Fog Quotes - Page 15

• I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.

  Carl Sandburg

  Careers, Literature, Niche

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.11, University of Illinois Press

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• Meanwhile it's got stormy, the tattered fog even thicker, chasing across my path. Three people are sitting in a glassy tourist cafe between clouds and clouds, protected by glass from all sides. Since I don't see any waiters, it crosses my mind that corpses have been sitting there for weeks, statuesque. All this time the cafe has been unattended, for sure. Just how long have they been sitting here, petrified like this?

  Werner Herzog

  Clouds, Glasses, Long

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• I wanted you to watch, so I stomped around the room to wake you before I got in the shower. Didn't you wonder why the light was on? It wasn't for me, I can see in the dark. And then I kept the water cold so the glass wouldn't fog.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Dark, Glasses, Light

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• Just as a flood-lighted temple is more beautiful in a severe storm or in a heavy fog, so the gospel of Jesus Christ is more glorious in times of inward storm and of personal sorrow and tormenting conflict.

  Harold B. Lee

  Beautiful, Jesus, Sorrow

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• Happiness does not come quickly. It is not conferred by any single event, however exciting or comforting or satisfying the event may be. It cannot be purchased, whatever the allure of the next, the newest, the brightest, the best. Happiness, like Carl Sandburg's fog, "comes on little cat feet," often silently, often without our knowing it, too often without our noticing.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Happiness, Cat, Feet

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• But something occurred to me as I sped through that dirty shroud of fog, something Vonnegut has been trying to explain to the rest of us for most of his life. And that is this: Despair is a form of hope. It is an acknowledgment of the distance between ourselves and our appointed happiness. At certain moments, it is reason enough to live.

  Steve Almond

  Distance, Dirty, Despair

  Steve Almond (2007). “(Not that You Asked): Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions”, p.33, Random House

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

  Richard Burton

  Morning, Order, Done

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.

  Richard Burton

  Dream, Memories, Men

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• It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.

  Jacques Barzun

  Morning, Long, Society

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• Now it's like a fog has lifted. I sense Leetu just as clearly as I can see the moon.' Your eyes are closed, and the moon as a haze around it.

  Donita K. Paul

  Eye, Moon, Haze

  Donita K. Paul (2008). “DragonSpell: A Novel”, p.131, WaterBrook

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• The conflicting missions of the two armies seemed to have no fog, no gray, only black-and-white clarity. I had lived my life in terms of compromise, rule-bending, trade-offs, concessions, bargaining, striking deals, finding middle ground. In these two great armies, there was no such thing. Good was good, and evil was evil, and they shared no common ground.

  Randy Alcorn

  Black And White, Army, Two

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• You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.

  Maya Lin

  Artist, Groups, Anarchist

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• Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son thing, and you kind of worked your way up.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Father, Son, Men

  "Five Oscars as a Producer, Director and Screenwriter". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 17, 1994.

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• I hear voices. A shout. A laugh. Clay's laugh. I strained to see through the night. Fog had rolled in from Lake Ontario, but I could hear him laughing. The concrete turned to grass. The fog wasn't from the lake, but from a pond. Our pond. I was at Stonehaven, bounding through the back acres. Clay was running ahead of me.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Running, Night, Lakes

  Kelley Armstrong (2012). “Werewolves: Book One: Bitten, Stolen and Beginnings”, p.506, Vintage Canada

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• Ah, Los Angeles! Dust and fog of your lonely streets, I am no longer lonely. Just you wait, all of you ghosts of this room, just you wait, because it will happen, as sure as there's a God in heaven.

  John Fante

  Lonely, Dust, Waiting

  "Ask the Dust". Book by John Fante, 1939.

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• The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Looks, Reason, Haze

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• 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

  Taken, England, Passports

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• Desire is like fog on a bathroom mirror -- its presence incites you to wipe the mirror, and see yourself clearly again.

  Vera Nazarian

  Mirrors, Desire, Wipe

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• The mist starts to form as we stand close to one another. It is a distant fog that rises from the horizon, and I find that I grow fearful as it approaches. It slowly creeps in, enveloping the world around us, fencing us in as if to prevent escape. Like a rolling cloud, it blankets everything, closing, until there is nothing left but the two of us.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Clouds, Two, Rolling

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• The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap And seeing that it was a soft October night Curled once about the house, and fell asleep

  T. S. Eliot

  Fall, Night, Window Panes

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.7, Faber & Faber

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• Fog everywhere. Fog up the river where it flows among green airs and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping, and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city.... Chance people on the bridges peeping over the parapets into a nether sky of fog, with fog all round them, as if they were up in a balloon and hanging in the misty clouds.

  Charles Dickens

  Dirty, Clouds, Air

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• Runny's Nicpic One day Runny Babbit Met little Franny Fog. He said, "Let's have a nicpic Down by the lollow hog." He brought some cutter bookies, Some teanuts and some pea. And what did Franny Fog bring? Her whole fog framily.

  Shel Silverstein

  One Day, Littles, Peas

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• Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed.

  W. C. Fields

  Philadelphia, Lasts, Week

  Quoted in "Godfrey Daniels!," ed. Richard J. Anobile (1975)

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• 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

  Summer, Confused, Color

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• Harrison Ford... I love him. He's a man's man.

  Sherilyn Fenn

  I Love Him, Men

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