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Fumes of wine shorten the long road. -- Bai Juyi
If you're running on fumes, you get to a point of diminishing results. Get some rest. -- Chuck Pagano
I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we'd never smelled the fumes of petroleum. -- Wole Soyinka
There can be no intelligent control of the lead danger in industry unless it is based on the principle of keeping the air clear from dust and fumes. -- Alice Hamilton
Poor air quality, which can be influenced by a variety of fumes, chemicals and allergens, is arguably the leading cause of triggers for most asthmatics in urban areas. -- Ian Smith
From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men were poisoned by breathing poisoned air, not by handling their food with unwashed hands. -- Alice Hamilton
These wrestlers aren't organized. They have no union, no pension and no insurance. You meet wrestler after wrestler who sold out Madison Square Garden ten years ago, basically running on fumes today. There's a lot of drama there. -- Darren Aronofsky
I like bringing the girls on set, but if I can't do that then the next day I feel I have to be uber-mum to make up for it. Then I'm exhausted and feel like I'm running in fumes. -- Marcia Cross
People don't realize that doing a horror movie is hard work. You're out there all day screaming your lungs out, breathing in toxic make-up fumes, rolling around in the dirt, getting your eyebrows burned off - it's not like doing a sitcom. -- Clint Howard
As the words of my book, 'The Bloodless Revolution,' accumulated, I envisaged a parallel growth: the stack of pages they would have to be printed on, thousands of times over; every page representing a slice of forest, a belch of fumes and a squirt of toxic ink. -- Tristram Stuart
What happens is that, you know, on Mondays, at least in the Senate, you know, Monday night we'd have what you'd call a bed-check vote. Just to get, you know, the machinery of the Senate up and running so they can start the committee process; on Tuesday morning, things go. By Thursday, you know, jet fumes, the smell of jet fumes. -- Olympia Snowe
My head was full of misty fumes of doubt. -- Zora Neale Hurston
The fumes are killing us, and we wonder why things are going haywire. -- Sandra Bernhard
Wine is a precarious aphrodisiac, and its fumes have blighted many a mating. -- Norman Douglas
A rebellion against God, even as believers, is fueled by the toxic fumes of unbelief. -- James MacDonald
Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask whether your country has been inhaling paint-thinner fumes. -- Dave Barry
Foul and magical fumes bubbled out of the kettle, like the flatulence of a dragon on a demon-only diet. -- Christopher Moore
The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise... -- Alexis Carrel
The atmosphere of our time is fast being cleared of the fumes and deadly gases that arose during the carboniferous age of theology. -- John Burroughs
The only reason I lost to Aldo Montoya was the intoxicating fumes there were coming off his body from being around Jake Roberts. -- Jerry Lawler
Here comes the time when, vibrating on its stem, every flower fumes like a censer; noises and perfumes circle in the evening air. -- Charles Baudelaire
Phew am exhausted. Just read about something called "the offside rule". Too much for my tiny brain. Must be damaged from nail polish fumes -- Kelly Cates
Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal. -- Charles Dickens
I don't want to live anywhere where I'm breathing two million cars' fumes and paying a zillion dollars for the right to be totally hassled. -- Abel Ferrara
17 seconds from Game 7, or from Championship number 6,Jordan, open, Chicago with the lead. Time out Utah, 5.2 seconds left, Michael Jordan running on fumes with 45 points. -- Bob Costas
I don't think it would be fun to write after inhaling art fumes. (What are art fumes?) No, I just make stuff up. It's easier that way. -- Neil Gaiman
Sometimes...we don't want to feel like a postmodern, postfeminist, overstretched woman but, rather, a domestic goddess, trailing nutmeggy fumes of baking pie in our languorous wake. -- Nigella Lawson
You had a lot of novice investors who got into the market looking for easy money, without any regard to the fundamentals. These stocks were running on fumes. -- Bernard Madoff
I must live in my own excrement, breathe in my own poisonous sticky fumes. Yet I am a human being! I still am. Does no one think of that? -- Egon Schiele
We have a tremendous investment in facilities for (internal combustion engines, transmissions, and axles) and I can't see throwing them away just because the electric car doesn't emit fumes. -- Henry Ford II
To an artist, a picture is both a sum of ideas and a blurry memory of 'pushing paint,' breathing fumes, dripping oils and wiping brushes, smearing and diluting and mixing. -- James Elkins
Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety. -- William Rounseville Alger
Fleet Foxes will never, ever, under no circumstances, from now until the world chokes on gas fumes, sign to a major label. This includes all subsidiaries or permutations thereunder. Till we die. -- Robin Pecknold
I love crystals, the beauty of their forms and formation; liquids, dormant, distilling, sloshing! The fumes, the odors good or bad, the rainbow of colors; the gleaming vessels of every size, shape and purpose. -- Robert Burns Woodward
I don't expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses... -- J. K. Rowling
Like most people who smoked umpteen cigarettes a day, I tasted only the first one. The succeeding umpteen minus one were a compulsive ritual which had no greater savour than the fumes of burning money. -- Clive James

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