‘The Waking Dark’ is about what happens when something awakens a town’s darkest impulses and unleashes them on the world. – Robin Wasserman
This possibility bothered me as I thought it was not advisable to remain in one academic environment, and the long dark winters in Edinburgh could be rather dismal. – Paul Nurse
That and the fact that I knew that nobody was going to publish my work at Dark Horse or DC or anywhere. – Rob Walton
I feel like there’s different kinds of evil and there’s different kinds of villains, and as much as I would like to be dark and playing with knives… it’s not me and it’s not my look. – Rachelle Lefevre
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn’t there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything. – Robert A. Heinlein
I’m not at all funny. I can do dark comedy pretty well, but straight-up comedy, I don’t know. I’m much darker. I’ve been like that since I was 3 years old. – Rooney Mara
‘Blade Runner’ was a comic strip. It was a comic strip! It was a very dark comic strip. Comic metaphorically. – Ridley Scott
I’ve always been attracted to things that are taboo. I’ve never been afraid to go to that dark place. – Ricky Williams
I like a person who knows how to say something dark at a very dark moment. The darker the moment and the darker the comic, the better. Something that is so wrong on all levels. – Octavia Spencer
I was scared of the dark. Ohhhh, I’d do anything not to have to sleep on my own. I’d get in bed and cover myself with dolls and teddy bears. – Peta Wilson
I realised that if I wished to write about the dark and not allow for hope, people would recognise it as false – because hope is the nub of what we are. – Richard Flanagan
The spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things. The opposite or pessimistic spirit drags men down and away from God, looks on the dark side, murmurs, complains, and is slow to yield obedience. – Orson F. Whitney
People always tell me my books are so dark; I don’t think they’re particularly dark. I’m not like that. I’m quite a cheerful soul. – Ruth Rendell
I go down to my little hut, where it’s tight and dark and warm, and within minutes I can go back to being six or seven or eight again. – Roald Dahl
But time has caught up with it and I think vindicated it. Shampoo, too: very dark, very ambitious movie. – Robert Towne
I think it’s almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to focus on the positive. – Rob Brydon
I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials. – Sam Elliott
The reason I am unemployed for six months out of every year is because I have to turn down most of the films I’m offered. If I didn’t, I’d only ever play a dark, satanic count on a horse. – Rufus Sewell
My musical taste and image is going to change naturally. It’s not forced; I do what comes natural to me. Sometimes, I like to be dark… other times, I like to be really light and ladylike. – Rihanna
I like the dark, mysterious, maybe even gothic type girls. They have to have a good personality too! I’m very picky! – Shia LaBeouf
For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of thin and thick, of light and heavy, etc. – Roman Jakobson
I think I appear very innocent and soft, but I’m actually very dark and edgy. It’s a weird dichotomy. – Rebel Wilson
Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It’s the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play. – Peter Shaffer