Faster Moving Air

Famous quotes containing the words faster, moving and/or air:

“When the precipitancy of a man’s wishes hurries on his ideas ninety times faster than the vehicle he rides in—woe be to truth!”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

“People’s tongues are like grass, moving this way and that according to the direction of the winds.”
—Chinese proverb.

“There is an air of last things, a brooding sense of impending annihilation, about so much deconstructive activity, in so many of its guises; it is not merely postmodernist but preapocalyptic.”
—David Lehman (b. 1948)