Darkish Quotes

#1. The easiest way to make a fruitcake is to buy a darkish cake, then pound some old, hard fruit into it with a mallet. Be sure to wear safety glasses.

Dave Barry

#2. Ach, Tchekov! Why are you dead? Why can't I talk to you in a big darkish room at late evening - where the light is green from the waving trees outside? I'd like to write a series of Heavens: that would be one.

Katherine Mansfield

#3. Among the young ravens driven to roost awhile on Graydon's ark was James Andrew Manallace - a darkish, slow northerner of a type that does not ignite, but must be detonated. ("Dayspring Mishandled")

Rudyard Kipling

#4. This new guy had shoulder-length, darkish hair and a face so perfectly handsome he could've been a movie star.

Joanna Wylde

#5. Now, Benny was no eejit. He wasn't expecting the Tunisian nationals to be Irish. What he did expect was darkish people with Irishy personalities.
That was not what he got.
The Tunisians weren't interested in conforming to Benny's preconceptions. They stubbornly insisted on being themselves.

Eoin Colfer

#6. The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flow'r, but not in this soil; Unknown, and like esteem'd, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon.

John Milton

#7. Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They don't always do it well. But they are our philosophers of actual moments and the body and soul in them, and of our maneuvers in our emergencies and longings.

Harold Brodkey

#8. When they shall paint our sockets gray
And light us like a stinking fuse,
Remember that we once could say,
Yesterday we had a world to lose.

Stanley Kunitz

#9. Love is only found in books

Ellen Hopkins

#10. Today is the day to break free from the prison of the person you know yourself to be and step into a self you have yet to know. Will it be comfortable? No, but do it anyway.

Debbie Ford

#11. Whatever you do to gain success, you have to hang in there and hope good things happen. Always think positive.

Don Rickles

#12. After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.

Wallace Stevens

#13. Enemies can't break your spirit, only friends can.

Arundhati Roy

#14. There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#15. Only very odd people don't realize that truth-telling is always a relative value.

John Gardner

#16. fiction is the great lie that tells the truth

Dorothy Allison

#17. You will never know what fascinating book waits within ... Until you start writing!

Isis Charest