Fog Quotes - Page 6

• 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."

  Michael Frayn

  Taj Mahal, Guarantees, Failing

  Michael Frayn (2016). “Collected Columns”, p.110, Faber & Faber

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• Water is everywhere and in all living things; we cannot be seperated from water. No water, no life. Period. Water comes in many forms - liquid, vapor, ice, snow, fog, rain, hail. But no matter the form, it's still water.

  Robert Fulghum

  Rain, Ice, Snow

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• a white person who claims to have no impediment of vision in this country is not, I think, telling the whole truth. And when it comes to race relations, not telling the whole truth about the fog one inhabits slows down the work of groping forward.

  Naomi Wolf

  Country, Thinking, Race

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• 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.

  Graham Greene

  Love, Faith, Gone

  "The Potting Shed". Play by Graham Greene, 1957.

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• I like these people swarming on the sidewalks, wedged into a little space of houses and canals, hemmed in by fogs, cold lands, and the sea streaming like a wet wash. I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.

  Albert Camus

  Space, Sea, Land

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• The description of the world that most people have is very limited. They are in the fog. Once in a while a genuine insight comes through.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, World, Description

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• My window fogs and this makes me feel like there is no world outside of the car.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Car, World, Window

  Augusten Burroughs (2010). “Running with Scissors: A Memoir”, p.120, Macmillan

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

  Ronald Reagan

  Cat, Feet, President

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• But though every created thing is, in this sense, a mystery, the word mystery cannot be applied to moral truth, any more than obscurity can be applied to light. ... Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion. Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself.

  Thomas Paine

  Light, Religion, Obscurity

  Thomas Paine “The Writings of Thomas Paine”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.

  Elia Kazan

  Action, Remember, Said

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

  Anne Sexton

  Home, Sea, Doe

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• God's word is tailor-made for gray-slush days. It sends a beam of light through the fog. It signals safety when we fear we'll never make it through.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  God, Light, Safety

  Charles R. Swindoll (2007). “Wisdom for the Way: Wise Words for Busy People”, p.45, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

  Lenard Moore

  Winter, Night, Rising

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• Certain miracles that I beheld there have haunted my memory ever since: a gray April morning of sirocco, when the almond blossoms, the flaming tulips, the young green of the vines, hung as if painted on the motionless air; a summer night when the roses had an unearthly pallor under a half-eaten moon, whose ghostliness was somehow one with their perfume and with the phosphorescence of dew tipping their petals; a day when the trees stood part submerged in fog, into which leaves dropped slowly, slowly, one after another, and sank out of sight.

  Harrison Gray Otis Dwight

  Summer, Morning, Memories

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• Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing - none of that is writing. Writing is writing. Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Writing, Night, Talking

  "The Myth Maker". Interview with Bruce Weber, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 1985.

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• 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.

  William Styron

  Morning, Sleep, Mind

  William Styron (1990). “Darkness visible: a memoir of madness”, Random House Incorporated

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• If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window.

  Douglas Coupland

  Car, Opera, Upholstery

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• Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.

  Adam Duritz

  Doors, White, Steps

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• War is the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the factors on which action is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Three, Action

  On War bk. 1, ch. 3 (1832 - 1834).

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• Politicians are like ships: noisiest when lost in a fog.

  Bennett Cerf

  Ships, Politician, Lost

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• Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'

  Erwin Chargaff

  Confused, Science, Confusion

  Erwin Chargaff (1977). “Voices in the labyrinth: nature, man, and science”, Harper San Francisco

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• It took Einstein ten years of groping through the fog to get the theory of special relativity, and he was a bright guy.

  James C. Collins

  Perseverance, Years, Guy

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• ...What is more like love than the ocean? You can play in it, drown in it...it can be clear and bright enough to hurt your eyes, or covered in fog, hidden behind a curve of roads and then suddenly there in full glory. It's waves come like breaths, in and out, body stretched to forever in it's possibilities, and yet it's heart lies deep, not fully knowable, inconceivably majestic.

  Deb Caletti

  Hurt, Lying, Ocean

  Deb Caletti (2004). “Honey, Baby, Sweetheart”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Taken, Life Is, Granted

  "The Ghost in the Little House" by William V. Holtz, (ch. 7), 1993.

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• It was a lesson most people learned much earlier; that even friendship could have an undisclosed shelf life. That loyalty and affection, so consuming and powerful, could dissipate like fog.

  Jennifer Haigh

  Loyalty, Powerful, People

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