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I've been poked, prodded and pulled.
DUSTY DVORACEK Was that what it meant to be alive - moving from a brightly lit corridor into a darkened room at eve...
KEVIN BROCKMEIER![]()
She threw the door open. The room seemed to be a sort of library, the walls lined with books. It was...
CASSANDRA CLARE![]()
Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zen...
IRVINE WELSH![]()
I am so tired of this gothic crap,” I muttered. “Just once, I want to meet the villain in a chee...
SEANAN MCGUIRE Griff was outstanding. He walked into the room and these guys just lit up.
JERRY NARRON![]()
Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls ...
ANNE SULLIVAN![]()
In Vancouver, in Sydney and in Orange County, we live among fluorescent stores and streets so bright...
PICO IYER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES my father...there was never any mistaking his love for me. When I walked into the room, his eyes lit...
ERIC RIPERT![]()
Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a sma...
GLORIA STEINEM Sam lit up every room she was in.
JANET ALLEN![]()
Henderson sighed. There was a time, he reflected, when the coming of this night meant something. A d...
ROBERT BLOCH![]()
...in the distance across the dark fields I saw a flame. With the rainy season, the fireflies had lo...
SHōHEI ŌOKA He was driving behind a dark SUV, which suddenly swerved to the left to avoid a car with its lights ...
JAMES MANNING I think the idea of having the show divided into two parts was that Tom Tom Club opened for Talking ...
TINA WEYMOUTH Our server room situation worked out pretty easily. We leased space that was previously occupied by ...
DAVID JACKSON Insect life was so loud that when you parked the car and got out it sounded as if you had suddenly t...
DAVID SAMUELS![]()
The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure...
CORNELIA FUNKE Joel really must be credited with reviving the official work on this case, too. He pushed and poked ...
DEBBIE DAVIS![]()
The idea of going to the movies made Hugo remember something Father had once told him about going to...
BRIAN SELZNICK "Be the fire that keeps the candle lit, in the hearts of those we love". ~Tom Baker
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN![]()
I was woundering what he would say, what word could sum me up right then, when i saw the lights come...
SARAH DESSEN Shanna, sweet Shanna. How can I tell you what you mean to me? When I saw you at the ball it was as i...
KERRELYN SPARKS![]()
Patrick was just a wonderful person. He was the guy who lit up the room.
BRIAN GRAHAM![]()
Bay's room was the first one at the top of the staircase. It was painted a dove gray that turned pea...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN I realized so much of my life hasn't been in a well-lit room, and I realized the importance of d...
THOMAS NEWMAN The next day I was driven down to New York City to take the physical. It was one of the strangest th...
JOHN WILLIAM TUOHY![]()
As in, I wouldn't know normal if it marched up and poked me in the eye.
BECCA FITZPATRICK Death is a dark flower, its perfume heady and dangerous as it pulls you into its bosom.
CAROL WEEKES![]()
It seemed I'd always been chasing after something, anything that moved -a car, a bird, a blowing lea...
BOB DYLAN I’m pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we’re not meant to see.
KARINA HALLE![]()
Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as ...
CHARLES DICKENS![]()
When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity;...
LYTTON STRACHEY If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for cent...
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN![]()
I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the...
MUHAMMAD ALI Previously Apple's operating system, Mac OS X, was untargeted by virus writers, but two worms aimed ...
ANDY WALKER![]()
You could say I have quite a nice-guy image as an actor and I wanted to do something new, something ...
BILL PAXTON Tom was pretty much looking for a rider [in the Sam Davis]. We had had some success with Jose riding...
JASON BEIDES![]()
I found myself thinking that perhaps there was something inexorable about the way events unfolded, a...
HANYA YANAGIHARA![]()
I have a lot of land. I bought it because I had a very strong feeling. I was in my early twenties, a...
ROBERT REDFORD![]()
When I walked into the room, I looked down to the floor and saw that each and every garment I owned ...
RASMENIA MASSOUD The first moments of the bombing, when the skies were lit up, I was in a room across the hall,
PETER ARNETT What Tom did a great job with was that he made sure this team had a chip on its shoulder.
