Quotes of: Black-holes Keyword

When the black thing was at its worst, when the illicit cocktails and the ten-mile runs stopped working, I would feel numb as if dead to the world. I moved unconsciously, with heavy limbs, like a zombie from a horror film. I felt a pain so fierce and...

Today I'm Alice: Nine Personalities, One Tortured Mind

When God introduced man to the angels, Satan became the first racist. Satan belonged to a race of beings called angels, man to a new race of beings called humans. In Satan’s mind, angels, particularly he himself, were far greater than mankind simpl...

We Struggle Not Against Flesh & Blood: Thoughts & Reflections on Being Black in America, Vol. 1

Also another time she had wakened in dead of night, thinking that something touched her, and when she looked she saw that a black scaly tail, tufted with flame at the end, like a fiend's, had switched across her and lay there burning the covers. And ...

Witch House

The road was wet with rain, black and shiny like oilskin. The reflection of the street lamps wallowed like yellow jelly-fish. A bus was approaching - a bus to Piccadilly, a bus to the never-never land - a bus to death or glory. I found neither. I fou...

Weird Shadows From Beyond: An Anthology Of Strange Stories

My friend Madea has "attitude" that comes with wisdom. Back in our teens and twenties, we thought we knew everything and made all those foolish mistakes. Then, when we got a little older, at thirty, we started getting these flashes of light, revelati...

Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life

We love WWII because the cause was so obviously just, because you can't be a good person and say you wouldn't fight against an evil like that. It was so black and white on our side, and on our side so few died. (Our side meaning the lantern-jawed Joh...

Catherynne M. Valente

There is a wide yawning black infinity. In every direction the extension is endless, the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the black...

Carl Sagan

Elle Driver: [reading] "The venom of a black mamba can kill a human in four hours if, say, bitten on the ankle or the thumb. However, a bite to the face or torso can bring death from paralysis within 20 minutes." Now, you should listen to this, 'caus...

Kill Bill: Vol. 2

Prince Humperdinck: You truly love each other? Then you might have been truly happy! No couple in a century has that chance, no matter what the storybooks say. And so I think no man in a century will suffer as greatly as you will [Throws the lever on...

The Princess Bride

[Jack throws a bucket of water on sleeping Gibbs] Mr. Gibbs: Curse you for breathin' ya slack-jawed idiot. Mother's love. Jack. You should know better than to wake a man when he's sleepin'. Its bad luck. Jack Sparrow: Fortunately, I know how to count...

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Young Elizabeth: I think it'd be rather exciting to meet a pirate. Norrington: Think again, Miss Swann. Vile and dissolute creatures, the lot of them. I intend to see that any man who sails under a pirate flag or wears a pirate brand gets what he des...

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

All my life I have been a poor go-to-sleeper. No matter how great my weariness, the wrench of parting with consciousness is unspeakably repulsive to me. I loathe Somnus, that black-masked headsman binding me to the block; and if in the course of year...

Vladimir Nabokov

In painting, three things must be considered - the position of the viewer, the position of the object viewed, and the position of the light that illuminates the object.

The Creation of Eve

A black cat crossed my path, and I stopped to dance around it widdershins and to sing the rhyme,

Chocolat

It is true that I am a person with black pockets of evil and hatred in my heart. There are underground places inside of me

Cruddy

Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

Das Kapital/Das kommunistische Manifest

If I entered a tropical beach, would I end up in Nazi Germany with my highly inconvenient black hair?

Dreamfever

Trust her; we girls are two sheets short of psycho when it comes to our special little time.

Forever Black

Fort somehow turned the symbol of nerdiness into a visual aphrodisiac—Spanish fly in the form of solid black frames.

To the Fifth Power

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

Fishing the Sloe-Black River

...I love Shakespeare, but sometimes....his images - If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head....

A Familiar Rain