Quotes and Sayings About Oxygen
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Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.
-- A. Whitney Brown -
I never knew there were this many stars." "I can't see them," he told me. "I just see you." "That's one of your cheesier lines," I told him. "It's the altitude," he told me. "I don't have enough oxygen in my brain." "I see.
-- Ally Carter -
He kissed me desperately, like a drowning man and I was his oxygen.
-- Amanda Hocking -
You have to put your own oxygen mask before you put on others... It's a good metaphor for parenting
-- Amanda Peet -
I think that people ran out of oxygen and don't really know what happened up there, maybe some of them just made things up because they weren't sure what had happened.
-- Anatoli Boukreev -
This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from posterity.
-- Antoine Lavoisier -
Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three.
-- Asa Gray -
I gave up smoking, I never gave up the drinking. But it's hard to smoke and swim at the same time. You'd get to the edge of the pool and all you'd be wanting is a cigarette when all you actually really want is oxygen. So I traded the smoke for the oxygen.
-- Ashton Kutcher -
The absorption of oxygen and the elimination of carbon dioxide in the lungs take place by diffusion alone. There is no trustworthy evidence of any regulation of this process on the part of the organism.
-- August Krogh -
Muscles do not use oxygen at a constant rate.
-- August Krogh -
The beach is definitely where I feel most at home. It's my oxygen. I forget how much I need it sometimes when I'm away working.
-- Behati Prinsloo -
As it is a major component of blood, water is vital for transporting oxygen to the brain. Heaven forbid that your blood should dry out.
-- Ben Goldacre -
Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.
-- Bill Moyers -
I felt okay for the first 45 seconds, and then my vision grew fussy. My lungs felt like deflated balloons. I would have sucked oxygen through my ears, if that were possible. I was experiencing oxygen debt, or perhaps better stated, oxygen death.
-- Brad Alan Lewis -
Self actualization is the oxygen for the soul.
-- Brian Johnson -
He gave a hard smile and the oxygen in my lungs evaporated. “We both know I’m not a gentleman.†“Yeah. Okay, let me out. I’m tired.†“There’s something else,†he said, and I groaned. “What now?†“This.†He stepped closer to me, so close that the containers were sandwiched between us. His eyes looked down into mine, intent and golden, like a lion. “Oh, no, you don’t!†I hissed, dropping everything. I pushed hard against his chest; it was like shoving a tree. “Yes,†he said very softly, leaning down. “Yes, I do.
-- Cate Tiernan -
Unfortunately it's also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen - it's invisible and you don't notice its presence until it's gone, and then you're sorry.
-- Charles Stross -
The world of derivatives is full of holes that very few people are really aware of. It's like hydrogen and oxygen sitting on the corner waiting for a little flame.
-- Charlie Munger -
I just learned how to scuba dive. Id been scared to rely on one little air hose for oxygen, but swimming with all those fish is exhilarating.
-- Cheryl Hines -
Oxigen [oxygen], as you well know, is my hero as well as my foe, and being not only strong but inexhaustible in strategies and full of tricks, I was obliged to call up all my forces to lay hold of him, and make the subtle Being my prisoner.
-- Christian Friedrich Schonbein -
I am not proud to be gay any more than I am proud to be right handed or to breathe oxygen.
-- Cleve Jones -
I fear no man. If you breathe oxygen, I do not fear you.
-- Conor McGregor -
Music was my oxygen. It's what saved me from being a really lonely and scared teenager.
-- Corey Hart -
Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water and nobody knows what that is.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
Happiness is like rising bubbles -- delightful and inevitably fleeting. Joy is the oxygen -- ever present.
-- Danielle LaPorte -
My brothers are my backbone. My parents are my oxygen. I can't live without them.
-- David Cook -
She was a stirrer of the pot, a lover of intrigue and distress, a creature who seemed to draw oxygen from the spectacle of people at each other's throat, everybody in a state of upset and talking about her.
-- David Gilmour -
The clearest evidence that we are living beyond environmental means is the threat of dangerous climate change. The scale of this threat, to human life and to the natural resources and assets on which it depends, for everything from oxygen and clean water to healthy soils and flood defence, means that this simply must be our top priority
-- David Miliband
