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“People thought the storyline and characters for 'X-Files' made it a 'dark' show, but I never saw it that way. I always thought Mulder and Scully were the light in dark places.”

People Way Made Character Shows Light Dark Saws Made It Files Dark Places Storyline X Files Scully

Author:Chris Carter

“In one family, all goes by two and two. If a member of it has any interest, he or she will confide it to some one other; but the rest know nothing. In another family, all feel what touches one; nothing is kept dark from the father and mother, brothers and sisters--all share. This family habit is by far the better, it strengthens the tie between the members, and makes the home one home.”

Ifs Knows Feels Two Home Mother Father Interest Dark Share Brother Habit Members Ties Brothers And Sisters

Book:Notes of Thought

Source: Notes of Thought

“Egypt! from whose all dateless tombs arose Forgotten Pharaohs from their long repose, And shook within their pyramids to hear A new Cambyses thundering in their ear; While the dark shades of forty ages stood Like startled giants by Nile's famous flood.”

Long Age Dark Ears Forgotten Giants Forty Shade Flood Egypt Tombs Pyramids Repose Pharaohs Nile

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“Dark-green and gemm'd with flowers of snow, With close uncrowded branches spread Not proudly high, nor meanly low, A graceful myrtle rear'd its head.”

Dark Flower Lows Green Spread Snow Branches Myrtle

Book:The select poetical works of James Montgomery

Source: The select poetical works of James Montgomery

“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.”

Men Soul Dark Humour Spices Sour Disagreeable Malevolence

Book:Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams

Source: Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams

“Dark pictures, thrones, the stones that pilgrims kiss Poems that take a thousand years to die But ape the immortality of this Red label on a little butterfly .”

Years Littles Dies Dark Thousand Kissing Red Stones Labels Immortality Butterfly Thousand Years Thrones Apes Pilgrim

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Easy is the descent to hell; all night long, all day, the doors of dark Hades stand open; but to retrace the path; to come out again to the sweet air of Heaven - there is the task, there is the burden.”

Long Night Heaven Easy Dark Hell Path Doors Air Sweet Tasks Investing Burden All Night Descent Hades

Author:Virgil

“The entrances I make now, when we kick in the door of a high-risk warrant, eighty percent of the homes we're kicking into, it's dark in there for some reason. That's just the way the bad guys are doing it now. So now all of my sights are night sights; I've also put special light rails on the bottom of all of them so I can put a special light on them that's combination white light/laser.”

Way I Can Reason Home Light Night Guy Dark White Risk Doors Special Percent Sight Bottom Combination Kicks Bad Guys Eighty Kicking Entrances Rail Warrants Lasers White Light High Risk

Author:Steven Seagal

“I grew up as the ugly duckling, they called me 'la prieta fea', which means ugly dark one - that was my nickname.”

Mean Dark Grew Grew Up Ugly Nicknames Ducklings Ugly Duckling

Author:Eva Longoria

“In retrospect, I think that I've been given quite a few scripts over the years that had dark elements to them but most of them took place in the countryside with a haunted house. I think I've probably had that script about six to 10 times over the past few years. Or it was something to do with the supernatural.”

Thinking Years Past House Given Dark Elements Six Scripts Over The Past Countryside Retrospect Haunted Houses

Author:Gillian Anderson

“The dark night of the soul for me was one night in Florida, when I had been on the road for about four years and I realized that everybody around me was on my payroll, that my old friends hadn't been in touch with me and my family didn't know where to get me. I was a very unhappy guy and it was because I was really alone.”

Knows Years Soul Night Guy Dark Four My Family I Realized Unhappy Four Years Florida One Night Old Friends Dark Night Payroll Dark Night Of The Soul

Author:Barry Manilow

“I was doing community theater, and I was always interested in acting, but I was also interested in sports. I was interested in a lot of things. I was a pretty normal guy. I wasn't like a guy who grew up in a dark theater watching movies.”

Guy Sports Community Dark Acting Grew Normal Grew Up Theater

Author:Willem Dafoe

“If you come at the record feeling really happy and optimistic, it can be incredibly beautiful and uplifting, and if you come at it in a bleak moment, it can feel like a very dark place to share. It's all down to the listener.”

Ifs Feels Moments Feelings Beautiful Dark Records Share Optimistic Uplifting Listeners Really Happy Bleak Dark Places

Author:PJ Harvey

“Rather than being able to have a healthy relationship with our own sexual imagination, we're driven into some dark corners by shame and embarrassment and guilt, and those dark corners breed all sorts of monsters.”

Able Imagination Dark Healthy Shame Guilt Corners Driven Monsters Embarrassment Healthy Relationship

Author:Alan Moore

“I've always felt that dark lyrics with dark music is pretty useless. Maybe that's a strong statement - not useless, but for me, it's just boring.”

