Miasma Quotes

#1. There's always a miasma of misinformation emerging from the higher education sector as to which are the 'best' courses to take. My advice would always be to ignore the perceived wisdom and look for the most reliable evidence on the ground.

David Puttnam

#2. Odorous as a crateful of bad eggs with the miasma of original sin.

Anthony Burgess

#3. The main differences between contemporary English and American literature is that the baleful pseudo-professionalism imparted by all those crap M.F.A. writing programs has yet to settle like a miasma of standardization on the English literary scene. But it's beginning to happen.

Will Self

#4. The historic atmosphere was there, certainly; but the historic atmosphere, scientifically considered, was no better than a villainous miasma

Henry James

#5. The people had fled into the buildings, but the thick, salty mark of their fear still hung heavy in the air, coagulating with the bees' magical stench of rotting, acid-dripping flowers into a nauseating miasma of crumbling courage and ill intentions.

Ella Summers

#6. There is nothing so terrible as to live in an atmosphere of suspicion - to see eyes watching you and the love in them changing to fear - nothing so terrible as to suspect those near and dear to you - It is poisonous - a miasma.

Agatha Christie

#7. The gaslight radiating from this opening gave an ocher tone to the miasma that emanated from within.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#8. This is solute, which will cause every animal killed by Halo action to instantly decay into component molecules. This will avert an ecological miasma. But it could also be construed as a way to hide a tremendous crime from later investigators.

Greg Bear

#9. The white supremacists are really pretty smart. If they can't scare us with the essential inferiority line, they'll wrap it in a miasma of sex, because that's the only thing they know is feared in our fundamentalist hearts down here.

Harper Lee

#10. There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.

Henry Ward Beecher

#11. The wind fluttering the pennants atop the outer keep and teasing Berenice's hair carried the loamy smell of damp earth, the fresh scent of the river, and, even now, a ghostly chemical astringency. The miasma wafted from the battlefield.

Ian Tregillis

#12. To many men ... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

George Steiner

#13. Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

Alice Walker

#14. He had entered a veritable miasma of evil, and harm, in the worst possible way, was to come to us all too soon.

Anthony Horowitz

#15. O Great Swami of the East, your wisdom has pierced the miasma.

Jonathan Kellerman

#16. I have just spent the better part of a week sorting out the miasma of lunatic alibis known as your correspondence in an effort to adjust matters, that our game may be finished simply once and for all.

Woody Allen

#17. Their raspy kisses brand our jam tart necks, their treacherous miasma clasps our herbal thighs. Motherlessly we surrender, too many fathers we have, we, your daughters of joy.

Laura Gentile

#18. Clearly something had gone wrong, badly, only I wasn't quite sure what - apart from knowing that I was responsible somehow, in the generalized miasma of shame and unworthiness and being-a-burden that never quite left me.

Donna Tartt

#19. see, when I'm not paying attention to my barriers, I can glimpse other people's thoughts. I catch them like lingering aftertastes or smells they leave in their wake: bitter envy, coppery anger, sour regret, the foul miasma of malice and cruelty.

Jason Heller

#20. Wall Street has blanketed America in a miasma of cynicism, and much of it is directed against Wall Street. The Street has only itself to blame.

Robert B. Reich

#21. At twenty-one or twenty-two so many things appear solid and permanent and terrible which forty sees are nothing but disappearing miasma. Forty can't tell twenty about this; that's the pity of it! Twenty can find out only by getting to be forty.

Booth Tarkington

#22. When we graduate from childhood into adulthood, we're thrown into this confusing, Cthulhu-like miasma of life, filled with social and career problems, all with branching choices and no correct answers.

Felicia Day

#23. All you need are a pair of tennis shoes and motivation to change the course of your life.

Heidi Bond

#24. If you have time to lean, you have time to clean ...

Ray Kroc

#25. The evidence points to central Asia as man's original home, for the general movement of human migrations has been outward from that region and not inward.

Ellsworth Huntington

#26. You don't think it' too short? Mariah Carey shows less skin.

Jamie McGuire

#27. True Teachers must be Transparent, pointing others to deeper walks in Christ, and not to themselves.

Billy Witt

#28. Remember to forget yourself

Kamand Kojouri

#29. God the Father wants us to know Him. We can only know Him through Christ, and our relationship with Christ brings forth eternal life! You see Christ is our salvation. Salvation is not
something outside of Him, He is our salvation Himself.

Billy Witt

#30. I'll love you forever. Even when I can't.

Colleen Hoover

#31. I love the part of Hector as it takes me back to playing eccentric parts. He is a funny character, which is fine by me as I've been playing for laughs for decades now! It's lovely to get a laugh; it's the best thing in the world!

Richard Briers

#32. Doing something for Victoria's Secret would be great - I love Doutzen Kroes. She's so special to look at but seems like a very normal person. She's true to herself - that's important to me.

Ymre Stiekema

#33. Man's life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light, the sudden brightness of which is so comforting and wonderful, that the moments of their appearance cancel out and justify the years of darkness.

Hermann Hesse

#34. Harold, Julia - are you kidding? There's nothing - nothing - I've ever wanted more. My whole life. I just never thought - He stopped; he was speaking in fragments. For a minute they were all quiet, and he was finally able to look at both of them.

Hanya Yanagihara

#35. My hair's been every color. My hair's been all over the map.

Katie Cassidy