Dark Quotes

She soon found the door the alethiometer had told her about. The sign on it said DARK MATTER RESEARCH UNIT, and under it someone had scribbled R.I.P. Another hand had added in pencil DIRECTOR: LAZARUS. Lyra made nothing of that. She knocked, and a woman's voice said, 'Come in.'

Philip Pullman
- She
- Hand
- Door
A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.

Hallie Ephron
- Women
- Man
- Words

I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.

Tanit Phoenix
- Work
- Together
- Wonder
When I was 20, my mother died and I went off the rails a little bit. I kinda had my slightly dark period.

James McCartney
- Mother
- Dark
- Period
One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

W. E. B. Du Bois
- American
- Alone
- Thoughts
Better a life like a falling star, bright across the dark, than a deathlessness which can see naught above or beyond itself.

Poul Anderson
- Life
- Dark
- Star
Request Magazine: Many of your songs, including new ones like 'Black Hole 5un' and 'Fourth of July,' trade in dark, apocalyptic imagery. Does any of that flair for the dramatic come from your having grown Catholic?

Chris Cornell Soundgarden
- Black
- Dark
- Catholic
The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.

Dan Castellaneta
- People
- Time
- Freedom