Fog Quotes - Page 12

• 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

  Hypocrisy, Romance, Shadow

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• Not being categorized is like keeping your mouth shut. Categorization is linguistic, people trying to understand each other. Words are misty, language is a fog. I want to be in as many boxes as possible, describe myself as thickly as possible.

  Kalan Sherrard

  Keeping Your Mouth Shut, People, Trying

  "Hyper subtle sexual ego". Interview with Peter Nowogrodzki, logger.believermag.com. June 4, 2014.

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• True depression is a terribly real thing. Some of the noblest men and women in the world have been prone to it ... They may have no reason for feeling more unhappy at that particular period than at any other. Their worldly circumstances may be just what they have been for a long time past, and perfectly satisfactory. But there suddenly closes down on them a fog of the mind which exaggerates and distorts everything.

  J. E. Buckrose

  Depression, Real, Past

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• Questions, inside the larger mystery of sorrow, which contains us and our daily transit, and is large enough indeed to contain the whole shifting tidal theater where I make small constructions, my metaphors, my defenses. Against which I play out theories, doubts, certainties bright as high tide in sunlight, which shift just as that brightness does, in fog or rain.

  Mark Doty

  Rain, Play, Sorrow

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• 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

  Cutting, Feelings, Scare

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• You who have never “been there” in the throes of grief, have no idea what is going on inside the head of the grieving spouse: the scattered
  thoughts, the constant worry that we will forget something or someone in our fog-induced state, that strange feeling of not quite “being all there” when out in social situations, the pall that covers everything, like a cloak of sadness that never lifts.

  Mary Potter

  Grief, Sadness, Grieving

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• Cross-country running was so beautiful with all the trails and the lake regions ... very physical and also a bit spiritual, where you could come over the mountain and all of a sudden you'd see a Buddhist landscape fog.

  Robin Williams

  Beautiful, Country, Running

  Source: velonews.competitor.com

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• think of innocent Icarus who is doing quite well:
  larger than a sail, over the fog and the blast
  of the plushy ocean, he goes. Admire his wings!

  Anne Sexton

  Ocean, Thinking, Wings

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• They call them the haunted shores, these stretches of Devonshire and Cornwall and Ireland which rear up against the westward ocean. Mists gather here, and sea fog, and eerie stories. That's not because there are more ghosts here than in other places, mind you. It's just that people who live hereabouts are strangely aware of them.

  Dodie Smith

  Ocean, Sea, Eerie

  "Fictional character: Roderick Fitzgerald". "The Uninvited", www.imdb.com. 1944.

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• Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog. There is something under our feet, the taken-for-granted. A table is a table, food is food, we are we - because we don't question these things. And science is the enemy because it is the questioner. Faith saves our souls alive by giving us a universe of the taken-for-granted.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Life, Taken, Science

  Journal entry for 1923. "The Ghost in the Little House" by William V. Holtz. Chapter 7, 1993.

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• How torturous is the "churchly" language one must speak in church - the tone, style, habit. It is all artificial; there is a total absence of a simple human language. With what a sigh of relief one leaves this world of cassocks, and kissing and church gossip. As soon as one leaves, one sees: wet bare branches, fog which floats over fields, trees, homes. Sky. Early dusk. And it all tells an incredibly simple truth.

  Alexander Schmemann

  Home, Kissing, Simple

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• I worked for John Ford, Howard Hawks, Henry Hathaway, Raoul Walsh - I worked for some real good directors.

  Richard Farnsworth

  Real, Hawks, Directors

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• Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to London, and the Orchestra is going to perform the score.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Writing, Orchestra, London

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• Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Dawn, Tongue, Sun

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Plays, stories”, p.11, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• What feminism did was make clear for me how much I longed for clarity. I got married twice, each time in a fog. I had so many complicated feelings I couldn't understand.

  Vivian Gornick

  Feelings, Feminism, Married

  "We knew we were not liberated and were never going to be liberated. But we knew what liberation was". Interview with Madeleine Schwartz, believermag.com. March 24, 2014.

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• The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs

  John Dos Passos

  Strong, Men, Long

  John Dos Passos (1956). “The Theme is Freedom”

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• I've got like a week and a half left, all bets are off.

  Rob Corddry

  Half, Comedy, Week

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• On the last day of our five-day work week, we did two performances and we had an audience. It was similar to theatre; we went from beginning to end, and it was very pleasing.

  Jean Stapleton

  Two, Theatre, Lasts

  "Jean Stapleton: On Theatre". Interview with Robert Faires, www.austinchronicle.com. November 10, 2000.

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• It is the misanthrope who alone has clarity.By standing outside the huddles of man,he sees a lot,and what he often sees is the evidence that people are not as smart as dogs think they are.And he wants to see it time and again.In the fog of ambiguities and mysteries,he desperately searches for truths because truth usually shows humanity in a poor light

  Manu Joseph

  Dog, Smart, Men

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• I like the fact you can spend two hours setting up a scene that will only last a couple of seconds. And I like just sitting around and dozing between scenes!

  Mackenzie Crook

  Couple, Two, Lasts

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

  Stephen Gardiner

  Light, Details, Delicacy

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited

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• I loved Jack Ford. I got him in his later days, and he was a total tyrant and a total autocrat and an Irish drunk. But I had a great time.

  Richard Widmark

  Tyrants, Drunk, Had A Great Time

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• I think basically lables were more interested in a Richard Page record than a Mr. Mister record.

  Lee Patrick Mastelotto

  Thinking, Records, Pages

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• I don't know of any plans to remaster the Mr Mister catalog.

  Lee Patrick Mastelotto

  Plans, Knows

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• Henry Ford was right. A prosperous economy requires that workers be able to buy the products that they produce. This is as true in a global economy as a national one.

  John J. Sweeney

  Able, Economy, Produce

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