Black And White Quotes - Page 8

• They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words - 'free-love' - as if a lover ever had been, or ever could be, free.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Two, Phrases, Lovers

  The Defendant "A Defence of Rash Vows" (1902)

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• Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G.

  Lionel

  Player, Together, Wilson

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• I love... anything in black and white. Just put it on the TV, I'll watch.

  Anna Chlumsky

  Watches, Tvs, White

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• That first company I started made a lot of money for the venture capitalists - nearly $30 million - but next to nothing for the founders. The companies I started after that varied between failures and mediocre successes. But at no point did I ever consider getting a 'real job.' That felt like a black and white world, and I wanted Technicolor.

  Michael Arrington

  Jobs, Real, Firsts

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• I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common. If you see it, black and white people, both sides look to see the differences, they don't look at what they have together. Men and women, and old and young, and so on. And this is a disease of the mind, the way I see it. Because in actual fact, men and women have much more in common than they are separated.

  Doris Lessing

  Men, Differences, People

  "A Notorious Life". Interview with Dwight Garner, www.salon.com. November 11, 1997.

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• Many [business] people focus on what is static, black and white. Yet great algorithms can be rewritten. A business process can be defined better. A business model can be copied. But the speed of execution is dynamic within you and can never be copied. When you have an idea, figure out the pieces you need quickly, go to market, believe in it, and continue to iterate.

  Gurbaksh Chahal

  Believe, Ideas, People

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• I'm not interested in edges. I'm interested in the mass and color, the black and white. The edges happen because the forms get as quiet as they can be. I want the masses to perform. When I work with forms and colors, I get the edge.

  Ellsworth Kelly

  Color, Want, Quiet

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• At home in South Africa I have sometimes said in big meetings where you have black and white together: 'Raise your hands!' Then I have said: 'Move your hands,' and I've said 'Look at your hands - different colors representing different people. You are the Rainbow People of God.'

  Desmond Tutu

  Moving, Home, Hands

  "Archbishop Desmond Tutu: Peacemaker in a Diverse Nation". www.csmonitor.com. October 26, 1994.

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• Since I am from Spain, once the morning has gone, I like to take a nap while falling asleep to black and white movies. It feels less lonely. There is a comfort in hearing their voices, like when you're a child and your mother tells you a story before bedtime.

  Jordi Molla

  Mother, Lonely, Morning

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• Everything's not black and white. We choose to make bad decisions or not. I wanted to explore that and shine a light on it. Chip is trying to be a better person and lead a better life. His methods are just super flawed.

  Will Arnett

  Light, Decision, Shining

  "Will Arnett Is Ready To Confront His Own Demons" by Andi Teran, www.elle.com. March 10, 2016.

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• I write to make peace with the things I cannot control. I write to create fabric in the world that often appears black and white. I write to meet my ghosts. I write to begin a dialogue. I write to imagine things differently and in imagining things differently perhaps the world will change.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Writing, Fabric, World

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• It's amazing when you find a photo of your grandparents when they were young because it's black and white and the care that they put into their appearance back then was so grown up and specific to that era.

  Feist

  Grandparent, Care, Eras

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 6, 2010.

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• In light this bright, after so long in the dark, everything we can see is only black and white. Only glaring shape-outlines we have to blink against.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Dark, Light, Long

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• The other day I found her passport in her drawer when I was putting away my dad's laundered handkerchiefs. I wish I hadn't. For the purpose of my story, she should have it with her. I sat on my dad's bed and flipped through page after empty page. No stamps. No exotic locales. No travel-worn smudges or creases. Just the ID information and my mother's black-and-white photo which if it were used in a psychology textbook on the meaning of facial expressions would be labelled: Obscenely, heartbreakingly hopeful.

  Miriam Toews

  Mother, Dad, Expression

  Miriam Toews (2004). “A Complicated Kindness: A Novel”, A.A. Knopf Canada

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• This is a sleaze bag murdering dog and he [O.J. Simpson] has played us for fools. And the worst thing he did was exacerbate the racial divide in this country. He divided black and white America.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Country, Dog, America

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• There are people in the world who won't watch a movie that's in black and white. There's got to be a special place in hell for them.

  Michael McKean

  People, Special, Watches

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I start from experience and read. . .always between polarities - loud and not-loud, young and old, spring and winter. If I can make black and white behave together instead of shooting at each other only, I feel proud.

  Josef Albers

  Spring, Winter, Together

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• We have this misconception about women in the military, that they don't wear make-up, but in reality, they're very feminine women. You can be a tough woman, and still be a very nurturing and emotional parent. It's just not always black and white like that.

  Michelle Monaghan

  Military, Reality, Emotional

  Source: collider.com

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• My mom had a Canon AE1 camera and I read the manual and that's basically how I became a photographer. I was in the Baltimore punk scene. I knew it was a special time, so I went out and documented that whole era. I was the only person to really do it of my friends in real black and white, beautiful portraits.

  Jeff Vespa

  Beautiful, Mom, Real

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I always say when you see that old black-and-white footage of the rocket on the launch pad and it falls over and explodes, that's because people had slide rules. Not having the decimal point is a real drawback. You want the decimal point, take it from me.

  Bill Nye

  Real, Fall, People

  "Bill Nye the Science Guy: Don't Worry, Your Phone Isn't Making You Dumb". Interview with Wilson Rothman, gizmodo.com. March 19, 2010.

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• Perhaps the problem is the seeming need that people have of making black-and-white cutoffs when it comes to certain mysterious phenomena, such as life and consciousness. People seem to want there to be an absolute threshold between the living and the nonliving, and between the thinking and the "merely mechanical," ... But the onward march of science seems to force us ever more clearly into accepting intermediate levels of such properties.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Science, Acceptance, Thinking

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• The gray area, the place between black and white - that's the place where life happens.

  Justin Timberlake

  Life, Believe, Gray Area

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• We were living in a tumultuous time, when the world was upside down. Freeman produced a show that was black and white, the good guys versus the bad guys.

  James MacArthur

  Guy, World, Upside Down

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• In Sacramento, my brown was not halfway between black and white. On the leafy streets, on the east side of town, where my family lived, where Asians did not live, where Negroes did not live, my family's Mexican shades passed as various.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Mexican, East, Shade

  Richard Rodriguez (2003). “Brown: The Last Discovery of America”, p.12, Penguin

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• If you have used colour throughout most of your artistic life, try just black and white... it will take your painting to another dimension where tone and form in all its permutations reign supreme.

  David Luiz

  Artistic Life, Trying, Reign

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