My father, I spent a lot of time with him at the hospital. I was with him when he took his last breath, but I felt something coming from him into my hand and into my body.
Perhaps grief is not about empty, but full. The full breath of life that includes death. The completeness, the cycles, the depth, the richness, the process, the continuity and the treasure of the moment that is gone the second you are aware of it.
I’ve lived this very dramatic life, with high points and terrible low points. Nothing has been ordinary, and I want to have the experience of the last breath. I want a little drama to it.
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
I will flight for the people until my last breath.
Your first kid, you’re so scared that they’re going to die that you sneak into their room, and you put your finger under their nose to feel breath. And the second kid, you might check in on them once in a while to make sure they’re OK.
Fear is excitement without breath.
In government, you are pressed by the security agencies. They come to you with very good information, and they say, ‘You need to do something.’ So you do need the breath of scepticism, not cynicism, breathing on them.
I wouldn’t be surprised if this album cycle for ‘Cardiology’ is the funnest couple years we ever see. We’ve made all of our mistakes; we’ve kind of learned. Now we know what to avoid, we know what to embrace, we know how to take a deep breath and enjoy the moment.
But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
Wagner always opens you a second breath, and then you go on, and you are absolutely into his musical world, and you can’t stop, and you can listen for four hours, five hours, six hours, and then you are like in his mystical hands of his music. He’s such a great poet of music.
When the object that is produced, the photographic image has the ability to make tears come to your eyes; to inspire you to the point where you have to catch your breath, then nothing else matters.
Each project you do demands a different diet in a way. Because there’s so much tension in ‘Betrayal,’ so much holding of breath and emotion, I can’t get too happy in my food choices or I can’t get alert enough.
My natural bent is to have an overabundance of energy, and motion-capture essentializes your every breath, your every move. Seeing yourself through that mask, you realize how far you can pull back and make the performance even more powerful.
There is no doubt that breath control is the means for mind control because the mind, like breath, is a part of air; because the nature of mobility is common to both; because the place of origin is the same for both; and because when one of them is controlled, the other gets controlled.
Every breath we take as human beings damages the planet.
When a child is born, it is immersed in an atmosphere charged with the stellar vibrations peculiar to that moment, which are stamped upon each atom of the sensitive organism by the air inhaled with the first breath.
We need to take a breath and find big ways and small ways to get active.
Paying attention to my breath makes me happy to be alive. And that really grounds me during a performance.
Everybody kind of looks to comedians and comedy for relief and a fresh breath about what is going on in the world.
I do so many things. Like when I was younger, if I drove past a house that I didn’t want to live in, I’d hold my breath. Driving around somewhere like Slough I’d go blue in the face.
We looked at each other standing on the podium, and I think we all were tearing up. But we had to keep it cool. I think we did. Then we let out a breath.
The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
They also explained how the sensors can monitor the levels of acetone on people’s breath, and this can be used to tell people who suffer from diabetes when their next insulin shot is due. This is a more discreet method than what is currently on the market.
All things share the same breath – the beast, the tree, the man… the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
Breath does, in fact, connect us all in a very literal way. Take a breath now. And as you breathe, think about what is in your breath. There perhaps is the CO2 from the person sitting next-door to you.
I love standing up behind the blocks, and I love that moment just before you dive in and it goes quiet, and you take a deep breath and you just dive, and then you try and win, but that moment just before I go, that’s why I race.
An athlete learns how to hold her breath, but that doesn’t work in singing. You have to learn to relax.
I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I’m dodging bullets and gasping for breath.
I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.
The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.
It’s important for people to recognize that they shouldn’t ignore symptoms like shortness of breath or a cough that won’t go away, because these may be signs of COPD.
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
I don’t push my voice; I try to keep a good technique, a natural way of singing, to sing from the breath, which is the main thing.
Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
In the 74 years and nearly four months marking her time on what she called this crooked old Earth, my mother rarely drew a healthy breath. Still, to say that life wasn’t fair for this awkwardly glib, yet deeply religious woman, would fail to take into account her towering instinct for survival.
I wouldn’t be creatively satisfied if all we did were sequels, but in the same breath, I’ll say that I wouldn’t be creatively satisfied if everything was an original. It’s good to use the different parts of my brain. Very different rules apply.
Find patience in the breath of life.
The opportunities which the present position open up for a lasting and radical solution of the most vexing problem of the Jewish state are so far-reaching as to take one’s breath away.
Most people know that forests are the lungs of our planet, literally playing a critical role in every breath we take. And that they’re also home to incredible animals like the orangutan and elephant, which will go extinct if we keep cutting down their forests.
God is ever present. He’s in every breath, in every step. He’s here, always, always.
When it’s silent or when that energy of the audience isn’t there, you feel the bumps a little more. You feel yourself losing breath a little quicker.
I will get to the truth, if not in Ukrainian courts, then in international ones. I will fight to my last breath. They want to put me in prison but that won’t help. My voice will be heard even louder from prison than now, and the whole world will hear me.
I try to swim once or twice a week. I basically hold my breath for, like, 12 laps, down and back, to kind of expand my lungs so that I can have better breathing when it comes down to two-minute drives where you’ve got to play a lot of plays all in one series and you’re hurrying up.
I don’t feel the breath of a thousand people over my shoulder.
I feel unbelievably honored to be, you know, with Marie Curie and Goeppert Mayer. It’s like, how can I be in the same breath as those three?
The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us – ah! what a dream, to live in that! – the other stifles us at the first breath.
The Soft Machine’s ‘Volume Two’ inspired me heavily. That record just feels like it was all done in the same breath. It’s genius, and it’s silly at times. But I love the fact that every time I listen to it, I listen from the beginning and want to play it out.
When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience.
You do wonder – when you are at 28,000 feet, the height that aeroplanes cruise at, when you are struggling to draw breath and every limb aches – why do I do this?
The ebulliently sharp mind of ‘White Christmas’ director Walter Bobbie made me tremble and strive in the same breath. The deceptively ‘simple’ dialogue of David Ives, asking every actor to just. say. it. Float it on the breeze; it doesn’t need ‘explanation,’ just energy and truth.
I was putting everything into trying to convince everyone I was me. Before entering a room, I’d take a deep breath and say to myself: ‘How would Frankie from The Saturdays behave?’ I’d be louder, bubblier, happier.
I’m a major breath person, so I always have gum, mints.
I’m inspired by breath, by the human body – by so many things.
The 3DS is a fantastic machine with more than 1,000 games. Its key differentiator is the 3D immersive experience without need for glasses. But as good as that machine is, you can’t play a game like ‘Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’ on it.
