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Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.
Allen Klein
Positive
Attitude
World
Try
Humor
Will
Picture
Adding
Constantly
Some
Color
Colors
Lighten
Bleak
Like
Box
Always
Up
Begins
Crayons
Your
Including
Bright
Gray
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
Khalil Gibran
Truth
Truth Is
Rebellion
Spring
Bleak
Like
Without
Desert
If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
Work
Hope
Future
Faith
Logical
Indeed
Would
Would-Be
More
Bleak
Were
Than
Human
Human Beings
Beings
Joy Division sounded like Manchester: cold, sparse and, at times, bleak.
Bernard Sumner
Joy
Cold
Division
Bleak
Joy Division
Like
Times
Manchester
It's one thing when other African-Americans try to threaten my race card, but when people outside of my ethnicity have the audacity to question how 'down' I am because of the bleak, stereotypical picture pop culture has painted for me as a black woman? Unacceptable.
Issa Rae
Me
Woman
Culture
People
Try
Black
Picture
Down
Other
Unacceptable
One Thing
Threaten
Outside
Bleak
Stereotypical
Because
Audacity
How
Am
Question
Race
Pop
Pop Culture
Ethnicity
Painted
Card
Thing
Clearly, any well-kept garden will be a source of pleasure in the summer months; in the bleak urban midwinter, however, there are few activities more likely to energise the spirit than a botanical walk.
John Burnside
Garden
Walk
Will
Few
Summer
Months
Pleasure
Spirit
More
Bleak
Clearly
Likely
However
Source
Than
Any
Urban
Activities
We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.
Michael Novak
Hope
Holding
Bleak
Feel
Look
Lord
Trusting
Going
Endurance
Holding On
Happier
Really
Things
We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.
Sean Lennon
Time
Precipice
Transformation
Live
Air
Everything
Some
Pretty
Uncertain
Bleak
Feel
Feels
Major
Like
Whether
People say 'The Wire's bleak, y'know, but I see it as a love letter to Baltimore, and it's one written in a very strange and complex way.
Aidan Gillen
Love
Strange
People
Way
Say
Complex
See
People Say
Wire
Written
Bleak
Baltimore
Very
Letter
Life looked bleak when I became chairman of the group at the age of 29. But I survived, as the Lord must have carried me when I needed Him the most.
Ajay Piramal
Life
Me
Age
Group
Carried
Must
Bleak
Most
Looked
Him
Became
Lord
Survived
Chairman
Needed
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.
Alexander McCall Smith
Problems
Focus
Think
Our
Books
Able
Bleak
Particular
Terrible
Encompass
Times
Dwell
Fiction
Which
Manifold
Need
No matter how successful you are, no matter how good you are at what you do, even if a golden path rolls out in front of your feet your whole life, there will come one particularly bleak Tuesday when you glance over at Facebook and notice that Jen From Down The Hall has just won an Oscar.
Alexandra Petri
Life
Good
You
Facebook
Matter
Path
Will
Down
Out
Glance
Bleak
Over
Feet
Come
Particularly
Hall
How
Won
Front
Rolls
Tuesday
Just
Golden
Successful
Notice
Your
Whole
Even
Oscar
There are a lot of challenges Ofglen faces as a Handmaid. She has to live her life for the Commander of her home, Glen, and it is really a bleak life. She has no rights, and her main job is to keep him and the rest of the people in his house happy.
Alexis Bledel
Life
Home
Challenges
Rights
Happy
People
Job
Rest
Live
Faces
Main
Bleak
House
She
Him
Commander
His
Lot
Handmaid
Really
Keep
Her
From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle for life.
Alice Morse Earle
Life
Struggle
Eyes
Baby
Puritan
Had
He
Bleak
Opened
New
Hour
New England
His
England
I don't think that there's necessarily a side to drama that has to be completely bleak. You have to have a flicker of humor 'cause everyone has a flicker of humor, something they find funny in life.
Amy Seimetz
Life
Funny
You
Cause
Humor
Think
Drama
Side
Everyone
Find
Something
Bleak
Flicker
Necessarily
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.
Anita Brookner
Writing
Rest
Think
Only
Bleak
Acceptable
Because
Making
Reviews
Very
Get
Mournful
Fiction
Popular
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.
Ann Cleeves
Beautiful
Me
Visited
Out
Minute
Bleak
Dropped
Beautiful Place
Always
Got
Been
Very
Just
Loved
Place
Sanctuary
University
Even though I'm often crazy - and I am, and I know it - still I fight it because I know how sterile, how futile, how bleak... nothing grows from it, and you, meanwhile, only grow into it like a snail.
Anne Sexton
Crazy
You
Fight
Nothing
Though
Futile
Only
Bleak
Sterile
Like
Know
Because
How
Am
Still
Snail
Often
Meanwhile
Even
Grow
Grows
I just was not going to subject my record to the bleak prospects of a primary election.
Arlen Specter
Election
Record
Bleak
Primary
Prospects
Subject
Going
Just
I've had some terrible jobs, but working in a kitchen at Cracker Barrel is probably the worst I've ever had. I was a grill cook - awful! It wasn't the smell, it was the people. The music, too. We had to be 'country fresh,' so they played this terrible country music eight hours during the shift. It was a bleak existence - a very dark time.
Brittany Howard
Music
Time
People
Dark
Country
Smell
Too
Worst
Jobs
Dark Time
Some
Kitchen
Had
Bleak
Country Music
Hours
Terrible
Fresh
Shift
Existence
Very
Cracker
Eight
Grill
Working
Cook
Barrel
Ever
Awful
Played
I was brought up on Dickens. I remember reading 'Bleak House' but, coming back to it, I didn't remember much about it apart from a few characters.
Burn Gorman
Remember
Reading
Few
Back
Characters
Brought
About
Bleak
House
Coming
Dickens
Up
Apart
Much
I am greatly impressed with the BBC's TV adaption of Charles Dickens' 'Bleak House.' The costumes, the sets, the acting and the screenplay are all superb. Every episode is riveting.
Cecilia Dart-Thornton
Every
Sets
TV
Charles
Charles Dickens
Superb
Costumes
Bleak
House
Am
Impressed
Dickens
Greatly
Screenplay
Episode
Acting
Sometimes bleak is good. Sometimes bleak is necessary. Some part of life is always bleak.
Claire Denis
Life
Good
Sometimes
Some
Part
Bleak
Always
Necessary
I don't think I can write a book as nihilistic as some of my early ones. They're so bleak. I don't think I would enjoy that as much anymore. You really become fixated on ways out.
Daniel Woodrell
You
Book
Become
Enjoy
Think
Ways
Out
Would
Some
Write
Bleak
Fixated
Anymore
Much
Really
Early
It's a very bleak play, but there is some final sense of redemption. 'Coriolanus' shows mercy, a Christian virtue in an otherwise un-Christian world.
David Farr
World
Mercy
Sense
Christian
Otherwise
Final
Virtue
Some
Bleak
Redemption
Very
Shows
Play
Christian World
No matter how bleak the situation into which we have been thrown by the global economy, it does offer opportunities. Designers need only invent them.
Debbie Millman
Opportunities
Matter
Invent
Situation
Only
Thrown
Bleak
Economy
Global
Global Economy
Does
How
Been
Offer
Which
Them
Designers
Need
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