Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln

The political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right.

Kyle Schmid

I'd like to guest star on 'Game of Thrones.' I love period pieces and dark material. I think the show has a good balance of that and some solid characters.

We're showing so much green, ... Everything from emerald green to puce, to chartreuse, to a real sort of hunter and forest and dark greens that we haven't seen in a long time.

Alexis Carrel

The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise...

Alexis Carrel

Enormous amounts of money are spent for publicity. As a result, large quantities of alimentary and pharmaceutical products, at the least useless, and often harmful, have become a necessity for civilized men.

Alexis Carrel

...the influence of the factory upon the physiological and mental state of the workers has been completely neglected.

Alexis Carrel

...in recognition of his work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood-vessels and organs.

Alexandre Dumas

A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.

Albert Schweitzer

Help me to fling my life like a flaming firebrand into the gathering darkness of the world.

Albert Schweitzer

I see in him (Dr. Max Gerson) one of the most eminent medical geniuses in the history of medicine...he was greatly impeded by adverse political conditions.

Albert Schweitzer

...try to tell the people of America about Dr. Gerson's merits and ...results...I wish you the best in your difficult task.

Albert Schweitzer

We wander through this life together in a semi-darkness in which none of us can distinguish exactly the features of his neighbour. Only from time to time, through some experience that we have of our companion, or through some remark that he passes, he stands for a moment close to us, as though illuminated by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is.

Jon Favreau

'Made' is about opening your heart to people who deserve your love and not trying to turn other people into something that they're not: not trying to save people who don't want to be saved. If you go down that dark path, you're not going to end up doing any good.

Sun Tzu

Let your plans be dark and as impenetratable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.

Let us weep in our darkness, but weep not for him!Not for him who, departing, leaves millions in tears!Not for him who has died full of honor and years!Not for him who ascended Fame's ladder so high:From the round at the top he has stepped to the sky.

Shanley Caswell

I like the paranormal side a lot; that's my favorite kind of horror movie because it plays on your fear of the dark and makes you go home, and you can't sleep at night.

Richard G. Scott

If you choose to concentrate on the dark side, this is what you will see.

Bret Harte

Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,-- That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar.

Brent Weeks

Evil is simple and empty. Evil has no mysterious depths. We stare into a dark hole and fill it with our fears, but it is only a hole.

Boris Johnson

Humanity would have plunged into a new dark age of absolutely frightening and appalling characteristics without Churchill.

Boris Johnson

Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power.

Bob Dylan

It's not dark yet But it's getting there

Bob Dylan

Everything from toy guns that spark To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark It's easy to see without looking too far That not much is really sacred.

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan was again an entirely new person - this time old, craggy, cynical, and world-weary, as in "Not Dark Yet".

Billy Collins

This is not what it is like to be you, I realized as a few of your magnificent clouds flew over the rooftop. It is just me thinking about being you. And before I headed back down the hill, I walked in a circle around your house, making an invisible line which you would have to cross before dark.

Billy Connolly

Heckling is an act of cowardice. If you want to speak, get up in front of the microphone and speak, don't sit in the dark hiding. It's easy to hide and shout and waste people's time.

Bonnie Bassler

My bacteria glow in the dark - no human being doesn't like that.

Boman Irani

I'm an actor, and I don't look at myself as providing comic relief. I have done diverse and dark roles such as a psycho, murderer, and others in films such as 'Don', 'Eklavya' and '3 Idiots.'

Bruce Dickinson

(On performing in Costa Rica for the first time) It was like finding some weird tribe in the middle of the jungle and, you know, they all come out and go: "Fear of the Dark. Favorite Album." What?!?

Brian Regan

I'm capable offstage of having some dark, twisted thoughts but the kind of things I like to do onstage are just more conceptual and I don't even think of them as being clean. I don't sit down and think, "Man, I'm going to come up with some lily-white comedy!" They're just things that I like to talk about, and then at the end of the day you think, "Well, I guess that was clean" but it's not the focus.

Brian Regan

You can microwave a Pop Tart. That just blew me away that you could do that. How long does it take to toast a Pop Tart? A minute and a half if you want it dark? People don't have that kind of time? Listen, if you need to zap-fry your Pop Tarts before you head out the door, you might want to loosen up your schedule.

The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It's our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.

Brian Andreas

When you start to crack open, don’t waste a moment gathering your old self up into something like you knew before. Let your new self splash like sunlight into every dark place and laugh and cry and make sounds you never made & thank all that is holy for the gift....