Dark Retelling Quotes & Sayings

I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it's supposed to be. — Dizzy Gillespie

Sawdust in the gear-boxes, the electric-drill on the speedometer cables, — Roald Dahl

At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education. — Estelle Morris

Next to that kid, we all look like onions. — Dustin Hoffman

Caste is another name for control. Caste puts a limit on enjoyment. Caste does not allow a person to transgress caste limits in pursuit of his enjoyment. That is the meaning of such caste restrictions as inter-dining and inter-marriage ... These being my views I am opposed to all those who are out to destroy the Caste System.57 — B.R. Ambedkar

It is interesting, that termites don't build things, and the great builders of our nation almost to a man have been Christians, because Christians have the desire to build something. He is motivated by love of man and God, so he builds. The people who have come into (our) institutions (today) are primarily termites. They are into destroying institutions that have been built by Christians, whether it is universities, governments, our own traditions, that we have ... The termites are in charge now, and that is not the way it ought to be, and the time has arrived for a godly fumigation. — Pat Robertson

A single person is a manageable entity, whom you can either make friends with or leave alone. But half of a married couple is not exactly a whole human being: if the marriage is successful it is something a little more than that; if unsuccessful, a little less. In either case, a fresh complication is added to the already intricate business of friendship: as Clem had once remarked, you might as well try to dance a tarantella with a Siamese twin. — Jan Struther

One hundred years from now, we'll all be dead. It's hard to believe. One hundred years from now, everyone we see every day will be gone. — Bill Ayers

The purpose of such propaganda phrases as "war on terrorism" and attacking "those who hate freedom" is to paralyze individual thought as well as to condition people to act as one mass, as when President Bush attempted to end debate on Iraq by claiming that the American people were of one voice. The modern war president removes the individual nature of those who live in it by forcing us into a uniform state where the complexities of those we fight are erased. The enemy-terrorism, Iraq, Bin Laden, Hussein-becomes one threatening category, something to be defeated and destroyed, so that the public response will be one of reaction to fear and threat rather than creatively and independently thinking for oneself. Our best hope for overcoming perpetual thinking about war and perpetual fear about both real and imagined threats is to question our leaders and their use of empty slogans that offer little rationale, explanation or historical context. — Nancy Snow

If I'm a monster, mademoiselle, it's because man's cruelty has made me so. — Rachel L. Demeter

A few fires flickered, plumes of dark smoke marring the ruby sky. — Sarah J. Maas

Not sure, but I tell her that it does because I'm Midwestern and agreeable. She — Matthew Norman