Quotes About Smog

#1. The Chinese call it woo
The French les brumes
The British
Fog
L A
Smog
Heaven
Cellar Door

Jack Kerouac

#2. Silence hung around the corners, draped like spider webs across all surfaces and hanging like smog in the air.

Jennifer Perry

#3. And then they were inside, and out of the wind, and surrounded by comforting walls and walls of books. The rich, delightful smell of old paper, leather and ink permeated the place, washing away the pettier odours of blood and oil and smog.

Genevieve Cogman

#4. Carbon pollution contributes to climate change, which causes temperatures to rise. Hotter temperatures mean more smog in the air, and breathing smog can inflame deep lung tissue. Repeated inflammation over time can permanently scar lung tissue, even in low concentrations.

Frances Beinecke

#5. He sat desiring the girl - a speed-hardened straw-colored junkie stewardess, a spoiled Augustana Lutheran, compounded of airport Muzak and beauty parlor school. Her eyes were fouled with smog and propane spray.

Robert Stone

#6. Once every hundred years, the Los Angeles smog rolls away for a single night, leaving the air as clean as interstellar space. That way the gods can see if Los Angeles is still there. If it is, they roll the smog back so they won't have to look at it.

Larry Niven

#7. The human race was dying out Noone left to scream n shout People living on the moon Smog will get you pretty soon
Ship of Fools

Jim Morrison

#8. All of a sudden, I feel very old and very tired. Maybe when I get to California, the smog, brush fires, floods, and earthquakes will cheer me up.

Erma Bombeck

#9. Twenty-three stories up and all I could see out the windows was grey smog. They could call it the City of the Angels if they wanted to, but if there were angels out there, they had to be flying blind.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#10. Carbon dioxide does not cause or contribute to smog, and the Kyoto treaty would do nothing to reduce or prevent smog.

Stephen Harper

#11. A protest meeting on the issue of environmental abuse is not a convocation of accusers, it is a convocation of the guilty. The realization ought to clear the smog of self-righteousness that has always conventionally hovered over these occasions, and let us see the work that is to be done.

Wendell Berry

#12. A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen through the mists of smog, is curiously lovable, in somewhat the way an individual who has got himself into an unconscionable scrape seems lovable - or at least deserving of support.

E.B. White

#13. Most human beings have enough sense to know that if they work in a city that has a serious smog problem, it's wise to either stay indoors or at least wear a mask that will filter out the poison. But cigarette smokers have their own little concentrated toxic smog pack that they don't avoid.

Ray Comfort

#14. Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.

Ayn Rand

#15. There was a windstorm in L.A., and the morning after there was no smog, and I could see the mountains. And I was like ... 'There's mountains? Snowcap mountains?' That's insane; I've been there for thirteen years, and I've never seen that view before, seeing the mountains in the distance.

A. J. Buckley

#16. At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.

Tom Petty

#17. She glanced outside at the sky, filled with clouds and smog. All the pollution, all that hell - even the stars didn't stand a chance.

Katherine McIntyre

#18. he was like smog: there were always some of his molecules in the air.

Margaret Atwood

#19. The major source of photochemical smog - petroleum-fueled vehicles - can be replaced by emission-free electric vehicles.

Barry Commoner

#20. They found it hard to imagine the smog-choked cities of the Twentieth Century, and the waste, greed, and appalling environmental disasters of the Oil Age.

Arthur C. Clarke

#21. Culture is like a smog. To live
within it, you must breathe some of it in and, inevitably, be
contaminated.

Richard K. Morgan

#22. The aura of billions of people coats all experiences like a thick cloud of smog. Just to live on the earth is to live in that smog.

Frederick Lenz

#23. The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the town lets wither a time and die.

John Steinbeck

#24. Smog is affecting larger parts of China, and environmental pollution has become a major problem, which is nature's red-light warning against the model of inefficient and blind development.

Li Keqiang

#25. Everybody knows what California smog is - that's fog with the vitamins removed.

Bob Hope

#26. Los Angeles is often described as the nadir of vapidity, a smog-choked space cradle.

Diablo Cody

#27. But a human mind is a great sullen lightning-filled cloud of thoughts, all of them occupying a finite amount of brain processing time. Finding whatever the owner thinks they're thinking in the middle of the smog of prejudices, memories, worries, hopes and fears is almost impossible.

Terry Pratchett

#28. My sadness isn't a way I feel but a thing trapped inside the walls of my flesh, like a smog. It takes the sheen off everything. It rolls the world in soot. It saps the power from my limbs and presses my back into a stoop.

Sara Baume

#29. I unrolled my window to get away from the cigarette smog a little and watched a different world roll by.

