Vapor famous quotes

He rocked in the swells, floating like the first germ of life adrift on the earth's cooling seas, formless macule of plasm trapped in a vapor drop and all creation yet to come.
-- Cormac McCarthy

#Sea #Vapor #Firsts

The theory of interest was wrapped in utter obscurity, until Hume and Smith dispelled the vapor.
-- Jean-Baptiste Say

#Obscurity #Vapor #Theory

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
-- Mark Twain

#Inspiration #Vapor #Reputation

But in my life, in my personality, there is an essence of falseness and insincerity. A thin, fine vapor of fraud hangs always over me and dampens and injures some things in me that I value.
-- Mary MacLane

#Essence #Personality #Vapor

To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.
-- Neal Stephenson

#Facts #Nuance #Vapor

The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.
-- Paracelsus

#Stars #Sunshine #Vapor

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 #Mouths #Vapor

(Djinn are essentially vapor.) "I blew him away.
-- Rachel Caine

#Vapor

The received image of a writer is that of an unproductive sensitive who suffers from the vapors, is enslaved by his gonads, falls victim to romantic swoons and passes out at deadlines.
-- George V. Higgins

#Fall #Suffering #Vapor