Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.

Denise Levertov

An absolute patience. Trees stand up to their knees in fog. The fog slowly flows uphill. White cobwebs, the grass leaning where deer have looked for apples. The woods from brook to where the top of the hill looks over the fog, send up not one bird. So absolute, it is no other than happiness itself, a breathing too quiet to hear.

Bertolt Brecht

It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.

Chevy Chase

The fact was, Ford kept stumbling around. I didn't want him in the White House. I wanted Carter in, and I had a forum of 20 million people watching.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the duncoloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material?

Bennett Cerf

Politicians are like ships: noisiest when lost in a fog.

T. S. Eliot

The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the windowpanes.

It was foggy and we could not get the chopper airborne. We will resume the operation tomorrow.

David Mitchell

Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds, and contrary tides... I mistook them for adulthood. Assuming they were a fixed feature in my life's voyage, I neglected to record their latitude, their longitude, their approach. Young ruddy fool. What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.

Augusten Burroughs

My window fogs and this makes me feel like there is no world outside of the car.

Benjamin Britten

Composing is like driving down a foggy road.

Benjamin Disraeli

The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen.

Bob Dylan

with her fog, her amphetamine, and her pearls ...

Blaise Pascal

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

Dom DeLuise

I've had some wonderful times at the White House. I've been with Ford, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush.

Douglas Coupland

If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window.

Alex O'Loughlin

My trumpeting sounds like a goose farting in the fog.

Dorothy Malone

I acted three times with Fred MacMurray, three times with Martin and Lewis, four times with Rock Hudson. Three times with Glenn Ford.

Donald Cram

An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted.

Albert Camus

I like these people swarming on the sidewalks, wedged into a little space of houses and canals, hemmed in by fogs, cold lands, and the sea streaming like a wet wash. I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.

Thomas Paine

Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion.

Timothy Geithner

Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done

Sylvester Stallone

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.

Timothy Radcliffe

We can identify with Frodo and Sam, setting off not knowing quite where they are going and what they are to do.

Stephen Spender

Never allow gradually the traffic to smother with noise and fog the flowering of the spirit.

Stephen Gardiner

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

Suzanne Collins

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.

Shawn Mendes

Sometimes it all gets a little too much, but you gotta realize that soon the fog will clear up.

Robbie Robertson

You fog the mind, you stir the soul.

Sinclair Lewis

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.

Marie Lu

I hope,” he replies softly, “to get to know you again. If you are open to it. There is a fog around you that I would like to clear away.

Martin Scorsese

Oh, the foghorns... even the foghorns, they're all brass. It's something by Ingrid Marshal called Fog Tropes. It's not a sound effect. It's an actual piece of music. If you listen to what's going on after he has a flashback about his wife you'll hear... it sounds like the humpback whales in a way. But it's all music. And we use it again later, too.

Michael Frayn

One can imagine having a procedural rule that anything ambiguous should be treated as the Taj Mahal unless we see that it is labelled "fog"...The motorist replies: "What sort of rule is this? Surely the best guarantee I can have that the fog is fog is if I fail to see the sign saying 'fog' because of the fog.