Air Conditioned

Famous quotes containing the words air and/or conditioned:

    “The air was so elastic and crystalline that it had the same effect on the landscape that a glass has on a picture, to give it an ideal remoteness and perfection.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-Thou second- guessing in The New York Review of Books.”
    —John Updike (b. 1932)