Dusk Quotes - Page 6

• An eight-mile drive over rain-washed Irish roads in the quick-falling dusk of autumn is an experience trying to the patience, even to the temper, of the average Saxon.

  Katherine Cecil Thurston

  Rain, Book, Fall

  Katherine Cecil Thurston (1906). “The Gambler: A Novel”

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• A person with normal eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of 'Impressionism' unless he were in a blinding light or in the dusk or dark.

  John Singer Sargent

  Dark, Light, Way

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• I used to smoke marijuana. But I'll tell you something: I would only smoke it in the late evening. Oh, occasionally the early evening, but usually the late evening - or the mid-evening. Just the early evening, midevening and late evening. Occasionally, early afternoon, early mid-afternoon, or perhaps the late-midafternoon. Oh, sometimes the early-mid-late-early morning. . . But never at dusk!

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Weed, Morning

  "Steve Martin: A Wild and Crazy Guy", 1978.

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• Willows whiten, aspens quiver, little breezes dusk and shiver, thro' the wave that runs forever by the island in the river, flowing down to Camelot. Four gray walls and four gray towers, overlook a space of flowers, and the silent isle imbowers, the Lady of Shalott.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Running, Wall, Flower

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Professor Norman Page (2013). “Tennyson: Selected Poetry”, p.20, Routledge

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• Who turns away from gazing at the sun Sees its dusk images fill all the air. It is not otherwise when Hope is done: Her darkling phantoms make the heaven of Despair.

  Edith M. Thomas

  Hope, Air, Heaven

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• Too much! Wait till you have lived here longer. Look down the valley! See the cloud of a hundred chimneys that overshadows it! I tell you that the cloud of murder hangs thicker and lower than that over the heads of the people. It is the Valley of Fear, the Valley of Death. The terror is in the hearts of the people from the dusk to the dawn. Wait, young man, and you will learn for yourself.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Heart, Men, Clouds

  SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, Choi Hyun (2016). “The Valley of Fear”, p.104, ebookspub

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• When I found out about the audition, I knew that I was going in for 'From Dusk Till Dawn,' but I actually didnt know that I was going to be reading with Robert Rodriguez.

  Madison Davenport

  Reading, Dawn, Auditions

  "Madison Davenport Talks FROM DUSK TILL DAWN: THE SERIES, Working with Robert Rodriguez, Delving into the Supernatural, the Titty Twister Set, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 1, 2014.

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• Oh,to be walking through Leningrad white night after white night, the dawn to dusk all smelting together like platinum ore, Tatiana thought, turning away to the wall, again to the wall, the wall, as ever. Alexander, my nights, my days, my every thought. You will fall away from me in just a while, won't you, and I'll be whole again, and I will go on and feel for someone else, the way everyone does. But my innocence is forever gone.

  Paullina Simons

  Wall, Fall, Night

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• Once in his life, a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth, I believe. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience, to look at it from as many angles as he can, to wonder about it, to dwell upon it. He ought to imagine that he touches it with his hands at every season and listens to the sounds that are made upon it. He ought to imagine the creatures there and all the faintest motions of the wind. He ought to recollect the glare of noon and all the colors of the dawn and dusk.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Believe, Men, Hands

  N. Scott Momaday (1976). “The Way to Rainy Mountain”, p.83, UNM Press

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• In the swirling rain that came at dusk the broad avenue glistened with that deep bluish tint which is so widely condemned when it is put into pictures.

  Stephen Crane

  Rain, Book, Broads

  David Halliburton, Stephen Crane (1989). “The Color of the Sky: A Study of Stephen Crane”, p.82, Cambridge University Press

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• jukeboxes, radio and television, going from dawn to dusk, help spread the poison of synthetic, artificial, rhythmical noise.

  Maria Franziska von Trapp

  Dawn, Jukebox, Poison

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• O, it's die we must, but it's live we can, And the marvel of earth and sun Is all for the joy of woman and man And the longing that makes them one." (Between the Dusk of a Summer Night, 13-16)

  William Ernest Henley

  Summer, Night, Men

  William Ernest Henley, “Between The Dusk Of A Summer Night”

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• Play is not for every hour of the day, or for any hour taken at random. There is a tide in the affairs of children. Civilization is cruel in sending them to bed at the most stimulating time of dusk.

  Alice Meynell

  Children, Taken, Civilization

  Alice Meynell (2015). “The Children”, p.25, Alice Meynell

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• Apparently my street has a leaf blower gang who tag team all day, so the sounds of the leaf blower are forever blowing from dawn to dusk.

  Bob Saget

  Team, Forever, Tag

  Twitter post from Nov 29, 2011

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• Her hair gives dawn it's fire, her eyes give dusk her soul" He knew how to use his voice to melt a girl's heart, to make a girl want to believe. I steeled myself against the seductive words. "Excuse me?" "It's a line of poetry describing a beautiful girl, one who doesn't seem to know it.

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Beautiful, Girl, Believe

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• In the long dusks of summer we walked the suburban streets through scents of maple and cut grass, waiting for something to happen.

  Steven Millhauser

  Summer, Cutting, Long

  Steven Millhauser (2008). “Dangerous Laughter”, p.62, Vintage

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• It was a maddening image and the only way to whip it was to hang on until dusk and banish the ghosts with rum.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Way, Ghost, Rum

  Hunter S. Thompson (1999). “The Rum Diary: A Novel”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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• Anna Journey, in her new book of poems, Vulgar Remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic / alembic lyrics distill the mysterious terrors of childhood, the dangerous passions of adults, into her own honey-dusk 'voodun': protective, purified to gold. Poetry is always a time machine: here we are invisible travelers to a bewitched past, a beautifully occluded future. These poems are erotic, vertiginous, revelatory, their dazzling lyric force reflecting profound hermetic life.

  Carol Muske-Dukes

  Book, Passion, Past

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• The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.

  Cesare Pavese

  Grief, Heart, Night

  Cesare Pavese (1961). “The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950”, New York : Walker

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• Life had taught her that we all require big and small lies in order to survive, just as much as we need air. She used to say that if during one single day, from dawn to dusk, we could see the naked reality of the world, and of ourselves, we would either take our own lives or lose our minds.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Lying, Reality, Air

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• It's a wonder that any mother ever called a daughter Dinah again. But some did. Maybe you guessed that there was more to me than the voiceless cipher in the text. Maybe you heard it in the music of my name: the first vowel high and clear, as when a mother calls to her child at dusk; the second sound soft, for whispering secrets on pillows. Dee-nah.

  Anita Diament

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some time or other, seen dusk in a valley like this?'

  Haniel Long

  People, Vision, Valleys

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• Courage~ What makes the flag on the mast to wave? What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage! What makes the sphinx the seventh wonder? Courage! What makes the dawn come up like thunder? Courage! What makes the Hottentot so hot? What puts the "ape" in apricot?~Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz

  L. Frank Baum

  Elephants, Dawn, Hot

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• I began to know that each morning reasserted the problems of night before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing, that you couldn’t make yourself over between dawn and dusk.

  John Knowles

  Morning, Sleep, Night

  John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• People who walk across dark bridges, past saints, with dim, small lights. Clouds which move across gray skies past churches with towers darkened in the dusk. One who leans against granite railing gazing into the evening waters, His hands resting on old stones.

  Franz Kafka

  Moving, Dark, Past

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