Quotes About London Fog

#1. London and Fog! When these two come together, it is time to be a writer!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#2. If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.

Irwin Shaw

#3. All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings beating high in the blue air far above it ... bearing them all away to the green fields in the South.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#4. True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#5. As the story unfolded, the cast of characters changed to match it.

Warren Spector

#6. The idea that she simply wanted to help him damn near took the wind out of him.

Jenny Holiday

#7. Before taking the stage, Paul Ryan spent 6 hours staring into a mirror working on 'concerned eyebrow.'

Damien Fahey

#8. Organizations get invested into a particular product. And sometimes the best thing is to stop making that product, even though it's profitable, because it has optimized at a local peak.

Kevin Kelly

#9. He slithers his arms about

Lena Black

#10. I never dreamed I'd like any city as well as London. San Francisco is exciting, moody, exhilarating. I even love the muted fogs.

Julie Christie

#11. Saudi Arabia makes a billion dollars a day, okay? They make a billion dollars a day.

Donald Trump

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

Greta Garbo

#13. Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.

Ada Leverson

#14. Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.

Thomas Jefferson

#15. I was born in London, England during the great fog of 1952, but survived the coal-fueled air pollution with no ill effects and after less than a year in England was carried to Canada by my parents.

Jack W. Szostak

#16. Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted and the shop windows blazed with gas as they do at night, an odd-looking little girl sat in a cab with her father and was driven rather slowly through the big thoroughfares.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#17. 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.

Claude Monet

#18. No one awakens in the morning thinking they will die that day. Not a saint or a sinner. Not even a condemned killer. We all know were mortal, and yet we all believe we'll live forever.

Christopher Pike

#19. A man cannot serve God and Mammon, nor be "temperate and furious" at the same time.

Mahatma Gandhi

#20. 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.

Charles Dickens

#21. Separate the desire to be thin from the desire to be cherished.

Geneen Roth

#22. In this circle, one thought, married, and died. Outside it were poverty and vulgarity for ever trying to enter, just as the London fog tries to enter the pine-woods pouring through the gaps in the northern hills. But,

E. M. Forster

#23. Before Turner there was no fog in London.

Oscar Wilde

#24. I feel like my body doesn't judge the hours, you know? It doesn't care if it's daytime or nighttime.

Miles Teller

#25. Take of London fog 30 parts; malaria 10 parts, gas leaks 20 parts, dewdrops gathered in a brickyard at sunrise 25 parts; odor of honeysuckle 15 parts. Mix. The mixture will give you an approximate conception of a Nashville drizzle.

O. Henry

#26. Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.

Michael Crawford