Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Mould

I used to live too much of my life worrying about what other people thought, ... My dark and introspective life was solitary. It was valid, (but now) I finally feel like I have a family. I'm integrated. My friends are really important to me, and they have a lot to do with why this record is so (expletive) cool.

Things are always darkest just before they go pitch black.

The world today will either be stepping forward into an era where conservation and the environment really matter, or it will be stepping back into the Dark Ages, where the people of the world think that slaughter of whales using grenades, electric lances and shooting them with rifles is something that we should accept,

Allen Iverson

The whole paper is like a book, Tales From the Dark Side or something.

Steve Squyres

These look like hard outer shells on some parts of some outcrops, and theyre darker and a little redder than the rock that they encrust,

Steve Squyres

These look like hard outer shells on some parts of some outcrops, and they're darker and a little redder than the rock that they encrust.

John Milton

The sun to me is dark / And silent as the moon, / When she deserts the night / Hid in her vacant, interlunar cave.

Richard Dawkins

Whether we ever get to know about them or not, there are very probably alien civilizations that are superhuman, to the point of being god-like in ways that exceed anything a theologian could possibly imagine. Their technical achievements would seem as supernatural to us as ours would seem to a Dark Age peasant transported to the twenty-first century. Imagine his response to a laptop computer, a mobile telephone, a hydrogen bomb or a jumbo jet.

Richelle Mead

See? There it is again. My flame in the dark.

Richelle Mead

You're my flame in the dark. We chase away the shadows around each other.

Russell Hoban

An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind the glass. My face and the faces of other travellers were now mirrored on this darkness in a succession of stillnesses. Consider this, said the darkness: any motion at any speed is a succession of stillnesses; any section through an action will show just such a plane of stillness as this dark window in which your seeking face is mirrored. And in each plane of stillness is the moment of clarity that makes you responsible for what you do.

Russell Baker

My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head for the next county, hoping nobody notices I've been in the neighborhood.

Russell Brand

Tumbling into a dark, Lewis Carroll labyrinth of filth, pursuing a white rabbit of smut!

Umberto Eco

How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon.

Umberto Eco

Nothing can shake my belief that this world is the fruit of a dark god whose shadow I extend.

Travis Kalanick

We have to bring out the truth about how dark and dangerous and evil the taxi side is.

Townes Van Zandt

Now the dark air is like fire on my skin, And even the moonlight is blinding

Rick Riordan

Annabeth’s hand slipped into mine. Under different circumstances I would’ve been embarrassed, but here in the dark I was glad to know where she was. It was about the only thing I was sure of.

Rick Riordan

Menshikov wants to see the old gold swallowed by Apophis. He wants to see the world plunged into darkness and chaos. He is quite insane. "Oh." [great response, I know. But what do you say to a story like that?]

Raymond Chandler

The streets were dark with something more then night.

Regina Spektor

I spent the '80s in the Soviet Union and when I came to America it was '89 and I was in an immigrant bubble and we didn't have MTV or cable, so I kind of discovered the '80s when I was already older, maybe in college. And I continued to have this romantic obsession with all those films and there's this sound I hear in my head and it's kind of this bittersweet romantic, dark sound.

Rick Warren

The ultimate test of faith is not how loudly you praise God in happy times but how deeply you trust him in dark times.

Rick Riordan

I don't recommend shadow travel if you're scared of: a) The dark b) Cold shivers up your spine c) Strange noises d) Going so fast you feel like your face is peeling off In other words, I thought it was awesome.

Paramahansa Yogananda

If you are in a dark room, don’t beat at the darkness with a stick, but rather try to turn on the light

Ozwald Boateng

Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.

P. C. Cast

What dark secrets do you keep hidden from the world? Where would you go if no one could find you? What would you do if no one could see you?

P. C. Cast

That's how Darkness works. It turns love into something bad.

P. C. Cast

Darkness got you like Shelob gor Frodo, only worse.

P. C. Cast

Hades was the personification of dark and dangerous--a living, breathing Batman.

Paul McCartney

We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us

Peter Greenaway

I never go to the cinema. I can't stand sitting in the dark with strangers -- all of us obliged to share the same emotional experiences -- it's too intimate. I like to be emotional in private.

Pericles

An Athenian citizen does not neglect his state because he takes care of his own household; even those of us who are engaged in business have a very fair idea of politics. We do not regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs as harmless. We do not say that such a man 'minds his own business'. Rather we say he has no business here at all.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Far clouds of feathery gold, Shaded with deepest purple, gleam Like islands on a dark blue sea.