Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.
~ O. Henry
I know that I'm going to die and that you're going to die. I can't do anything about that. But I can explore it through a metaphor and make a kind of funny, dark story about it, and in doing so, really exhaust and research as many aspects of it as I can imagine. And in a way, that does give me some closure.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
When Jonathan Winters died, it was like, 'Oh, man!' I knew he was frail, but I always thought he was going to last longer. I knew him as being really funny, but at the same time, he had a dark side.
~ Robin Williams
What you do with it and things like that, but I basically chose this after I read it because I thought it was different and funny and unique and dark - things that I like to do.
~ Danny Devito
We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
~ Wallace Stevens
Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
~ L. Frank Baum
I've always had this in a kind of worst-case dark imagination. I want to know what the dark form in the window is. I want to know what the noise under the staircase is.
~ Lisa Unger
We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
~ Henry James
I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.
~ John Zorn
I don't think of my songs as sad songs. I think of them as vulnerable and honest. I crack jokes in between songs, so people don't leave feeling too dark.
~ Mary Lambert
It feels really sad, to me, to go to a dark bedroom. It's like surrendering to the night or something.
~ James Franco
I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad.
~ Moon Unit Zappa
Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.
~ Margaret Atwood
A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.
~ Gale Anne Hurd
There've been a few mother-daughter movies that are somewhat realistic. But the mother-son movies are more comical than realistic: 'Throw Momma from the Train,' 'Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot.' You don't sit in the dark and go, 'Oh my God, that's my mother.'
~ Albert Brooks
Like many of you, I've always been slightly obsessed with vampires, dating back to the prime-time series 'Dark Shadows,' which I followed avidly as a kid.
~ Bill Condon
I really like dating stories, like in Betty and Veronica comics; I like David Lynch and H.P. Lovecraft for the dark gut-wrenching stuff, and I'm inspired by Miyazaki's films for the subtle heart-warming moments, as well as the moments that blew up my imagination.
~ Fred Seibert
Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I'm going to turn on the lights.
~ Suze Orman
I cannot believe that my generation may very well have been the last one to have sex education in schools that was truly the complete and total package. I mean what are we doing? Are we in the future, but acting like it's The Dark Ages?
~ Sheryl Lee Ralph
In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and what's behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand.
~ Trent Reznor
Alas, those six unfortunate souls who have made their way through my books know that every one of them is about Emerson and Thoreau and their dark counters, Melville and Emily Dickinson. Try as I might, I can't get their inspirations, their challenges and sentences and wisdom and questions out of my head.
~ Pico Iyer
I used to have this Mercedes, a dark blue 450SLC, which was the most beautiful car. I'd like to have another unusual, beautiful car.
~ Andrew Davies
To you wives who are constantly complaining and see only the dark side of life, and feel that you are unloved and unwanted, look into your own hearts and minds. If there is something wrong, turn about. Put a smile on your faces. Make yourselves more attractive. Brighten your outlook.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
Sometimes Queens' music is dark, but somehow it's ok to deliver it with a smile on your face because thing's are still going to kick in.
~ Josh Homme
Vampires have become tragic or romantic figures. Vampire are largely seduction tales. They're no longer the scary creature in the dark.
~ Stephen Graham Jones
I find 'Fatal Attraction' really romantic. I really like the seduction. Almost every time I see it, I'm surprised when it goes dark. I know that's the claim to fame, but I key into how genuinely romantic it is.
~ Shane Carruth
Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.
~ Jodie Foster
I find short, fast romances romantic. There's a beauty to dark imagery.
~ Sam Smith
The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic comedies. There can be dramas. But there's no 'dark comedy' inbox for the advertising.
~ Gus Van Sant
If I were given a choice between two films and one was dark and explored depraved, troubled or sick aspects of our culture, I would always opt for that over the next romantic comedy.
~ David Schwimmer
The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
~ Willa Cather
My poems tend to be more celebratory and lyrical, and the novels so far pretty dark. Poetry doesn't seem to me to be an appropriate tool for exploring that.
~ John Burnside
I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out.
~ Pink
I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.
~ Rick Springfield
Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies.
~ Tomas Tranströmer
What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
I do stand up sometimes out of anger. Sometimes the greatest stuff comes from a dark place.
~ Tracy Morgan
Theatrical is fantastic. I don't think anything will ever replace the big dark room, the screen and the popcorn. You can kind of do it in your home if you have a nice screen, but it's not the same thing.
~ Mel Gibson
And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast.
~ Max Muller
When you buy a jacket, you pick the size to ensure it fits. Similarly, we live in a universe in which the amount of dark energy fits our biological make-up. If the amount of dark energy were substantially different from what we've measured, the environmental conditions would be inhospitable to our form of life.
~ Brian Greene
