Grey Quotes - Page 20

• A silly society is a youth-obsessed society: To the Chinese, who appreciate the value of experience, the greater the ratio in a team of grey 'hairs and no-hairs' to 'black hairs' the faster and better a task will be completed. The opposite assumption obtains in the youth-obsessed U.S.

  Ilana Mercer

  Team, Silly, Hair

  "Hollywood: The No-Good, The Bad And The Beastly". www.economicpolicyjournal.com. March 07, 2014.

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• That wouldn't be a first, now would it?" "Jean." "Jean Grey is dead, Agent." "Yeah, that'll last.

  Joss Whedon

  Agents, Lasts, Firsts

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• Pippin: I didn't think it would end this way.
  Gandalf: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path... One that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass... And then you see it.
  Pippin: What? Gandalf?... See what?
  Gandalf: White shores... and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise.
  Pippin: Well, that isn't so bad.
  Gandalf: No... No it isn't.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Country, Rain, Journey

  "Fictional characters: Pippin, Gandalf". "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King", www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• I swear to you, Nora Grey, on this day, from now and forever, to give myself to you. I am yours. My love, my body, my soul—I place in your possession and protection.” He held out the ring, a single offering, a binding promise. ~ Patch + Nora

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Offering, Giving, Forever

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence; Finale”, p.1462, Simon and Schuster

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• That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself.

  Anita Brookner

  Light, Sun, Seasons

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• The snow drifted down and down, all in ghostly silence, and lay thick and unbroken on the ground. It was a place of whites and blacks and greys. White towers and white snow and white statues, black shadows and black trees, the dark grey sky above. A pure world, Sansa thought. I do not belong here. Yet she stepped out all the same.

  George R. R. Martin

  Dark, Sky, White

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• People project a grey energy that is very destructive to weaken you, to drain you - just as the snake uses position to capture its victim.

  Frederick Lenz

  Snakes, People, Energy

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• I believe in a uniform for work, but why, because we're men, do we have to be ghettoised into grey suits?

  Stuart Rose

  Believe, Men, Uniforms

  "Marks & Spencer's Stuart Rose: 'I'm like a £3.49 chicken jalfrezi! It's got punch, it's got zest, and it's just fabulous to be with'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2009.

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• I was wondering about my eyes; one of my eyes--the left--saw everything golden and yellow and orange, and the other eye saw shades of blue and grey and green; perhaps one eye was for daylight and the other was for night. If everyone in the world saw different colors from different eyes there might be a great many new colors still to be invented.

  Shirley Jackson

  Eye, Night, Yellow

  Shirley Jackson (2010). “Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches”

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• My favourite pudding is a toss-up between cheesecake - proper, New York cheesecake - and apple crumble and custard. Custard is very important, or dark chocolate mousse. Tea: probably Earl Grey, splash of milk.

  Tom Hiddleston

  New York, Dark, Apples

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• Just think how many books I could've sold if Harry had been a bit more creative with his wand." -[On the success of 50 Shades of Grey]

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Thinking, Creative

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• All that matters in life," the grey man went on, "is to climb the ladder of success, amount to something, own things. When a person climbs higher than the rest, amounts to more, owns more things, everything else comes automatically: friendship, love, respect, et cetera..." "Isn't there anyone who loves you?" Momo whispered.

  Michael Ende

  Love You, Men, Friendship Love

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• Her pupils have taken on a lonely hue, like grey clouds reflected in a calm lake.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Taken, Lakes

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “After Dark”, p.152, Random House

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• You're a rotten driver,' I protested. 'Either you ought to be more careful or you oughtn't to drive at all.' 'I am careful.' 'No, you're not.' 'Well, other people are,' she said lightly. 'What's that got to do with it?' 'They'll keep out of my way,' she insisted. 'It takes two to make an accident.' 'Suppose you met somebody just as careless as yourself.' 'I hope I never will,' she answered. 'I hate careless people. That's why I like you.' Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  I Like You, Hate, Eye

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.46, Atlântico Press

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• ... what would Poirot do? Poirot wouldn't flap around in a panic. He'd stay calm and use his little grey cells and recall some tiny, vital detail which would be the clue to everything.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Cells, Stay Calm, Details

  Sophie Kinsella (2012). “I've Got Your Number”, p.8, Random House

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• One moment flying in green sunlight, then the sky suddenly grey and dark.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Dark, Sky, Flying

  Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.256, Egmont UK

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• Peter swept aside Yogi Tea and Harmony Herbal Blend, though he hesitated a second over the chamomile. .... But no. Violent death demanded Earl Grey.

  Louise Penny

  Tea, Yogi, Harmony

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• Jessica, I know I've been...difficult," he said. "All the same—" "Difficult?" She looked up, her grey eyes wide, "You have been impossible. I begin to think you are not right in the upper storey. I knew you wanted me. The only thing I've never doubted was that. But getting you into bed— you, the greatest whoremonger in Christendom— gad, it was worse than the time I had to drag Bertie to the tooth-drawer. And if you think I mean to be doing that the rest of our days, you had better think again. The next time, my lord, you will do the seducing— or there won't be any, I vow.

  Loretta Chase

  Mean, Eye, Thinking

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• No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the grey and grisly bones of his soul.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Soul, Darkness

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.2659, Bantam

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• Those mortals who operate in the grey area between conviction and incredulity are in a position to choose most meaningfully, and with most meaningful consequences […] Perhaps only a doubter can appreciate the miracle of life without end.

  Terryl L. Givens

  Meaningful, Appreciate, Miracle

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• You must be Warden Ramirez." This is the part where I got nervous. Ramirez loved women. Ramirez never shut up about women. Well, he never shut up about anything in general, but he'd go on and on about various conquests and feats of sexual athleticism and— "A virgin?" Lara blurted. Lara blurted. She turned her head to me, grey eyes several shades paler than they had been, and very wide. "Really, Harry, I'm not sure what to say. Is he a present?

  Jim Butcher

  Eye, Goes On, Shade

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1726, Penguin

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• I am tired of the cult of youth. The cultural rejection of old age, the stigmatization of wrinkles, grey hair, of bodies furrowed by the years. I am fascinated by Diana Vreeland, Georgia O’Keeffe and Louise Bourgeois, women who have let time embrace them without ever cheating. Society today condemns this, me, I celebrate it.

  Tom Ford

  Cheating, Tired, Wrinkles

  "GRAY IN L.A.: What Older Women Want Advertisers To Know" Sabine Reichel, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 10, 2016.

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• But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiosity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last, I should find that low door in the wall, which others, I knew, had found before me, which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Wall, Heart, Garden

  Evelyn Waugh (2012). “Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder”, p.35, Penguin UK

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• What do you think my brain is made for?
  Is it just a container for the mind?
  This great grey matter,
  Sensei replied what is your woman,
  Is she just a container for the child?
  That soft pink matter

  Frank Ocean

  Song, Children, Thinking

  Song: Pink Matter

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• One evening, when we were already resting on the floor of our hut, dead tired, soup bowls in hand, a fellow prisoner rushed in and asked us to run out to the assembly grounds and see the wonderful sunset. Standing outside we saw sinister clouds glowing in the west and the whole sky alive with clouds of ever-changing shapes and colors, from steel blue to blood red. The desolate grey mud huts provided a sharp contrast, while the puddles on the muddy ground reflected the glowing sky. Then, after minutes of moving silence, one prisoner said to another, "How beautiful the world could be.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Beautiful, Running, Moving

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.37, Beacon Press

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