Air Surface Tension

Famous quotes containing the words air, surface and/or tension:

    “Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.”
    —Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)

    “Bees
    Shaking the heavy dews from bloom and frond.
    Boys
    Bursting the surface of the ebony pond.”
    —Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)

    “The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.”
    —Havelock Ellis (1859–1939)