Short Dark Mysterious Quotes & Sayings

I am too miserable, too low-spirited, too sick of the world and all in it, including life itself, and I would not care if I heard this moment the flapping of the wings of the angel of death. — Bram Stoker

Loveliness is infernally sad. — Virginia Woolf

We have a reliable computerized network devoted to counterterrorist activities. — George Pataki

Three mantras you should never say: (1) I don't know. (2) I'm not ready. (3) I can't do it. W — Yogi Bhajan

Finally I had made that necessary imaginative leap - which is a real necessity, since most of us writers can't be out there living like crazy all the time. These days, very few are the writers whose book jackets list things like bush pilot, big game hunter, or exotic dancer. No, more often we are English teachers. We have children, we have mortgages, we have bills to pay. So we have to stop writing strictly about what we know, which is what they always told us to do in creative writing classes. Instead, we have to write about what we can learn, and what we can imagine, and thus we come to experience that great pleasure Anne Tyler noted when somebody asked her why she writes, and she answered, I write because I want more than one life. — Lee Smith

Spiritual leadership should remain spiritual leadership and the temporal power should not become too important in any church. — Eleanor Roosevelt

I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. — Marjane Satrapi

Voice mail was invented by confident people to make unconfident people say stupid shit that gets taped and haunts us forever. — A.S. King

Creativity rudely trespasses and tramples on accepted grounds. — Ted Agon

I don't believe in trickle-down economics. I don't think that people who have the most are inclined to share it, generally. — Dave Matthews

I encourage the study of music. And the immersion. 'Cause my life has been so enriched by being involved in music as I have. — Clive Davis

Films like 'Babel' can transcend the one point-of-view formula that has reigned for so long. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

It lasts, and will last forever, because God loves it. Everything that is has its being through the love of God. — Mirabai Starr

I think I'd be a prime candidate for canonisation. — Morrissey

Remind me who you are," he said in a gentler tone, almost a please. "How we know each other."
"Okay," she began. "I'm Savannah Evans, a grad student and teaching assistant who teaches English at a college in Cambridge. I applied to the colony to work on my poetry and arrived six weeks ago. "We've spoken many times. You've praised my work, which I find a great honor as I'm a fan of your art. — Lisa Carlisle