Dark Quotes

• Once digital came, I could see my images instantly right there on the camera. I think that makes you a better photographer because you can see right there if your subject's eyes are closed or if you exposed it wrong and if it's too bright or dark. You can fix it right here. With film, you wouldn't know until you got the prints back if something was messed up, and then there was nothing you could do. That was a huge advantage.

  

  Scott Kelby
  • Thinking
  • Film
  • Eye

• No one is in charge of this process, this is what makes history so interesting, it's a runaway freight train on a dark and stormy night.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Night
  • Interesting
  • Train

• ...These healers...my intellect has been unable to assimilate their theories....But their facts are patent and startling; and anything that interferes with the multiplication of such facts, and with our freest opportunity of observing and studying them, will, I believe, be a public calamity.

  

  William James
  • Believe
  • Age
  • Opportunity

• The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Thinking
  • Persons
  • Danger

• Animation films are about entertainment and about fun for the whole family, and if you went too far down a dark path, it's not what people, I think, expect from a great animated film.

  

  David Furnish
  • People
  • Great
  • Family

• Every day, without fail, I eat some dark chocolate.

  

  Phoebe Tonkin
  • Dark
  • Chocolate

• 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.'

  

  Lev Grossman
  • Long
  • Family
  • King

• Speech structures the abyss of mental and acoustic space...it is a cosmic, invisible architecture of the human dark. (p. 13)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Space
  • Dark
  • Architecture

• It's the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Life
  • Men
  • Fear

• It was that fatal and perfidious bark,Built in th' eclipse, and rigged with curses dark,That sunk so low that sacred head of thine.

  

  John Milton
  • Dark
  • Eclipse

• Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Light
  • Dark
  • Knives

• Who now travels that dark path from whose bourne they say no one returns.

  

  Catullus
  • Death
  • Return
  • Bourne

• I will watch a movie that is quote unquote dark and not get the qualification of what is dark and what is not.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Dark
  • Watches
  • Qualifications

• Devil’s Snare, Devil’s Snare . . . what did Professor Sprout say? — it likes the dark and the damp —” “So light a fire!” Harry choked. “Yes — of course — but there’s no wood!” Hermoine cried, wringing her hands. “HAVE YOU GONE MAD?” Ron bellowed. “ARE YOU A WITCH OR NOT?

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Light
  • Fire
  • Mad

• Shadows are where magic comes from. Your dark and dancing self, slipping behind and ahead and around, never quite looking at the sun.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Magic
  • Self
  • Shadows

• It was one of history’s great love stories, the mutually profitable romance which Hollywood and bohunk America conducted almost in the dark, a tapping of fervent messages through the wall of the San Gabriel Range.

  

  John Updike
  • Great
  • America
  • History

• Now, now, you aren't afraid of monsters in the dark, are you?" I caught a flash of her eyes, winking wickedly at me. "No," I said, shivering. After all, I was one of them.

  

  Kiersten White
  • Eye
  • Caught
  • Flash

• Whiles in the early Winter eve We pass amid the gathering night Some homestead that we had to leave Years past; and see its candles bright Shine in the room beside the door Where we were merry years agone But now must never enter more, As still the dark road drives us on. E'en so the world of men may turn At even of some hurried day And see the ancient glimmer burn Across the waste that hath no way; Then with that faint light in its eyes A while I bid it linger near And nurse in wavering memories The bitter-sweet of days that were.

  

  William Morris
  • Night
  • Memories
  • Winter

• Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Light
  • Alone
  • Friend

• If I looked in the mirror someday and saw no dark circles under my eyes, I would probably look better. I just wouldn't look like me.

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • Eye
  • Circles
  • Someday

• The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

  

  Agnes de Mille
  • May
  • Dark

• There's a weird contrast between my usual daily routine and then my book coming out. It's like someone's just suddenly opened the curtains in a dark room, and everyone's looking at you.

  

  Lisa Jewell
  • Book
  • Weird
  • Daily

• I eased back on my elbows, tilting my head back to look up at the sky, which was pinkish, streaked with red. This was the time we knew best, that stretch of day going from dusk to dark. It seemed like we were always waiting for nighttime here. I could feel the trampoline easing up and down, moved by our own breathing, bringing us in small increments up and back from the sky as the colors faded, slowly, and the stars began to show themselves.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Waiting
  • Moved
  • Breathing

• I've been through some dark times but I've experienced joy too. Now that joy can't be suppressed.

  

  Michelle Shocked
  • Dark
  • Times
  • Suppressed

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