Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Arpaio

I'm elected. I don't report to any politician. I report to the people. If I had to report to any politician, I'd quit tomorrow. I'm not tall, dark and handsome. They don't vote for me because I look like a movie star. I can't get that vote. People keep voting for me because they like what I do.

Cierra Ramirez

I'm actually a very dark person, so I really want to get into some really dark roles, maybe some thrillers. I've never done one of those, so I think I'd really want to get into that, but definitely something that would get lots of people talking.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The minds of men do in the weather share, dark or serene as it's foul or fair

Harry Reid

their government sees their plight and stands with them during this dark time.

Neal Stephenson

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

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 Addison

Whether dark presages of the night proceed from any latent power of the soul during her abstraction, or from any operation of subordinate spirits, has been a dispute.

Jorge Garcia

I have gotten used to working in the dark and I dig it.

Jorge Luis Borges

Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Let him who walks in the dark, who has no light, trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God.

Joni Mitchell

All romantics meet the same fate some day. Drunk and cynical and boring someone in some dark cafe.

Kevin Spacey

I'm supposed to convince you, for two hours, that I'm somebody else. Now if you know everything about my life, if you think you've got me figured out and you think you know all my dark secrets, how am I ever going to convince you that I'm somebody else?

Kevin Brooks

It was a truth that invaded her, like a dark disease, a truth too painful to talk about. And I was beginning to wonder if all I was doing was making it worse.

Keke Palmer

We need to stop separating ourselves by how dark or how light we are.

Kelley Armstrong

Tall, dark, and gruesome." -Tori

Khaled Hosseini

That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife's slain body in his arms.

Khalil Gibran

Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.

Khalil Gibran

You may chain my hands, you may shackle my feet; you may even throw me into a dark prison; but you shall not enslave my thinking, because it is free!

Jonathan Raban

In rural areas the majority of the victims of violent crime know their assailants (indeed, are probably married to them); in cities, the killer and the mugger come out of the anonymous dark, their faces unrecognized, their motives obscure.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Because it was starting to get dark, and because the streets were crowded, I bumped into a googolplex people. Who were they? Where were they going? What were they looking for? I wanted to hear their heartbeats, and I wanted them to hear mine.

Harvey Fierstein

Somebody should talk to Dan Quayle and tell him natural blondes don't have dark grey stripes on the sides.

The heart of a maiden is a dark forest

Jake Busey

I like showing the gritty truthful dark side of humanity.

Jacoby Shaddix

We really refocused ourselves. I didn't want to live my life in a dark shadow all of the time.

Henry Rollins

We're at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead or we head down a very bad, dark trail to where a lot of people aren't going to make it.

Henry David Thoreau

Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.

Malin Akerman

A perfect schedule is to be able to do something dark and then go into something lighter to ease up a little bit.