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  • To condense fact from the vapor of nuance. -- Neal Stephenson
  • Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion. -- Mark Twain
  • The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars. -- Paracelsus
  • So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away. -- John Donne
  • The theory of interest was wrapped in utter obscurity, until Hume and Smith dispelled the vapor. -- Jean-Baptiste Say
  • Breathe in...inhale vapors from bright stars that shine, Breathe out...weed smoke retrace the skyline. -- Mos Def
  • Man's life is but a jest, A dream, a shadow, bubble, air, a vapor at the best. -- George Walter
  • Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character. -- Horace Greeley
  • Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character. -- Harry S. Truman
  • I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others uses. -- William Shakespeare
  • Wine, like the rising sun, possession gains, And drives the mist of dullness from the brains, The gloomy vapor from the spirit flies, And views of gaiety and gladness rise. -- George Crabbe
  • It shows you exactly how a star is formed; nothing else can be so pretty! A cluster of vapor, the cream of the milky way, a sort of celestial cheese, churned into light. -- Benjamin Disraeli
  • It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor. -- Edward E. Barnard
  • Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon Like a magician extended his golden want o'er the landscape; Trinkling vapors arose; and sky and water and forest Seemed all on fire at the touch, and melted and mingled together. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls. -- John Muir
  • The unconscious sends all sorts of vapors, odd beings, terrors, and deluding images up into the mind - whether in dream, broad daylight, or insanity: for the human kingdom, beneath the floor of the comparatively neat little dwelling that we call our consciousness, goes down into unsuspected Aladdin caves. -- Joseph Campbell
  • Aristotle's opinion... that comets were nothing else than sublunary vapors or airy meteors... prevailed so far amongst the Greeks, that this sublimest part of astronomy lay altogether neglected; since none could think it worthwhile to observe, and to give an account of the wandering and uncertain paths of vapours floating in the Ether. -- Edmond Halley
  • The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapor, soot and flame, poisons and poverty; yet among all these evils I seem to live so sweetly that may I die if I were to change places with the Persian king. -- Johann Joachim Becher
  • The Scythians take kannabis seed, creep in under the felts, and throw it on the red-hot stones. It smolders and sends up such billows of steam-smoke that no Greek vapor bath can surpass it. The Scythians howl with joy in these vapor-baths, which serve them instead of bathing, for they never wash their bodies with water. -- Herodotus
  • She wore tight corsets to give her a teeny waist - I helped her lace them up - but they had the effect of causing her to faint. Mom called it the vapors and said it was a sign of her high breeding and delicate nature. I thought it was a sign that the corset made it hard to breathe. -- Jeannette Walls
  • (Djinn are essentially vapor.) "I blew him away. -- Rachel Caine
  • The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat. -- Isaac Newton
  • Life is a vapor. It passes in the blink of an eye. -- Sarah Louise Delany
  • All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay. -- Edmund Spenser
  • The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanity. -- Diane Ackerman
  • Carbon dioxide isn't the only greenhouse gas out there. Other substances, such as water vapor and nitrous oxide, also trap heat to varying degrees. -- Jamais Cascio
  • Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character. -- Harry S. Truman
  • There is some CO2-water vapor feedback. But it's not operating on a global scale. The modellers cannot accurately separate water vapour from the effects of clouds and rainfall. -- Willie Soon
  • 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
  • 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
  • To play the piano is to consort with nature. Every mollusk, galaxy, vapor or viper as well the sweet incense of love's distraction, is within the hands and grasp of the pianist. -- Russell Sherman
  • 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
  • In contrast to the troposphere, the stratosphere is extremely dry and practically cloudless - the concentration of water vapor is measured in parts per million and is, in fact, comparable to that of ozone. -- Mario J. Molina
  • All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image of human perfection, and for its own and not for the art's sake. -- William Butler Yeats
  • Warm air holds more water vapor than cold, and so the atmosphere is about 4% wetter than it was 40 years ago. This loads the dice for flood and drought, and we're seeing both in stunning abundance. -- Bill McKibben
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