Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Consuelos

I'm claustrophobic. I can't go into haunted houses. They have these tight, dark, enclosed space. I freak out. That's my phobia. It gets me out of stuff. Someone asks me to do something and I tell them I can't because I'm claustrophobic.

Marie Curie

I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.

Mariel Hemingway

Sometimes you can't see your way out. The "dark night of the soul" - it's a reality for many, many people.

Marie Lu

Everyone has darkness inside them, however hidden.

Mark Zandi

There are different flavors of recession. You can get into some pretty dark scenarios pretty quickly.

Theodore Parker

The union of men in large masses is indispensable to the development and rapid growth of the higher faculties of men. Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization whence light and heat radiated out into the dark cold world.

Theodore Parker

Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.

Theodore Roethke

The body and the soul know how to play In that dark world where gods have lost their way.

Theodore Roethke

In a dark time, the mind begins to see.

Theodore Roosevelt

There is not one among us in whom a devil does not dwell; at some time, on some point, that devil masters each of us... It is not having been in the Dark House, but having left it, that counts.

Thabo Mbeki

Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent!

Margaret Mitchell

But Rhett, you mustn't bring me anything else so expensive. It's awfully kind of you, but I really couldn't accept anything else." "Indeed? Well, I shall bring you presents so long as it pleases me and so long as I see things that will enhance your charms. I shall bring you dark-green watered silk for a frock to match the bonnet. And I warn you that I am not kind. I am tempting you with bonnets and bangles and leading you into a pit. Always remember I never do anything without reason and I never give anything without expecting something in return. I always get paid.

Margaret Halsey

The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand.

Kevin Systrom

I love challenging the notion that, in order to be a tech founder, you have to be holed up in a dark room wearing a T-shirt and baggy jeans.

Michael Fassbender

It's more interesting isn't it, if I've got a hedonistic dark side?

Melissa Marr

By every mortal standard, the worst faeries in the world were those in the Dark Court. They fed on the baser emotions; they engaged in activities that the other-also amoral-faery courts repudiated. They were also the only ones she truly trusted or understood.

Michael Ondaatje

He turns his back to the far shore and rows toward it. He can in this way travel away from, yet still see, his house....he feels he is riding a floating skeleton...Some birds in the almost-dark are flying as close to their reflections as possible.

Edie Falco

I'm seeing darkness at the end of the tunnel. I'm not really looking forward to being unemployed again.

I had to explain to my granddaughter about it. She knows not to step in the green stuff. When the movies start, it's dark out and you can't see where you're stepping. You go home and ... ugh.

Neal Stephenson

How could your cover be blown in Canada? Why even bother going dark there? How could you tell?

Neal Shusterman

Getting to know someone in blind darkness changes your impression of them.

Nate Parker

When I was young, to have a big nose, big lips or dark skin was the worst. You were the wretched.

Moon Unit Zappa

I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad.

Milarepa

I knew without a doubt I had found what I had been searching for my whole life, perhaps lifetimes. I was groping in the dark, but I had seen a glimpse, a light, a possibility.

Mila Kunis

I decided to do a comedy. It's a good mind-set to go into work and be happy every day instead of being in a dark place.

Margaret Weis

His love for her was a gift he gave her daily, expecting nothing in return. He walked at her side, his love for her a torch to guide her footsteps along the dark path she walked.

Marcel Proust

What an abyss of uncertainty, whenever the mind feels overtaken by itself; when it, the seeker, is at the same time the dark region through which it must go seeking and where all its equipment will avail it nothing. Seek? More than that: create. It is face to face with something which does not yet exist, which it alone can make actual, which it alone can bring into the light of day.

Marcel Proust

Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Nephi taught that by clinging to the word of God, as though it be a handrail, we would be able to avoid temptations and not lose our way in darkness. Thus, we would remain on the narrow path.

Laurie Simmons

I always try so hard to find a male doll and shoot a male doll, and it always kind of implodes. Whenever I use men, they're so scary and so dark, and I can never find this sort of lightness or this place between doll and human that I find with female dolls.

Laurie R. King

I undid the wrappings with great curiosity, for Holmes did not normally give gifts. I opened the dark velvet jewller's box and found inside a shiny new set of picklocks, a younger version of his own. "Holmes, ever the romantic. Mrs. Hudson would be pleased.

Lance Armstrong

It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.

Lisa Randall

Maybe dark matter is denser than we usually assume, kind of like the Milky Way plane.