Shadows Quotes

News is so often a report of conflict, an account of problems, a thing of the day and even of the minute, that sometimes I think we make the background darker and the shadows deeper than they actually are.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger

Sometimes, Problems, Often

When you are a hero you are always running to save someone, sweating, worried and guilty. When you are a villain you are just lurking in the shadows waiting for the hero to pass by. Then you pop them in the head and go home... piece of cake.
James Marsters

Home, Waiting, Someone

One is forever throwing away substance for shadows.
Jennie Churchill

Away, Forever, Substance

My job on 'Dark Shadows' was to make it fun and funny, first and foremost. It can still be dark and it can still even be gory and gothic at times, but it also needed to be fun and it needed to be an experience that people would enjoy having.
Seth Grahame-Smith

Funny, Experience, Fun

It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows.
Kate Chopin

Deep, Fire, Light

The movie wasn't really derived from Dark Shadows - they developed a whole new script for that particular one.
David Selby

Dark, Whole, Movie

One of the reasons I think Dark Shadows still runs is that it's dependent on nothing else other than a story.
David Selby

Nothing, Dark, Else

In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.
Gwen John

Words, Talking, Meaning

Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece.
Ernie Pyle

Dark, Around, Buildings

It feels quite cool, in a mad way, to be someone who skulks about in the shadows.
Peter Baynham

Cool, Someone, Mad

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.
Junichiro Tanizaki

Beauty, Find, Dark

A child can escape the shadows.
Steve Largent

Nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants currently live within our borders. That's 11 million people living in the shadows whom we know next to nothing about.
Steve Israel

Live, Nothing, Living

As a child, I felt that Hallowe'en was a time when creatures of the night suddenly came to life - we would turn off all the lights in the house and let flickering candlelight conjure up scary shadows and create the effect of imaginary figures lurking in dark corners.
Pippa Middleton

Life, Time, Night

I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I'm travelling toward light.
Bruce Cockburn

Light, Tell, Follow

I spent the first 18 years of my life in the pastoral town of Vernal, Utah, in the shadows of the Book Cliffs and the Uinta Mountains.
Gordon Gee

Life, Book, Mountains

A way you can get really good abs in film is you get your makeup artist to paint shadows - faux washboard. But if you see me in a movie and I have great abs, it means I have a great body double.
Jennifer Tilly

Good, Great, Means

For too long, Americans have fallen victim to financial abuses at the hands of predatory lenders that operate in the shadows.
Kay Hagan

Long, Financial, Hands

Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters.
Georg Trakl

Lives, Silver, Drift

Twice I had been stopped by these jobs, and I thought the role on Dark Shadows would go on for about three or four weeks. And then, the phenomenon began, the role caught on, the mail started to flood in.
Jonathan Frid

Thought, Dark, Three

I'll often rush out from Dark Shadows, having made a 5.30PM appointment, working for a couple of hours.
Thayer David

Made, Dark, Working

Our acts our angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
John Fletcher

Good, Walk, Angels

Man is a substance clad in shadows.
John Sterling

Substance, Clad

Every murder turns on a bright hot light, and a lot of people... have to walk out of the shadows.
Albert Maltz

Light, Walk, Hot

My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me into playing and later on I got into blues and jazz players. I liked Clapton when he was with John Mayall. I really liked that period.
Tony Iommi

Playing, Band, English

I left my mark on 'Dark Shadows.' One day I was doing my lines perfectly from Act 3. Everyone else was doing Act 2.
Kate Jackson

Dark, Else, Everyone

The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
James Shirley

Death, Down, Made

'Rhye' clearly plays with notions of sexual identity, and it has made a concerted effort to keep its own identity mysterious. Its love songs are gender-neutral, the members have declined to appear in their own videos, and you'd be hard-pressed to find a photo of the duo that doesn't cast them in shadows.
Will Hermes

Love, Made, Find

They say that shadows of deceased ghosts Do haunt the houses and the graves about, Of such whose life's lamp went untimely out, Delighting still in their forsaken hosts.
Joshua Sylvester

Life, Whose, Houses

We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides.
Junichiro Tanizaki

Beauty, Find, Light

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