Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Wright

There is this cave In the air behind my body That nobody is going to touch: A cloister, a silence Closing around a blossom of fire. When I stand upright in the wind, My bones turn to dark emeralds.

James Wolcott

A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift.

Jane Wagner

I even worry about reflective flea collars. Oh, sure, drivers can see them glow in the dark, but so can the fleas.

Jane Seymour

And I always think of life like a giant wave. You know, it rises and it crests and it flies, and it's just magnificent, and then it crashes. And for a lot of people, when it crashes, that's the end, and they go down the deep, dark hole of depression.

Jane Yolen

A shadowless man is a monster, a devil, a thing of evil. A man without a shadow is soulless. A shadow without a man is a pitiable shred. Yet together, light and dark, they make a whole.

Jane Yolen

The magical story is not a microscope but a mirror, not a drop of water but a well. It is not simply one thing or two, but a multitude. It is at once both lucid and opaque, it accepts both dark and light, speaks to youth and old age.

Jane Smiley

Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds up. But there are other sorts of trains, and other sorts of novels. They rush by in the dark; passengers framed in the lighted windows are smiling and enjoying themselves.

Miley Cyrus

I really don't like coke. It's so gross and so dark. It's like, what are you, from the '90s? Ew,

Stewart Copeland

But darkness makes me fumble For a key to a door Wide open

Rob Lowe

My deep dark secret is that I was a nerd in school. I liked the theater. I liked to study. I wasn't very good at sports.

Money will be put in a fund. They are making sure they all get something that Dark needs.

Tom Brokaw

Obviously, it's very gratifying, ... It's especially pleasing to be able to share this with a lot of people who have been through some long, dark days here and now have emerged into the sunlight.

From Darkness into Light: Printmaking in Sweden 1890-1960

From this moment on, the one who lives in fear will not be me, it will be those fellows who hide in the dark corners. From this moment on, I will live out in the sunlight. I will live a fuller and happier life.

Andrew Flintoff

I don't want to be back in those dark times again. So experiencing that makes this all the sweeter.

I don't want to be a Cassandra, but I fear the entire nonprofit sector in Russia is facing dark times. There is spy mania in Russia, and they are specially scrutinizing any organization that has foreign funding.

Kimberley Nixon

I live in Wales but spend quite a lot of time in London - I stay with my brother. When I get home after being in Manchester or London for a bit, I forget how dark the sky is, and I won't have seen stars for ages.

I have always been into the darker side of things and love the mystery and sexiness of vampires.

Devon Bostick

I have always been down to test what I can do and push the limits of my acting. I have always wanted to try new genres and stuff - but I love comedy. I grew up on comedy, and I love having a good time and making people laugh. But it is also really nice to switch it around and make people think and feel some darker emotions.

Terry Brooks

I had wanted to do a dark fantasy set in the present in our own world for some time, but I didn't have what I felt was the right vehicle.

Marc Guggenheim

I happen to like dark, and I like the fact that 'Arrow' is a pretty dark show, particularly for a network show.

Steven Chapman

If in the morning when you wake, If the sun does not appear, I will be here. If in the dark we lose sight of love, Hold my hand and have no fear, I will be here. I will be here, When you feel like being quiet, When you need to speak your mind I will list

Carine Roitfeld

If Caravaggio was a photographer today, I would love to work with him. I love his dark vision - I have a dark vision.

Ben Gibbard

I feel like there's a lot of beauty in the darkness of Narrow Stairs, but that's not really a place I'm ready to go to for a while. I'm interested in taking a different approach and having the next record be different in tone - I'm just not interested in making another dark, dark album.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration.

Carl Sandburg

Tongues wrangled dark at a man. He buttoned his overcoat and stood alone. In a snowstorm, red hollyberries, thoughts, he stood alone.

Carey Mulligan

It's always harder to maintain raw enthusiasm or joy than to go into a really dark place.

Cameron Diaz

I'm not ashamed of being a bubbly, funny person. I think that's as valid as being the dark, brooding, tortured Oscar-nominated one.

Cesar Chavez

The consumer boycott is the only open door in the dark corridor of nothingness down which farm workers have had to walk for many years. It is a gate of hope through which they expect to find the sunlight of a better life for themselves and their families.

Carter Burwell

I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark.

Alan Lightman

In a world of fixed future, life is an infinite corridor of rooms, one room lit at each moment, the next room dark but prepared. We walk from room to room, look into the room that is lit, the present moment, then walk on. We do not know the rooms ahead, but we know we cannot change them. We are spectators of our lives.

Bobby Fischer

I really love the dark of the night. It helps me to concentrate.

Artie Lange

I wish I was this dark genius artist - like Richard Pryor or something.