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. – Barry Schwartz
The millennial generation wants to express every feeling to feel like you’re connected to it, and there’s something very dark about tragedy that people are drawn to. – Alia Shawkat
We pitched ‘Sightseers’ as a TV idea originally, and it was rejected because it was too dark. But then things like ‘Dexter’ came out, ‘Breaking Bad’… There are so many sophisticated dramas now with comic elements to them. – Alice Lowe
Dark energy is incredibly strange, but actually it makes sense to me that it went unnoticed, because dark energy has no effect on daily life, or even inside our solar system. – Adam Riess
Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods. – Alice Hoffman
Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch’s brew. – Anthony Hecht
I think I succeeded in getting the Egyptian people excited about the importance of science, and this is the only way Egypt can get out of this dark ages. – Ahmed Zewail
I’d go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn’t know who I was. And things just get really dark. – Angelina Jolie
Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark. – Annie Dillard
I got into Dio when I was still quite young. I remember seeing the video for ‘Rainbow In The Dark’ on MTV. That was my first taste of Dio. It wasn’t until years later that I realized he had this whole career with Rainbow and Black Sabbath and even going back to Elf. When I saw that video, it instantly became one of my favorite songs. – Corey Taylor
I love ‘Forrest Gump;’ I like sweet, cheery, happy movies. But it has some dark moments too. – Andie MacDowell
We’ve known for a long time that the universe is expanding. But about 15 years ago, my colleagues and I discovered that it is expanding faster and faster. That is, the universe is accelerating, and that was not expected, but it is now attributed to this mysterious stuff called dark energy which seems to make up about 70 percent of the universe. – Adam Riess
I did a couple songs with this hip-hop guy named Tim Dark. He was working in the same studio I’ve been working in, he heard my music and he said, aw man, I’ve got to do something with you. – Alan Vega
I lean toward anything with a dark sense of humor. And since I’ve been out of school, the majority of my books have been contemporary; basically, I like my characters to have electricity – even better, a TV. – Andrea Seigel
Publishing a short story can sometimes feel like shouting into the dark… your words come out, and then nothing… but I don’t think that’s why I tend to write novels rather than stories. – Alice McDermott
I get very confused about being called a comedian, because when you say ‘I’m a comedian,’ people expect you to crack a joke. Maybe I use laughter and humour to make people think. I don’t know what you call that – a humourist? A satirist? A pessimistic comedian? I don’t know. Satirists can be very dark. – Bassem Youssef
When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer. – Corrie Ten Boom
‘Interstellar’ is a thematic sequel to Christopher Nolan’s last original film, ‘Inception’. It drops us into a dark future full of otherworldly landscapes and time distortions. – Annalee Newitz
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up. – Anne Lamott
When you buy a jacket, you pick the size to ensure it fits. Similarly, we live in a universe in which the amount of dark energy fits our biological make-up. If the amount of dark energy were substantially different from what we’ve measured, the environmental conditions would be inhospitable to our form of life. – Brian Greene
One of the most exciting things about dark energy is that it seems to live at the very nexus of two of our most successful theories of physics: quantum mechanics, which explains the physics of the small, and Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, which explains the physics of the large, including gravity. – Adam Riess
I’ve been reading scripts where they’ve been doing a lot of singing now, but within the dark, realistic story line. I would love, love, love, love to do that. But not a musical on Broadway, I don’t have that kind of energy or stamina. – Alia Shawkat
I love nothing more than a good, rich, dark chocolate. It exhilarates. It satisfies. – Abigail Spencer
I was being called to surrender the very citadel of my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not really know what repentance was or what I was required to repent of. It was indeed the turning point of my life. – Bede Griffiths
I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War. – A. S. Byatt
An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark – that is critical genius. – Billy Wilder