Famous Quotes & Sayings

The picture is not nearly as bleak as the statistics may portray. They virtually all get one inspection a year.

Alexander McCall Smith

Fiction is able to encompass books that are bleak and which dwell on the manifold and terrible problems of our times. But I don't think that all books need to have that particular focus.

Craig Young

With this bleak outlook and this share price, it's going to be extremely difficult for the government to sell. Telstra would obviously like less regulation, but that's something which is out of its hands.

We have never given up, no matter how bleak things looked. These guys are fighters; they could be losing 24-2, and they'd still never quit.

Anita Brookner

I'm not very popular, because they're bleak and they're mournful and all the rest of it and I get censorious reviews. But I'm only writing fiction. I'm not making munitions, so I think it's acceptable.

Life would be pretty bleak for humans on this planet if we don't have very many species to share the Earth with.

Shetland has always been a place of sanctuary for me. I visited when I dropped out of university, and I just loved it from the minute I got there. It's a bleak but very beautiful place.

The only true sickness is home-sickness, for each and every one of us can feel how we are part of two totally separate realities. We have one foot in a linear, finite reality that seems quite bleak sometimes, and the other foot in an expansive, eternal reality that is encompassed in unconditional love for all things and also a oneness with all things.

Per Petterson

'In the Wake' was a very bleak book. This relationship was not too good, the father and son. This time around, I wanted a father and a son who really loved each other, which would be visible on the first page and would still be there on the last page.

With cash, we will be able to buy commodities in the region to distribute to the most vulnerable hungry, poor Afghans. Without cash, the lean season will be also very bleak for many.

This win came at a very opportunistic time. It looked very bleak for us in the first eight minutes of the game, but thank goodness we have some resilient players.

Four years ago, things were so bleak in parts of the area, but we've had exciting news in Russell County that is invigorating. This is a real turnaround point for us.

On multiple occasions, I told Faye that from my perspective, the city administrator had done a tremendous job in steering the city out of the bleak financial situation that it was in when he was first hired.

Willie Randolph

I feel very positive. No matter how bleak it might look, this clubhouse is going to stay positive.

If they cut tournaments, the little guys play less and the big guys make more money. At least now, the little guys can play and make money. ... If the rumors are true, it's looking pretty bleak for middle-of-the-road guys.

Theocracy' has always been the synonym for a bleak and narrow, if not a fierce and blood-stained tyranny

Steve Williams

It's not as potentially bleak as you might think by just looking at the dam counts.

It looked pretty bleak there for a minute.

It's going to be the healing of the world. I think the fact that so many see it in a very dismal way, a very bleak way, it shows we've lost sight of the God of hope, as Paul says.

It's a very cold, bleak environment, ... I was late, but she turned up at the restaurant alone, installed herself at the bar. By the time I got there, there were shrieking all with laughter, as if they knew each other for a long time.

John Reilly

It's satisfying that a permanent memorial is here, that signifies the loneliness of the place. It's right on the spot where the plan crashed and in keeping with the bleak moorlands.

Mark E. Smith

He told me I didn't understand, that we were from the bleak industrial wastes of North England, or something, and that we didn't understand the Internet. I told him Fall fans invented the Internet. They were on there in 1982.

Willie Randolph

No matter how bleak things look, in this clubhouse we're going to stay positive and keep playing. Things can change around.

There were some pretty bleak moments, ... I'd never edited anything before, and there were times when I thought that we hadn't been able to make it work.

It was already pretty bleak for those vehicles for several months in a row,

Larry David

Until I started doing standup, there were some very bleak days.

All the same, a rate cut won't have any immediate effect on companies' profits. These rate changes take six months to a year to be felt, which means it won't be until the second quarter of next year that the last interest rate hike makes its way through the economy. So it may look pretty bleak until then.

Gerry Adams

Perhaps just once in a fairly bleak international situation ... maybe hope and history is reigning in Ireland

Bill Griffith

Adele is one of the most, to coin a cliche, life-affirming people I've ever met, especially because of her bleak outlook,

Tarja Halonen

Bleak natural conditions in the cold North have certainly helped teach us to work hard in order to survive and to take care of each other.

Rich Rodriguez

Things looked bleak there for a long time. But our guys kept hanging in there and we got a little momentum there in the fourth quarter.

I've never know the number to be this high - the percentages to be this high - but I've never seen the revenue situation as bleak as it?s been this year.

David Brown

The message is still very bleak for the UK High Street and the MPC is not off the hook yet for rate cuts,