Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sam Allardyce

The fog would have made it impossible for officials to make their decisions.

The fog hurt us a lot. Mother Nature is fickle.

Martin Scorsese

Oh, the foghorns... even the foghorns, they're all brass. It's something by Ingrid Marshal called Fog Tropes. It's not a sound effect. It's an actual piece of music. If you listen to what's going on after he has a flashback about his wife you'll hear... it sounds like the humpback whales in a way. But it's all music. And we use it again later, too.

Lalla Ward

Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.

Libba Bray

The uncertainty of our future is nothing more than a fog of breath on a windowpane.

Lynn Redgrave

There were times after my marriage ended where, you know, I really felt like I was at the bottom of a mountain, there was a great big, fog up there, and I'm never going to cross to the other side.

T. S. Eliot

The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the windowpanes.

Stephen Spender

Never allow gradually the traffic to smother with noise and fog the flowering of the spirit.

Rabindranath Tagore

Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.

Shunryu Suzuki

Even though you try very hard, the progress you make is always little by little. It is not like going out in a shower in which you know when you get wet. In a fog, you do not know you are getting wet, but as you keep walking you get wet little by little. If your mind has ideas of progress, you may say, 'Oh, this pace is terrible!' But actually it is not. When you get wet in a fog it is very difficult to dry yourself.

Suzanne Collins

Johanna glances over at Finnick, to be sure, then turns to me. “How’d you lose Mags?” “In the fog. Finnick had Peeta. I had Mags for a while. Then I couldn’t lift her. Finnick said he couldn’t take them both. She kissed him and walked right into the poison,” I say. “She was Finnick’s mentor, you know,” Johanna says accusingly. “No, I didn’t,” I say. “She was half his family,” she says a few moments later, but there’s less venom behind it.

Shel Silverstein

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.

Shawn Mendes

Sometimes it all gets a little too much, but you gotta realize that soon the fog will clear up.

Robbie Robertson

You fog the mind, you stir the soul.

Sylvester Stallone

Age is a state of old mind. It gets to a point where if you get old enough, you forget how old you are, and that's the best thing. And then you walk around kind of like in a fog.

Raymond Chandler

Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form inself on the edge of consciousness.

Moshe Dayan

If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week.

Thomas Paine

Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion.

Timothy Geithner

Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done

Ursula K. Le Guin

The borderline between prose and poetry is one of those fog-shrouded literary minefields where the wary explorer gets blown to bits before ever seeing anything clearly. It is full of barbed wire and the stumps of dead opinions.

Greta Garbo

The mystery surrounding Garbo was as thick as a London fog.

Herman Melville

It is plain and demonstrable, that much ale is not good for Yankee, and operates differently upon them from what it does upon a Briton; ale must be drank in a fog and a drizzle.

Jean Stapleton

On the last day of our five-day work week, we did two performances and we had an audience. It was similar to theatre; we went from beginning to end, and it was very pleasing.

Jean Ingelow

The red Sahara in an angry glow, / With amber fogs, across its hollows trailed / Long strings of camels, gloomy-eyed and slow ...

Jean Paul

I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief-in which the panting breast expires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged--the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

Ethel Waters

I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.

Cassandra Clare

Luke moved as silently as fog, while Maryse's heels sounded like gunshots on the marble floor. Clary wondered if Isabelle's propensity for unsuitable footwear was genetic.

It was foggy and we could not get the chopper airborne. We will resume the operation tomorrow.

Jack Charlton

It was no good marking Foggy because once he started to run you had to stay with him and not many people could.

It's always frustrating when you're ready to race and the weather rolls in. We had everyone at the start, we were ready to ski and then fog rolled in on the lower part of the course.

H. G. Wells

The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.

Nancy Pelosi

But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.