Grey Quotes - Page 16

• Sometimes, looking up at Sophiatown... I have felt I was looking at an Italian village somewhere in Umbria. For you do 'look up' at Sophiatown, and in the evening light, across the blue-grey haze of smoke from braziers and chimneys, against a saffron sky, you see close-packed, red-roofed little houses. ...And above it all you see the Church of Christ the King, its tower visible north, south, east, and west.

  Trevor Huddleston

  Kings, Italian, Blue

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• There is nothing gray about whether a follower of Christ should see 50 Shades of Grey. This is a black and white issue. Don’t go. Don’t watch it. Don’t read it. Don’t rent it.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Black And White, Issues, Watches

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• We moved to Ireland when I was two and we settled in Killarney, Co Kerry. Where we were living in Germany is very industrial and very grey and my parents wanted to have countryside around for my sister and I to grow up in.

  Michael Fassbender

  Growing Up, Two, Parent

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• He who masters the grey everyday is a hero.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hero, Everyday, Masters

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• There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Weather, Tree, Insulting

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• Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Color, Colour, Seems

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• The movie Fifty Shades of Grey is considerably better written than the book. It is also sort of classy-looking, in a generic, TV-ad-for-bath-oil way.

  Lisa Schwarzbaum

  Book, Oil, Baths

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• Being a football manager is no fun at all. You have to put up with all the hassle. It is not surprising that so many turn grey or have heart attacks.

  Ruud Gullit

  Football, Fun, Heart

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• According to Ferguson, grey things are invisible. Apparantly its just total luck that planes manage to find aircraft carriers in the middle of the ocean.

  Nick Hancock

  Soccer, Football, Ocean

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• Every man should own a navy cashmere jacket with gold buttons, a grey suit, black shoes shoes for the city, brown shoes for elsewhere. Everything else should be simple and really well made.

  Thom Browne

  Simple, Men, Cities

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• You are always learning; there is a lot of grey; don't take things for granted.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Taking Things For Granted, Granted, Always Learning

  Interview With Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2012.

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• No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.

  Harlan Coben

  Reading, Character, Black And White

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• The first thing I bought that was really stylish was in 1969 when I was eleven. I saved up for a black, grey and white tie-dye grandad vest. It was too big - they weren't catering for kids my age - and hung off me, but I loved it.

  Paul Weller

  Kids, White, Ties

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• This has been done elegantly by Minkowski; but chalk is cheaper than grey matter, and we will do it as it comes.

  Albert Einstein

  Math, Grey Matter, Done

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• I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them...The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey.

  David Bowie

  Inspiring, Dream, Reality

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• Yet, even for us, there is left some loveliness of environment, and the dullness of tutors and professors matters very little when one can loiter in the grey cloisters at Magdalen, and listen to some flute-like voice singing in Waynfleete's chapel, or lie in the green meadow, among the strange snakespotted fritillaries, and watch the sunburnt noon smite to a finer gold the tower's gilded vanes, or wander up the Christ Church staircase beneath the vaulted ceiling's shadowy fans, or pass through the sculptured gateway of Laud's building in the College of St. John.

  Oscar Wilde

  Lying, College, Oxford

  Oscar Wilde (1999). “De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings”, p.231, Wordsworth Editions

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• Just because everyone CAN publish a book these days, doesn't mean everyone SHOULD. The world doesn't need 1000 knock-offs of 50 Shades of Grey. I'm not so sure the world even needed ONE 50 Shades of Grey.

  Oliver Gaspirtz

  Book, Mean, Needs

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• I think 26 is the turning point. I’ve got to make up for 10 years of living like a degenerate. I’ve suddenly become conscious of being unhealthy. You’ve spent every bit of free time since [the age of ] 15 in a pub. And suddenly you’re like, ‘Oh God, I don’t want to be this grey ghost sitting there with a pot belly. I’ve got to get it together.

  Robert Pattinson

  Thinking, Years, Age

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• Jean Grey, the Phoenix... she finds a way to reincarnate herself constantly, so one never knows.

  Famke Janssen

  Phoenix, Way, Knows

  "Hugh Jackman Says 'The Wolverine' Features A Previous 'X-Men' Character, Christoph Waltz Might Appear in 'The Muppets 2' After All" by Charlie Schmidlin, www.indiewire.com. December 27, 2012.

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• In a sense, the story, or poem or verse or whatever it is you're writing, you can kind of think of it as a kind of projectile. Imagine it is a kind of projectile which has been specially shaped to be aerodynamic, and that your target is the soft grey putty of the reader's brain.

  Alan Moore

  Writing, Thinking, Brain

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• A child lies like a grey pebble on the shore until a certain teacher picks him up and dips him in water, and suddenly you see all the colours and patterns in the dull stone, and it’s marvelous for the stone and marvelous for the teacher.

  Elizabeth Hay

  Teacher, Children, Lying

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• Anything that is white is sweet.
  Anything that is brown is meat.
  Anything that is grey, don't eat.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Sweet, Food, White

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• Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn,
  Unseen, this colourless sky of folded showers,
  And folded winds; no blossom in the bowers;
  A poet's face asleep in this grey morn.
  Now in the midst of the old world forlorn
  A mystic child is set in these still hours.
  I keep this time, even before the flowers,
  Sacred to all the young and the unborn.

  Alice Meynell

  Children, Spring, Flower

  Alice Meynell (1913). “Poems”

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• On your 60th, here's something philosophical
  To give the old grey matter a stir
  How old would you be
  If you didn't know how old you were?

  John Walter Bratton

  Birthday, Philosophical, Grey Matter

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• Wafted up, The stealing cloud with soft grey blinds the sky And in its vapory mantle onward steps The summer shower.

  Alfred Billings Street

  Summer, Clouds, Sky

  Alfred Billings Street (1850). “The Poems of Alfred B. Street”, p.20

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