Still, there's that faint glimmer of hope we feel when we sense, in other people, the same kind of attentiveness to life… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
It's hard to maintain a reputation for being grim and mysterious when you're accompanied by a brightly clad young thing, skipping merrily… — Simon R. Green Copy Share Image
I consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The people in this house, I felt, and I included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I suppose the most radical part of my teaching at present is that love is not a feeling. Everybody suffers from love,… — Barry Long Copy Share Image
Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Grim sighed heavily. "I swear I'm getting a migraine." "My mom suffers from those a lot, too." "Being around you, I imagine… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore - Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
We came to the house, and it is an old house, full of great chimneys where wood is burnt on ancient dogs… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
God said,--"Let there be light!" Grim darkness felt His might, And fled away; Then startled seas and mountains cold Shone forth, all… — Ebenezer Elliott Copy Share Image
And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
And what do the Theban hoplites see in this extended rending of the sky, this white-bright glory of Enlil's lightning? The future,… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
When the dead body said, "Good evening," Annabel had to face the grim conclusion that it wasn't as dead as she'd hoped. — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Life is inherently disturbing. That's why we've created the myths-to help us overcome, defend or deny, to transcend the grim reality of… — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
The act of getting married, stripped of the necessity to have a secure setting to raise children, seems to me no less… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
The Law is a grim, unsmiling thing. Not Justice, though. Justice is witty and whimsical and kind and caring. — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
“She would love him so hard, so completely, so openly and without fear that the universe would shudder at her recklessness.” — Lexi George Copy Share Image
I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's. I have such passion for what I do that I can't… — Andrea Arnold Copy Share Image
Don't kid yourself. President Obama's decision to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan before he stands for reelection is not driven by the… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
I told you I would tell you my names. This is what they call me. I'm called Glad-of-War, Grim, Raider, and Third.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I am a great believer in the simplicity of things and as you probably know I am inclined to hang on to… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
