Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fred Astaire

The unpadded shoulders, the three-buttoned long and boxy coat, the too-short, thin pants, and the thin ties with striped buttoned shirts in dark colors-well, I suppose this may go very well with some personalities but it's not for me. To me, all such look like TV producers. Maybe they want to.

Fred Durst

Prague is a dark place.

Franz Kafka

A picture of my existence... would show a useless wooden stake covered in snow... stuck loosely at a slant in the ground in a ploughed field on the edge of a vast open plain on a dark winter night.

Erich Hoeber

Not all of our work is dark, but when we are working on a dark project, we really tend to go there.

Erica Jong

I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.

Erica Jong

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly...spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.- Susan Taylor--Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.

Eric Cantona

An artist is someone with the gift to light up a dark room.

Emma Bell

I love really, really deep, dark-as-Russia storylines. I love supernatural aspects. I grew up with ghost stories.

Elsa Maxwell

Keep your talent in the dark and you'll never be insulted.

Jay Asher

That's why you did it. You wanted your world to collapse around you. You wanted everything to get as dark as possible.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Often in history we see that religion, which was meant to raise us and make us better and nobler, has made people behave like beasts. Instead of bringing enlightenment of them, it has often tried to keep them in the dark; instead of broadening their minds, it has frequently made them narrow-minded and intolerant of others.

Jason Sudeikis

That's what I love about sketch comedy: a sketch is five minutes, then it goes dark, and there's the potential for something else.

John Milton

But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is his own dungeon.

Harriet Van Horne

One who roams the channels after dark, searching for buried treasure.

Harry Belafonte

We've come to this dark time in which the new Gestapo of Homeland Security lurks here, where citizens are having their rights suspended.

Hannah Kent

Endless days of dark indoors and hateful glances are enough to set a rime on anyone's bones.

I was six years old when my parents told me that there was a small, dark jewel inside my skull, learning to be me.

Greg Gutfeld

Let's admit that feminism came from liberalism and it was very positive. But then it went dark. Feminism replaced biology with social construct. Like you didn't achieve what you could get because it was your fault. They denied traits that are applied across all cultures. And that's where feminism went wrong is it denied biology and makes them look foolish.

Greg Gutfeld

Planned Parenthood's entire existence is basically based on keeping people in the dark through euphemism. You don't call it genocide, you call it reproductive health. So that's why Planned Parenthood has - nobody really thought.

Glenn Greenwald

A key purpose of journalism is to provide an adversarial check on those who wield the greatest power by shining a light on what they do in the dark, and informing the public about those acts.

Glenn Greenwald

When people in power can operate in the dark, inevitably they abuse that power. So, you need outside forces to bring light and transparency to what they're doing. And, one of the ways you do that is through journalism, and through guaranteeing a free press. That is its purpose, to provide a check on those who wield power.

Harry Connick, Jr.

With a tone so rich, I would never be afraid of the dark. Steinway is the only and the best!

Gwyneth Paltrow

I was having such a hard time when I made Sylvia. I gave everything I had for that role. It's one or two or three things I'm most proud of in terms of my work. But it was very dark.

How can I trust God? He dropped me into a dark hole in the ground and told me to dig myself out. Luckily, he dropped my friends into the same hole.

Indira Gandhi

There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.

J. D. Salinger

The cards are stacked (quite properly, I imagine) against all professional aesthetes, and no doubt we all deserve the dark, wordy, academic deaths we all sooner or later die.

Ivo Andric

There comes a time when a man finds himself in front of a dark uncrossable abyss, which he himself has spent years digging. He cannot go forward, and has no way back. Words have failed, tears won't help, and who would he call out to? He can't even remember his own name. Then the man sees that on this god's green earth there is but one true suffering: the torment of guilty conscience.

Ivo Andric

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.

Isabella Rossellini

If we are completely honest with ourselves, everyone has a dark side to their personalities.

Irwin Shaw

People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.

Ikue Mori

I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds.

Jack Nicholson

I usually don't get too bogged down with my personal problems because that's a one-way street if you get yourself into a negative frame of mind and only see the dark side of life.

Jack Kevorkian

I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.