The future is always fairyland to the young. Life is like a beautiful and winding lane, on either side bright flowers, and… — George Augustus Henry Sala Copy Share Image
Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
At some point he has to show that he has a vision of a better way. He can't just say 'The future… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
Lizzie Harris's Stop Wanting is an unflinching book about a girlhood filled with violence, doubt, vulnerability, and loss. These gorgeously crafted and… — Rachel Zucker Copy Share Image
Half-baked effort is almost as good as no effort put in at all. Always seek to do your best. Good things always… — Chris Erickson Copy Share Image
Envy is the coward side of Hate, And all her ways are bleak and desolate. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Because no matter how much money we spend there [in Iraq], as long as the people there see this money as... as… — Yaroslav Trofimov Copy Share Image
Forget the grand plan. Forget the master scheme. Forget control. That is the bleak but true basis of independent cinema. Inch by… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
You can find the richness in any moment, even the most seemingly bleak. To try to do a movie about that was… — Billy Crudup Copy Share Image
Beautifully Bleak. I likened the hills encircling Canberra to the sea. They, like the sea, could be a sunny beguiling blue, or… — Hazel Hawke Copy Share Image
What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
We're not our skin of grime, we're not our dread bleak dusty imageless locomotive, we're all beautiful golden sunflowers inside, we're blessed… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
If taking one-self seriously as a woman means committing to a life of grooming, pumicing, pruning and polishing one's exterior for the… — Miranda Hart Copy Share Image
Dont ever lose hope. Even when life seems bleak and hopeless, know that you are not alone. — Nancy Reagan Copy Share Image
Since September it's just gotten colder and colder. There's less daylight now, I've noticed too. This can only mean one thing -… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
The reason I'm interested in alternative worlds and near-future settings is that it allows us to look at our own limitations in… — Jennifer Phang Copy Share Image
A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak. — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
I know for sure that everything will work out. No matter how crazy or bleak the situation is, it will work out.… — Xosha Roquemore Copy Share Image
Yes, it looks bleak. But you are still alive now. You are alive with all the others, in this present moment. And… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they? — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
A while ago, I did a television adaptation of 'Bleak House,' and the character I played, as far as I was concerned,… — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Ah, children, pity level-crossing keepers, pity lock-keepers - pity lighthouse-keepers - pity all the keepers of this world (pity even school teachers),… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
