Gray Quotes - Page 10

• That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,-- Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.

  William C. Bryant

  Ocean, Men, Green

  William Cullen Bryant, “Thanatopsis”

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• You've got to deal with the world with all of its troubles, while you've still got this alternate image. It's not about being in a different place or being in heaven, it's about seeing the world through magical eyes for a moment, and then being back in that same world, and everything is dull and gray. Having to remember the color.

  Larkin Grimm

  Eye, Color, Heaven

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There is less gray area there, less doubt. There is a security in being some thing all the way. Our culture, too, encourages this way of being - exaggeration, for example, is the key to advertising success in the United States. But hyperbole also seems a big part of Iranian culture, as well.

  Porochista Khakpour

  Keys, Doubt, Way

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• I could have screamed, but I didn’t. I could have fought, but I didn’t. I just lay there and let it happen, watching the winter-white sky go gray above me.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Winter, Sky, White

  Maggie Stiefvater (2009). “Shiver”, p.7, Scholastic Inc.

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• My mother used to say: 'It's not enough to be Hungarian. You still need a little talent, too.' To paraphrase her, its not enough to be conservative, you still need to have the brainpower to be a Supreme Court justice. And, if Harriet Miers is confirmed, she likely won't be in the same league with her colleagues in terms of gray matter.

  Dick Morris

  Mother, Gray Matter, League

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• As an actor, you're always in situations that can be compromising. But you can wipe away that gray area by making a choice.

  Kyle MacLachlan

  Choices, Actors, Wipe

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• Piece by piece, I fed my wardrobe to the night wind, and flutteringly, like a loved one’s ashes, the gray scraps were ferried off, to settle here, there, exactly where I would never know, in the dark heart of New York.

  Sylvia Plath

  New York, Heart, Dark

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.59, Hamilton Books

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• How could anybody confuse truth with beauty, I thought as I looked at him. Truth came with sunken eyes, bony or scarred, decayed. Its teeth were bad, its hair gray and unkempt. While beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made you close your eyes in a prayer.

  Janet Fitch

  Prayer, Eye, Hair

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.222, Hachette UK

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• I'm trying to give people an idea of what black looks like and what white looks like before I introduce them to gray.

  Gish Jen

  Ideas, White, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When his brain died, all of the memories held in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired, would simply evaporate in a flood of chemical reactions.

  Dan Brown

  Memories, Gray Matter, Brain

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• They will be like shadows, they will be like wraiths, gray members of a congregation of nightmare; hark! his long wavering howl . . . an aria of fear made audible. The wolfsong is the sound of the rending you will suffer, in itself a murdering.

  Angela Carter

  Long, Suffering, Shadow

  Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.

  David Sheff

  Black And White, World, Contradiction

  David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.311, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I must remember to forgive myself. Because there's an awful lot of gray to work with. No one can live in the light all the time."-A Great and Terrible Beauty

  Libba Bray

  Light, Forgiving, Awful

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• There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world in relevance to them. Good and evil, in their purest form, are as intangible and forever beyond our ability to hold in our hand as any Fae illusion. We can only aim at them, aspire to them, and hope not to get so lost in the shadows that we can no longer aim for the light.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Black And White, Light, Hands

  Karen Marie Moning (2007). “Bloodfever: Fever Series”, p.184, Delacorte Press

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• It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Tree, Fields, Sun

  Sherwood Anderson (1962). “Sherwood Anderson: Short Stories”

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• I am the middle sister. The one in between. Not oldest, not youngest, not boldest, not nicest. I am the shade of gray, the glass half empty or full, depending on your view. In my life, there has been little that I have done first or better than the one preceding or following me. Of all of us, though, I am the only one who has been broken.

  Sarah Dessen

  Glasses, Views, Broken

  "Just Listen". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2006.

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• As a senior, you may be wondering what you want to do with your life after high school. College? Travel? Get a job? Options are limitless, but it will be good to have a plan. Use the high school senior quotes about life below to come up with ideas on what you want to make of yourself after high school. The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Senior, Morning, Jobs

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• Every day: Wear sunblock. Cover your gray. Do not go insane. Eat less fats and sugars. Do more sit-ups. Don’t start forgetting stuff. Trim the hair in your ears. Take calcium. Moisturize. Every day. Freeze in time to stay in one place forever. Do not get frigging old.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Hair, Forever, Insane

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• I've been gone on the road for the past three years; maybe I've been home for two or three weeks in a year. I literally live - it's like one of those old movies where they show a train, and pages of a calendar are peeling away like leaves, and then there's a picture of me with gray hair.

  Chris Isaak

  Home, Past, Hair

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• Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.

  William C. Bryant

  Ocean, Waste, Melancholy

  William Cullen Bryant, “Thanatopsis”

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• If you saw me every day, you would actually think I am wearing the exact same gray suit.

  Thom Browne

  Thinking, Saws, Suits

  "Thom Browne On Tokyo, His Father and Fast Fashion Collaborations". Interview with Sarah Leon, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2011.

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• Life is wonder, endless, ceaseless wonder. If your energy level is low, then everything is gray, two-dimensional, boring, frustrating, and unhappy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Two

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• I am not going to respect... gray hairs unless there is wisdom beneath them.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Respect, Hair, Gray Hair

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• I think people are really starting to rebel against that. And I think there's going to be more and more gray areas. Hopefully that means we'll see more stories with characters that could be interchangeable with men.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Character, Mean, Men

  "Into The Forest: Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood Survive a Quiet Apocalypse". Interview With Don Kaye, www.denofgeek.com. July 28, 2016.

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• Where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in the green stillness of the country, where he can hear the heart of Nature beat, or in the dark, gray town where he can hear and feel the throbbing heart of man?

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Country, Heart, Dark

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “The Works: Hyperion”, p.46

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