#dark

Christopher Nolan's astounding third Batman feature, 'The Dark Knight Rises,' represents the true maturation of the superhero movie - and provides the key to understanding the bottomless craving moviegoers have for these films, 34 years after the Christopher Reeve Superman gave birth to the genre. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#astounding #batman #birth #bottomless #christopher

There's a dark side to everything. ↗

— Prince

#dark side #everything #side

Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#forest #genealogical #particular #soul #species

He took a long draw then asked, “What’d I do?” “You knew about the guy threatening my dad?” He paused, shifted in his chair, so freaking busted, it wasn’t funny. “They told you?” “Why, no, Swopes, they didn’t. Instead, they waited until the guy knocked the fuck out of my dad and readied him for spaceflight with duct tape then tried to kill me with a butcher’s knife. ↗

— Darynda Jones

#funny

Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#balcony #bridges #certain #come #curve

There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman. ↗

— Pythagoras

#created #darkness #evil #good #light

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

#darkness #depth #descend #exact #exact measure

I love playing characters that are bigger than life and maybe have a darker side that they present to the world. Those are good characters. ↗

— Randy Quaid

#characters #darker #good #i #i love

From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#day #dialogue #diary #finds #his

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#bad #beach #blank #change #could