“That's dire, that's drastic, that's terrible.”
Gerald Meyers
“A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses”
John Milton
“Captain Kirk never burped out his lines, nor did he simply SPEAK! as IF! Every! Other! SYLlable! WAS! of DIRE! ImPORTance!”
William Shatner
“From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow”
Joseph Addison
“Storied of old in high immortal verse / Of dire chimeras and enchanted isles, / And rifted rocks whose entrance leads to Hell.”
“One has no great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.”
Jane Austen
“It's the gratification from the fact that I can take somebody who is in dire need to improve on their lives and I can make that improvement.”
Ken Heide