JASON RABADEAUX![]()
[The first floor - the original ranch house - was dark and contained the entry, sitting room, and be...
GARY WOLF![]()
God, he suddenly understood, was love in its purest form, and in these last months with his children...
NICHOLAS SPARKS![]()
Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United S...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Essentially we were a rock band playing rock songs but I was able to bring in some much more unusual...
ANDY SUMMERS![]()
Every candle that gets lit in the dark room must feel a little rejection from the darkness around it...
KIRK CAMERON![]()
I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before...
MUHAMMAD ALI![]()
And then the lights came on and suddenly it was all as usual - I don't mean really as usual, but we ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE The wind was howling and I was worried about trees falling down. Suddenly, I heard a loud, thud-like...
SHERYL BRENNER![]()
If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it?
KENDRICK LAMAR In particular, I established a reasonably accurate energy threshold for permanent displacement of a ...
WALTER KOHN Tom watched with his arms folded as the life that had been within Kobe died out, and the fire contin...
KEISHA KEENLEYSIDE![]()
Luck, normalcy, fate ... none of those seemed to be on our side. Our very being together went agains...
AMY PLUM![]()
Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, w...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE![]()
Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, w...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE![]()
Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, w...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE![]()
Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, w...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë The Kalamazoo Promise has opened some doors that had been previously closed.
BARRY BLACKWELL But I'd say my best boss was Tom Barr, who was a partner at Cravath, Swain & Moore in the 19...
DAVID BOIES It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light.
LAUREN LOLA It wasn't until a few weeks after that license was signed that suddenly everyone realized that an aw...
DAVID REDDEN I got poked in the left eye on the collision. My vision is blurry in that eye. I had to play. It was...
BRITTANY BUSH His statement was that he had been coming in late after dark, and leaving early in the morning befor...
CAPT. CHUCK BASTAK![]()
Now the tea began to do its work- as it always did- and the world that only a few minutes previously...
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH![]()
We had Chad in [Sept. 2] for an extensive workout in the wind, with everything else we could muster ...
TOM COUGHLIN![]()
He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to...
P. G. [SIR PELHAM GRENVILLE] WODEHOUSE![]()
It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a dar...
SHARON SALZBERG Taking trips tore all of us up inside, for they seemed, each journey away from home, something that ...
EUDORA WELTY![]()
And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth.
JOSEPH CONRAD I don't care if you're a guy named Tom and drink eight six-packs a day, you're still going to have a...
CHLOE DAO![]()
It was at a church service in Munich that I saw him, a former S.S. man who had stood guard at the sh...
CORRIE TEN BOOM![]()
I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak an...
ZANE GREY![]()
I've given lots of people chances," she said suddenly, as if Marion was still in the room to hear us...
SARAH DESSEN![]()
He had been suddenly jerked from the heart of civilization and flung into the heart of things primor...
JACK LONDON![]()
And as for the vague something --- was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding exp...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë When you saw her eyes, you could see her heart. When she smiled, the whole room lit up. She was just...
DEBI BELL![]()
When I was sixteen, I made the discovery -- love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was ...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS![]()
Suddenly, I felt like I was wearing patchouli in a room full of Chanel.
SARAH JESSICA PARKER My government's action got the Peacemakers into this. Perhaps Tom was used as a message to the natio...
CAROL ROSE He had been given a strong faith through his parents. As an adult, in his teen years and early colle...
DEENA BURNETT In some instances, that [the dark period] is probably going to last longer than we previously though...
JEFFREY SHOUP We are working on something in this space, as has been previously reported, but we don't have any ne...
ANNE BENTLEY![]()
I remember in 1967, when there was that terrible fire on NASA's Apollo 1 rocket that killed thre...
JACK W. SZOSTAK It was so dark it was like noting was there in the room but us. Only the nothing was actually someth...
PAUL TREMBLAY And that day the cultural god of science had shone a bit less brightly, had died a little in the peo...
