Quotes and Sayings About Fog
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Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.
-- Ada Leverson -
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
-- Adam Duritz -
I'd been depressed before, of course. But I'm talking about really depressed. Not just feeling a bit down or sad, a depression that has something to do with biorhythms. I'm talking about the kind of depressed that floats in upon you like a fog. You can feel it coming and you can see where it is going to take you but you are powerless, utterly powerless to stop it. I know now.
-- Alan Cumming -
It's fear. Fear is like a giant fog. It sits on your brain and blocks everything. Real feeling, true happiness, real joy, they can't get through that fog. But you lift it and buddy you're in for the ride of your life.
-- Albert BrooksSource : "Fictional character: Bob Diamond". "Defending Your Life", www.imdb.com. March 22, 1991.
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The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog.
-- Alexis Carrel -
I can't find my car keys in the morning. Trying to get out of my house is a nightmare. "Where's my wallet? Where are my keys? I have to go find a missing person."
-- Anthony LaPagliaSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.
-- Antoine Rivarol -
Am dining at Goldini's Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver. S. H." It was a nice equipment for a respectable citizen to carry through the dim, fog-draped streets.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
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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?
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
In England, it's now Sir Ben. Mister has just disappeared. It's not even on my passport anymore. They've taken Mister away from me.
-- Ben Kingsley -
Maggie Nelson cuts through our culture's prefabricated structures of thought and feeling with an intelligence whose ferocity is ultimately in the service of love. No piety is safe, no orthodoxy, no easy irony. The scare quotes burn off like fog.
-- Ben Lerner -
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Sleepwalking down the hall like a firefly in the fog.
-- Ben Weaver -
Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house.
-- Benjamin BrittenSource : "The Classical Music Experience: Discover the Music of the World's Greatest Composers". Book by Julius H. Jacobson (p.341), 2008.
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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
-- Bertolt Brecht -
Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body; but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.
-- Black Elk -
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Your words surround you like fog and make you hard to see.
-- Blackbeard -
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.
-- Blaise Pascal -
One of the things I keep reminding players is that when you're lost in a fog, you must stick together. Then you don't get lost. If there's a secret about Liverpool, that's it.
-- Bob Paisley -
I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god.
-- Bruce ChatwinSource : Bruce Chatwin (2003). “In Patagonia”, p.59, Penguin
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Virtue - even attempted virtue - brings light; indulgence brings fog.
-- C. S. Lewis -
We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
-- Cab Calloway -
The great uncertainty of all data in war is because all action, to a certain extent, planned in a mere twilight - like the effect of a fog - gives things exaggerated dimensions and unnatural appearance.
-- Carl von Clausewitz -
All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.
-- Carl von Clausewitz -
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Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
-- Charles Bukowski -
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.
-- Chevy Chase -
Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.
-- Chuck Jones -
Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color. Fog is about the color of the insides of an old split wet summer cottage mattress; smog is the color and consistency of a wet potato chip soaked in a motorman’s glove.
-- Chuck Jones -
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I think setting a goal, getting a visual image of what it is you want. You've got to see what it is you want to achieve before you can pursue it.
-- Chuck Norris -
Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it.
-- Claude Adrien Helvetius