Famous Quotes & Sayings

How well I know what I mean to do / When the long, dark autumn-evenings come.

Hunter S. Thompson

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

Harry Reid

Our unified response sends a powerful signal to victims of this tragedy, looking for signs that their government sees their plight and stands with them during this dark time,

Bryan Callen

I've always wanted to be a brooding, deep, dark artist, but I can never keep that facade going for more than 15 minutes.

Sarah McLachlan

The darker and the sadder the song, the happier it makes me feel. It's just this, ah. I'm in the moment. I'm part of this beautiful world, and it's fantastic, and I don't really know how else to describe it.

Nick Tosches

To me, music's something I can dance to or listen to. To write about it is always more of what the music represents, or what it reflects. Like an ideal song, to me, is a song that you can dance to, that summons up some darker and greater mystery.

Olivia Thirlby

When we were filming 'The Darkest Hour,' we didn't even know what the aliens were going to look like, we didn't even have a graphic reference. So it was definitely a big challenge to sell those kind of extreme moments when you're just generating them from your own imagination.

I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness.

Terrell Owens

Some people are too prideful to go out and reach out to people to help them in that situation because it's just such a dark time.

Betty Wright

Divorce can be tough when the woman is the breadwinner. But the Lord can make the dark light.

Beau Willimon

The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you've got to turn out the lights from time to time.

Alexander Skarsgard

I have to be careful because there is something destructive within me, I think, and I can have a tendency to just search for the kicks. I can't really get too close to someone who's too destructive, or too dark, because then I might go down the rabbit hole myself.

We were all kind of flying in the dark as to the FTA regulations and exactly what was needed,

Lord Byron

Though they did not kiss, / Yet still between his Darkness and his Brightness / There passed a mutual glance of great politeness.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Sea spaghetti looks like dark fettuccine and has a similar texture - you can get it in health food stores or online.

William Manchester

I wondered vaguely if this was when it would end, whether I would pull up tonight's darkness like a quilt and be dead and at peace evermore.

Vincent Bugliosi

The very name 'Manson' has become a metaphor for evil... He has come to represent the dark and malignant side of humanity, and for whatever reason, there is a side of human nature that is fascinated with ultimate evil.

Ryan Murphy

Yeah, at home it's all moonbeams and puppy-dog tails, so I guess I do have a darker side - and I like writing about it.

Anna Netrebko

Maybe because I'm a nice and sweet person in life, I like the darker roles. The really dark one is Lady Macbeth.

Patricia McCormick

I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.

Abigail Spencer

I love nothing more than a good, rich, dark chocolate. It exhilarates. It satisfies.

Abigail Adams

Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.

A. S. Byatt

You did not so much mind being -conventionally- betrayed, if you were not kept in the dark, which was humiliating, or defined only as a wife and dependent person, which was annihilating.

A. S. Byatt

Mine the long night The secret place Where lovers meet In long embrace In purple dark In silvered kiss Forget the world And grasp your bliss

A. S. Byatt

It is good for a man to invite his ghosts into his warm interior, out of the wild night, into the firelight, out of the howling dark.

Ella Wilcox

The dark today leads into light tomorrow; There is no endless joy, ...and yet no endless sorrow.

The Dark Night of the Soul-between no longer and not yet

Abbie Cornish

I love love stories, no matter how dark.

Abbas Kiarostami

There are certainties in existence, but love is something much harder to define than light and dark, life and death. I think saying you are "like" someone in love sounds right.

Abbas Kiarostami

This was pointed out to me by somebody who referred to the paintings of Rembrandt and his use of light: some elements are highlighted while others are obscured or even pushed back into the dark. And it's something that we do - we bring out elements that we want to emphasise.

Abbas Kiarostami

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

A. A. Milne

So - here I am in the dark alone, There's nobody here to see; I think to myself, I play to myself, And nobody knows what I say to myself; Here I am in the dark alone, What is it going to be? I can think whatever I like to think, I can play whatever I like to play, I can laugh whatever I like to laugh, There's nobody here but me.

Adrienne Rich

The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.