Great Quotes - Funny Quotes - Love Quotes

Be inspired by our amazing collection of free proverbs, sayings and great quotes by famous artists, authors, writers, poets, philosophers and business people. The quotation database contains over 150,000 funny quotes, love quotes and motivational quotes that will do for any occasion. The database is constantly updated with new quotes, proverbs and sayings. Make sure to check our quotes regularly.

Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.

QuotationsAuthorsTopicsKeywords

Search over 150,000 Quotations & Proverbs
Browse Keywords: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
Letter "S" » somber
«Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas.»
Author: Alexander MacLaren | Keywords: canvas, dipping, dips, dip into, flings, representation, representations, shadows, somber, stretches, The Long Dark, tint, tinted, tints, true to
«The most important thing about a TV set is to get it back against something and not out in the middle of a room where it's like a somber fellow making electronic judgments on you.»
Author: Bruce Jay Friedman | About: Television | Keywords: electronic, somber, tv set, TV sets
«The city in winter is rich with the bittersweet nuance and somber beauty of the once-was.»
Author: Terry Weeks | Keywords: bittersweet, nuance, nuances, somber, The City
«Every man is occasionally visited by the suspicion that the planet on which he is riding is not really going anywhere; that the Force which controls its measured eccentricities hasn't got anything special in mind. If he broods on this somber theme long enough he gets the doleful idea that the laughing children on a merry-go-round or the thin, fine hands of a lady's watch are revolving more purposely than he is.»
Author: James Thurber (Writer) | Keywords: broods, controls, doleful, Eccentricities, eccentricity, merry-go-round, occasionally, purposely, revolve, revolves, revolving, riding, somber, suspicion, theme, The Force, visited
«The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky--seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.»
Author: Joseph Conrad | Keywords: bank, Bank of, barred, black, clouds, flowed, immense, leading, offing, overcast, seemed, somber, tranquil, uttermost
«It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.»
Author: Malcolm Muggeridge | About: Life | Keywords: Old English, somber
«There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall»
Author: Cyril Connolly | About: Enemies | Keywords: hall, pram, somber
«The world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks»
Author: Helen Keller (Author, Educator) | About: World | Keywords: bright, crystals, debt, delight, gracious, hidden, irksome, owe, somber, tasks
Sign up for the most comprehensive database of 800,000 pre-written papers and use them for your research. Order authentic term papers, essays, research papers, dissertations on any topic written by qualified writers.