Fog Quotes - Page 5

I am not an expert. That is someone else's job. If I were expert, the approach would be all wrong. It would be from the inside. I am a blunderer. I usually don't know what I am going into at the start. I go into the fog and trust something will be there.

Virtue - even attempted virtue - brings light; indulgence brings fog.

The mornings themselves were becoming bad now as I wandered about lethargic, following my synthetic sleep, but afternoons were still the worst, beginning at about three o'clock, when I'd feel the horror, like some poisonous fog bank roll in upon my mind, forcing me into bed.

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.

You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.

Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness.

Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.

Everybody knows what California smog is - that's fog with the vitamins removed.

Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.

Ever notice how irons have a setting for permanent press? I don't get it.

I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.

When I play my best golf, I feel as if I'm in a fog, standing back watching the earth in orbit with a golf club in my hands.

Moonless winter night- a billow of rising fog hides the distant pines

Thou warden of the western gate, above Manhattan Bay, The fogs of doubt that hid thy face are driven clean away: Thine eyes at last look far and clear, thou liftest high thy hand To spread the light of liberty world-wide for every land.

It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think of those who went through it before you, and say to yourself, 'What they could do, I can do.'

The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not.

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

Tyranny, like fog in the well known poem, often creeps in silently 'on little cat feet.'

I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.

It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea finally clicks into place. One immediately sees how many previously puzzling facts are neatly explained by the new hypothesis. One could kick oneself for not having the idea earlier, it now seems so obvious. Yet before, everything was in a fog.

The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

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.