My parents loved music, and my father would come home with cassette tapes of Chic and the Village People and Barbra Streisand.… — Marjorie Gubelmann Copy Share Image
The most important thing about a TV set is to get it back against something and not out in the middle of… — Bruce Jay Friedman Copy Share Image
Those circumstances, which to the dim eye of Jacob's faith wore a hue so somber, were at that very moment developing and… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
A lot of times we associate Greenpeace and climate change and shrinking polar caps with heavy-handed, weighty material. It's somber stuff. But… — Alexander Skarsgard Copy Share Image
God in his harmony has equal ends For cedar that resists and reed that bends; For good it is a woman sometimes… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Winter’s continuum – its prolonged and erratic way of mingling pleasant days with cheerless weeks – holds farm activities in somber check… — Lawn Griffiths Copy Share Image
The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
“Bad things happen, and shoulders are shrugged. The most serious of events are blended with the strange. The author pulled me inside… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
It was one of those somber evenings when the sighing of the wind resembles the moans of a dying man; a storm… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
For a while I used to listen to those whispers about babies costing you books, and Cyril Connolly's loathsome quote that "There… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
The sound of the freezing of snow over the land seemed to roar deep into the earth. There was no moon. The… — Yasunari Kawabata Copy Share Image
The job has its grandeurs, yes. There is the exultation of arriving safely after a storm, the joy of gliding down out… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“Rose sat all alone in the big best parlor, with her little handkerchief laid ready to catch the first tear, for she… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I'd heard of Evergreen Care Center before. Cass and I had always made fun of the stupid ads they ran on TV,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Most people are surprised when they hear my somber figures: we know of 2 million species of plants, animals and microorganisms, and… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Sentenced to fade under the weight of external pressures—the eternal cycle of life at its most poignant. Whether we embrace it or… — Ryan Gelpke Copy Share Image
I went to see 'Phantom of the Opera' with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Every true-crime thing you see goes in with that kind of ominous music and low lighting, so to be able to talk… — Karen Kilgariff 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
He pulled her back, off balance so that she fell against him, and he took her face in his two hands and… — Anne Stuart Copy Share Image
There is, however, a somber point in the social outlook of Americans. Their sense of equality and human dignity is mainly limited… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Unlike a novel, where you expect a different kind of arc that leaves us with a somber sense of resolution, I think… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Memento mori and obey the Lord. Art and religion love the somber chord. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“Life is stranger than any of us expected, There is a somber, imponderable fate. Enigma rules, and the heart has no certainty.” — Richard Eberhart Copy Share Image
My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber. — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
But a man's character is his fate... and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“I was trying to be a better man, Perry. For you.” I shifted in my seat. “Dex…” “And I’ll keep trying,” he… — Karina Halle Copy Share Image
“When somebody tells me they’ve had a bad day, I always respond in a somber voice, “Yes, I’ve had one of those… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“When he came home that night he was in a very somber mood, having begun to see at last how those might… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“In repose his face seemed to become darker still, and as the wattage of those green eyes fell their somber hue made… — Robert McCammon Copy Share Image
I really love a lot of Japanese music, like Ryuichi Sakamoto and this guy I got really into, Tatsuro Yamashita. When I… — Mac DeMarco Copy Share Image
I think it's cool to play characters who are very joke-y and yet you can show a total serious, very somber side… — James Phelps Copy Share Image
I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,'… — Iggy Azalea Copy Share Image