CLIFFORD D. SIMAK It is important that he come across in an authoritative way so the markets see him as 'apolitical' a...
KEVIN GIDDIS I saw Tom Cruise at every audition I went up for, and he was a friendly go-getter back then. You got...
ZACH GALLIGAN I always respected No. 12. There were pictures in the room of people who had played for Montreal and...
YVAN COURNOYER If there had been no E.D. Nixon to get into the ruts and gullies and try to do something when it was...
FRED GRAY![]()
He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to...
P. G. WODEHOUSE Tom was an astonishingly dedicated musician even back then. Whenever you'd run into Tom in the halls...
LES MARSDEN![]()
That was what it felt like - as if one had always been in that place and never been bored although n...
C.S. LEWIS Puppies are constantly inventing new ways to be bad. It's fascinating. You come into a room they've ...
JULIE KLAM I dreamed you were standing in this dark place and you touched these dead flowers and they lit up li...
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK![]()
Death is staring too long into the burning sun and the relief of entering a cool, dark room.
ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS![]()
She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest.
SARAH J. MAAS My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918.
JAMES RAINWATER
DUSTY DVORACEK Was that what it meant to be alive - moving from a brightly lit corridor into a darkened room at eve...
KEVIN BROCKMEIER
She threw the door open. The room seemed to be a sort of library, the walls lined with books. It was... CASSANDRA CLARE
Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zen... IRVINE WELSH
I am so tired of this gothic crap,” I muttered. “Just once, I want to meet the villain in a chee... SEANAN MCGUIRE Griff was outstanding. He walked into the room and these guys just lit up.
JERRY NARRON
Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls ... ANNE SULLIVAN
In Vancouver, in Sydney and in Orange County, we live among fluorescent stores and streets so bright... PICO IYER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES my father...there was never any mistaking his love for me. When I walked into the room, his eyes lit...
ERIC RIPERT
Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a sma... GLORIA STEINEM Sam lit up every room she was in.
JANET ALLEN
Henderson sighed. There was a time, he reflected, when the coming of this night meant something. A d... ROBERT BLOCH
...in the distance across the dark fields I saw a flame. With the rainy season, the fireflies had lo... SHōHEI ŌOKA He was driving behind a dark SUV, which suddenly swerved to the left to avoid a car with its lights ...
JAMES MANNING I think the idea of having the show divided into two parts was that Tom Tom Club opened for Talking ...
TINA WEYMOUTH Our server room situation worked out pretty easily. We leased space that was previously occupied by ...
DAVID JACKSON Insect life was so loud that when you parked the car and got out it sounded as if you had suddenly t...
DAVID SAMUELS
The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure... CORNELIA FUNKE Joel really must be credited with reviving the official work on this case, too. He pushed and poked ...
DEBBIE DAVIS
The idea of going to the movies made Hugo remember something Father had once told him about going to... BRIAN SELZNICK "Be the fire that keeps the candle lit, in the hearts of those we love". ~Tom Baker
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN
I was woundering what he would say, what word could sum me up right then, when i saw the lights come... SARAH DESSEN Shanna, sweet Shanna. How can I tell you what you mean to me? When I saw you at the ball it was as i...
KERRELYN SPARKS
Patrick was just a wonderful person. He was the guy who lit up the room. BRIAN GRAHAM
Bay's room was the first one at the top of the staircase. It was painted a dove gray that turned pea... SARAH ADDISON ALLEN I realized so much of my life hasn't been in a well-lit room, and I realized the importance of d...
THOMAS NEWMAN The next day I was driven down to New York City to take the physical. It was one of the strangest th...
JOHN WILLIAM TUOHY
As in, I wouldn't know normal if it marched up and poked me in the eye. BECCA FITZPATRICK Death is a dark flower, its perfume heady and dangerous as it pulls you into its bosom.
CAROL WEEKES
It seemed I'd always been chasing after something, anything that moved -a car, a bird, a blowing lea... BOB DYLAN I’m pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we’re not meant to see.
KARINA HALLE
Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as ... CHARLES DICKENS
When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity;... LYTTON STRACHEY If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for cent...
