Attacks Quote by John Ashbery

By early evening all the sky to the north had darkened and the spare terrain they trod had turned a neuter gray as far…

— Cormac McCarthy

When the situation is obscure, attack

— Heinz Guderian

What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in which a few moments, pricked apparently at random, shine?

— John Updike

“Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible…

— Mervyn Peake

“...Greyhald Spold knows that Death is looking for him, and has spent many years designing an impregnable hiding place. He has just set the…

— Terry Pratchett

“Most people seemed satisfied with the thin decorative glaze and the artful stage lighting that, sometimes, made the bedrock atrocity of the human predicament…

— Donna Tartt

“Everything, including your set of hand-blown green glass dishes with the tiny bubbles and imperfections, little bits of sand, proof they were crafted by…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“him. There was a horrible fascination in them all. He saw them at night, and they troubled his imagination in the day. The Renaissance…

— Oscar Wilde

“His dark room now seemed cool and restfully confining. You could imagine maps in the wallpaper. The roses had faded into vague shells of…

— William H. Gass

Attack in all directions!

— Nathan Bedford Forrest

“when the illumination did at last come, we felt repaid. It came unexpectedly, of course—things always do, that have been long looked and longed…

— Mark Twain

“Outside the plate glass the world in the mist had become a pencil drawing executed in a dozen different grays with, here and there,…

— Neil Gaiman