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“I like a person who knows how to say something dark at a very dark moment. The darker the moment and the darker the comic, the better. Something that is so wrong on all levels.”

Knows Persons Moments Dark Levels Know How Comic Dark Moments

Author:Octavia Spencer

“It's just interesting that people don't really know about the roles that I play that are darker. I kind of do a huge blend of really big light things but also really dark indie things, and it just sort of happens to work out that way.”

People Knows Way Kind Play Bigs Light Happens Dark Interesting Roles Huge Work Out

Author:Brittany Snow

“In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.”

Knows Want Needs Persons Sometimes Lasts Enjoy Loses Dark Silence Talking Couple Really Great Say Anything

Author:Anton Yelchin

“Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace.”

People Ifs Knows World Light Wish Dark Chaos

Author:Brendan Fraser

“Ordinary men live in fear all the time. Didn't you know that? We're afraid of the weather, we're afraid of powerful men, we're afraid of the night and the monsters that lurk in the dark, we're afraid of growing old and of dying. Sometimes we're even afraid of living. Ordinary men are afraid almost every minute of their lives.”

Knows Men Sometimes Night Dark Powerful Growing Minutes Dying Ordinary Monsters Weather Growing Old Ordinary Man Powerful Man

Book:Magician's Gambit: Book Three Of The Belgariad

Source: Magician's Gambit: Book Three Of The Belgariad

“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

“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.”

“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

“I don't want dead paint, so I test many of my works by studying them in a dark room at twilight or even after dark to check the luminosity. If the darker forms still have resonance and luminosity, I know the painting's working.”

Ifs Knows Want Stills Light Form Dark Rooms Study Painting Tests Paint Checks Twilight Resonance Dark Room

Author:Will Barnet

“The groves and thickets of smaller trees are full of blooming evergreen vines. These vines are not arranged in separate groups, or in delicate wreaths, but in bossy walls and heavy, mound-like heaps and banks. Am made to feel that I am now in a strange land. I know hardly any of the plants, but few of the birds, and I am unable to see the country for the solemn, dark, mysterious cypress woods which cover everything.”

Source: John Muir’s Incredible Travel Memoirs: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, Travels in Alaska, Steep Trails… (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs & Wilderness Studies from the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite and Picturesque California

“We're all going to have tests in our life... We never know when that test comes, but we know we have to be prepared for it. We're all going to be tested. The dark energy is going to knock on all of our doors.”

Knows Energy Dark Our Lives Doors Tests Prepared Mma Be Prepared Tested Dark Energy

Author:Mike Tyson

“A lot of interviewers are looking for the dark side. They want to know about the depths of your despair and fear.”

Knows Want Sides Dark Despair Depth Dark Side Interviewers

Author:Clare Balding

“The sky is always beautiful.Even when it's dark or rainy or cloudy,it's still beautiful to look at....it'll be there no matter what...and I know it'll always be beautiful.”

Knows Looks Stills Matter Beautiful Dark Sky No Matter What Rainy Cloudy

Author:Colleen Hoover

“We are such idiots, We think everyone else has it all figured out. But we're all stumbling around in dark rooms bumping into furniture and stifling our cries so no one will know.”

Thinking Knows Dark Rooms Cry Idiot Furniture Stumbling Stifling Dark Room

Book:The Water Giver: The Story of a Mother, a Son, and Their Second Chance

Source: The Water Giver: The Story of a Mother, a Son, and Their Second Chance

“It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entrust oneself to someone who knows not that he knows not. Has a man ever learnt swimming by tying a stone to his neck? So let me go my own way even if it is the wrong one.”

Ifs Knows Men Way Dark My Own Millions Stones Let Me Errors Oneself Necks Swimming Wade Let Me Go

Book:The Seeker: A Novel

Source: The Seeker: A Novel

“How can a man know himself? He is a thing dark and veiled; and if the hare has seven skins, man can slough off seventy times seven and still not be able to say: "this is really you, this is no longer outer shell.”

Ifs Knows Men Stills Able Dark Skins Seven Shells Seventies Hares Slough

Book:Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations

Source: Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations

“Heavy role in the movies that I've done that I have loved and fit my soul; A Simple Plan, Monster's Ball, Sling Blade, One False Move, Bad Santa even. I mean Bad Santa is a comedy, and it's a very dark comedy, and it's become like iconic, you know.”

Knows Mean Soul Done Moving Dark Simple Roles Comedy Plans Fit Balls Heavy Monsters My Soul Blades Santa Iconic Dark Comedy Simple Plan Bad Santa

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“For, as you know, religions are like glow-worms; they shine only when it is dark.”

Knows Dark Shining Worms Glow Worms

Book:Religion

Source: Religion

“The concept of time, as it’s commonly understood by normal people with normal jobs and normal goddamn lives, doesn’t exist on the road. The nights spread out like the dark, godforsaken highways that distinguish them, and the days run together like Thanksgiving dinner smothered in gravy. You never really know where you are or what time it is, and the outside world starts to fade away. It’s cool.”

