Yet for all the childish innocence of its bizarre glamor, Venice developed an atmosphere, or became the outpost of a sinister deep-rooted… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
(Howard) Dean is a raving nut bag...a raving, sinister, demagogic nutbag...I and a few other people saw that he should be destroyed. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Across the communication landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Ethan Hawke is not a horror movie fan, but he's a really good friend of mine, and I finally cajoled him into… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
A lot of Appalachian music has a certain haunted, foggy feel to it; a certain sinister quality. And that transcends who is… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
Dawn crept over the Downs like a sinister white animal, followed by the snarling cries of a wind eating its way between… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
Observers in the full enjoyment of their bodily senses pity me, but it is because they do not see the golden chamber… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
There is no word or action but may be taken with two hands,--either with the right hand of charitable construction, or the… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
Somewhere at the top of the pyramid in the invisible government are a few sinister people who know exactly what they are… — Dan Smoot Copy Share Image
Some say Edward Snowden is a hero and a patriot. Others say he's a fool and a traitor. The evidence is mounting… — Arthur L. Herman Copy Share Image
Tis not the wholesome sharp mortality, Or modest anger of a satiric spirit, That hurts or wounds the body of a state,… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Amis is acutely, vibrantly sensitive to the different registers of laughter. He knows that it can be the most affirming and uniquely… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I felt an absolutely indescribable sense of menace. It was hell on earth to be there [in the presence of the entities],… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
...she moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business.… — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
Actually, the suburbs are far more sinister places than most city dwellers imagine. Their very blandness forces the imagination into new areas.… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlightenment. And only this condition… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
The spirit of the place is a strange thing. Our mechanical age tries to override it. But it does not succeed. In… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
In order to arouse sympathy, the aristocracy was obliged to lose sight, apparently, of its own interests, and to formulate its indictment… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Following directly behind the bier were the servants who would, in earlier times, have been slaughtered at the graveside, along with a… — Catharine Arnold Copy Share Image
We, perhaps, have corrupted our children and our grandchildren by heedless affluence, by a lack of manliness, by giving the younger generation… — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image