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The Dark Room
«Creeds made in Dark Ages are like drawings made in dark rooms»
Author: Joseph McCabe
| Keywords:
creeds, dark ages, Dark Room, drawings, drawing room, rooms, The Dark Room
«God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of the players, (ie everybody), to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.»
Author: Neil Gaiman
(Children's author, Comics writer, Journalist, Novelist, Screenwriter)
| About:
God,
Universe
| Keywords:
compared, complex, Dark Room, devising, dice, ineffable, my version, obscure, own version, perspective, pitch-dark, pitch, pitches, pitch in, pitch into, players, plays, poker, pokers, poker game, Poker Player, The Dark Room, version, versions
«The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone.»
Author: Yousuf Karsh
(Journalist, Photographer)
| Keywords:
Dark Room, get into, photographing, The Dark Room
«Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.»
Author: Annie Dillard
(Author)
| Keywords:
appealing, Dark Room, The Dark Room, workplace, workplaces
«Making movies is a little like walking into a dark room. Some people stumble across furniture, others break their legs, but some of us see better in the dark than others. The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius.»
«In the dark room a cloud of yellow dust flew from beneath the tool like a scatter of sparks from under the hooves of a galloping horse. The twin wheels turned and hummed. Binet was smiling, his chin down, his nostrils distended. He seemed lost in the kind of happiness which, as a rule, accompanies only those mediocre occupations that tickle the intelligence with easy difficulties, and satisfy it with a sense of achievement beyond which there is nothing left for dreams to feed on.»
Author: Gustave Flaubert
(Novelist)
| About:
Mediocrity
| Keywords:
Binet, chin, chinned, chins, dark horse, Dark Room, distended, dust cloud, feed on, flew, gallop, galloped, galloping, gallops, hoofs, hooves, horse sense, nostril, nostrils, occupations, scatter, sparks, take it on the chin, There Is Nothing Left, The Dark Room, twin, wheels
«Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.»
Author: Ingrid Bergman
(Actress)
| About:
Art,
Conscience,
Dreams,
Feelings,
Movies,
Music
| Keywords:
Dark Room, deep down, directly, film, passes, rooms, The Dark Room
«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.»
Author: Muhammad Ali
(Activist, Boxer)
| Keywords:
Dark Room, hotel, hotels, Hotel I, hotel room, switch, switched, switches, switching, switch off, switch on, The Dark Room, turned
«Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as if it had once been a large house of entertainment; but the roof had fallen in, in many places, and the stairs were steep, rugged, and broken. There was a huge fire-place in the room into which they walked, and the chimney was blackened with smoke; but no warm blaze lighted it up now. The white feathery dust of burnt wood was still strewed over the hearth, but the stove was cold, and all was dark and gloomy.»
Author: Charles Dickens
| Keywords:
beheld, blacken, blackened, blackens, blaze, burnt, chimney, chimneys, Cold Fire, Dark Room, desolate, entertainment, fall into place, feathery, gloomy, hearth, hearths, his uncle, huge, large white, lighted, roof, rugged, ruinous, smoking room, stairs, steep, stove, strewed, The Dark Room, This Was, uncle, uncles
«Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large, /where, creeping in and out among the giant fossils of my past, like some small nimble mouse between the ribs of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there at this or that box, pulling through the gap, in heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, the first book first. And how I felt it beat under my pillow, in the morning's dark. An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!»