Source: How to Kill a Rock Star

“These types of films that are psychologically sort of dark at times, I find extremely exciting to do because there's always something to think about. There's nothing more boring than to show up on set and say a line and know that your character means exactly what they say. It's interesting to have an unreliable narrator in a film and that's what both of those films have been.”

Thinking Knows Mean Has Beens Character Shows Film Lines Dark Interesting Type Exciting Boring Unreliable Narrators

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“In terms of the most astonishing fact about which we know nothing, there is dark matter and dark energy. We don't know what either of them is. Everything we know and love about the universe and all the laws of physics as they apply, apply to four percent of the universe. That's stunning.”

Knows Matter Facts Law Universe Energy Term Dark Four Percent And Love Physics Astonishing Stunning Laws Of Physics Dark Matter Dark Energy

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“If you notice an unconscious fantasy coming up within you, you would be wise not to interpret it at once. Do not say that you know what it is and force it into consciousness. Just let it live with you, leaving it in the half-dark, carry it with you and watch where it is going or what it is driving at.”

Ifs Knows Would Be Force Dark Half Consciousness Watches Fantasy Wise Leaving Driving Unconscious Within You Being Wise

Book:The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Revised Edition

Source: The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Revised Edition

“I'm not into fashion at all. I always wear the same thing: dark suits. I don't even know where I get them.”

Knows Dark Fashion Suits

Author:Muhammad Ali

“People who don't know any better will always be in the dark because the power lies in the hands of men who take good care that ordinary folk don't understand, in the hands, that is, of the government, of the clerical party, of the capitalists.”

People Knows Men Hands Government Care Lying Dark Party Ordinary Folks Capitalist

Author:Cesare Pavese

“Whether we ever get to know about them or not, there are very probably alien civilizations that are superhuman, to the point of being god-like in ways that exceed anything a theologian could possibly imagine. Their technical achievements would seem as supernatural to us as ours would seem to a Dark Age peasant transported to the twenty-first century. Imagine his response to a laptop computer, a mobile telephone, a hydrogen bomb or a jumbo jet.”

Source: The God Delusion

“Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss And mad'st it pregnant: What is in me dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the heighth of this great Argument I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.”

Source: Paradise Lost Simplified!: Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index

“Oh honey, there's nothing new on this earth when it comes to what men and women do in the dark. First love is when you learn. So you've learned that love can open you up like spring sun on a wee primrose. Good. Remember that. You know how to love.”

Knows Men Firsts Earth Remember Dark Love Is Know How Sun Spring Men And Women Honey First Love Nothing New How To Love

Book:The House of Bernarda Alba: a modern adaptation

Source: The House of Bernarda Alba: a modern adaptation

“It was like finding some weird tribe in the middle of the jungle and, you know, they all come out and go: "Fear of the Dark. Favorite Album." What?!?”

Knows Firsts Dark Middle Findings First Time Albums Performing Tribes Jungle Costa Rica

Author:Bruce Dickinson

“I wrote these two songs ["Coming Out of the Dark" and "Always Tomorrow"] as a celebration of hope. And I want to send it out to all of those people who are suffering through this terrible disaster [Hurricane Katrina], and please know that you are not alone - and you will not be.”

People Knows Want Two Suffering Song Dark Tomorrow Terrible Please Disaster Coming Out Celebration Not Alone Hurricanes Katrina Hurricane Katrina

Author:Gloria Estefan

“[On libraries] What's great about them is that anybody can go into them and find a book and borrow it free of charge and read it. They don't have to steal it from a bookshop... You know when you're young, you're growing up, they're almost sexually exciting places because books are powerhouses of knowledge, and therefore they're kind of slightly dark and dangerous. You see books that kind of make you go 'Oh!'”

Knows Kind Book Young Dark Growing Up Growing Dangerous Exciting Library Stealing Sexually Bookshops

Author:Stephen Fry

“Men who cannot believe in the mystery of our Saviour's redemption can believe that spirits from the dead have visited them in a stranger's parlour, because they see a table shake and do not know how it is shaken; because they hear a rapping on a board, and cannot see the instrument that raps it; because they are touched in the dark, and do not know the hand that touches them.”

Knows Men Believe Hands Spirit Dark Know How Mystery Tables Instruments Stranger Rap Redemption Boards Shakes Touched Saviour

Book:The New Zealander

Source: The New Zealander

“People have passed through a very dark tunnel at the end of which there was a light of freedom. Unexpectedly they passed through the prison gates and found themselves in a square. They are now free and they don't know where to go.”

People Knows Ends Light Found Dark Prison Gates Squares Tunnels

Author:Vaclav Havel

“If you want to - if you want to engage in conspiracy theories that the White House and the vice president intended no one to ever know - like "The New York Times" - we would have been kept in the dark forever. I just think that's completely irrational.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Has Beens House President Dark White Forever New York Theory Vices White House Conspiracy Irrational New York Times Vice President Conspiracy Theory

Author:Kate O'Beirne

“The word is clear only to the kind who on peak or plain, from dark northern ice-fields to the hot wet jungles, through all wine and want, through lies and unfamiliar truth, dark or light, are governed by the unknown gods, and though each man knows the law, no man may give tongue to it.”

