Fog Quotes

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge. (Daniel J. Boorstin)
The fog comeson little cat feet. It sits looking overharbor and cityon silent haunchesand then moves on. View quote
Carl Sandburg
It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog. View quote
Joseph Conrad
That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key. View quote
Elizabeth Wurtzel
The science of economics hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by. View quote
H. G. Wells
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. View quote
Henri Matisse
Desire, she realized, was a thick fog that could completely obscure reality. View quote
Steve Perry
The city overwhelmed our expectations. The Kiplingesque grandeur of Waterloo Station, the Eliotic despondency of the brick row in Chelsea the Dickensian nightmare of fog and sweating pavement and besmirched cornices. View quote
John Updike
Have you seen a room from which faith has gone?...Like a marriage from which love has gone...And patience, patience everywhere like a fog. View quote
Graham Greene
Take of London fog 30 parts; malaria 10 parts, gas leaks 20 parts, dewdrops gathered in a brickyard at sunrise 25 parts; odor of honeysuckle 15 parts. Mix. The mixture will give you an approximate conception of a Nashville drizzle. View quote
O. Henry
Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form inself on the edge of consciousness. (Raymond Chandler)
On a late-winter evening in 1983, while driving through fog along the Maine coast, recollections of old campfires began to drift into the March mist, and I thought of the Abnaki Indians of the Algonquin tribe who dwelt near Bangor a thousand years ago. View quote
Norman Mailer
The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to cover his tracks, the bloody trail of his assault against reality and others. View quote
Camille Paglia
I used to be a folk singer, but I was... dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog. View quote
Billy Connolly
Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done. View quote
Timothy Geithner
Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color. View quote
Chuck Jones
Unreal City, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many. View quote
T. S. Eliot
THE OCTOBER COUNTRY ...that country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain... View quote
Ray Bradbury
Let us go in the fog is rising. View quote
Emily Dickinson
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." View quote
Michael Frayn
His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog. (Victor Hugo)
Never till this day Did life disturb the dense eternity Of joyless quiet; never skylark's song, Or storm-bird's prescient scream, or eaglet's cry, Made vital the gross fog. The very light Is but an alien that can find no welcome. View quote
Hartley Coleridge
He was learning that power-the great power that shattered lives and twisted the course of nations-was like a fog over a meadow at evening. From any distance, it seemed to have a shape, a substance, a color, an edge, yet as you approached it, it seemed to recede before you. Finally, when common sense said you were at its very center, it still seemed just as far away, only by this time it was on all sides, obscuring any vision of the world beyond it. View quote
Samuel R. Delany
How thick the fog is. I can't see the road. All the people in the world could pass by and I would never know. I wish it was always that way. It's getting dark already. It will soon be night, thank goodness. View quote
Eugene O'Neill
The full moon rises. The fog clings to the lowest branches of the spruce trees. The man steps out of the darkest corner of the forest and finds himself transformed into... A monkey? I think not. View quote
Garth Stein
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