All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
The great thing about Showtime is that they really give us leeway and the range to explore the real dark side of stuff.
Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds up. But there are other sorts of trains, and other sorts of novels. They rush by in the dark; passengers framed in the lighted windows are smiling and enjoying themselves.
I've met quadriplegics who have lost the use of their limbs but not their spirit. They are not dark, defeated people.
Too little attention is paid to the dark side of incentives. They are anything but a magic bullet. Psychologists have known this for years, but it seems largely hidden from the world of commerce.
I grew up in Sacramento and spent a lot of time in the Saturday matinee. I just thought, 'Wow.' It's that magic of sitting in a dark theater as a little kid. That was in the '50s.
They were, I doubt not, happy enough in their dark stalls, because they were horses, and had plenty to eat; and I was at times quite happy enough in the dark loft, because I was a man, and could think and imagine.
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
I like the Hotel Costes, on rue Saint Honore, a boutique hotel near the Arc de Triomphe, the Louvre and the Tuileries. I love the dark, moody decor as well as the fantastic scented, candlelit pool in the basement.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
There's some kind of dark symbiosis between lunatics and the Postal Service.
Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.
When shooting in the dark, it is a good idea to use a machine gun.
Everything becomes magnified at night. Sounds travel in a different way, it's dark, and everything seems far more spooky.
China's use of 'night soil,' as the Chinese rightly call a manure that is collected after dark, is probably the reason that its soils are still healthy after four millennia of intensive agriculture, while other great civilizations - the Maya, for one - floundered when their soils turned to dust.
We all have our notions of sport. If I'd wanted to make my living climbing mountains, I wouldn't have gone into publishing. Most of the time, you're sitting in a dark room reading a manuscript.
I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
The shows you can do in cable are just more buzzworthy and are about subject matter that's more unusual or dark. And broadcast shows tend to be more mainstream or middle-of-the-road.
Urfa chillies are a Turkish variety that are mild on heat but big on aroma. They're sweet, smoky, a lovely dark red, and go with just about anything.
Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.
