This massive ascendancy of corporate power over democratic process is probably the most ominous development since the end of World War II,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Nothing beats a haunted moonlit night on All Hallows Eve… And on this fatal night, at this witching time, the starless sky… — Elizabeth Kim Copy Share Image
The woods always look different at night...as if the daytime trees and flowers and stones had gone to bed and sent slightly… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Never has good weather felt so bad. Never have flowers inspired so much fear. Never has the warm caress of a sunbeam… — Joel Achenbach Copy Share Image
Sunday morning may be cheery enough, with its extra cup of coffee and litter of Sunday newspapers, but there is always hanging… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
“It reminded him of a science fiction novel that he'd read once; in it, the characters had a tendency to say ominously… — Ais Copy Share Image
Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Even more ominous ... is the fact that since the Second World War a new kind of intellectual has emerged in large… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
"Foreboding" and "ominous" is what you're striving to achieve-not mention. — Josip Novakovich Copy Share Image
“Twas ostensibly ominous in the overview To be 'orribly and onerously overrun.” — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
You stupefied me. We waxed, Carnivores, late and alight In the beaded winter. All was ominous, luminous. — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
I really believe the nexus of terrorism and nuclear weapons is the world's most ominous threat. — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
“Have a look around, my pretty, we are surrounded by Death in all forms – just the two of us are still alive –” — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
Animals like crows, owls or black cats are not ominous at all; it is the men's superstitious mind which is the inauspicious… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
William Tavener never heeded ominous forecasts in the domestic horizon, and he never looked for a storm until it broke. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“The phone rang. Softly, in actuality, yet it seemed loud and ominous, as phones do at night in dark hotel rooms.” — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
A dramatic, evocative, thoughtful and very accessible account of one of the most important stories of the century - and one of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there's a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop… — Eric Stonestreet Copy Share Image
I want to remember what bullshit looks like when weapons of mass destruction are diagrammed out and whacko "intelligence" is delivered in… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
On the political as on the economic front it's important not to fall into the "not as bad as" trap. High unemployment… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
The library, with its Daedalian labyrinth, mysterious hush, and faintly ominous aroma of knowledge, has been replaced by the computer's cheap glow,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Mixer: Let's go with the usual stuff, something dark and ominous. Like losing your penis is a bad thing. Peter Bretter: [sarcastically]… — Forgetting Sarah Marshall Copy Share Image
There is no task of greater importance than to give our children the very best preparation for the demands of an ominous… — Bruno Walter Copy Share Image
Dreamworlds can maintain themselves only as glimpses. Once the writer transports the reader across the threshold, nothing that was promised can be… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
My life is nothing but pressure. All pressure. This pressure is like a heaviness. It's always on top of me, this heaviness.… — Rodney Dangerfield Copy Share Image
My body cheerfully informed me that he felt really good pressed against me like that, all hard muscles and smooth contours and… — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
We must now turn from considering the necessary struggle with language arising, as it were, from its very nature and the nature… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Mainstream politicians will continue to protect existing systems of power, corporate executives will continue to maximize profit without concern, and the majority… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
It cannot be denied that for a society which has to create scarcity to save its members from starvation, to whom abundance… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Enhancement not only allows the possibilities of a healthy fullness and exuberance, but of a rather ominous extravagance, aberration, monstrosity ... This… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Nobody wants to know a colored woman's opinion about her own status of that of her group. When she dares express it,… — Mary Church Terrell Copy Share Image
Tidiness ... makes life easier and more agreeable, does harm to no one and actually saves time and trouble to the person… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
They’re waiting for you. Go on in.” Adrian leaned close to Keith’s ear and spoke in an ominous voice. “If.You.Dare.” He poked… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image