Black Tar Quotes

#1. When I was a bit older I had all of the George Carlin records, all of the Steve Martin records, all of the Cheech and Chong records and all of the Richard Pryor records.

Marc Maron

#2. In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.

Cato The Younger

#3. A mother's example sketches the outline of her child's character.

Tim Howard

#4. I hate the way bitterness is like a black, bubbling tar pit in me, and I hate the way so many memories of you are in that pit.

Lorna Landvik

#5. The Negro comes in many colors. Dark. Black. Blacker. Blackest. Blacker than night. Black as hell. Black as tar.

James McBride

#6. Vilis still doesn't pass to me but I don't care. Where he comes from (Latvia) they burn black people into tar and make roads out of them.

Stephen Kelman

#7. I felt a little lost between the blue and white of the sky and the monotony of the colors around me- the sticky black of the tar, the dull black of all the clothes, and the shiny black of the hearse.

Albert Camus

#8. By the time I'm through with you, I'll be black-tar heroin in your veins and you won't be able to go four hours without me somewhere deep inside you.

Anonymous

#9. Loneliness was tricky: a cup filled at one moment with freedom, and the next, with emptiness.

Laura Resau

#10. The time will come when this luscious golden tomato, rich in nutrition, a delight to the eye, a joy to the palate whether fried, baked, broiled or even eaten raw will form the foundation of a great garden industry.

Robert Johnson

#11. It was darker than a pitch-black panther, covered in tar, eating black licorice at the very bottom of the deepest part of the Black Sea.

Lemony Snicket

#12. While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I speak a different language.

Clifford Stoll

#13. The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.

Kenneth Clark

#14. Who ever thought to put the word "hero" in heroin?

Anthony Liccione

#15. Even when your eyes are closed, it feels black. As black as black ever gets, like if you touch it, your hand might get stuck in it, like tar or black quicksand or when you stretch out your hand at night, to turn on a light, but all you feel is darkness.

Kelly Link

#16. As she conceived it, tea had to be as black as tar and as strong as a sinner's conscience. Or the other way around. As black as that conscience and as strong as tar. And sweet.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#17. Rather than spend so much time wondering if I'm going to get hired, or is it a problem that I've got this black-tar history, I've just got to keep doing what I'm doing and try to be decent.

Natasha Lyonne

#18. Even the leftover carats of tar in the gutter, so black they seemed to suck
the light out of the air.
By nightfall kids had come across them: every sidewalk on the block was
scribbled with obscenities and hearts.

C. K. Williams

#19. Beekeeper sing of your frustration
In this litigious breeze
Of accidental pollination
In this era without bees

We keep breeding desperation
In this era of thieves
Who keep stealing respiration
From the tenderest of trees

Andrew Bird

#20. Memories trickled through the pain as Onyx's eyes travelled down the tar road he knelt on. Its black, sour surface melted into the erratic horizon.

Ronel Van Tonder