Shadowiness Quotes & Sayings

I am a very good imitation, but I am not really a good person. I have done many very bad things, and I hope to live long enough to do many more. And to be completely objective, I almost certainly deserve all the things Hood and Doakes wanted to do to me. But while I wait for the long arm of the law to grab me by the neck, I also deserve to breathe air that is not fouled with the stench of unwashed and rotting dental apocalypse. I put a stiff index finger into Hood's sternum and pushed him away. For a moment he thought he was going to tough it out - but I had chosen my spot well, and he had to back off. "You can arrest me," I told Hood, "or you can follow me. Otherwise, get out of my way." I pushed a little harder and he had to take another step back. "And for God's sake, brush your teeth." Hood — Jeff Lindsay

A good time occurs precisely when we lose track of what time it is. — Robert Farrar Capon

Any rehearsal process - I find, anyway - does have quite an effect on me, and I very much live in that world for the whole period of time that I'm involved with the production. But normally, afterwards with a little bit of space, I can come right back out of it again. — Laura Donnelly

I look very different from how people expect me to be ... Clearly they think I'm a great big fat viking. — Kate Winslet

Being is unrecognizable unless it manages to seem, and seeming is feeble unless it manages to be. — Gorgias

It's comforting to me," he added, "that beauty can come from violence, if only in metaphor. — Keith Hollihan

What we essentially want is to draw something unknown to us in all its shadowiness, not something we know in all its illumination. — Orhan Pamuk

Tell them I came, and no one answered, That I kept my word, he said. Never the least stir made the listeners, Though every word he spake Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house From the one man left awake: Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup, And the sound of iron on stone, And how the silence surged softly backward, When the plunging hoofs were gone. — Walter De La Mare

Compromise: An agreement between two men to do what both agree is wrong. — Lord Edward Cecil