Vapor Quotes - Page 4

• It never really felt like I had a lot of substance in my life. I had broken up with my former husband (Ron Samuels) and I kind of looked around. I didn't have a lot of friends. I had become isolated by fame. I longed for a family and some substantive relationships. Fame is a vapor. You can't grab hold of it.

  Lynda Carter

  Husband, Broken, Lots Of Friends

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  6 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Those who have nothing else to recommend them to the respect of others but only their blood, cry it up at a great rate, and have their mouth perpetually full of it. They swell and vapor, and you are sure to hear of their families and relations every third word.

  Pierre Charron

  Blood, Ancestry, Mouths

  7 Copiar cita

• Los pensamientos sombríos y las fantasías a menudo requieren un poco de suelo real o sustancia para florecer; son los oscuros pinos que echan raíces y fruncen el ceño sobre las grietas del corazón herido y petrificado, y se nutren principalmente de la lluvia de lágrimas inútiles y los vapores de la fantasía.

  John Frederick Boyes

  Real, Lluvia, Corazón

  John Frederick Boyes (1859). "Vida y libros, o Registros de pensamiento y lectura", p.22

  24 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• . . . and God knows we are sensitive to the suffering that has sometimes broken loose to come billowing forth from your appendages like the pungent vapors of whales - often it appears that in this life of experience and accommodation we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. But Sissy . . . hold on!

  Jack London

  Life, Whales, Justice

  15 Copiar cita

• El antisemitismo es una enfermedad horrible de la que nadie es inmune, y tiene una especie de fascinación maligna que hace que una persona ilustrada se acerque a la fuente de infección, supuestamente con espíritu científico, pero en realidad para oler los vapores y juguetear con la posibilidad.

  Mary McCarthy

  Raza, Racismo, Maldad

  Mary McCarthy (1964). "El humanista en la bañera"

  7 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• The best ideas aren't hidden in shadowy recesses. They're right in front of us, hidden in plain sight. Innovation seldom depends on discovering obscure or subtle elements but in seeing the obvious with fresh eyes. This is easier said than done because nothing is as hard to see as what's right before our eyes. We overlook what we take for granted. Billions of tea drinkers observed the force of steam escaping from water boiling in a kettle before James Watt realized that this vapor could be converted into energy.

  Richard Farson

  Leadership, Eye, Ideas

  53 Copiar cita

• A third of summer sea ice in the Arctic is gone, the oceans are 30 percent more acidic, and since warm air holds more water vapor than cold, the atmosphere over the oceans is a shocking five percent wetter, loading the dice for devastating floods.

  Bill McKibben

  Summer, Ocean, Air

  "Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math" by Bill McKibben, www.rollingstone.com. July 19, 2012.

  11 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Newspapers . . . serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Newspapers, Presses, Smoke

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.491

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Algunas moléculas -amoniaco, dióxido de carbono, agua- aparecen en todas partes del universo, haya o no vida. Pero otras aparecen especialmente en presencia de la propia vida. Entre los biomarcadores de la atmósfera terrestre están los clorofluorocarbonos de los aerosoles que destruyen la capa de ozono, el vapor de los disolventes minerales, los refrigerantes de frigoríficos y aires acondicionados y el smog de la quema de combustibles fósiles. No hay otra forma de leer esa lista: signos inequívocos de ausencia de inteligencia.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Ozono, Aire, Agua

  4 Copiar cita

• Down sank the great red sun, and in golden, glimmering vapors Veiled the light of his face, like the Prophet descending from Sinai.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sunset, Light, Red

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.146

  31 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Mitchell Sanders tenía razón. Para el soldado común, al menos, la guerra tiene la sensación -la textura espiritual- de una gran niebla fantasmal, espesa y permanente. No hay claridad. Todo se arremolina. Las viejas reglas ya no son vinculantes, las viejas verdades ya no son ciertas. Lo correcto se convierte en incorrecto. El orden se mezcla con el caos, el amor con el odio, la fealdad con la belleza, la ley con la anarquía, la civilidad con el salvajismo. Los vapores te absorben. No sabes dónde estás, ni por qué estás ahí, y la única certeza es una ambigüedad abrumadora.

  Tim O'Brien

  Espiritual, Odio, Guerra

  Tim O'Brien (2009). "The Things They Carried", p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

  10 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Every sunset which I witness inspires me with the desire to go to a west as distant and as fair as that into which the Sun goes down. He appears to migrate westward daily and tempt us to follow him. He is the Great Western Pioneer whom the nations follow. We dream all night of those mountain ridges in the horizon, though they may be of vapor only, which were last gilded by his rays.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Sunset, Night

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

  7 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Prayer is the ascending vapor which supplies The showers of blessing, and the stream that flows Through earth's dry places, till on every side "The wilderness shall blossom as the rose.

