Famous Quotes & Sayings

Catherynne M. Valente

September could see it. She did not know what is was she saw. That is the disadvantage of being a heroine, rather than a narrator. She knew only that a red light glowed and went dark, glowed and went dark.

Catherynne M. Valente

The worst thing in the world is having to go back to the dark you shook off.

Lisa Cholodenko

Everyone on the planet has a dark and a light. That's a multi-dimensional character.

We are at a point of crisis. This will prove to be a very dark moment.

Piers Morgan

there are dark forces out there Paul, be careful. Watch your back.

When you turn the lights on, it's not dark anymore,

Kurt Vonnegut

The waitress brought me another drink. She wanted to light my hurricane lamp again. I wouldn't let her. "Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on?" she asked me. "The big show is inside my head," I said.

Aimee Bender

With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows that revealed living rooms painted in dark burgandies and matte reds.

Bo Burnham

The classic comedian says there's nothing that's taboo; if you laugh at one thing you've got to laugh at everything, that comedy is taking people to dark areas and showing them the light.

Edward Hirsch

I did not know the work of mourning Is a labor in the dark We carry inside ourselves

Edith Wharton

It was harder to drown at sunrise than in darkness.

David Walliams

I have a pathological fear of being on my own. When I'm with my own thoughts, I start to unravel myself, and I start to think really dark thoughts, self-destructive thoughts.

David Reuben

The hospital that feeds you refined sugar, white bread, canned soup, bouillon cubes, and frozen vegetables should be closed by the health department as a menace to the public health.

David Hockney

I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really.

David Bromstad

I just don't think there are any rules to color. You have a small space with no windows? Put lamps in there, make it dramatic, paint the ceiling black. Do something with it. If it's dark, accentuate the darkness.

David Brin

With gritty action and realistic science, Peter Watts brings to life a dark and vivid world.

Ben Wheatley

Doctor Who is pretty dark, I think. Generally its dark; its always been dark.

Benicio Del Toro

You deal with failure - strike, strike, strike - all the time. Acting is like that. You have to have a very thick skin in a way - your hair is too dark, you're too ugly for the part, your audition wasn't good.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm very proud of the work I do, but I genuinely can't involve myself with an audience as early as somebody who's not part of the film can. So there's that side of theater that appeals to me, where you give something and the response to what you've created is a communion between you and the dark that contains however many people. It's thrilling not having a reflection other than through the people you're communicating with. But people ask, "What do you prefer?" and I don't have a preference. I love them both. I really do.

Benedict Cumberbatch

[Season 4 of Sherlock Holmes will be] myopically dark. You're talking about the end of the universe darkness. You can't see in front of you and would walk into everything dark.

Antony Gormley

The elemental world we all live in is the darkness of the body.

Antony Gormley

Our appearance belongs to others, we live in the darkness of the body-part of all darkness but felt.

Antony Sher

We've all got darkness inside us. And I've got quite a lot of darkness.

Diablo Cody

I think I might be one of the only people in America, or at least the only person I know, who saw both 'The Dark Knight' and 'Mamma Mia!' on their shared opening weekend.

Denise Crosby

The Crosby family is sort of legendary for all of its traumas and familial problems, even though it has this appearance of being this perfect world. It had quite a dark side to it.

Denise Levertov

Let the space under the first storey be dark, let the water lap the stone posts, and vivid green slime glimmer upon them; let a boat be kept there.

Denis Leary

I really like 'Batman.' Not the TV show, but the dark 'Batman.'

Deborah Ellis

Nobody really owns anything. We give back our bodies at the end of our lives. We own our thoughts, but everything else is just borrowed. We use it for a while, then pass it on. Everything. We borrow the sun that shines on us today from the people on the other side of the world while they borrow the moon from us. Then we give it back. We can't keep the sun, no matter how afraid we are of the dark.

Deb Caletti

It was a shut door, and shut doors meant things kept to yourself. There were reasons you kept things to yourself, and they usually weren’t good, happy, open-air sort of reasons. Still, I didn’t want to see behind that door. You think you want to know everything there is to know about everything there is to know. But you don’t. Not really. I had pried the lid off of the dark places of another person before, I had seen inside. Down deep. You don’t want to look at what’s rotting there.

Diego Della Valle

I need to have a quick wardrobe. Two or three blazers with dark gray pants, two pairs of jeans, two light blue shirts, a casual shirt, two pairs of shoes, one formal one not. Small accessories like Tod's Greca belt and our woven bracelets for a wild touch.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

HOPE sustains us through despair. Hope teaches that there is reason to rejoice...even when all seems dark around us.

Diana Gabaldon

If I die," he whispered in the dark, "dinna follow me. The bairns will need ye. Stay for them. I can wait.

Diana Gabaldon

Has he come armed, then?” she asked anxiously. “Has he brought a pistol or a sword?” Ian shook his head, his dark hair lifting wildly in the wind. “Oh, no, Mam!” he said. “It’s worse. He’s brought a lawyer!