#dark

Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth. ↗

— William R. Alger

#dark #even #his #pearls #teeth

I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#before #dark #fast #hotel #hotel room

Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics. ↗

— Steve Allen

#dark #energy #mystery #perhaps #physics

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark. ↗

— Jack Anderson

#between #big #big business #dark #government

You saw me before I saw you. In the airport, that day in August, you had that look in your eyes, as though you wanted something from me, as though you’d wanted it for a long time. No one had ever looked at me like that before, with that kind of intensity. It unsettled me, surprised me, I guess. Those blue, blue eyes, icy blue, looking back at me as if I could warm them up. They’re pretty powerful, you know, those eyes, pretty beautiful, too. ↗

— Lucy Christopher

#dark #poetic-fiction #beauty

The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong. ↗

— Antiphanes

#quest #riches #right #right and wrong #sense

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in. ↗

— Arlo Guthrie

#light #stick #without #you

I like playing dark, offbeat, quirky characters. ↗

— Mischa Barton

#dark #i #like #offbeat #playing

There's a bright spot in every dark cloud. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#cloud #dark #every #spot

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows. ↗

— John Betjeman

#childhood #dark #grows #hour #measured