  A. B. Simpson

  Prayer, Blessing, Rose

  12 Copiar cita

• For, in the language of Heraclitus, the virtuous soul is pure and unmixed light, springing from the body as a flash of lightning darts from the cloud. But the soul that is carnal and immersed in sense, like a heavy and dank vapor, can with difficulty be kindled, and caused to raise its eyes heavenward.

  Plutarch

  Eye, Clouds, Light

  10 Copiar cita

• And the sun had on a crown
  Wrought of gilded thistledown,
  And a scarf of velvet vapor
  And a raveled rainbow gown;
  And his tinsel-tangled hair
  Tossed and lost upon the air
  Was glossier and flossier
  Than any anywhere.

  James Whitcomb Riley

  Hair, Rainbow, Tangled

  James Whitcomb Riley (2010). “Riley Child-Rhymes with Hoosier Pictures”, p.106, Indiana University Press

  13 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• In flight...entire days can be wound back or skipped over...as we exist merely in a world of vapor. Adventures are both beginning and coming to a close up here as people from opposite ends of experience paradoxically move in one direction.

  Josh Gates

  Moving, Adventure, One Direction

  6 Copiar cita

• Semi-automatic s have only two purposes. One is so owners can take them to the shooting range once in a while, yell yeehaw, and get all horny at the rapid fire and the burning vapor spurting from the end of the barrel. Their other use-their only other use-is to kill people.

  Stephen King

  Fire, Two, People

  5 Copiar cita

• Earthbound souls know only the underside of the atmosphere in which they live . . . but go higher - above the dust and water vapor - and the sky turns dark until one can see the stars at noon.

  Jacqueline Cochran

  Stars, Dark, Dust

  21 Copiar cita

• luz solar moteada y miró el vapor plateado que se arremolinaba en su interior. "Niebla reunida al amanecer del primer día de luna nueva en la Isla de Avalon", dijo. "Sí. Buena para una hora de gran talento", dijo Annie. Jack sonrió, recordando su hora como domadores de caballos y su hora como magos de escenario. "Me pregunto en qué seremos geniales esta vez", dijo. "¿Quizá grandes enfermeras?", dijo Annie. "Ya veremos", dijo Jack. Guardó la botellita en su mochila; luego recogió el trozo de papel del suelo. En el papel había escrito los dos secretos de la grandeza que habían

  Mary Pope Osborne

  Caballo, Luna, Grandeza

  Mary Pope Osborne (2014). "High Time for Heroes", p.11, Random House Books for Young Readers.

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Since, during storms, flames leap from the humid vapors and dark clouds emit deafening noises, is it surprising the lightning, when it strikes the ground, gives rise to truffles, which do not resemble plants?

  Plutarch

  Food, Dark, Clouds

  15 Copiar cita

• In that moment, when watches and clocks misbehave and you feel a cold vapor wrap itself around your heart, you unconsciously draw a line at the bottom of a long column of numbers and come up with a sum. Perhaps it's one that fills you with contentment and endows you with a level of courage and an acceptance that you didn't know you possessed.Or maybe not.

  James Lee Burke

  Heart, Acceptance, Numbers

  James Lee Burke (2010). “The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.297, Simon and Schuster

  10 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.

  Victor Hugo

  Music, Art, Ocean

  4 Copiar cita

• Bog-lights, vapors of mysticism, psychic overtones, soul orgies, wailings among the shadows, weird gnosticisms, veils and tissues of words, gibbering subjectivisms, gropings and maunderings, ontological fantasies ... this is the stuff, the phantasms of hope, that fills your book shelves. Look at them, all the sad wraiths of sad mad men and passionate rebels — your Schopenhauers, your Strindbergs, your Tolstois and Nietzsches. Come. Your glass is empty. Fill and forget.

  Jack London

  Book, Glasses, Light

  "Novels and Social Writings".

  37 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it. The clouds and curtains of darkness, the confounding vapors, these are the daily weather of this world.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Clouds, Weather, Darkness

  William Blake (1910)

  8 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Autumn has come to northeast Montana. The vapor of one’s breath, the clarity of the stars, the smell of wood smoke, the stones underfoot that even a full day of sunlight won’t warm- these all say there will be no more days that can be mistaken for summer.

  Larry Watson

  Summer, Stars, Autumn

  4 Copiar cita