I just was not going to subject my record to the bleak prospects of a primary election.

- Arlen Specter

I think that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm inordinately bleak.

- Ann Beattie

I love bleak things.

- Denise Mina

The outlook for the Federal budget is bleak.

- Doug Elmendorf

Until I started doing standup, there were some very bleak days.

- Larry David

I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic.

- Mark Leyner

I'm not a pessimist by nature. I'm not someone who sees things in a bleak way.

- Nouriel Roubini

I've had very bleak experiences in hospitals, but they were also sometimes very funny.

- Peter Capaldi

I have to believe there's redemption in the darkest of circumstances; otherwise it's too bleak for me.

- Paddy Considine

A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak.

- Tom Hooper