Strong Felt Dark Music Is Boring Statements Useless

Author:Andrew Bird

“Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father would sit down beside us in the semi-dark and read from a book of fairy tales.”

Book Moments Stories Remember Mother Father Dark Childhood Tales Fairy Fairy Tale Recalls Bedtime Bedtime Stories

Author:Paul Auster

“I've only read three books by Stephen King. When I was 10 I read 'The Long Walk,' one of his pseudonymous Bachman books. In my early 20s, while trapped on a family vacation, I read 'The Dark Half,' which taught me a word I have never forgotten: psychopomp. Now I have read '11/22/63.'”

Long Book Three Dark Walks Half Taught Kings Forgotten Vacation Trapped Long Walks Early 20s Family Vacation

Author:Lev Grossman

“There's something paralyzing about being a writer that you have to escape. I don't want to think of myself as a guy who's written a bunch of books. The 26 letters distance us from our own hesitations and they make us sound as if we know what we're doing. We know grammar, we know prose, but actually we're all just struggling in the dark, really.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Book Guy Sound Dark Struggle Written Letters Distance Bunch Prose Grammar Hesitation

Author:Nicholson Baker

“Words cannot ease the pain you are feeling right now But just wanted to let you know that we are thinking about you And praying for your pain to ease And for you to find sunshine when the dark clouds have passed.”

Thinking Knows Feelings Wanted Pain Dark Praying Right Now Clouds Ease Sunshine Sympathy Thinking About You Dark Clouds Praying For You

Author:Margaret Jones

“I wasn't allowed to watch MTV before school, but somehow I managed to, when I was five or six and Fiona Apple's video for "Criminal" came on. She was so odd and dark, and I immediately felt some kind of connection with her. She was also the first person I admired for their looks.”

Firsts Looks Kind Persons School Felt Dark Watches Five Six Connections Criminals Video Odd Apples First Person Mtv

Author:Sky Ferreira

“I always thought it would be really, really cool to play Edgar Allan Poe, because when I was a kid, he was one of the authors who really blew my mind open to all sorts of weird dark and twisted places.”

Mind Play Would Be Kids Dark Twisted Really Cool Allan Poe Dark And Twisted

Author:Ezra Miller

“I work within the framework of a very concerted, purely driven Protestant Christian mindset. I had dark early circumstances. I went inward. I have a sturdy will. I have a big heart. I'm a decent guy. And I have a great gift. It's blunted me to the world in many ways.”

World Way Heart Bigs Christian Guy Dark Circumstances Mindset Driven Decent Inward Framework Protestants Great Gifts Sturdy Big Heart Decent Guys

Author:James Ellroy

“I think there's a misconception of my wanting to do dark stuff.”

Thinking Stuff Dark Misconception

Author:Susanne Bier

“I like the idea of being sort of withdrawn and mysterious, and what can be more mysterious that someone wearing a trash bag, like a dark trash bag, with eye holes that say "nihilism?" You'd be curious. What's underneath that? Is it perfect? Or is it broken?”

Ideas Eye Dark Perfect Broken Holes Mysterious Curious Bags Trash Nihilism

Author:Eugene Mirman

“I think there are families that are very kind and supportive of people's ability to change. People who come from such families may go through life without dipping into the dark night.”

People Thinking Kind May Night Dark Ability Supportive Dark Night Ability To Change

Author:Sam Keen

“I've seen a lot in my life, and everybody goes down the dark, winding staircase eventually. It's a bad place to be and that's why having good friends is always essential. Those are the people who pull you out.”

People Dark Essentials Good Friend Staircases

Author:Daniel Craig

“Doing a film and saying, I've done a really dark film and now I have to do a comedy... That's not me. If a script comes along and it's dark I'll absolutely do it and take the consequences. I'm not fussed about the image that goes along with it.”

Ifs Done Film Dark Comedy Consequence Scripts

Author:Daniel Craig

“I think there's a dishonorable tradition in Hollywood to give the idea, particularly to children, that evil characters are dark.”

Thinking Giving Children Ideas Character Evil Dark Tradition Hollywood Dishonorable Evil Characters

Author:Tilda Swinton

“About actors' lives... I'm not the person to ask. I don't live an actor's life and I really don't know. I probably read less about actors' lives than you all do. So, I'm in the dark about all of that, sorry.”

Knows Persons Actors Asks Dark Sorry

Author:Tilda Swinton

“So, most of it was done over the phone. But one of the first things I did as a director, because it's one of the first things you should do, even though most don't, is to ask good actors who they think is right for the part. They know better than anybody. But without missing a beat Maggie said Pauline Collins. I didn't know Pauline because I hadn't seen Shirley Valentine, but then I saw this thing that she did with Woody Allen [You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger], in which she was wonderful as a psychic, and I said to her on the phone: "The dialogue seemed improvised."”