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN
I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the... MUHAMMAD ALI Previously Apple's operating system, Mac OS X, was untargeted by virus writers, but two worms aimed ...
ANDY WALKER
You could say I have quite a nice-guy image as an actor and I wanted to do something new, something ... BILL PAXTON Tom was pretty much looking for a rider [in the Sam Davis]. We had had some success with Jose riding...
JASON BEIDES
I found myself thinking that perhaps there was something inexorable about the way events unfolded, a... HANYA YANAGIHARA
I have a lot of land. I bought it because I had a very strong feeling. I was in my early twenties, a... ROBERT REDFORD
When I walked into the room, I looked down to the floor and saw that each and every garment I owned ... RASMENIA MASSOUD The first moments of the bombing, when the skies were lit up, I was in a room across the hall,
PETER ARNETT What Tom did a great job with was that he made sure this team had a chip on its shoulder.
JASON RABADEAUX
[The first floor - the original ranch house - was dark and contained the entry, sitting room, and be... GARY WOLF
God, he suddenly understood, was love in its purest form, and in these last months with his children... NICHOLAS SPARKS
Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United S... LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Essentially we were a rock band playing rock songs but I was able to bring in some much more unusual...
ANDY SUMMERS
Every candle that gets lit in the dark room must feel a little rejection from the darkness around it... KIRK CAMERON
I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before... MUHAMMAD ALI
And then the lights came on and suddenly it was all as usual - I don't mean really as usual, but we ... AGATHA CHRISTIE The wind was howling and I was worried about trees falling down. Suddenly, I heard a loud, thud-like...
SHERYL BRENNER
If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it? KENDRICK LAMAR In particular, I established a reasonably accurate energy threshold for permanent displacement of a ...
WALTER KOHN Tom watched with his arms folded as the life that had been within Kobe died out, and the fire contin...
KEISHA KEENLEYSIDE
Luck, normalcy, fate ... none of those seemed to be on our side. Our very being together went agains... AMY PLUM
Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, w... CHARLOTTE BRONTE
Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, w... CHARLOTTE BRONTE
Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, w... CHARLOTTE BRONTE
Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, w... CHARLOTTE BRONTë The Kalamazoo Promise has opened some doors that had been previously closed.
BARRY BLACKWELL But I'd say my best boss was Tom Barr, who was a partner at Cravath, Swain & Moore in the 19...
DAVID BOIES It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light.
LAUREN LOLA It wasn't until a few weeks after that license was signed that suddenly everyone realized that an aw...
DAVID REDDEN I got poked in the left eye on the collision. My vision is blurry in that eye. I had to play. It was...
BRITTANY BUSH His statement was that he had been coming in late after dark, and leaving early in the morning befor...
CAPT. CHUCK BASTAK
Now the tea began to do its work- as it always did- and the world that only a few minutes previously... ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH
We had Chad in [Sept. 2] for an extensive workout in the wind, with everything else we could muster ... TOM COUGHLIN
He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to... P. G. [SIR PELHAM GRENVILLE] WODEHOUSE
It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a dar... SHARON SALZBERG Taking trips tore all of us up inside, for they seemed, each journey away from home, something that ...
EUDORA WELTY
And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth. JOSEPH CONRAD I don't care if you're a guy named Tom and drink eight six-packs a day, you're still going to have a...
CHLOE DAO
It was at a church service in Munich that I saw him, a former S.S. man who had stood guard at the sh... CORRIE TEN BOOM
I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak an... ZANE GREY
I've given lots of people chances," she said suddenly, as if Marion was still in the room to hear us... SARAH DESSEN
He had been suddenly jerked from the heart of civilization and flung into the heart of things primor... JACK LONDON
And as for the vague something --- was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding exp... CHARLOTTE BRONTë When you saw her eyes, you could see her heart. When she smiled, the whole room lit up. She was just...
DEBI BELL
When I was sixteen, I made the discovery -- love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was ... TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Suddenly, I felt like I was wearing patchouli in a room full of Chanel. SARAH JESSICA PARKER My government's action got the Peacemakers into this. Perhaps Tom was used as a message to the natio...