Knows Men Want Giving Kind May Light Law Lying Dark Clear Fields Hot Wine Tongue Ice Wet Jungle Unfamiliar

Book:Stories from the War (Annotated Edition)

Source: Stories from the War (Annotated Edition)

“Little soldier, little insect You know war it has no heart It will kill you in the sunshine Or happily in the the dark Where kindness is a card game Or a bent up cigarette In the trenches, in the hard rain With a bullet and a bet.”

Knows Heart Littles War Hard Games Dark Kindness Rain Soldier Cards Sunshine Cigarette Bullets Bent Insects Trenches

Author:Conor Oberst

“It's much harder to say "I'm going to kill three of the biggest characters in your universe in a gruesome bloodbath." There can be a lot of differing opinions in a mainstream comic book, you know? "Rogue would never do this!" But I can say, "No, Rogue suffered the death of Charles Xavier and it broke her down and she stumbled into a dark place and she started fixating on the Scarlet Witch as the cause of it all" which, there is a logical chain of events that lead to the Scarlet Witch. And in the confusion, she thought Wanda was up to doing it again and she did what she thought was best.”

“Those watercolourists who work from light to dark know that the darks do the damage.”

Knows Light Values Dark Damage

Author:Bill Luff

“An artist is either good at color or good at value but rarely good at both. I focus on the tonal range, the dark-light effects, rather than the full color range of bright colors. I just don't know what to do with all those cadmiums.”

Knows Light Artist Values Dark Focus Effects Color Range Colour Bright Colors

Author:Thomas S. Buechner

“Let no preacher in a little church think that he has no audience for his message. An unseen audience of multitudes compass him about! Let no Christian who sins in the dark think that he is unobserved. He is compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses! Assuredly in Heaven they know what goes on on earth.”

Thinking Knows Littles Earth Christian Heaven Church Dark Sin Audience Goes On Messages Clouds Witness Preacher Multitudes Unseen Compass

Book:Tears in Heaven

Source: Tears in Heaven

“A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself. A mentor is someone who allows you to know that no matter how dark the night, in the morning joy will come. A mentor is someone who allows you to see the higher part of yourself when sometimes it becomes hidden to your own view.”

Knows Sometimes Matter Joy Night Dark Views Morning Higher Mentor

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“Sold my soul to Satan. I've been dancing with the devil. So when you get to hell you can say you know me. I'm easily attracted by the dark side. Devil keep following.”

Knows Soul Sides Dark Hell Devil Dancing Following My Soul Satan Know Me Dark Side Dancing With The Devil

Author:J. Cole

“I like night fishing, even though there is a molecule of terror in it. Maybe it is that tiny bit of terror that I relish, that going mano a mano with another predator in the dark. I know it is not entirely civilized, but there is nothing to compare with the sizzle of fear except, perhaps, the rush of being feared. Either condition confirms you are alive.”

Knows Night Bits Dark Alive Sea Conditions Rivers Fishes Terror Tiny Boat Compare Lakes Fishing Civilized Molecules Predator Relish

Author:Paul G. Quinnett

“You want my dark side? Have I ever stolen anything? Not so much intentionally. But I don't think it's so much stealing as... being a part of the flow of the universe. You know, where there's an exchange. It's positive. It's negative. There's an exchange of goods and services.”

Thinking Knows Want Universe Sides Dark Negative Flow Stealing Goods Stolen Dark Side Goods And Services

Author:Bill Murray

“How thick the fog is. I can't see the road. All the people in the world could pass by and I would never know. I wish it was always that way. It's getting dark already. It will soon be night, thank goodness.”

People Knows World Way I Can Night Wish Dark Goodness Thick Fog

Book:Complete Plays: 1932-1943

Source: Complete Plays: 1932-1943

“During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was - but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit.”

Source: Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

“Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition, which look bright from below, every step we rise shows us some new and gloomy prospect of hidden disappointment; so in our descent from the summits of pleasure, though the vale of misery below may appear, at first, dark and gloomy, yet the busy mind, still attentive to its own amusement, finds, as we descend, something to flatter and to please. Still as we approach, the darkest objects appear to brighten, and the mortal eye becomes adapted to its gloomy situation.”

Source: The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Poetical works. Dramas. The vicar of Wakefield

“The dark grave, which knows all secrets, can alone reclaim the fatal doubt once cast on a woman's name.”

Knows Names Dark Secret Doubt Casts Graves Reputation

Author:George Herbert

“I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself, but to be worried and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night.”

Knows World Night Fall Left Dark Morning Kings Worried Consent Daybreak

Book:Three Wonder Plays

Source: Three Wonder Plays

“In all the years when I did not know what to believe in and therefore preferred to leave all beliefs alone, whenever I came to a place where living water welled up, blessedly cold and sweet and pure, from the earth's dark bosom, I felt that after all it must be wrong not to believe in anything.”

Knows Years Believe Earth Belief Felt Water Dark Sweet Cold Pure Bosoms

Book:Men, women, and places

Source: Men, women, and places