“I did a dance sequence in my second short film, which was my best short film, called 'Hairway to the Stars,' and I think Chris Wink, the founder of Blue Man Group, was in that. It's a black-and-white dance sequence. We were Glorious Food waiters together.” ThinkingMenTogetherFilmStarsBlackWhiteGroupsBlueGloriousBlack And WhiteFoundersSequenceWaiterShort FilmsBest Short Author:David O. Russell
“Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers. Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity. The stars threaded on that line were like events threaded on a narrative. Imagining the constellations did not of course change the stars, nor did it change the black emptiness that surrounds them. What it changed was the way people read the night sky.” PeopleWayFirstsNightCoursesStarsBlackLinesSkyEventsIdentityChangedNarrativeEmptinessSurroundImaginaryStorytellerConstellationsNight SkyClustersTracingImaginary Lines Book:And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos Source: And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos
“The sky was horribly dark , but one could distinctly see tattered clouds , and between them fathomless black patches. Suddenly I noticed in one of these patches a star , and began watching it intently. That was because that star had given me an idea : I decided to kill myself that night .” IdeasNightGivenStarsBlackDarkSkyDecidedCloudsPatches Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky
“I'm working on the Star Wars script today and the people in my office have covered up all my windows with black paper. I guess they wanted to make sure no one could see what I was doing. It seems rather extreme.” PeopleWarSeemsTodayWantedStarsBlackOfficePaperWindowScriptsExtremesCoveredCovered Up Author:J. J. Abrams
“I used to stay up very late at night, much later than I probably should have for such a youngster, and I used to watch very old black-and-white movies with, you know, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, but I remember watching them thinking 'I could do that'... Even though I wasn't inclined at all to actually become an actress. I mean, that wasn't something that was... in the stars for me, no pun intended.” ThinkingKnowsShouldMeanRememberUsedNightStarsBlackWhiteWatchesLateShould HaveActressesBlack And WhiteYoungstersPun Author:Michelle Pfeiffer
“What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose loins I sprang When the birds of Eden sang?” MenStrongStarsBlackSunSeaBirdTrackBlack WomenJungleEdenScarletCopperRegal Author:Countee Cullen
“I jumped in the river, what did I see? Black-eyed angels swam with me A moon full of stars and astral cars And all the figures I used to see All my lovers were there with me All my past and futures And we all went to heaven in a little row boat There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt.” LittlesPastUsedHeavenStarsBlackDoubtCarFiguresLoversAngelRiversBoatMy PastMy LoverRadioheadRow Boats Author:Thom Yorke
“The stars of death stood over us. And Russia, guiltless, beloved, writhed under the crunch of bloodstained boots, under the wheels of Black Marias.” StarsBlackRussiaBelovedWheelsBootsCrunch Book:Избранные Стихи Source: Избранные Стихи
“There is only black light between the stars. It may seem that it's darkness, but it's really black light. There is no such thing as darkness. Darkness is a human concept. There's only black light between the stars.” HumansMayLightSeemsStarsBlackDarknessConceptsMysticism Author:Frederick Lenz
“When, like an Emir of tyrannic power, Sirius appears, and on the horizon black Bids countless stars pursue their mighty track.” StarsBlackTrackPursueHorizonSirius Book:Works Source: Works
“some journalists have described the South Pole as 'hell on earth.' Others refer to my time here as 'an ordeal.' They would be surprised to know how beautiful Antarctica has seemed to me, with its waves of ice in a hundred shades of blue and white, its black winter sky, its ecstatic wheel of stars. They would never understand how the lights of the Dome welcomed me from a distance, or how often I danced and sang and laughed here with my friends. And how I was not afraid.” KnowsLightWould BeEarthBeautifulStarsBlackWhiteKnow HowHellSkyHundredMy FriendsBlueDistanceSouthWinterWaveIceJournalistMy TimeWheelsShadeLaughedNot AfraidEcstaticHell On EarthOrdealsDomesAntarcticaBlue And WhiteShades Of Blue Author:Jerri Nielsen
“I started doing martial arts when I was about 7, and I got my second degree black belt when I was 19. So I have my second degree black belt, but I've never used it and I had to stop when I got "Instant Star" because I couldn't train.” ArtUsedStarsBlackDegreesTrainInstantMartial ArtsBeltsBlack Belt Author:Laura Vandervoort
