I strive to be my best every time I go out, and that’s very stressful. After a while of doing that… it’s nice to just take a deep breath, sit on a tractor.
I love the dancing and the music from Latin cultures. I went to a Flamenco show in Spain once, and it completely took my breath away!
Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
I think my first experience of art, or the joy in making art, was playing the horn at some high-school dance or bar mitzvah or wedding, looking at a roomful of people moving their bodies around in time to what I was doing. There was a piano player, a bass player, a drummer, and my breath making the melody.
The thing is to appreciate the fragile wonder of it all, down to the last breath, down to the dying embers of consciousness.
It’s in that moment – when millions of fans are holding their breath as the football hurtles towards me at 80 mph, and all I have is within 0.42 seconds to react – that I need to feel mentally and physically prepared.
There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it – roaming the world.
Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith’s bellows: they take breath but are not alive.
Remember that breath walking – as with any meditation technique – should not be pursued with a grim determination to ‘get it right.’ The point is to cultivate openness, relaxation and awareness, which can include awareness of your undisciplined, wandering mind.
The worse thing in the world is for an individual to live, breath and exist and leave this earth, die, and not make impact.
I meditate. Just counting my breath. Before I do anything, really.
I love composing music and it’s like a breath of fresh air for me.
Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.
We think of divinity as something infinitely big, but it is also infinitely small – the condensation of your breath on your palms, the ridges in your fingertips, the warm space between your shoulder and the shoulder next to you.
Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.
We still had all our problems growing up as a struggling immigrant family, but Australia was like a breath of fresh air, literally. Playing on grass, having good schools – trees. I didn’t even know trees where I’d come from. So from the day I got here, I’ve loved Australia.
Calgary wins for my coldest New Year’s Eve gig. That’s when I learned Fahrenheit and Celsius cross at 40 below. I could see callers’ breath coming out of my phone.
At some point I got sick of people calling me Bonzo junior. But now that I’m older and wiser, I’m just honored to be mentioned in the same breath.
Prayer is omnipotent: its breath can melt adamantine rocks – its touch can break the stoutest chains.
I think in all cultural organizations there has to be renewal. I’m also of a certain age that someone new can come in with a breath of fresh air. Things change, and I think that’s important.
If you’re throwing punches or exerting energy but you’re not breathing, you’re holding your breath. That actually saps your strength, it saps your stamina.
I have a couple of things I do to clear my head when I need it. The first is exercise, the kind of exercise that makes me lie on the floor afterward gasping for breath and wonder if I’m actually going to be able to breathe enough to not die. The other one is playing music.
Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.
North Korea is the errant teenage child, aren’t they? Or toddler – they’re holding their breath until they get their way.
You should fight for every breath you have.
Sometimes you go into a waiting room, and the audition room is right there, and the walls are extremely thin. And you can hear every breath that they’re saying. And you’re used to that. So you go in, and you’re like, ‘Oh, whatever.’
Where film can eat up story, theatre needs space and breath.
Coffee gives me bad breath.
Just be yourself. As an actor, you pretend all day – that’s what the job calls for. So, when it comes to my personal life, a woman who keeps it real is a breath of fresh air.
It’s a huge turnoff when men have teeth that look like they haven’t been brushed in days. Also, bad breath is awful.
What you hear is southern Michigan, not a drawl, but a halting kind of speech where you leave spaces when there shouldn’t be any. We take a breath anywhere.
I’ve known John Toshack a long, long time because I grew up with his son Cameron. If he was English, there is no doubt that he would be mentioned in the same breath as someone like Terry Venables.
I ran into Ellen at a photo shoot. She took my breath away. That had never happened to me in my life.
Holyfield is nothing but class, and I think he’s a breath of fresh air for the sport.
The idea that someone, somewhere will campaign in a positive, uplifting way on an agenda that can inspire Americans? I’m sadly done holding my breath.
I did a film once in the Sahara. It was pretty awe-inspiring. I remember sitting up on the roof of our hotel, watching the sun go down, and all around me, for 360 degrees, was nothing but sand. It took your breath away but also made you feel tiny.
There is much that makes one pause in ‘If This is a Man’, the record of Levi’s 11-month incarceration in Auschwitz, much one cannot read without needing to lay aside the book and inhale the breath of common air.
I’m for the fracking. I think it’s an opportunity for Ohio to really get a lot of jobs. But we have to do it right. We have to really take a deep breath, do it right, make sure the public is protected, make sure our land is protected.
Today, there’s no excuse for not learning how to get our financial houses in order. Some of us close our eyes, take a deep breath and say a prayer when it comes to managing our finances.
While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.
When you get older, you are told constantly that you should be there for your parents’ deaths, otherwise you will regret it. But what we are not prepared for is a sudden, brutal death that you are there for, with medical people shouting and things bleeping and your parent gasping for breath.
I’ll be a diehard bodybuilder until my last breath, but I want my brand and the movement we are creating to touch all aspect of the fitness community.
Another term for balloon is bad breath holder.
The universe began as an enormous breath being held. I am glad that it did… until this great exhalation is finished, my thoughts live on.
Space is the breath of art.
I would say that ‘Breath of the Wild’ is a dramatic departure from the conventions of a ‘Zelda’ game.
The problem with the internet and the way that we communicate on the internet is – I mean it’s obvious to everybody – but sometimes we don’t stop and take a breath and think about it.
I just want people to take a step back, take a deep breath and actually look at something with a different perspective. But most people will never do that.
Recently, I looked back at my first manuscripts and was struck by the lack of space, of breath. That’s exactly how it felt, back then… like I was suffocating.
A kestrel can and does hover in the dead calm of summer days, when there is not the faintest breath of wind. He will, and does, hover in the still, soft atmosphere of early autumn, when the gossamer falls in showers, coming straight down as if it were raining silk.
The first time I kissed Brad my knees went weak – I literally lost my breath!
One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism – there is an epidemic in this country. This is like, the air that we breath.
We all need to take a deep breath and think about being a Bush daughter and having that cross to bear. I’d go out and have a couple of drinks too.
We should steadily intensify the work of establishing the Party’s monolithic leadership system to make the whole Party share ideology with the Party Central Committee, breathe the same breath as it, and keep pace with it.
I love this life. I feel like I am always catching my breath and saying, ‘Oh! Will you look at that?’ Photography has been my way of bearing witness to the joy I find in seeing the extraordinary in ordinary life. You don’t look for pictures. Your pictures are looking for you.
Leaving a great organization and a lucrative contract is not easy, but it allows me to take a deep breath and work on things that can make me a better driver and a better person.
All too often, I will see people on the left slam Trump for the way he treats or talks about other people. Then those same individuals – sometimes even in the same breath – will go on to say even worse things about the people who voted for him.
