Fumigating Quotes

#1. A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found. I am for fumigating the atmosphere when I suspect that falsehood, like pestilence, breathes around me.

Thomas Carlyle

#2. Alcohol units: 5. Drowning sorrows. Cigarettes: 23. Fumigating sorrows. Calories: 3,856. Smothering sorrows in fat duvet.

Helen Fielding

#3. Film is built for kinetic movement and crash and burn. It's a great tool for spectacles. But if it's not rooted to something a little higher, you're just kicking your butt around the corner. You can only take so much of that. You have to have some sort of foundation to explode from.

Mel Gibson

#4. Resignation is the better part of wisdom.

Philip Zaleski

#5. I have always had the ability to attach my demons to my chariot. And they have been forced to make themselves useful.

Ingmar Bergman

#6. I'm a relic, and things were a lot different when I was fifteen and sixteen. There were no cell phones, no laptops ... I learned to type on an actual typewriter.

Patrick Carman

#7. Here's what I just realized: A world in which sport at its best is not seen as some kind of art is a world that doesn't deserve any art.

Tom Bissell

#8. I prefer the competitive atmosphere of a classroom setting, like yoga or Pilates. That keeps me going. Although performing on stage is great exercise!

Dita Von Teese

#9. It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

H.L. Mencken

#10. It's lovely, the way wishes are added to it, by lighting candles with ones that are already lit and adding them to the branches. New wishes ignited by old wishes.

Erin Morgenstern

#11. An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.

Stanislav Grof

#12. If I had the knack
I'd sing like
Cherry flakes falling

Matsuo Basho

#13. God, everything is wasted on the living.

Jacqueline E. Smith