Vapor Quotes
65 quotes by 59 authors
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Earthbound souls know only the underside of the atmosphere in which they live . . . but go higher - above the dust and water…
— Jacqueline Cochran
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Newspapers . . . serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke.
— Thomas Jefferson
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The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.
— Paracelsus
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A third of summer sea ice in the Arctic is gone, the oceans are 30 percent more acidic, and since warm air holds more water…
— Bill McKibben
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The best ideas aren't hidden in shadowy recesses. They're right in front of us, hidden in plain sight. Innovation seldom depends on discovering obscure or…
— Richard Farson
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Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near…
— Mary McCarthy
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And now for the vapor-bath: on a framework of three sticks, meeting at the top, they stretch pieces of woolen cloth, taking care to get…
— Herodotus
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Al Gore likes to say that mankind puts 70 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every day. What he probably doesn't know is…
— Roy Spencer
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Steiner has here transformed the vaporous conceptions of his life, the vapors of what never was and never will be, from their aeriform state to…
— Nick Tosches
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Aristotle's opinion... that comets were nothing else than sublunary vapors or airy meteors... prevailed so far amongst the Greeks, that this sublimest part of astronomy…
— Edmond Halley
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The theory of interest was wrapped in utter obscurity, until Hume and Smith dispelled the vapor.
— Jean-Baptiste Say
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The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapor, soot and flame,…
— Johann Joachim Becher
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It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at…
— Edward E. Barnard
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The Scythians take kannabis seed, creep in under the felts, and throw it on the red-hot stones. It smolders and sends up such billows of…
— Herodotus
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So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away.
— John Donne
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As the days go on toward July, the earth becomes dry and all the flowers begin to thirst for moisture. Then from the hillside, some…
— Celia Thaxter
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For a few moments, attune your mind to the idea of harmony and peaceful coexistence flowing among all peoples and nations. The source of this…
— Stephen Russell
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In flight...entire days can be wound back or skipped over...as we exist merely in a world of vapor. Adventures are both beginning and coming to…
— Josh Gates
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Semi-automatic s have only two purposes. One is so owners can take them to the shooting range once in a while, yell yeehaw, and get…
— Stephen King
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Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon Like a magician extended his golden want o'er the landscape; Trinkling vapors arose; and sky…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Who Wrote These Vapor Quotes
59 authors contributed a total of 65 Vapor Quotes, led by these top contributors: