Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jill Tarter

The story of humans is the story of ideas that shine light into dark corners.

Jeremy Brett

Holmes has become the dark side of the moon for me. He is moody and solitary and underneath I am really sociable and gregarious. It has all got too dangerous

Jennifer Connelly

Dark Water was one of my favourite films to shoot because of Walter. I had seen the previous films he had directed, Central Station and Motorcycle Diaries, and I thought they were great. I really trusted him

Jennifer Egan

The sky was electric blue above the trees but the yard felt dark. Stephanie went to the edge of the lawn and sat her forehead on her knees. The grass and soil were still warm from the day. She wanted to cry but she couldn't. The feeling was too deep.

Jeff Kinney

Back in those days it was just me swimming around in the dark, doing back flips and taking naps whenever I want.

Jennifer Lynch

The planet is always half light and half dark, and so are we.

Jeffrey Pfeffer

I completely reject the idea that working adults need to be treated like infants or worse and not told the realities, harsh or not, about the world of work. Keeping people in the dark and filling them with stories that are either mostly fabricated, unusually rare, or both, doesn't do anyone any good. It is one of the reasons that workplaces and careers remain in such dire straits.

James A. Garfield

The worst days of darkness through which I have ever passed have been greatly alleviated by throwing myself with all my energy into some work relating to others.

James A. Baldwin

One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return.

James A. Baldwin

Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark. Nobody knows what is going to happen to him from one moment to the next, or how one will bear it. This is irreducible. And it's true of everybody. Now, it is true that the nature of society is to create, among its citizens, an illusion of safety; but it is also absolutely true that the safety is always necessarily an illusion. Artists are here to disturb the peace.

James A. Baldwin

When Americans look out on the world, they see nothing but dark and menacing strangers who appear to have no sense of rhythm at all, nor any respect or affection for white people; and white Americans really do not know what to make of all this, except to increase the defense budget.

Jacqueline Novogratz

I have also been touched by the dark side of power and leadership.

Christopher Hitchens

We are unlikely to cease making gods or inventing ceremonies to please them for as long as we are afraid of death, or of the dark, and for as long as we ­persist in self-­centeredness. That could be a lengthy stretch of time.

Gary Snyder

All this new stuff goes on top turn it over, turn it over wait and water down from the dark bottom turn it inside out let it spread through Sift down even. Watch it sprout. A mind like compost.

Gary Busey

Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.

Fritz Scholder

I consider myself a natural optimist. I like the dark side of things.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

Frank Zappa

The last election just laid the foundation of the next 500 years of Dark Ages.

Jeff Lindsay

In that tremendous flash of freedom, on my way to do The Thing for the first time, sanctioned by Almighty Harry, I receded, faded back into the scenery of my own dark self, whole the other me crouched and growled. I would do It at last, do what I had been created to do. And I did.

Jeff Lindsay

…a cheerful black shadow reared up behind him as he spoke, thundering a happy challenge to my Dark Passenger, which slid forward and bellowed back.

Jeff Lindsay

I was never more alive than when the Dark Passenger was driving.

Jeanette Winterson

But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that.

Jessie J

The message I want to give my fans is, always have a way to pull yourself out of the dark place. Don't sit and cry about it. Have your moment, and then get over it.

Jerry Springer

I'm a happy guy, but if I'm in a rare dark mood, I won't go out because I don't want to be horrible to people.

Jeannette Walls

Don't be afraid of your dark places. ... If you can shine a light on them, you'll find treasure there.

Jeaniene Frost

I wanted you to watch, so I stomped around the room to wake you before I got in the shower. Didn't you wonder why the light was on? It wasn't for me, I can see in the dark. And then I kept the water cold so the glass wouldn't fog.

Jeaniene Frost

How I hated the dark part of me that continually foretold of failure or futility.

Jerry O'Connell

What dark corner of the soul did you crawl out of?

Jeremy Irvine

I've always been into dark colours.

Jeff Bezos

We like to pioneer, we like to explore, we like to go down dark alleys and see what's on the other side.

Jeff Bridges

I just hope that theaters remain. I think there's something very wonderful about getting into a dark room with a bunch of people. There's something cool about that. Brings us all together in one room where we can experience all those emotions.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.

George William Curtis

The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to develop as an equal human being.