Semidark Quotes & Sayings

THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES — Arthur Conan Doyle

We wove a web in childhood, A web of sunny air; We dug a spring in infancy Of water pure and fair; We sowed in youth a mustard seed, We cut an almond rod; We are now grown up to riper age- Are they withered in the sod? — Charlotte Bronte

When I was a kid I always wanted to be a mad scientist. I don't know ... a regular scientist just was no un. — Tim Burton

Save me, save me, save me from this squeeze. I got a big fat mama trying to break me. — Ray Davies

And not for the first time she felt a reassuring shiver of dislike for him. — David Nicholls

Beauty feeds us. Anarchy is beauty. We are against the grey people. We want to decorate, like those fantastic Indian lorries which are covered with flowers. Beauty must conquer the lust for order; order is ugliness. — Tom Hodgkinson

We must remain hopeful that for our children and our children's children, that we are not a warring nation, but we will embrace and practice true compassion and honor the ideals of peace and freedom, and we will not give up. — Jessica Lange

I had evolved a year too soon, and it nearly broke me — Carlyle Labuschagne

President Bush got an early Christmas gift. This week, President Bush was chosen as 'Person of the Year' by Time magazine. Not only that, Martha Stewart was chosen as person of the year by Doing Time magazine. — Conan O'Brien

Inside every human being there are treasures to unlock. — Mike Huckabee

My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it. — Jack Johnson

Just because you ... achieve what you always thought would make you feel special does not fix that deep-down internal insecurity. External achievement never equals internal acceptance. — Lysa TerKeurst

The only goal of science is the honour of the human spirit, and a question in number theory is worth a question concerning the system of the world. — Serge Lang

He strolled out onto the wide, semidark veranda, where couples were scattered at tables, filling the lantern-hung night with vague words and hazy laughter. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting. — Joan Didion

I'm not looking at an action movie as something where I just jump around and look beautiful and show my muscles. Since there are so few people that do this and have that pedigree, people disregard their contribution. — Wesley Snipes

The non-dating type? What kind of type is that? A little mushroom who sits at home in a semidark room growing moss? — Jenny Han