Optically Pure Air

Famous quotes containing the words pure air, pure and/or air:

    “He gathers deeds
    In the pure air, the agent
    Of their factual excesses.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “In verity, an independent world,
    Created out of pure intelligence.”
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

    “A multitude of little superfluous precautions engender here a population of deputies and sub-officials, each of whom acquits himself with an air of importance and a rigorous precision, which seemed to say, though everything is done with much silence, “Make way, I am one of the members of the grand machine of state.””
    —Marquis De Custine (1790–1857)