#breathing

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. ↗

— John Updike

#breathing #certain #offers #room #space

Now that I have kids, I'm probably more overprotective than I've ever been. My wife's nickname for me is 'red alert.' I sometimes check just to see if the kids are breathing. But I try not to be a helicopter parent. ↗

— Matt Damon

#been #breathing #check #ever #helicopter

Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing. ↗

— Gene Tunney

#boxing #breathing #jumping #me #much

As long as I was breathing with the contractions and not pushing against them, I felt better. That idea is fundamental-to feel pain and not to resist; to go towards it. It is an incredibly spiritual practice. ↗

— Christy Turlington

#better #breathing #feel #felt #go

I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes. ↗

— Vera Wang

#clothes #eating #ever #fashion #generations

I have to experiment with methods and I'm trying to find an authentic way of making an equivalent of the living, breathing person within the limits of a single picture. ↗

— Peter Wright

#breathing #equivalent #experiment #find #i

From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men were poisoned by breathing poisoned air, not by handling their food with unwashed hands. ↗

— Alice Hamilton

#became #breathing #convinced #dust #first

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#breathing #every #fold #rose #sweets

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. ↗

— Harper Lee

#does #feared #i #lose #love

I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York. ↗

— Karen Allen

#act #breathing #bring #decided #desire