Grey Quotes - Page 5

• Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint. In her spacious and quiet streets men walked and spoke as they had done in Newman's day; her autumnal mists, her grey springtime, and the rare glory of her summer days - such as that day - when the chestnut was in flower and the bells rang out high and clear over her gables and cupolas, exhaled the soft airs of centuries of youth. It was this cloistral hush which gave our laughter its resonance, and carried it still, joyously, over the intervening clamour.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Summer, Laughter, Flower

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• ...Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing. Beauty grown sad with its eternity Made you of us, and of the dim grey sea. Our long ships loose thought-woven sails and wait, For God has bid them share an equal fate; And when at last defeated in His wars, They have gone down under the same white stars, We shall no longer hear the little cry Of our sad hearts, that may not live nor die.

  William Butler Yeats

  Sweet, Stars, War

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.123, Penguin

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• Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the little man in a grey suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always someone else's money he's adding up.

  Raymond Chandler

  Monday, Morning, Mistake

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• Had I known but yesterday what I know today, I’d have taken out your two grey eyes and put in eyes of clay. And had I known but yesterday you’d be no more my own, I’d have taken out your heart of flesh and put in one of stone.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Taken, Heart, Eye

  Carolyn Parkhurst (2003). “The Dogs of Babel: A Novel”, p.31, Hachette UK

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• He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight.

  Jon Krakauer

  Nature, Heart, Air

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.31, Pan Macmillan

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• Little by little things began to assume a new aspect. The sense of insecurity vanished, words came of themselves, I was no longer so painfully conscious of everything I said. I drank on and felt the great soft wave approach and embrace me; the dark hour began to fill with pictures and stealthily the noiseless procession of dreams appeared again superimposed on the dreary, grey landscape of existence.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Dream, Dark, Insecurity

  Erich Maria Remarque (1937). “Three Comrades”

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• Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.

  Jodi Picoult

  White, Black, Shade

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.313, Penguin

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• Because subjects like literature and art history have no obvious material pay-off, they tend to attract those who look askance at capitalist notions of utility. The idea of doing something purely for the delight of it has always rattled the grey-bearded guardians of the state. Sheer pointlessness has always been a deeply subversive affair.

  Terry Eagleton

  Art, Ideas, Looks

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• 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.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Rain, Journey, Glasses

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

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• No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, and they don't Think.

  A. A. Milne

  Mistake, Thinking, People

  A.A. Milne (2013). “The House at Pooh Corner”

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• I'm sprouting more than one wonderful grey hair.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Hair, Wonderful, Grey Hair

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• And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed into the West, until at last on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dream, Country, Sweet

  J. R. R. Tolkien (1980). “The Lord of the Rings: The return of the King”

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• It's kind of amazing how popular 'Grey's Anatomy' is. What other show can boast such an annoyingly sincere cast of doctors, sniveling through such perfunctory love triangles?

  Rob Sheffield

  Doctors, Triangles, Love Triangle

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• God bless America - what other civilization would give Patrick Dempsey another shot to rule as a sex symbol, twenty years after 'Meatballs III: Summer Job?' His reign as Dr. McDreamy on 'Grey's Anatomy' is proof that there's nothing we love more than giving Eighties celebs a heartwarming second stab at life.

  Rob Sheffield

  Summer, Jobs, Sex

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• In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.

  Danica Patrick

  Book, Trying, Holes

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• Money has no grey areas. You either make it or you lose it.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Grey Areas, Areas, Loses

  FaceBook post by Kevin O'Leary from Oct 01, 2014

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• I remember watching Barbra Streisand and seeing Jennifer Grey in 'Dirty Dancing' - these were people who acted like me and looked like me. Now it's great that everyone on 'Glee' is so unique and people can relate to us and look up to us.

  Lea Michele

  Dirty, Unique, Naughty

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• I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giants or elves or dwarves, or whatever they are, they're still human, and the human heart is still in conflict with the self.

  George R. R. Martin

  Heart, Character, Writing

  "Producers David Benioff, Dan Weiss & George R.R. Martin Talk GAME OF THRONES Season 3 and 4, Martin’s Cameo, the End of the Series, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 20, 2013.

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• I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.

  George R. R. Martin

  Character, Black And White, White

  "A conversation with Game of Thrones author George R. R. Martin". The Sydney Morning Herald Interview, www.smh.com.au. August 1, 2011.

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• From what I hear, [ "Fifty Shades of Grey" ] is not a way that I feel like I need to be turned on or like a hole that needs to be filled in me.

  Lena Dunham

  Filled In, Needs, Fifty

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I love my grey hair and wrinkles. I love the fact that my face has more of an edge and more character than it did when I was in my 20s and 30s. No Botox for me.

  George Clooney

  Character, Wrinkles, Hair

  "George Clooney's La Dolce Vita". Interview with Jack Ross, dolcemag.com. March 24, 2014.

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• I like to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' when I'd doing cardio. But, sometimes I do need good music to get me moving. I like high energy songs by artists like Justin Timberlake and Rihanna.

  Alison Sweeney

  Song, Moving, Artist

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• On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.

  Taylor Swift

  Play, Care, Causes

  "Taylor Swift talks acting, college and a dream collaboration with 'amazing' T.I." by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. Vobember 18, 2008.

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• The whole journey was odd and dream-like -- the roaring stream, the wet grey grass, the glimmering cliffs which they were approaching, and always the glorious, silently pacing beast ahead.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dream, Journey, Roaring

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian”, p.109, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain. And truly not the morning sun of heaven Better becomes the grey cheeks of the east, Nor that full star that ushers in the even, Doth half that glory to the sober west, As those two mourning eyes become thy face: O! let it then as well beseem thy heart To mourn for me since mourning doth thee grace, And suit thy pity like in every part. Then will I swear beauty herself is black, And all they foul that thy complexion lack

  William Shakespeare

  Morning, Stars, Pain

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.40, Bloomsbury Publishing

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