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Quotes About Smog

I think, the first movie I saw that made me go, 'How did they do that?' was 'Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster.'
~ Bobcat Goldthwait
The smog was heavy, my eyes were weeping from it, the sun was hot, the air stank, a regular hell is L.A.
~ Jack Kerouac
I am going through a Neil Young phase. I also listen to a lot of alternative country, a band called Smog and Bonnie Prince Billy, which is very dark and twisted.
~ Ardal O'Hanlon
Commuters lining up at the tube stations, waiting to cross the Causeway into Greater Shanghai, seen only as a storm front of neonstained, coal-scented smog that encompassed the horizon.
~ Neal Stephenson
Looking more closely at Earth's atmospheric fingerprints, human biomarkers will also include sulfuric, carbonic, and nitric acids, and other components of smog from the burning of fossil fuels. If the curious aliens happen to be socially, culturally, and technologically more advanced than we are, then they will surely interpret these biomarkers as convincing evidence for the absence of intelligent life on Earth.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
...the smoke-smuggered stars...
~ Dr. Seuss, The Lorax, 1971
1954. Smog prevents airplanes from landing and ships from docking for three days.
~ James Frey
The sun was setting, giving the smog a sickly glow that made the landscape look to Eve like an alien world populated by creatures that breathed radiant vomit.
~ Lee Goldberg
The history of racial violence in our country is both omnipresent and unspoken. It is a smog that surrounds us that few will admit is there.
~ Clint Smith
The major source of photochemical smog - petroleum-fueled vehicles - can be replaced by emission-free electric vehicles.
~ Barry Commoner
Imagine if Congress always put the interests of polluters ahead of the health of our families. Our rivers and lakes would be choked with sewage. Acid rain would pour down from smog-filled skies. Hundreds of thousands more of our neighbors, friends, and loved ones would be victims of cancer, heart disease, and asthma.
~ Jeff Merkley
There was a windstorm in L.A., and the morning after there was no smog, and I could see the mountains. And I was like... 'There's mountains? Snowcap mountains?' That's insane; I've been there for thirteen years, and I've never seen that view before, seeing the mountains in the distance.
~ A. J. Buckley
the human race was dying out Noone left to scream n shout People living on the moon Smog will get you pretty soon Ship of Fools
~ Jim Morrison
It is three o'clock on a Sunday afternoon and 105° and the air so thick with smog that the dusty palm trees loom up with a sudden and rather attractive mystery.
~ Joan Didion
I would say the soul would be more than the engine. The soul would be like the computer system that coordinates everything, from the smog device to the fuel injection system to the brakes.
~ Dallas Willard
Everybody knows what California smog is - that's fog with the vitamins removed.
~ Bob Hope
Los Angeles wasn't a sun-splashed utopia anymore—it was an alienated, smog-choked sprawl rife with racial and class tensions, recession, and stifling boredom.
~ Michael Azerrad
The setting sun burned the sky pink and orange in the same bright hues as surfers' bathing suits. It was beautiful deception, Bosch thought, as he drove north on the Hollywood Freeway to home. Sunsets did that here. Made you forget it was the smog that made their colors so brilliant, that behind every pretty picture there could be an ugly story.
~ Michael Connelly
You know you're in L.A. when you put air in your tires and they cough.
~ Milton Berle
Attitude aside, a man in a five–hundred–dollar suit, no matter how wrinkled or soiled, does not take to street life nearly as easily as a fish takes to smog. First
~ Unknown