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“Tonight's December thirty-first, something is about to burst. The clock is crouching, dark and small, like a time bomb in the hall. Hark, it's midnight, children dear. Duck! Here comes another year!”

Years Firsts Children Dark Dear Clock Thirty Bombs Tonight Halls Ducks Midnight December Another Year Time Bomb

Author:Ogden Nash

“You must be willing to examine and explore your dark side. You must acknowledge how bad you can be and how horribly unloving you can behave. When you know how deep and dark your dark side is, it helps you stand a little taller in the light.”

Knows Littles Helping Light Sides Dark Know How Willing Acknowledge Behave Exploring New Thought Loving You Dark Side Self-examination

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“All comedy comes from a dark place.”

Dark Comedy Dark Places

Author:Katt Williams

“I returned to New Orleans and my problems with pari-mutuel windows and a dark-haired, milk-skinned wife from Martinique who went home with men from the Garden District while I was passed out in a houseboat on Lake Pontchartrain, the downdraft of U.S. Army helicopters flattening a plain of elephant grass in my dreams.”

Men Problem Home Dream Dark Wife Garden Window Army Grass Lakes Milk Elephants New Orleans Helicopters

Author:James Lee

“What is light without dark? Right without left? What is goodness without the option to be evil?”

Light Evil Left Dark Goodness

Author:Christian Harrison

“If you want to tell grown-up fairy tales, you have to look for the dark side.”

Dark Fairy Fairy Tale Dark Side

Author:Juan Antonio Bayona

“He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.”

Night Dark Travel Dark Night

Author:Hernando Cortes

“Space is dark but, of course, when we're on the sun side of the Earth, we're in full illumination and we have all the reflection of the Earth below us, beautiful blue Earth and we're in daylight. Only on the back side, opposite side of the sun, it seems like night to us, too.”

Seems Earth Beautiful Night Courses Sides Dark Space Sun Reflection Opposites Blue Illumination Daylight Back Side

Author:Kevin A. Ford

“Comeback records always worry me, especially when they're made by one of my heroes, and I'd heard stories about Gil Scott-Heron recently, about drug arrests and prison terms and other troubles. I wasn't prepared for the ravaged shakiness of his voice on this record or the raw spoken word pieces or the dark electronic backgrounds.”

Made Stories Voice Term Dark Worry Records Pieces Trouble Heard Hero Drug Prison Prepared Backgrounds Comeback My Hero Spoken Word Herons

Author:Will Hermes

“Not all of our work is dark, but when we are working on a dark project, we really tend to go there.”

Author:Erich Hoeber

“Half of me is this wacked-out comedienne who will do anything for a buck and a laugh. Well, at least for a laugh. But the other half is a lot darker, sadder and more pensive. It's the dark side that feeds the outrageousness and allows it to surface. I think that's true for anyone with comic flair.”

Thinking Wells Sides Dark Half Laughing Surface Comic Bucks Dark Side Other Half Flair Pensive Half Of Me

Author:Faith Prince

“I'm more into the Spawn toys. They're really cool. They're coming out with a Techno Spawn series and another series, The Dark Ages, which are really cool.”

Age Dark Series Coming Out Toys Really Cool Dark Ages Spawn Techno

Author:Jason Mewes

“When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours.”

Remember Dark Russia Colour

Author:Natalia Vodianova

“I've got to wear sunglasses everywhere, all the time, even if its indoors or at night time, to be recognized. That's part of my job. I cannot take off my sunglasses. For me, staying in the United States was so dark because I can't take them off.”

Ifs I Can States Jobs Night Dark United United States Staying Because I Can Sunglasses Night Time

Author:PSY

“I can't think of a story that doesn't have something terrible in it. Otherwise, it's dull. So when I embarked into the world of picture books, my first thought was to do something about the dark.”

Thinking World Firsts I Can Book Stories Dark Terrible Dull Picture Books

Author:Daniel Handler

“Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods. Our dream wrestles in the castle of doubt. But there’s music in us. Hope is pushed down but the angel flies up again taking us with her.”

