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Quotes About Sinister

You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.
~ Ralph Fiennes
Carlo: Do you feel that evil can be reincarnated? Ramirez: I hope so. [laughs]
~ Philip Carlo
It struck her as odd and faintly sinister, this lonely city creeping north in silence.
~ Philip Reeve
There has been throughout this country and throughout Europe really an attempt silence the conservative voice. We get identified, caricatured and then demonised and made to look as though we are some kind of sinister, fascist, racist kind of people.
~ Roger Scruton
If I were a congressman who had voted for the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, I'd claim it was forced on our country by a sinister international organization.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
I'd really like to play bad guys or guys that have something a little bit off about them. And I get to do that periodically.
~ Scott Bakula
I always like playing the bad guys. They have more fun!
~ James Badge Dale
made them so terrifying, like a wholly malevolent space creature from a sci-fi movie.
~ Jon Ronson
we uncovered something darker and more sinister, a true meditation on today's society. What do we value? Lies or facts. Posturing or morality.
~ Ace Atkins
It was a dark story.
~ Joseph Conrad
It was another of Nostromo's triumphs, the greatest, the most enviable, the most sinister of all. In that true cry of undying passion that seemed to ring aloud from Punta Mala to Azuera and away to the bright line of the horizon, overhung by a big white cloud shining like a mass of solid silver, the genius of the magnificent Capataz de Cargadores dominated the dark gulf containing his conquests of treasure and love.
~ Joseph Conrad
I'm going to kill Jude this afternoon for fun, then eat my own putrid kidney for dinner.
~ Will Christopher Baer
It will be a great day for America, incidentally, when we begin to eat bread again, instead of the blasphemous and tasteless foam rubber that we have substituted for it. And I am not being frivolous here, either. Something very sinister happens to the people of a country when they begin to distrust their own reactions as deeply as they do here, and become as joyless as they have become.
~ James Baldwin
throughout history the community of readers has been prey to sinister forces - to pedants and priests, legislators and lunatics, deities and demagogues. You have paid for your passion in humiliation, mutilation, and sometimes even - as when Henry VIII burned Bible translator William Tyndale as a heretic - immolation. I salute you all, as do my fellow books.
~ James K. Morrow
Well, that's an evil smile...
~ James Patterson
Well, that's an evil smile...
~ James Patterson
You know," said Arthur thoughtfully, "all this explains a lot of things. All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was." "No," said the old man, "that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that.
~ Douglas Adams
Raffia-wrapped bottles lurked hideously in the shadows.
~ Douglas Adams
Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time the wish to kill-though not the will to kill.
~ Agatha Christie
No sign, so far, of anything sinister—but I live in hope.
~ Agatha Christie
Murder is a nasty business on an empty stomach.
~ Agatha Christie
I told you there was nothing to it," said Arbuthnot apologetically. "But you know what it is—early hours of the morning—everything very still—the thing had a sinister look—like a detective story. All nonsense, really.
~ Agatha Christie
Because of his face." "His face? But—" "Yes, I know what you're going to say. It's a sinister face. That's just it. No man with a face like that could be really sinister. It must be a colossal joke on the part of Nature.
~ Agatha Christie
That was what murder was-as easy as that! But afterwards you went on remembering...
~ Agatha Christie