“Rick Black writes with the honed elegance of a poet so in command of lyric sentiment and the efficient evocative use of language that what results is indeed as urgent and vulnerable as true prayer ... There is something profoundly human and completely necessary about Star of David.” WritingHumansUseLanguageStarsBlackPrayerResultsPoetCommandVulnerableSentimentsEfficientEleganceUrgentUse Of Language Author:Kwame Dawes
“When I grew up, you wanted to look like Marlene Dietrich, Betty Grable. Fortunately, I didn't know that I really wanted to look like Lena Horne. When I grew up... black stars were stigmatized. Nobody wanted to look like Lena Horne.” KnowsLooksWantedStarsBlackGrewGrew Up Author:Dorian Corey
“Franz Kafka is dead. He died in a tree from which he wouldn't come down. "Come down!" they cried to him. "Come down! Come down!" Silence filled the night, and the night filled the silence, while they waited for Kafka to speak. "I can't," he finally said, with a note of wistfulness. "Why?" they cried. Stars spilled across the black sky. "Because then you'll stop asking for me."” SaidI CanNightSpeakStarsBlackSilenceTreeSkyDiedAskingFilledNotesCriedHistory Of LoveWistfulness Book:The History of Love: A Novel Source: The History of Love: A Novel
“I always wear beige, black or white. For one thing I look good in them. For another, when I'm beside a star at a fitting, and she looks into the mirror, I don't want to be competing in any way.” WayWantLooksStarsBlackWhiteOne ThingMirrorsCompetingFittingBlack Or White Author:Edith Head
“We [black actors] are more respected in Europe, because in Europe, I'm not a black actor - I'm an action star. In America, I'm a black actor.” ActionAmericaActorsStarsBlackEurope Author:Fred Williamson
“Creation is all things and us. It is us in relationship with all things. All things, the ones we see and the ones we do not; the whirling galaxies and the wild suns, the black holes and the microorganisms, the trees and the stars, the fish and the whales - the molten lava and the towering snow-capped mountains, the children we give birth to and their children, and theirs, and theirs, and theirs.” GivingChildrenStarsBlackSunTreeCreationBirthMountainAll ThingsFishesHolesSnowGalaxyWhalesBlack HoleLavaMicroorganisms Author:Matthew Fox
“He rose and turned toward the lights of town. The tidepools bright as smelterpots among the dark rocks where the phosphorescent seacrabs clambered back. Passing through the salt grass he looked back. The horse had not moved. A ship's light winked in the swells. The colt stood against the horse with its head down and the horse was watching, out there past men's knowing, where the stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.” MenSoulLightPastStarsBlackDarkKnowingSeaRocksHorseTownsDown AndMovedRosePassingPassingsShipsGrassSaltDrowningWhalesPassing ThroughSeamlessFerryColts Author:Cormac McCarthy
“I feel like I'm a designer, not a pop star. But if certain people think of me like a pop star, then the only thing I could do about this is dye my hair black and cut it short maybe.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsCertainStarsBlackCuttingHairPopsDesignerThink Of MePop Stars Author:Nicki Minaj
“Phunny Business is a breezy, vivid, funny, star-studded and delightful valentine to comedy, entrepreneurship and the All-American impulse to make something out of nothing. The story of comedy club owner/inveterate dreamer Raymond Lambert and his heroic quest to create a safe, productive place for black stand-up comedians to hone their craft and find their voices isn't just a great Chicago story and a great comedy story: it's a flat-out great story, lovingly and engagingly told.” StoriesStarsBlackVoiceComedySafeClubsCraftsEntrepreneurshipImpulseComedianProductiveOwnersFlatsChicagoDreamerHeroicQuestsValentineDelightfulVividStand Up ComedianComedy ClubsBreezyGreat Comedy Author:Nathan Rabin
“If 'The Wild One' were filmed today, Marlon Brando and the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club would all have to wear helmets. I used to be afraid that when (Hells) Angels became movie stars and Cal the hero of the book, the bikerider would perish on the coffee tables of America. But now I think that this attention doesn't have the strength of reality of the people it aspires to know, and that as long as Harley-Davidsons are manufactured other bikeriders will appear, riding unknown and beautiful through Chicago, into the streets of Cicero.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsLongBookRealityTodayAmericaBeautifulUsedStarsBlackAttentionHellStreetsHeroAngelTablesClubsCoffeeUsed To BeChicagoRebelRidingAspireMovie StarMotorcycleHelmetBrandoHarleyHarley DavidsonHells AngelsWild One Author:Danny Lyon
“I grew up in Bulgaria in a small city on the Black Sea Coast, so I was very interested in the sea, marine life, and everything related to it. But it was also a very dark place at night, so I could see the stars. And I just got very interested in it.” NightStarsBlackDarkCitiesSeaGrewGrew UpRelatedCoastMarineDark PlacesMarine LifeBulgaria Author:Dimitar Sasselov