Heart Dream Lost Dark Doubt Angel Woods Wander Our Dreams Castles Dark Woods

Author:Jack Gilbert

“When you are in the dark and you can't see anything, something is looking at you seeing everything”

Author:Zak Bagans

“We proclaim the resurrection of Christ when his light illuminates the dark moments of our existence, and we are able share it with others”

Moments Light Able Christ Dark Existence Share Resurrection Dark Moments

Author:Pope Francis

“With this blistering salvo of poetic gutshots Lawson has proven himself Bizarro’s true bard, its mad laureate. Switching from dark whimsy to retina-blast shock to political outrage without missing a beat, The Troublesome Amputee is a powerful collection of pitch-black verse.”

Political Black Dark Powerful Missing Beats Mad Collections Shock Poetic Verses Proven Outrage Blast Troublesome Switching Bards Whimsy Pitch Black Amputees

Author:Jeremy Robert Johnson

“Now the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are those who resent it. But art is not meant to stop the stream of life. Within a narrow span of duration and space the work of art concentrates a view of the human condition; and sometimes it marks the steps of progression, just as a man climbing the dark stairs of a medieval tower assures himself by the changing sights glimpsed through its narrow windows that he is getting somewhere after all.”

Source: Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order

“We cut these numerous windings in our destinies daily with our own hands, while we imagine that we are pursuing a track on the royal high road of respectability and duty, and then complain of those ways being so intricate and so dark. We stand bewildered before the mystery of our own making, and the riddles of life that we will not solve, and then accuse the great Sphinx of devouring us.”

Way Hands Dark Destiny Cutting Imagine Mystery Duty Track Solve Complaining Imagine That Royal Our Destiny Riddle Intricate Respectability Bewildered Devouring High Road Sphinx

Book:The Secret Doctrine

Source: The Secret Doctrine

“In primary school when I was 6-7 years old, I always go to theater with my uncle, and I don't know why I like the atmosphere, dark only. The screen has some lighting, that kind of things, you can see the movie star and so that's why I like movies.”

Knows Years Kind School Stars Dark Theater Screens Primaries Atmosphere Uncles Movie Star Lighting Primary School

Author:Andrew Lau

“I feel like it's a dangerous and dark world if 'Sunny' becomes mainstream comedy. If you were to turn on CBS at 8 o'clock on Thursday and see an episode of 'It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia,' I don't know if I want to live in that world.”

“I was a late bloomer. I was a kinda shy little kid, definitely a child of the dark side. I wanted to play guitar and be in a rock band.”

Children Littles Play Kids Wanted Sides Dark Rocks Band Late Guitar Shy Little Kid Dark Side Rock Bands

Author:Yul Vazquez

“Pain and suffering are the dark strands through the tapestry of your life, providing the shadows that give depth and dimension to the masterpiece God is fashioning within you.”

Giving Pain Suffering Dark Shadow Depth Dimensions Within You Providing Masterpiece Strands Tapestry Pain And Suffering

Book:Joshua, the Journey Home: Includes Joshua, Joshua and the Children and Joshua in the Holy Land

Source: Joshua, the Journey Home: Includes Joshua, Joshua and the Children and Joshua in the Holy Land

“Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.”

People Humans Problem Dark Race Areas Terror Human Race

Author:Bill Forsyth

“I have a controversial opinion about evil, because I don't believe evil exists. I believe that actions are dark and destructive but I don't believe evil is a thing. I believe it's a by-product of man's fear and desperation.”

Men Believe Action Evil I Believe Dark Opinion Products Don't Believe Destructive Desperation Controversial

Author:Victor Salva

“Photography has no dark sides!”

Sides Dark Photography Dark Side

Author:August Sander

“A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them.”

“It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star: but even so - and all the more - what marvelous creatures we are! What fairy story, what tale from the Arabian Nights of the jinns, is a hundredth part as wonderful as this true fairy story of simians! It is so much more heartening, too, than the tales we invent. A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is - blind or not - a good world to live in, a promising universe. . . . We once thought we lived on God's footstool, it may be a throne.”

“Confession is like a bridle that keeps the soul which reflects on it from committing sin, but anything left unconfessed we continue to do without fear as if in the dark.”

Ifs Soul Left Dark Sin Catholic Confession Unconfessed Sin

Book:John Climacus (CWS)

Source: John Climacus (CWS)

“But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.”

“My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.”

Source: A Boy's Will

“If you wonder where your child left his roller skates, try walking around the house in the dark.”

Ifs Trying Children House Left Dark Wonder Walking Our Children Your Children Skates

Author:Leopold Fechtner

“Forgotten rimes, and college themes, Worm-eaten plans, and embryo schemes; A mass of heterogeneous matter. A chaos dark, nor land nor water.”

