Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adam Levine

George Bush is just as much in the dark as I am, and it scares me.

Abraham Flexner

Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.

Abraham Kuyper

The Holy Scripture is like a diamond: in the dark it is like a piece of glass, but as soon as the light strikes it the water begins to sparkle, and the scintillation of life greets us.

Troops are facing a dark time in Iraq but we won't quit,

Joe Beck

Yeah, I was Miles' first guitarist, but I never traveled with him, just worked on studio dates, ... Miles had a dark personality, and it was kinda scary working with him. He could be terribly intimidating at times, but I never thought he meant to be. He was just being Miles.

We never find smaller amounts of dark matter or more concentrated dark matter.

Ludwig von Mises

In the socialist commonwealth every economic change becomes an undertaking whose success can be neither appraised in advance nor later retrospectively determined. There is only groping in the dark. Socialism is the abolition of rational economy.

Unlike the other two times, I was a dark horse, and I prefer being the dark horse.

Shaun Alexander

We're used to having to play in very, very tough climates. That's just part of the game. And we like wearing our dark uniforms better. It makes us feel like we're at home.

William Shakespeare

All dark and comfortless.

William Shakespeare

This thing of darkness I Acknowledge mine.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent. We are in the midst of unparalleled difficulties and untold sufferings; we have been through dark days of apprehension and anguish; but I can say with confidence that with courage and self-reliance and by the Grace of God we shall emerge triumphant.

Maurice Maeterlinck

As soon as we put something into words, we devalue it in a strange way. We think we have plunged into the depths of the abyss, and when we return to the surface the drop of water on our pale fingertips no longer resembles the sea from which it comes. We delude ourselves that we have discovered a wonderful treasure trove, and when we return to the light of day we find that we have brought back only false stones and shards of glass; and yet the treasure goes on glimmering in the dark, unaltered.

With Easter time here, it would get dark at about 10 p.m..

with sunshine there would be a lifting of the darkness.

Chris Rock

I have my own demons and dark moods. It's weird.

Diane Ackerman

The simple, stupefying truth that, as a woman, I am a minute ocean, in the dark tropic of whose womb eggs lay coded as roe, floating in the sea that wet-nursed us all, moved me deeply.

I've done work for hire. I've worked for DC and Dark Horse.

Dana Spiotta

I always think the novelist should go to the culture's dark places and poke around. Pose a lot of hard questions.

Curtis Martin

It's a dark culture that we live in. But you were called to glow in the dark.

Craig Charles

The inventory process and stepping back in your life can sometimes be a very dark process. But it also can be extremely funny and surprising.

Dave Eggers

It was called the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages. If not for the monks, everything the world had ever learned would have been lost. Well, we live in a similar time, when we're losing the vast majority of what we do and see and learn. But it doesn't have to be that way.

David Levithan

I have no idea how he knows when I need him. We can go weeks without speaking, and then, when my blue moods threaten to turn black, he will show up and tell me my moods are azure indigo cerulean cobalt periwinkle and suddenly the blue will not seem so dark, more like the color of a noon-bright sky. He brings the sun.

David Letterman

Night clubs scare me. They're dark and they stink and they're dangerous and everybody's drunk.

Dave Grohl

'In Utero' was the first time I'd made an album that reached into the dark side. I remember the conflict and the uncertainty. I remember all those things when I hear 'Pennyroyal Tea.'

Dave Grohl

When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.

David Wong

Guys like him, the ones who grip the Bible so tight they leave fingernail grooves, they're the ones who are the most scared of their dark side. Always going too far the other way, fighting for the Lord, often just because it gives them an excuse to fight.

David Wong

You see, Frank found out the hard way that the dark things lurking in the night don’t haunt old houses or abandoned ships. They haunt minds.

Daisy Fuentes

When I was a junior, boys were allowed to come visit me at the house. We could sit on the porch until about 8 o'clock at night; that's when it started getting dark. That was it.

Daisaku Ikeda

Even places that have been shrouded in darkness for billions of years can be illuminated. Even a stone from the bottom of a river can be used to produce fire. Our present sufferings, no matter how dark, have certainly not continued for billions of years--nor will they linger forever. The sun will definitely rise. In fact, its ascent has already begun.

John Milton

Yet from those flames / No light, but rather darkness visible / Served only to discover sights of woe, / Regions of sorrow, doleful shades where peace / And rest can never dwell, hope never comes / That comes to all.

One of the most exciting things about dark energy is that it seems to live at the very nexus of two of our most successful theories of physics: quantum mechanics, which explains the physics of the small, and Einstein's Theory of General Relativity, which explains the physics of the large, including gravity.

Malcolm Muggeridge

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.