Vapors Quotes
25 quotes by 23 authors
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Newspapers . . . serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke.
— Thomas Jefferson
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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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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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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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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
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Nature paints not; In oils, but frescoes the great dome of heaven; With sunsets, and the lovely forms of clouds; And flying vapors.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Since, during storms, flames leap from the humid vapors and dark clouds emit deafening noises, is it surprising the lightning, when it strikes the ground,…
— Plutarch
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I stayed away from drugs, I never smoked a pipe. When I wanna get high, I smoke the mic. I never did white lines, I…
— Kool Moe Dee
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And most of all, it means continually drawing connections among these seemingly disparate struggles—asserting, for instance, that the logic that would cut pensions, food stamps,…
— Naomi Klein
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Books are never harmless...they either strengthen us or they weaken us in our faith. Some of them do this even as they entertain us, others…
— Peter Prange
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We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it. The…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Down sank the great red sun, and in golden, glimmering vapors Veiled the light of his face, like the Prophet descending from Sinai.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.
— Jean Racine
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In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his sense a dim rushlight, his body a…
— Marcus Aurelius
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The river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for supper.
— Ray Bradbury
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The black asphalt wouls shimmer with vapors I had a theory about those vapors...not released by the sun but by a huge onion buried under…
— Gary Soto
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Bog-lights, vapors of mysticism, psychic Gnosticisms, veils and tissues of words, gibbering subjectivisms, gropings and maunderings, ontological fantasies, pan-psychic hallucinations—this is the stuff, the phantasms…
— Jack London
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She wore tight corsets to give her a teeny waist - I helped her lace them up - but they had the effect of causing…
— Jeannette Walls
Who Wrote These Vapors Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 25 Vapors Quotes as follows: