Captive In The Dark Quotes

#1. Once upon a time, Caleb held me captive in the dark, now he used it to seduce me.

C.J. Roberts

#2. She had once more shown her talent for profiting by the unexpected, and dangerous theories as to the advisability of yielding to impulse were germinating under the surface of smiling attention which she continued to present to her companion.

Edith Wharton

#3. I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian.

Rupert Murdoch

#4. During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.

Honore De Balzac

#5. The good Shepherd dog knows his master almost better than himself and must wonder indeed at the lack of the reverse.

Max Von Stephanitz

#6. There were secrets there, the secrets of the ether all mankind is born from; of the blackness that holds our oldest memories captive.

Bryan Hall

#7. Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature's cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.

Charles Darwin

#8. Sometimes I hate him. When he does the dishes, he shakes off each one before setting it in the drying rack. Water flies everywhere. A couple of drops always hit me in the face. I have to leave the room to avoid smashing a plate against his head.

Tarryn Fisher

#9. They watched her sit, holding the bundle up before her, the lamp just at her elbow belabored by a moth whose dark shape cast upon her face appeared captive within the delicate skull, the thin and roselit bone, like something kept in a china mask

Cormac McCarthy

#10. Maybe the country doesn't pray for me like they do for Sachin Tendulkar, but I know I'm on a good wicket as well.

Shahrukh Khan

#11. Its an onion tree. Every time Sam takes off an onion, two more will grow in its place.

Gail Bowen

#12. I won! I won! I don't have to go to school anymore.

Eddy Merckx

#13. I didn't have an exhibition anywhere until I was 30. My first exhibition was at 30, and then for my first show in America, I'm 50. It's kind of all right: I'm just a slow burner.

Tracey Emin

#14. Each day I was more vulnerable than the last. Each day he stripped away more of my sense of self. And now he'd taken the last of it, the last of me. But who did that make me? An extension of him? Someone new? I didn't know. Didn't want to know.

C.J. Roberts

#15. I've been more places by accident than most people have been on purpose.

Alberta Hunter

#16. I see the rainbow in the sky, the dew upon the grass; I see them, and I ask not why they glimmer or they pass. With folded arms I linger not to call them back; 'twere vain: In this, or in some other spot, I know they'll shine again.

Walter Savage Landor

#17. I wanted to cry for wanting to cry.

C.J. Roberts

#18. People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night.

C.J. Roberts

#19. But then the stage showed other things. Bad things. Murderous things. Things I would never really do. And things I would forget about in the morning, because I'd wake up feeling a whole lot better. I knew right from wrong, Ori and I both did. We were not terrible people. We were not fools.

Nova Ren Suma

#20. 'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.

Christopher Hitchens