Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the Grim Reaper. — Robert Alton Harris Copy Share Image
The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn't going to be won by charm and personality. — Edmund H. North Copy Share Image
There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
It's going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn't know anything but what it's… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Black Tragedy lets slip her grim disguise and shows you laughing lips and roguish eyes; but when, unmasked, gay Comedy appears, how… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted. — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
That’s hard core, Gin,” Finn replied. “Very hard core. Kind of kinky too.” A grim smile tightened my lips. “That’s me. Gin… — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies. — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share Image
It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would… — Dick Wolf Copy Share Image
the grim, grand African forests are like a great library, in which, so far, I can do little more than look at… — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
A friend once asked me what qualities were needed for SAS. I would say to be self-motivated and resilient; to be calm,… — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. I am talking about a gung-ho attitude that says 'we can change things here, we can… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
We have to laugh. Life is hard and the news is often grim - you should be able to turn on NPR's… — Rachel Martin Copy Share Image
The beachcomber goes looking for trouble, everything he finds is a sign of trouble. The writer is the same; without trouble he… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to censor books. When I read 'Peter Rabbit,' I skip the part about Peter's father ending up in one… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
As the mask of deception falls off the face of humanity Unveiling the grim reality of duality In which everyone is a… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
The natural alone is permanent. Fantastic idols may be worshipped for a while; but at length they are overturned by the continual… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I remember when the Titanic sank in 1912, it was the ship that was supposed to be unsinkable. The only thing it… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
It had the old double keyboard, an entirely different set of keys for capitals and figures, so that the paper seemed a… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer them. He had been… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If Earth is considered a closed system, there will be less for all forever. The frontier is closed, the wilderness is gone,… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
A thousand times today I've started to open my mouth, started to squeak out, "Can you tell me...? But then I'd look… — Anonymous 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
Some leave our life with tears, others with an insane frigidity; Mrs. Wilcox had taken the middle course, which only rarer natures… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Moon and Sea You are the moon, dear love, and I the sea: The tide of hope swells high within my breast,… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
No ladder needs the bird but skies To situate its wings, Nor any leaders grim baton Arraigns it as it sings. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
It feels like getting a back massage from the Grim Reaper: one must get comfortable with the most horrifying things in the… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
Of the quaking recruit, three pitched battles make a grim grenadier; and he who shrank from the muzzle of a cannon, is… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
And when we take ourselves too seriously, we are grim about the brothers and sisters, especially the dissenting ones, and there will… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
Molly was committing dinner by that time, aided and abetted by Sanya, who seemed to take some kind of grim Russian delight… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are! — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
When a movie is called 'searingly honest,' it's almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get. — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
The grim frost is at hand, when apples will fall thick, almost thunderous, on the hardened earth. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
