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Letter "F" » fog
«There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight, drench, or conceal the vast towers, but those towers, hostile to mystery and blind to any sort of play, shear off the rain's tresses and shine their three thousand swords through the soft swan of the fog.»
Author: Federico Garcia Lorca
(
Playwright,
Poet)
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Keywords:
drench,
drenched,
drenched in,
drenches,
fog,
heavens,
highlight,
highlighted,
highlighting,
highlights,
hostile,
mist,
poetic,
shear,
sheared,
shearing,
shears,
shorn,
skyscraper,
skyscrapers,
swan,
Swans,
swords,
The Fog,
The Mist,
The Swan,
towers
«Oh the bricks they will bleed and the rain it will weep, And the damp Lagan fog lull the city to sleep, It's to hell with the future and live on the past, May the Lord in his Mercy be Kind to Belfast»
Author: Maurice Craig
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Keywords:
Belfast,
bleed,
bricks,
damp,
damps,
fog,
lagan,
live on,
lull,
lulled,
lulling,
lulls,
The City
«Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.»
«Ron: >staring in to a misty crystal ball< I don't need to ask her what this means. It's telling me there is going to be fog tonight.»
«Like a man travelling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the fog, as well as those behind him, and also the people in the fields on each side, but near him all appears clear, though in truth he is as much in the fog as any of them.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(
Inventor,
Philosopher,
Printer,
Scientist,
Statesman,
Writer)
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About:
Humility,
Judgement,
Wisdom
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Keywords:
fog,
foggy,
travelling,
wrapped
«Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun»
«The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
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About:
Lies,
Truth
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Keywords:
ammunition,
Blown Away,
blows,
Burns,
fog,
fogs,
gossip,
gossiping,
lay away,
lay off
«The city overwhelmed our expectations. The Kiplingesque grandeur of Waterloo Station, the Eliotic despondency of the brick row in Chelsea the Dickensian nightmare of fog and sweating pavement and besmirched cornices.»
Author: John Updike
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About:
Expectation
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Keywords:
besmirched,
brick,
Chelsea,
despondency,
Dickensian,
fog,
grandeur,
Kiplingesque,
overwhelmed,
pavement,
sweating,
The Brick,
Waterloo
«Living without faith is like driving in a fog.»
«There are so many beautiful parts of the world . . . Thailand, Italy, the south of France. There are places in Spain that are astonishing. But here . . . 25 miles and you go up on Mount Tam to see the fog come in; 25 miles the other direction and you're somewhere else that takes your breath away. There's no question this is where I want to live. Never has been.»
Author: Robin Williams
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Keywords:
come in,
fog,
fogs,
France,
go up,
Italy,
I Want to Live,
mount,
No Place to Go,
South,
Spain,
tam,
Thailand,
The Fog,
the South,
up on