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Quotes About Fumes

Trump critics such as myself have been accused of living in a bubble. On the contrary, it is Trump's supporters in the 1 percent who breathed their own fumes.
~ Richard Cohen
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
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
He paused. 'There is something about the village of Saxby-on-Avon that concerns me,' he went on. 'I have spoken to you before of the nature of human wickedness, my friend. How it is the small lies and evasions which nobody sees or detects but which can come together and smother you like the fumes in a house fire.' He turned and surveyed the surrounding buildings, the shaded square. 'They are all around us.
~ Anthony Horowitz
The "captain" says that when I came to engage passage in the Quaker City I "seemed to be full of whiskey, or something," and filled his office with the "fumes of bad whiskey" . . . [F]or a ceaseless, tireless, forty-year public advocate of total abstinence the "captain" is a mighty good judge of whiskey at second-hand.28
~ Ron Powers
Put something in your stomach to absorb the alcohol before you spontaneously combust from the fumes. (Nykyrian) Yeah, it'd be a damn shame to blow my internal organs all over your new shirt.(Syn)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Now, my friends, keep you from the white and from the red, and especially from the white wine of Spain that is for sale in the streets of London. This wine of Spain creeps subtly into other wines, which are grown nearby, from which there rise such fumes to the head that, when a man has drunk three draughts and thinks he is at home in London, he is in Spain, right at the town of Lepe—not in La Rochelle, nor at Bordeaux town—and then will he drunkenly say, "Samson, Samson!
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
AUTHORITY intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud, and vain By this the fool commands the wise, The noble with the base complies, The sot assumes the rule of wit, And cowards make the base submit
~ Samuel Butler
As the dark fumes floated above the houses, snow began to fall gently from a dull sky, each flake giving a small hiss as it reached the bucket. The
~ Anthony Powell
this oväder—this un-weather—was of the Devil's making; that the fumes of Hell warmed the world of Man, and soon the armies of God would strike from the Gates of Heaven to set the balance right.
~ Scott Oden
They actually have working gasoline cars, and motels and roadside diners. They even have halls where they pump in toxic fumes so you can smell how it was when we were kids.
~ Stephen Baxter
monument to Victor Emmanuel II, a horrific typewriter-shaped structure of white Brescian marble, on the Piazza Venezia, shrouded in malign traffic fumes. Mussolini delivered his harangues here; I preferred to avoid it whenever possible.
~ Joseph Finder
Walk to developmental old trombone- I - seeking to be found- inside time!- by one whose blues seek by speaking tunes to this specific city afternoon of bread, fumes, and orange nasturtiums- am, still, solo- even the base of me being, unknown.
~ Fanny Howe
The rag is sloshed in solvent with a psychotropic odor
~ Michael Chabon
They reached the Elizabeth exit, which is what New Jersey is really known for, industrial wastes on both sides of the turn-pike. He had started holding his breath against those horrible fumes when Ana let loose
~ Junot Diaz
That's what's so stupid about the whole magic thing, you know. You spend twenty years learning the spell that makes nude virgins appear in your bedroom, and then you're so poisoned by quicksilver fumes and half-blind from reading old grimoires that you can't remember what happens next.
~ Terry Pratchett
The wine is gone. Only sour wine fumes remain. Drunkenness pretends to resolution.
~ Steven Erikson
Trying to divine some essential truth about evil is toxic, like inhaling fumes.
~ Carla Norton
Foul and magical fumes bubbled out of the kettle, like the flatulence of a dragon on a demon-only diet.
~ Christopher Moore
Elixirs should be kept in clocks. Made of bergamot and fumes, this one spreads furtively across the dawn
~ Catherine Barnett
Perhaps these earthbound types were more susceptible to the freaks and fumes of delusion, having no resistance when once they stumbled in.
~ Tessa Hadley
Dupa powinna pachnie? dup?, a nie wod? kolo?sk?.
~ Guillaume Apollinaire
Pride and hope and desire like crushed herbs in his heart sent up vapours of maddening incense before the eyes of his mind. He strode down the hill amid the tumult of suddenrisen vapours of wounded pride and fallen hope and baffled desire. they streamed upwards before his anguished eyes in dense and maddening fumes and passed away above him till at last the air was clear and cold again.
~ James Joyce
Why does Mr. Harsch hate you?" Reuben asked, somewhat absently, for he was only partly listening. He'd never been in a motorboat and was preoccupied by the rumble of the engine, the smell of exhaust fumes now drifting astern, the lovely rush of water along the sides. "Or, I mean, pretend to hate you?" "Who can say?" Jack replied with a shrug. "Maybe because I keep borrowing his boat." They
~ Trenton Lee Stewart