Van Morrison
Singer-Songwriter
"The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world."
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Fog
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Emily Dickinson
Poet
"I must go in, the fog is rising."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair, hover through fog and filthy air."
Martin Heidegger
Philosopher
"Profound boredom, drifting here and there in the abysses of our existence like a muffling fog, removes all things and men and oneself along with it into a remarkable indifference. This boredom reveals being as a whole."
Joseph Conrad
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog."
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"I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting."
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"Santa knows Physics: Of all colors, Red Light penetrates fog best. That's why Benny the Blue-nosed reindeer never got the gig."
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"I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians."
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"It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?"
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"You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?"
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"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."
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"I have seen mad people, and I have known some who were quite intelligent, lucid, even clear-sighted in every concern of life, except on one point. They could speak clearly, readily, profoundly on everything; till their thoughts were caught in the breakers of their delusions and went to pieces there, were dispersed and swamped in that furious and terrible sea of fogs and squalls which is called MADNESS."
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"The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process."
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"The fog comes on little cat feet."
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"Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude...its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle."
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"It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out ahead of us the fabulous white city of San Francisco on her eleven mystic hills with the blue Pacific and its advancing wall of potato-patch fog beyond, and smoke and goldenness in the late afternoon of time."
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"The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter."
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"It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk."
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"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."
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"How strange and wonderful is our home, our earth, with its swirling vaporous atmosphere, its flowing and frozen liquids, its trembling plants, its creeping, crawling, climbing creatures, the croaking things with wings that hang on rocks and soar through the fog, the furry grass, the scaly seas."
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"I would wear a full-length cape if I could get away with it - I do love a good swirl in a fog."
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"The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off."
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"Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing"
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"In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that."
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"It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes."
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