Famous quotes containing the words air, force and/or space:
“... in this air of withering sweetness ...”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“Happiness aint a thing in itselfits only a contrast with something that aint pleasant.... And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it aint happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“Not so many years ago there there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travelmovement through spaceprovided the universal metaphor for change.... One of the subtle confusionsperhaps one of the secret terrorsof modern life is that we have lost this refuge. No longer do we move through space as we once did.”
—Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)
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