Stephen King

#30. In Los Angeles, half of all smog from sulfur dioxide comes in from ships.

Rose George

#31. When I was a kid, we never heard of smog, ozone depletion, acid rain, green house gasses.

Dennis Weaver

#32. There was a super-8 steel town somewhere, where all the forgotten things in the cruel world ended up eventually, Mandy was sure of it ... this place, she decided, was called Smog City.

Rebecca McNutt

#33. Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.

Chuck Jones

#34. Once-ler! You're making such smogulous smoke - my poor swomee swans, why they can't sing a note! No one can sing who has smog in his throat.

Dr. Seuss

#35. Then there was the time in Hollywood when I sat down in a breakaway chair and it collapsed on me. I was nearly knocked out and might have been even more seriously hurt but my fall was broken by the smog.

Jack Paar

#36. I love LA! The freeways, the cars, the smog, the glitter, the glitz, the sleaze, the prostitutes, the poison that falls from the sky.

Donald O'Donovan

#37. I will concentrate on playing guitar, on lyrics and on singing. I am a part of things; I am not the encompassing 'Smog.'

Bill Callahan

#38. She grew into a quiet, beautiful young woman. The beauty was a nuisance, like smog and poverty.

John Varley

#39. Why is everybody afraid of going to Heaven? You want to be here with the smog and the sin and bad people and the war? Or do you want to be in Heaven, sitting next to Jesus, you know?

Drew Carey

#40. If they'd lower the taxes and get rid of the smog and clean up the traffic mess, I really believe I'd settle here until the next earthquake.

Groucho Marx

#41. Calling noise a nuisance is like calling smog an inconvenience. Noise must be considered a hazard to the health of people everywhere.

William H. Stewart

#42. When you looked out my window you could see the whole city crouched under a blanket of car smog.

Markus Zusak

#43. Sleet was falling through a motionless blanket of smog. It was early morning. I was riding in the Lincoln sedan of Dr. Asa Breed. I was vaguely ill, still a little drunk from the night before. Dr. Breed was driving. Tracks of a long-abandoned trolley system kept catching the wheels of his car.

Kurt Vonnegut

#44. You are down in the valley and the valley is filled with smog. You can't see too well. When we meditate, we are going beyond the smog to the top of the mountain.

Frederick Lenz

#45. Mandy loved the smell of a sunny day after a night of rain. The sun hit the orange puddles, the overgrown, soft, green grass on her lawn, and it beamed down through the orange steel mill smog, sending otherworldly, bizarre shadows across the concrete sidewalk.

Rebecca McNutt

#46. The smog was heavy, my eyes were weeping from it, the sun was hot, the air stank, a regular hell is L.A.

Jack Kerouac

#47. Political corruption is to Rhode Islanders as smog is to people who live in Los Angeles: nobody complains of its absence, but when it rolls around everyone feels right at home.

Philip Gourevitch

#48. 1954. Smog prevents airplanes from landing and ships from docking for three days.

James Frey

#49. I confess that when I first read that smog is particularly hazardous to children, senior citizens, and physically active people, for a brief moment I thought, I'm in the clear for at least ten years.

Paula Poundstone

#50. I look across at the line of the city. The nights are mean in this place, full of smog that eats the stars. 'Who does feel hope around here?

Cath Crowley

#51. It's amazing how people can get so excited about a rocket to the moon and not give a damn about smog, oil leaks, the devastation of the environment with pesticides, hunger, disease. When the poor share some of the power that the affluent now monopolize, we will give a damn.

Cesar Chavez

#52. People were like parasites burrowed into the smog.

Chen Quifan

#53. Our thoughts are not the problem. Our thoughts do not create the psychological smog. It is the way we respond to our thoughts that creates the smog.

Russ Harris

#54. The smog curled between the streetlamps and the spokes of the wrought iron framework. It seemed through your body and into your bones.

Sara Sheridan

#55. My first song was about the smog over Dublin in the 1980s, so yeah, I suppose I was always socially conscious. My first song was not a love song, it was about smog.

Damien Dempsey

#56. I used to like to make myself sad, so I would listen to Bill Callahan as Smog.

Gillian Jacobs

#57. He never went to war, yet he emerged from the smog and shadows victorious.

Asghar Abbas

#58. No matter how far wrong you've gone you can always turn around

Bill Callahan

#59. People could say a lot of negative things about the apocalypse, but there was no arguing the air quality in Los Angeles had really improved.

Peter Clines

#60. The sound of diesel fuel rushing through grimy pistons and cylinders below a morning-fogged window bored through his ears like a deep-water drill bit, and the thump of his own heartbeat cursed him for breaking one of his many rules.

Luke Taylor