Fog Quotes
326 quotes by 288 authors
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Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
— Jacques Barzun
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Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
— Bertolt Brecht
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Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks,…
— Benjamin Britten
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When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I couldn't see my…
— Gisele Bundchen
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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…
— Richard Burton
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I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.
— Richard Burton
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I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out…
— Nelson Algren
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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…
— Alexis Carrel
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All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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The great uncertainty of all data in war is because all action, to a certain extent, planned in a mere twilight - like the effect…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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A day so happy. Fog lifted early. I worked in the garden. Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers. There was no thing on earth I…
— Czeslaw Milosz
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In order that the relations between science and the age may be what they ought to be, the world at large must be made to…
— William Jay Youmans
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I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl like…
— John Updike
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About midnight the fog shut down again denser than before. One could almost "stand on it." It continued so for a number of days, the…
— Joshua Slocum
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Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far,…
— Charles Lindbergh
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Faith is like radar that sees through the fog.
— Corrie Ten Boom
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The fog comes on little cat feet.
— Carl Sandburg
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Instead of always asking yourself how to clear up your mental fog, learn to ask: "Can confusion know anything about clarity?"
— Guy Finley
Who Wrote These Fog Quotes
288 authors contributed a total of 326 Fog Quotes, led by these top contributors: