(58 quotes found)
“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
“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
“From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow”
Joseph Addison
“All in all, if you look at the past five years, I don't see any real dire, extreme actions that would amount to the kind of closure of records that would really make you nervous.”
Carol Melamed
“The economic condition of the airline industry is as dire as it has ever been. And as a result they're looking at every way possible how they're going to be able to make cuts or changes that will improve the bottom line.”
Carol Hallett
“Somebody was going to do it. Mitsubishi is in dire straits. This is as good an idea as any.”
Art Spinella
“Dire times call for dire measures. We're going to cut in-service days. We're not spending more on teacher housing.”
Chris Simon
“I think it is taking a very risky approach, and I don't think the situation is that dire to warrant such a risky approach.”
Charles Jenkins