CAROL ROSE He had been given a strong faith through his parents. As an adult, in his teen years and early colle...
DEENA BURNETT In some instances, that [the dark period] is probably going to last longer than we previously though...
JEFFREY SHOUP We are working on something in this space, as has been previously reported, but we don't have any ne...
ANNE BENTLEY
I remember in 1967, when there was that terrible fire on NASA's Apollo 1 rocket that killed thre... JACK W. SZOSTAK It was so dark it was like noting was there in the room but us. Only the nothing was actually someth...
PAUL TREMBLAY And that day the cultural god of science had shone a bit less brightly, had died a little in the peo...
CLIFFORD D. SIMAK It is important that he come across in an authoritative way so the markets see him as 'apolitical' a...
KEVIN GIDDIS I saw Tom Cruise at every audition I went up for, and he was a friendly go-getter back then. You got...
ZACH GALLIGAN I always respected No. 12. There were pictures in the room of people who had played for Montreal and...
YVAN COURNOYER If there had been no E.D. Nixon to get into the ruts and gullies and try to do something when it was...
FRED GRAY
He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to... P. G. WODEHOUSE Tom was an astonishingly dedicated musician even back then. Whenever you'd run into Tom in the halls...
LES MARSDEN
That was what it felt like - as if one had always been in that place and never been bored although n... C.S. LEWIS Puppies are constantly inventing new ways to be bad. It's fascinating. You come into a room they've ...
JULIE KLAM I dreamed you were standing in this dark place and you touched these dead flowers and they lit up li...
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK
Death is staring too long into the burning sun and the relief of entering a cool, dark room. ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS
She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest. SARAH J. MAAS My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918.
JAMES RAINWATER
It is essential that the women's preventive coverage benefit, including contraception, be availa... 
You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong. 
Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, il... 
I like Jacques Derrida; I think he's funny. I like my philosophy with a few jokes and puns. I kn... 
If you ain't got your black hat, there ain't no use in filling out an application. 
I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it w... 
I like pencil skirts because they hug me in all the right places. 
I kind of feel, in a way, all of us will forever be asking those questions of ourselves: Who am I an... 
The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to wor... 
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. 
Not only am I a spender, I have had a couple of business people in the past who have been spending m... 
Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would pr... 
I never liked guns, I hate them, I always blink before they go off. 
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it. 
When you go on book tour, you're always talking about yourself and your book from the time you g... 
Then should some cloud pass over
The brow of sire or lover,
Think 'tis the shade
By Vict... 
Back in the late '90s, I put together a humorous newsmagazine program called 'The Awful Trut... 
A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself. 
All that's bright must fade,--
The brightest still the fleetest;
All that's sweet was made
... 
To live with them is far less sweet,
Than to remember thee! 
We are suffering from too much sarcasm. 
It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed 
She gives me the finger and turns back around. "Did you see that?" I flinch at the gesture. "That is... 
There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen fo... 
Language is a field of battle, the media is the artillery, and vocabulary is the ammunition. The NWO... 
Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised. 
Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career. 
He who hasn't hacked assemply language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain... 
It really isn't anybody's business how many people we have working for us. What's offensive is that ... 
There is no stronger bond of friendship than a mutual enemy. 
Research is usually a policeman stopping a novel from progressing. 
The world's made up of individuals who don't want to be heroes. 
The only thing you will take through those pearly gates is what you have given away. 
Love? Sodding, bloody, tossing, bloody, sodding, bloody love? Irrelevant, superfluous, bloody, ruddy... 
Love needs room to grow. Like a rose. Or a tumor. 
We must encourage people to get educated, to get tested, to get involved in the fight against AIDS. 
'Forever Amber,' written by Kathleen Winsor in 1944, was banned in Boston at the time of its... 
The First Amendment to the Constitution reflects that concept recognized in the Ten Commandments, th... 
Alan Turing is so important to me and to the world, and his story is so important to be told, so it ... 