Quotes by Fog Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness. Sinclair Lewis gossipfogcynical I have been interested in the dialogue of abstraction and modernist painting - and the rich history of the grid. I also think I have been influenced a bit by some of the particular qualities of the Bay Area. The weather and the atmosphere here is so exotic, like the fog rolling in and the nuanced differences in the quality of light. Stephen Beal foglightthinking The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail. Stephen Gardiner fogdetailslight The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors. Stephen Crane rumorfogarmy The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question. Stephen Jay Gould fogsciencethinking I had no intention of pursuing either the characters or the setting further. Stephen R. Donaldson fogintentioncharacter Never allow gradually the traffic to smother with noise and fog the flowering of the spirit. Stephen Spender fogspiritnoise But something occurred to me as I sped through that dirty shroud of fog, something Vonnegut has been trying to explain to the rest of us for most of his life. And that is this: Despair is a form of hope. It is an acknowledgment of the distance between ourselves and our appointed happiness. At certain moments, it is reason enough to live. Steve Almond fogdistancedirty There are moments of despair that come sometimes, when night sets in and a white fog presses against the windows. Then our house changes its shape, rears up and becomes a place of despair. Then fear and rage run simply--and the thought of Death as a friend. This is the simplest of thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god. Stevie Smith fogrunningnight I did try to come back and listen You never it..I didn't wish it But I did hear every answer ever question It's all about protection stil through the sunlight days I wait Track a ghost through the fog The sun is burning me And you come running out in the wind with me The ocean is your blanket. Stevie Nicks fogoceanrunning Ever notice how irons have a setting for permanent press? I don't get it. Steven Wright foghumorfunny Johanna glances over at Finnick, to be sure, then turns to me. “How’d you lose Mags?” “In the fog. Finnick had Peeta. I had Mags for a while. Then I couldn’t lift her. Finnick said he couldn’t take them both. She kissed him and walked right into the poison,” I say. “She was Finnick’s mentor, you know,” Johanna says accusingly. “No, I didn’t,” I say. “She was half his family,” she says a few moments later, but there’s less venom behind it. Suzanne Collins mentorfogpoison Age is a state of old mind. It gets to a point where if you get old enough, you forget how old you are, and that's the best thing. And then you walk around kind of like in a fog. Sylvester Stallone fogagemind The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap And seeing that it was a soft October night Curled once about the house, and fell asleep T. S. Eliot fognightfall The truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant. Terry Pratchett fogelephantsmen I saw old autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence. Thomas Hood autumnfogfall But though every created thing is, in this sense, a mystery, the word mystery cannot be applied to moral truth, any more than obscurity can be applied to light. ... Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion. Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself. Thomas Paine foglightreligion Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion. Thomas Paine foginventionmystery Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done Timothy Geithner fogchoicesdone We can identify with Frodo and Sam, setting off not knowing quite where they are going and what they are to do. Timothy Radcliffe frodofogknowing«7891011121314151617»
