Famous Quotes & Sayings

Malcolm Muggeridge

Secrecy is as essential to intelligence as vestments and incense to a Mass or darkness to a spiritualist séance and must at all times be maintained, quite irrespective of whether or not it serves any purpose.

Alan Thicke

And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help.

William Shakespeare

The prince of darkness is a gentleman!

Jay Garner

This is a tough job, and it's very difficult to take people out of a darkness and lead them into light. Once they have been standing in light long enough, their eyes will adjust.

Gerard Hopkins

That night, that year / Of now done darkness I wretch lay wrestling with (my God!) my God.

Arthur Conan Doyle

It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before.

Ben Okri

An inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness.

Vin Diesel

This woman comes from the darkness into the spotlight and says, 'Get down here right this minute!'

Desiderius Erasmus

They are looking in utter darkness for that which has no existence whatsoever.

Cass Sunstein

He is unquestionably one of the most important figures in the history of American law.

John Gibbons

When he throws strikes, he's as good as anybody. When he figures it out, watch out. He was on. Nobody's going to hit that guy today.

Nate Clements

I don't know what the figures look like, yet, I really don't get into that. I just worry about producing on the field.

J. C. Watts

He has such a simple way to show all kinds of emotion. His figures are not trying to look real.

William Fichtner

When I was younger, I never wanted to rehearse because I thought that someone would figure out I don't know what I'm doing.

Tonya Harding

I have never been the stereotypical figure skater.

Brendan Wilders

The figures were broadly in line with our expectations.

John Wilson

You don't have to know people personally for them to be role models. Some of my most important role models were historical or literary figures that I only read about - never actually met.

Eric Lascelles

It's hard to imagine that individual month-to-month figures are going to have much bearing.

John Green

You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth...

John Green

And imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

Richard Bausch

The fact is, for all the critics' talk about me as a realist, I'm making everything up - everything. It is all about imagining with me.

Paul Bloom

I think what a lot of fiction is, is the imagining of the worst so as to prepare ourselves.

Joseph O'Neill

I think you sense the metaphorical resonance of what you're writing without analysing it too carefully. That leads you down dead ends. You stop imagining things and start writing towards these themes.

Chipper Jones

He's been pretty much lights out since he got over here.

Gary Payton

I didn't like him as light as he was. He should have been a little bulkier. That's when he's Shaq Diesel.

Frank Wood

He was the kind of guy, when things were down, he brightened them up. He was happy-go-lucky ... and that light shone around him all the time.

Richard Posner

The Constitution has to be interpreted loosely, otherwise it becomes a straitjacket. You can't interpret it literally. You can pretend to, and go digging around in 18th Century dictionaries to figure out what 'cruel and unusual punishment' meant or what the 'right to bear arms' meant, but that is all fake really. The Constitution has to be interpreted in light of modern needs, and that's what they (the strict interpreters) end up doing in spite of all their investigations.

William Jennings Bryan

The money power denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.

Virginia Woolf

She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.

Woody Allen

What advice would I give the average homeowner to protect himself against burglars? Well, the first thing is to keep a light on in the house when you go out. It must be at least a sixty-watt bulb; anything less and the burglar will ransack the house, out of contempt for the wattage.

Woody Allen

When you are dead, it is hard to find the light switch.

William Wordsworth

But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation.