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“I would say anybody who's willing to listen to Dark Side of the Moon and watch The Wizard of Oz is already a very sensitive, creative person.”

Persons Sides Dark Watches Creative Willing Moon Sensitive Wizards Dark Side Creative Person

Author:Wayne Coyne

“We the people, so to speak, need to realize that if we can keep ourselves fed, we might get through this long dark tunnel of power down, and mitigate the consequences of CO2.”

People Ifs Needs Long Might Speak Realizing Dark Consequence Down And Feds Tunnels Co2

Author:Wes Jackson

“When you say 'Bedtime, bedtime, bedtime!' that's not what the child hears. What the child hears is 'Lie down in the dark... for hours... and don't move... I'm locking the door now.'”

Children Humor Funny Moving Lying Hours Dark Doors Bedtime

Author:Dylan Moran

“When Turkey began approaching the EU, I wasn't the only one who worried that the dark stain in Turkey's history - or rather the history of the Ottoman Empire - could become a problem one day. In other words, what happened to the Armenians in World War I. That's why I couldn't leave the issue untouched.”

World War Problem Dark Issues Happened One Day Worried War Of The Worlds Empires World War I Turkeys Stains Armenians Ottomans Ottoman Empire

Author:Orhan Pamuk

“The dichotomies, the brokenness of the culture around things like the Vietnam war, and then a lot of it has to do with war and where we put our energy and money and attention. And the military industrial complex, which dominates our whole economy. Even with the vision of democracy in other places we know the dark side.”

Knows War Whole Culture Energy Sides Dark Attention Vision Economy Democracy Military Complexes Vietnam Vietnam War Dark Side Brokenness Dichotomy Military Industrial Complex

Author:Anne Waldman

“As players of instruments, it is our duty to reach out and give light to those in the dark in whatever way that we can. All my actions are a fulfilment of all the African music genres - I'm only trying to maintain the culture and the tradition. I am a musician.”

Way Giving Trying Light Action Culture Dark Player Duty Musician Tradition Instruments Genre Reach Out Fulfilment African Music

Author:Sizzla

“I naturally gravitate to darker characters. Gotham. Batman's suit. It's all dark; he's very interesting. It all comes from his builds and guts.”

Character Dark Interesting Suits Guts Very Interesting Gotham

Author:David Finch

“Science, pure science, is leading us in a sense astray. Leading us astray with the idea that everybody has got to have everything that they want even if it means polluting the entire environment. It is a case of lets just keep one or two canisters of the smallpox virus because we'll never know when we might need it. Science is becoming very much a Dark Power, in many ways.”

Ifs Knows Way Want Needs Mean Two Ideas Might Dark Cases Environment Becoming Pure Viruses Smallpox

Author:Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

“My constant fear as a writer as that I will fail to convey the gravity of living. I know that to some degree that sets me up as boorish, but I'll have to live with that, and, honestly, I'd rather err on the side of being "unredeemingly dark," as one reviewer said about blood kin, than on keeping to the sunny side.”

Knows Said Sides Dark Failing Blood Degrees Constant Honestly Gravity Sunny Reviewers Sunny Side

Author:Mark Powell

“It means a lot to me that people appreciate what I do. That's why I give a lot of importance to my fans and I like to maintain a certain proximity to them. I already feel very thankful that people enjoy my work so much, and becoming famous is not my ultimate goal. I think it's important to keep a good balance between what I want to do and what people want to hear; otherwise I might fall into the dark side.”

“I like to say that lighting is about taking the light away. I often like to use the shadows more than the light.”

Use Light Dark Shadow Cinema Lighting Cinematography Cameraman

Author:Vilmos Zsigmond

“In America, we debate everything except capitalism. If there's an institution in your society that's above criticism, you're giving it a free pass to indulge all of its weaknesses and darker tendencies.”

Ifs Giving America Dark Society Weakness Capitalism Criticism Institutions Debate Tendencies Indulge Criticise

Author:Richard D. Wolff

“Writing original songs is much, much harder (I think) because you only have yourself to conjure up EVERY single moment a listener is going to hear. It's a craft that goes directly from your brain to their ears. You can never be sure that what you're writing is gonna be good enough to keep a listener engaged and truly experience something. It's a shot in the dark.”

Thinking Writing Enough Moments Song Dark Brain Shots Ears Harder Originals Be Good Crafts Engaged Good Enough Listeners Single Mom

Author:Alex Goot

“I love using unique names, so I go to a baby names site on the Internet and use the unique names. Sometimes my names have meanings such as 'strong', 'fire', and Phoenix which means dark red and is Greek. It's fun to think of a name meaning and matching it with a name. Even Frances means Victory.”

Thinking Mean Sometimes Use Names Strong Fun Dark Fire Baby Internet Victory Unique Red France Greek Site Phoenix Matching

Author:Franny Armstrong

“Our self-identification changes with our environment, but sometimes those dark thoughts permeate within us and there are those who are able to fight off those thoughts and others who don't want to fight them, or have just given in for whatever reason and whether they know the darkness they act upon is wrong, they love the darkness.”

Knows Want Self Sometimes Reason Able Fighting Given Dark Darkness Environment Our Environment Identification Dark Thoughts

Author:Matthew Carter

“In spite of a heavy disguise, a few days' growth on my face, dark glasses, a beret and one of William's jackets that fitted me not at all, as I emerged from a hotel in Lecce, a young fisherman pointed me out to his friends and said "Lavrenche Olivaire." It was not all that amazing; if you're not known in Italy, you're not known anywhere.”

Ifs Said Humor Funny Faces Young Growth Dark Known Glasses Heavy Spite Hotel Italian Disguise Jackets Fisherman Dark Glasses

Author:Laurence Olivier

“I believe seeing earth a small blue ball in the vast dark ocean of space, gives you a new perspective on life and what is important. You can see how small we are as compared to the universe and how fragile our lives are.”

Giving Believe Important Earth Universe I Believe Dark Space Our Lives Seeing Perspective Ocean Balls Blue Fragile New Perspective

Author:Anousheh Ansari

“Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.”

Want Home Light Turns Dark Darkness Last Words Deathbed Famous Last Words Death Bed Dying Last Words Funny Famous Last Words

Author:O. Henry

“It comes out of human beings, it comes from the dark side of the human being, when people don't give a hoot about other people and they'll steal and rob and rob the food out of baby's mouths, so it's incumbent on every new generation to develop a social conscience and to really defend themselves. And that takes demonstrations sometimes.”

People Giving Humans Sometimes Social Sides Dark Human Beings Generations Baby Mouths Conscience Stealing Demonstration Dark Side New Generation Incumbents Hoot

Author:Luis Valdez

“I tend to find comedy in dark places. I also tend to find comedy in taking on the status quo - which has always been something I find important.”

Important Dark Comedy Status Quo Dark Places

Author:Tom Green

“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.”

Ifs Way Mind Problem Sides Dark Streets Negative One Way Dark Side Frame Of Mind Personal Problems

Author:Jack Nicholson

“The Hubbell space telescope, it's first year up after they fixed it, categorized and counted 500 billion galaxies in any one photograph field of view of dark matter. That's like grains of sand at the beach and you've just got a handful. It's massive amounts. I'm sure that of all of the galaxies, and I'm sure the universe is teeming with life.”

Years Firsts Matter Universe Dark Space Views Fields Amount Photograph Billions Beach Fixed Sand Massive Grain Galaxy Handful Telescopes Grains Of Sand Dark Matter

Author:Alex Jones

“Quite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I'm struggling all the way through to think, "What is it I like about this? What is the personality of this thing I'm hearing that I like so much?" And it's nearly always a sort of mixed emotion, which is why I like it. It's something that I have mixed feelings about in the sense that it's both, say, placid and dangerous, or bitter and sweet, or dark and bright.”

Thinking Way Facts Feelings Dark Emotion Struggle Dangerous Sweet Personality Hearing Bitter Placid Mixed Feelings Mixed Emotions

Author:Brian Eno

“But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we're trying to go toward a sense of realism - toward a reality of creatures that are actually alive and we're mixing up puppetry and all kinds of other techniques.”

Trying Kind Reality Dark Alive Creatures Technique All Kinds Realism Crystals Mixing

Author:Jim Henson

“When I wrote Rick, I had the idea that I would take the plot of nearly every opera and turn it into a dark film, which is something I still may do.”

May Stills Ideas Film Turns Dark Plot Opera

Author:Daniel Handler

“Adverbs is a book about love, and I thought that was pretty cheerful, but people who are reading it now are telling me that it's actually quite dark.”

People Book Reading Dark Cheerful Adverbs

Author:Daniel Handler

“Humans have a light side and a dark side, and it's up to us to choose which way we're going to live our lives. Even if you start out on the dark side, it doesn't mean you have to continue your journey that way. You always have time to turn it around.”

Ifs Way Humans Mean Light Turns Sides Dark Our Lives Journey Dark Side

Author:Taraji P. Henson

“I knew I was gay when I was around 13. There wasn't the internet, there weren't support groups, AIDS was everywhere. I mean, it was really dark.”

Mean Dark Support Groups Internet Gay Aids Support Groups

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“I've always loved black, and I realized that, from the beginning, man went into completely dark caves to paint. They painted with black too. They could have painted with white because there were white stones all over the ground, but no, they chose to paint with black in the dark.”

Men Black Dark White Stones Paint I Realized Caves

Author:Pierre Soulages

“The world was held in a savage gloom - cold and intolerable. Outside, all was quiet - quiet! From the dark room behind me, came the occasional, soft thud of falling matter - fragments of rotting stone. So time passed, and night grasped the world, wrapping it in wrappings of impenetrable blackness.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Hope Hodgson (Illustrated)

“Whenever you're making a dark comedy, you're always looking for the yin and yang in an actor.”

Actors Dark Comedy Yang Yin And Yang Dark Comedy

Author:Jamie Babbit

“I gravitate towards dark comedy, because I'm a huge fan of dark comedy. I always think the most painful thing that you can laugh at is the best.”

Thinking Dark Laughing Comedy Fans Huge Painful Painful Things Dark Comedy

Author:Jamie Babbit

“You actually do confront your dark side, your impulses, or your feelings of sibling rivalry in Cinderella or whatever. You admit that they exist and then you work through them and conquer them and come out living happily ever after having learned something. That's one reason why the fairy tales keep having traction and meaning.”

“I collect Victorian automata and coming across them in the dark does give you a little shudder.”

Giving Littles Doe Dark Victorian

Author:Susan Hill

“I had the heaviest paper round in Ilkley, West Yorks, and if you look at my shoulders one is still lower than the other. I also did a milk round for a day. It was awful. I was a very surly milkman, because it was very cold, very dark and very early. I am a lark, not an owl, but not in winter when it's chilly. Apart from that I went straight into gardening at 15.”

Ifs Looks Stills Dark Cold Paper West Rounds Winter Shoulders Awful Milk Gardening Owl Larks Chilly Surly Milkman

Author:Alan Titchmarsh

“Even when a film is finished, when I direct a film, sometimes it's a dark profession, but it requires a peculiar form of courage that I admire.”

Sometimes Film Form Dark Direct Finished Profession Admire Peculiar

Author:Kenneth Branagh

“We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.”

Author:Albert C. Barnes

“The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement which glued his facts together, and his emotions as a kind of dark and obscure designer of those facts. Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.”

Thinking Writing Kind Book Self Facts Together Imagination Dark Emotion Accounts Regard Conclusion Designer Obscure Cement

Book:Works

Source: Works

“The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.”

Men World Light Dark Walks Path Streets Example He Man Hero Saint Being Yourself Role Models Torches Kindles Blazing Setting An Example Great Hero

Author:Felix Adler

“True friends are like stars; you can only recognize them when it's dark around you.”

Stars Friendship Dark True Friend

Author:Bob Marley

“How science dwindles, and how volumes swell, How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun!”

Science Dark Sun Accounts Passages Candle Volume Commentators

Author:Edward Young

“Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark.”

Men Dark Zeal Expeditions

Author:John Newton

“You collect art: you must know that the miniature artists, at the end of careers spent painting the tiniest, most exacting details that no one would ever look at, would often put their eyes out with needles. Too much beauty, yes, but also too much seeing. They were tired of seeing. The dark was safe and warm and comfortable. Blindness was a gift. I still have seeing to do.”

Knows Looks Art Stills Ends Eye Artist Dark Careers Too Much Seeing Painting Safe Comfortable Tired Details Warm Blindness Needles Miniatures

Author:Ian McDonald

“I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.”

Humor Hands Funny Night House Dark Middle Clean Urges Compulsion Unreasonable Middle Of The Night Clean House

Author:James Thurber

“Hope is the enduring belief in the attainability of fervent wishes, in spite of the dark urges and rages which mark the beginning of existence. Hope is the ontogenetic basis of faith, and is nourished by the adult faith which pervades patterns of care.”

Care Belief Wish Dark Existence Adults Bases Mark Endure Patterns Rage Spite Urges Fervent

Book:Insight and Responsibility

Source: Insight and Responsibility

“Religious believers of the world, you are free to continue to debate the simple, narrow question that divides you from atheists, but you have no right, in so doing, to treat the Humanists of the world with contempt. You owe them a deep debt of gratitude, for not only have they shed much light on a naturally dark world but they have very probably helped civilize your own specific religion.”

World Light Religion Religious Dark Simple Gratitude Treats Atheist Debt Believer Debate Divides Contempt Shed Debt Of Gratitude Dark World Contempt You

Book:Vulgarians at the Gate: Trash TV and Raunch Radio : Raising the Standards of Popular Culture

Source: Vulgarians at the Gate: Trash TV and Raunch Radio : Raising the Standards of Popular Culture

“Love is Enough Love is enough: though the world be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining, Though the skies be too dark for dim eyes to discover The gold-cups and daisies fair blooming thereunder, Though the hills be held shadows, and the sea a dark wonder, And this day draw a veil over all deeds passed over, Yet their hands shall not tremble, their feet shall not falter: The void shall not weary, the fear shall not alter These lips and these eyes of the loved and the lover.”

Source: Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough

“There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.”

Two Light Sides Dark Player Two Sides

Author:John Locke

“All colours will agree in the dark.”

Dark Agree Colour

Author:Francis Bacon

“In Prison Wearily, drearily, Half the day long, Flap the great banners High over the stone; Strangely and eerily Sounds the wind's song, Bending the banner-poles. While, all alone, Watching the loophole's spark, Lie I, with life all dark, Feet tethered, hands fettered Fast to the stone, The grim walls, square lettered With prisoned men's groan. Still strain the banner-poles Through the wind's song, Westward the banner rolls Over my wrong.”

Men Life Long Stills Hands Lying Song Sound Dark Half Feet Wind Wall Stones Prison Sparks Squares Strain Grim All Alone Banner Bending Loopholes

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

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