Dark Dismal Quotes

#1. It was a dark, dismal afternoon, like they all seem to be
these days, when I got this call. I could hear the rain
battering the windowpane of my office when the phone rang.

C.S. Woolley

#2. My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent.

Anne Bradstreet

#3. If I have to speak in public, I am terrified.

Kirk Douglas

#4. We abjure labels. We fight for money and an indefinable pride. The politics, the ethics, the moralities, are irrelevant.

Glen Cook

#5. You teach combat, I guess."
Aphros threw up his hands in exasperation. "Why does everyone assume that?"
Leo glanced at the massive sword on the fish-guy's back. "Uh, I don't know.

Rick Riordan

#6. I actually like getting up to blue skies.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

#7. The disciplined are free.

James Cash Penney

#8. There is nothing more powerful in the world than a naked woman.

Christie Watson

#9. He got the deviant joke loud and clear, the one about the biggest head case craving the taste of a psychiatrist. The little bit of a thing was smarter than most.

V. Theia

#10. The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning.

Carl Sagan

#11. Snub end of a dismal year,
deep in the dwarf orchard,
The sky with its undercoat of blackwash and point stars,
I stand in the dark and answer to
My life, this shirt I want to take off,
which is on fire ...

Charles Wright

#12. I was a kid at the end of the 1960s and in the early 1970s, so a lot of things changed. You had pop music coming up, with David Bowie, you had new television programmes and all these things. I was fascinated.

Dries Van Noten

#13. Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. You can't fake competence, creativity, or sexual arousal.

Douglas Coupland

#15. This possibility bothered me as I thought it was not advisable to remain in one academic environment, and the long dark winters in Edinburgh could be rather dismal.

Paul Nurse