Matter Water Dark Plans Land College Mass Chaos Forgotten Planning Theme Schemes Worms Embryos

Book:The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes

Source: The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes

“If you want to know what true art is: Go outside on a clear night, wait until it gets very, very dark, then look up! You will see no rules of composition, no evidence of superior technique. Yet, you will be staring into the very face of pure, unadulterated beauty and wonder. That is the unattainable Ideal for which I must constantly strive.”

Ifs Knows Want Looks Art Faces Night Waiting Dark Wonder Clear Pure Art Is Evidence Ideals Strive Technique Superiors Staring Look Up Composition Unattainable

Author:Derek R. Audette

“All the disappointments, broken dreams and deep dark experiences will soon be forgotten and blotted out like a bad dream, when that glorious dawn of Heaven arrives!”

Dream Heaven Dark Broken Forgotten Disappointment Dawn Glorious Heavenly Broken Dreams Bad Dream Deep Dark

Author:David Berg

“The dark aftermath of the frontier, of the vast promise of possibility this country first offered, is an inflated sense of American entitlement today. We want what we want, and we want it now. Easy credit. Fast food. A straight shot down the interstate from point A to point B. The endless highway is crowded with the kinds of cars large enough to take a mountain pass in high snow. Instead they are used to take children from soccer practice to Pizza Hut. In the process they burn fuel like there's no tomorrow. Tomorrow's coming.”

“The dreams of human beings are dark, heavy and morbid and simplistic and boring. The dreams of immortality are endless and shining, they shimmer, they glow.”

Humans Dream Suffering Dark Human Beings Shining Heavy Boring Endless Immortality Morbid Shimmer

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I like playing dark, broody types.”

Author:Kit Harington

“I don't think it's ever easy to be funny. I find it easy to amuse myself with a certain sort of cynical dark humor that tends toward the meaner side, like my character in Happy Gilmore. Those kinds of characters come easily to me.”

Thinking Kind Character Certain Easy Sides Dark Cynical Dark Humor

Author:Ben Stiller

“A nationwide Harris Poll showed that the public favoured the use of Laetrile by a 30% margin. ...In over 250 cases of cancer with which I have been associated, all of whom used (Laetrile, vitamin) B-17, not a single one had side effects as a result.”

Has Beens Use Age Used Sides Dark Results Cases Effects Cancer Medical Polls Margins Dark Ages Vitamins Side Effects

Author:Leon Chaitow

“I think, honestly, that a lot of people think I'm sad and dark all the time, because of the music I have made. But there's a huge part of my personality that's really energetic, outgoing and goofy.”

People Thinking Made Dark Huge Personality Honestly Energetic Goofy Outgoing I'm Sad

Author:Skylar Grey

“War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.”

War Soul Whole Eye Mother Sound Dark Forget Streets Sweet Broken Wet Widows Butchery Wet Eyes

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.”

Humans Heart Earth Strong Heaven Dark Silence Watches Destiny Conscience Weak Errors Guides Phrases Apology Virtuous Human Heart Phantoms Invoke

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“My fancies are fireflies Specks of living light twinkling in the dark.”

Light Dark Fancy Specks Firefly Twinkling

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace.”

Soul Lasts Lost Dark Atheism Singing Absolutes Positive Atheism Core Oblivion

Book:Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition

Source: Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition

“Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,-- That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar.”

Way Language Wish Dark Tricks Vain Deceit Peculiar Remarks Heathen

Author:Bret Harte

“Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.”

Soul Night Dark Views Creativity Majority Crowds Chosen Spells Avenues Flowering Proximity

Book:A Passion for Truth

Source: A Passion for Truth

“If hush'd the loud whirlwind that ruffled the deep, The sky if no longer dark tempests deform; When our perils are past shall our gratitude sleep? No! Here's to the pilot that weather'd the storm!”

Ifs Past Dark Sleep Sky Gratitude Storm Weather Loud Pilots Peril Tempest Hush Whirlwind

Book:Select Speeches of the Right Honourable George Canning: With a Preliminary Biographical Sketch, and an Appendix, of Extracts from His Writings and Speeches

Source: Select Speeches of the Right Honourable George Canning: With a Preliminary Biographical Sketch, and an Appendix, of Extracts from His Writings and Speeches