Shadowy Figure Quotes

I'm clearly not an international man of mystery.

The cloudlets are lazily sailing O'er the blue Atlantic sea; And mid the twilight there hovers A shadowy figure o'er me.

There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.

I'm calling myself 'The Doodler,' and with the simple addition of a small burglar's mask, I achieve utter anonymity.

I am almost equal to a shadow.

Rising from the past, my shadow Is running in silence to meet me.

You didn't," John said, stepping from the shadows as he clapped for me, "even hit your head this time.

It feels quite cool, in a mad way, to be someone who skulks about in the shadows.

The one that came really easy was the Japanese lover, because he's like a ghost in the book. He's always in the background like a spirit, like a shadow, almost. There's a very delicate line there.

I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my life.

I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight.

More than a shadow and less than a soul.

As we passed under a streetlamp I noticed, beside my own bobbing shadow, another great, leaping grotesquerie that had an uncanny suggestion of the frog world about it . . . judging from the shadow, it was soaring higher and more gaily than myself. 'Very well,' you will say, 'Why didn’t you turn around. That would be the scientific thing to do.' But let me tell you it is not done ― not on an empty road at midnight.

Penguin is this interesting figure within the city of Gotham. He's this guy who has worked in the shadows and publicly. He's skirted the line between lawful and completely chaotic or villainous. He's risen and fallen multiple times in the ways that pretty much no other character can dream of.

Kane has always been sort of a dark character.

The twilight is long fingers and black hair.

Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore - Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore! Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.

I was once really close to sitting down and having a conversation with a shadowy young woman who is reputed have become a millionaire by investing in Beanie Babies. She was someone that a couple people claimed to know, she seemed to exist, but she remained shadowy.

The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either,--black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand.

He walks in daylight. But, like a demon, he’s weaker then. He seems to have the powers of a god, but no followers. What would you call him? (Xypher) I wouldn’t call him anything that didn’t make him deliriously happy. (Simone)

Everyone has light around them, except for you. You have shadows.

I've always been very happy with my role in Radiohead. You're very much a part of everything, but you're much more of a shadowy figure.