Air Surface Tension

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

    It’s a perfect night for mystery and horror. The air itself is filled with monsters.
    William Hurlbut (1883–?)

    These wonderful things
    Were planted on the surface of a round mind that was to become our present time.
    John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled.
    Joan Didion (b. 1935)