close together. -- John Arbuthnot
We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts. -- Henry Ward Beecher
I love adventurous travel. I also love pancakes, and making pancakes for other people. You would definitely find me in the airy treetop as opposed to below ground. -- Kate DiCamillo
When I feel the joy of receiving a gift my heart nudges me to join creation's ballet, the airy dance of giving and receiving, and getting and giving again. -- Lewis B. Smedes
Loud wind, strong wind, sweeping o'er the mountains, Fresh wind, free wind, blowing from the sea, Pour forth thy vials like streams from airy mountains, Draughts of life to me. -- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
The pursuit of exotic beauty in such a life would have been like having a ball of tinfoil in your stomach, all that airy metal filling you up with hunger. -- Laura Kasischke
But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure invention is but the talent of a liar. -- Lord Byron
And yet we check and chide The airy angels as they float about us, With rules of so-called wisdom, till they grow The same tame slaves to custom and the world. -- Frances Sargent Osgood
In the deep shadow of the porch A slender bind-weed springs, And climbs, like airy acrobat, The trellises, and swings And dances in the golden sun In fairy loops and rings. -- Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
the dreams of childhood - it's airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond; so good to be believed in once, so good to be remembered when outgrown... -- Charles Dickens
The lime trees were in bloom. But in the early morning only a faint fragrance drifted through the garden, an airy message, an aromatic echo of the dreams during the short summer night. -- Isak Dinesen
A wise man can do no better than to turn from the churches and look up through the airy majesty of the wayside trees with exultation, with resignation, at the unconquerable uncomplicated sun. -- Llewelyn Powys
When we are high and airy hundreds say That if we hold that flight they'll leave the place, While those same hundreds mock another day Because we have made our art of common things ... -- William Butler Yeats
There is another way of disqualifying the metaphysicians.... Judge them by their works. What have they done for mankind beyond the spinning of airy fancies and the mistaking of their own shadows for gods? -- Jack London
My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like sweet music. Care stops at the gates, and gazes at me wistfully through the bars. -- Alexander Smith
Aquamarine is an airy blue with a dreamy feel. Cool and calming, ethereal Aquamarine is a shade with a wet and watery feel. Open and expansive, this restful blue also acts as a stress reducer. -- Leatrice Eiseman

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