Thinking Knows Should Firsts Said Done Actors Asks Dark Saws Wonderful Missing Directors Beats Phones Stranger Dialogue Tall Valentine Psychics Woody Good Actors Maggie

Author:Dustin Hoffman

“I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.”

Giving Soul Would Be Night Courses Dark Defeat Giving In Dark Night Dark Night Of The Soul

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Adolf Hitler is simply the dark-side of Mother Teresa.”

Mother Sides Dark Dark Side Teresa

Author:Gregory A. Boyd

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

Culture Dark Glow In The Dark

Author:Curtis Martin

“As for me, I am unfortunate enough not to posses a happy temperament like Najdorf, who views every happening in a rosy light and avoids any possibility of self-criticism. I am one of those unlucky skeptics who never overlook the dark side of even the happiest experience.”

Self Enough Light Sides Dark Views Possibility Happenings Criticism Unfortunate Temperament Skeptic Dark Side Unlucky Rosy Self Criticism Posse

Author:Savielly Tartakower

“A short story is like a kiss in the dark.”

Stories Dark Kissing Short Story

Author:Stephen King

“Programming is a Dark Art, and it always will be. The programmer is fighting against the two most destructive forces in the universe: entropy and human stupidity. These are not things you can overcome with a "methodology" or on a schedule.”

Humans Art Two Fighting Universe Force Dark Overcoming Stupidity Programming Destructive Schedules Programmers Methodology Entropy Human Stupidity Dark Art

Author:Damian Conway

“For life is a trumpery thing at best, isn't it? A few moments, a few words, between dark and dark. But in true love you keep company with the Gods.”

Moments Life Is Dark Company Love You Few Words

Author:Winston Graham

“It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender... In being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages.”

“A Dark Age is not just a period in which people no longer know how to do things. The real key is that people no longer remember that certain things can be done at all.”

People Knows Real Done Age Remember Certain Dark Know How Keys Periods Dark Ages

Author:Jerry Pournelle

“The dark Gods of pain are surfacing from the immemorial filth of time.”

Pain Dark Filth

Book:Ah Pook is here, and other texts

Source: Ah Pook is here, and other texts

“The battle against the dark one and the clinging to the right one is what my life is about.”

Life Is Dark Battle Clinging

Author:Johnny Cash

“Just as the apparent openness of rectitude will have its hidden places where foul things moulder in the dark, so, in the shadowed lives of those outside the law may sometimes be found concealed honesty and naive ideals.”

May Sometimes Law Found Dark Honesty Ideals Openness Naive Concealed Foul Rectitude

Book:Strange Loyalties (Laidlaw 3)

Source: Strange Loyalties (Laidlaw 3)

“The future was and remains the quintessential American art form. Other nations sit back and let their futures happen; we construct ours. We can let the future happen, or take the trouble to imagine it. We can imagine it dark or bright - and in the long run, that's how it will be.”

Long Art Happens Running Form Nations Dark Imagine Trouble Remains Long Runs Constructs Quintessential

Author:David Gelernter

“Someday our piecing together of knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas we shall either go mad or flee into the safety of a new dark age.”

Age Together Dark Safety Mad Someday Dark Ages Vistas

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really.”

Thinking Dark Enlightenment Holes

Author:David Hockney

“At 10 minutes to seven on a dark, cool evening in Mexico City in 1968, John Stephen Akwari of Tanzania painfully hobbled into the Olympic Stadium-the last man to finish the marathon. The winner had already been crowned, and the victory ceremony was long finished. So the stadium was almost empty and Akwari - alone, his leg bloody and bandaged - struggled to circle the track to the finish line. When asked why he had continued the grueling struggle, the young man from Tanzania answered softly: My country did not send me 9,000 miles to start the race. They sent me 9,000 miles to finish the race.”

“By god, DH Lawrence was right when he said there must be a dumb, dark, dull, bitter belly-tension between a man and a woman, and how else could this be achieved save in the long monotony of marriage?”

Men Long Said Dark Bitter Dumb Tension Dull Belly Monotony Cold Comfort Farm

Author:Stella Gibbons

“Travelers should only read after dark.”

Should Dark Traveler

Book:Eccentric Spaces

Source: Eccentric Spaces

“Writing a short story is a little like walking into a dark room, finding a light and turning it on. The light is the end of the story.”

Writing Littles Ends Stories Light Dark Rooms Walking Findings Short Story Dark Room

Author:Dan Chaon

“In this country, intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face ... Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and incovenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban ... At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of iedas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.”

People Thinking Needs Ideas Country Moments Facts Body Faces Given Dark Accepting Enemy Worst Intellectual Journalist Officials Cowardice Orthodoxy Bans Worst Enemy

Author:George Orwell

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