"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."
"Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing"
"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."
"It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes."
"Instead of the bright, blue sky of America, I am covered with the soft, grey fog of the Emerald Isle. I breathe, and lo! the chattel becomes a man."
"Virtue - even attempted virtue - brings light; indulgence brings fog."
"The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question."
"Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies."
"The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not."
"You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think of those who went through it before you, and say to yourself, 'What they could do, I can do.'"
"When I play my best golf, I feel as if I'm in a fog, standing back watching the earth in orbit with a golf club in my hands."
"Ever notice how irons have a setting for permanent press? I don't get it."
"Tyranny, like fog in the well known poem, often creeps in silently 'on little cat feet.'"
"It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog."
"It was a foggy day in London, and the fog was heavy and dark. Animate London, with smarting eyes and irritated lungs, was blinking, wheezing, and choking; inanimate London was a sooty spectre, divided in purpose between being visible and invisible, and so being wholly neither."
"And I needed a rock. Something to hold onto, to stand on. Something solid. Because everything was going soft, turning into mush, into marsh, into fog. Fog closing in on all sides. I didn't know where I was at all."
"There are moments of despair that come sometimes, when night sets in and a white fog presses against the windows. Then our house changes its shape, rears up and becomes a place of despair. Then fear and rage run simply--and the thought of Death as a friend. This is the simplest of thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god."
"Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good qualities you find in him?"
"I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty."