Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine Rivarol

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.

Today is as foggy as it's ever been in our industry.

We're on the Lost in the Fog trail.

For suddenly, I saw you there And through foggy London town The sun was shining everywhere...

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.

Charles Caleb Colton

Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.

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.

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.

Bennett Cerf

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

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.

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?

Bob Dylan

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

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.

Elia Kazan

I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.

Alex O'Loughlin

My trumpeting sounds like a goose farting in the fog.

Ada Leverson

Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.

Like most schools, we tried to get it all done as much as possible last week. We had the fog day and had to test Monday.

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.

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.

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.

Dom DeLuise

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

She's always made excuses, 'Oh I was in a fog -- Tex made us do it',

We now know the thickness of the fog and can see what happened.

We've just kind of been in a fog since Monday and it's my job to get us out of the fog. We'll just try to pick up the pieces and get ready for Saturday.

Dave Eggers

So I should be aware of the dangers of self-consciousness, but at the same time, I’ll be plowing through the fog of all these echoes, plowing through mixed metaphors, noise, and will try to show the core, which is still there, as a core, and is valid, despite the fog. The core is the core is the core. There is always the core, that can’t be articulated. Only caricatured.

H. G. Wells

The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.

T. S. Eliot

The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the windowpanes.

Greta Garbo

The mystery surrounding Garbo was as thick as a London fog.

Herman Melville

It is plain and demonstrable, that much ale is not good for Yankee, and operates differently upon them from what it does upon a Briton; ale must be drank in a fog and a drizzle.