Grey Quotes - Page 8

• Whoever heard me assert that the grey cat playing just now in the yard is the same one that did jumps and tricks there five hundred years ago will think whatever he likes of me, but it is a stranger form of madness to imagine that the present-day cat is fundamentally an entirely different one.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Cat, Thinking, Years

  "The World as Will and Representation". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819.

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• You get religion as your hair turns grey.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Religious, Hair, Religion

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• Now, among the heresies that are spoken in this matter is the habit of calling a grey day a "colourless" day. Grey is a colour, and can be a very powerful and pleasing colour.... A grey clouded sky is indeed a canopy between us and the sun; so is a green tree, if it comes to that. But the grey umbrellas differ as much as the green in their style and shape, in their tint and tilt. One day may be grey like steel, and another grey like dove’s plumage. One may seem grey like the deathly frost, and another grey like the smoke of substantial kitchens.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Powerful, Sky, Tree

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• When I first painted a number of canvases grey all over (about eight years ago), I did so because I did not know what to paint, or what there might be to paint: so wretched a start could lead to nothing meaningful. As time went on, however, I observed differences of quality among the grey surfaces - and also that these betrayed nothing of the destructive motivation that lay behind them. The pictures began to teach me. By generalizing a personal dilemma, they resolved it.

  Gerhard Richter

  Meaningful, Art, Motivation

  FaceBook post by Gerhard Richter from Jun 30, 2015

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• What I like so much about Corot is that he can say everything with a bit of tree; and it was Corot himself that I found [back] in the museum of Naples - in the simplicity of the work of Pompeii and the Egyptians. These priestesses in their silver-grey tunics are just like Corot's nymphs.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Museums, Nymphs, Simplicity

  "Renoir - his life and work" by Francois Fosca, Book Club Associates/ Thames and Hudson Ltd, London, (p. 164), 1975.

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• I am black or white, I'll never be grey in my life.

  Diego Maradona

  White, Black, Black Or White

  "Diego Maradona hits out at critics after Argentina qualify for 2010 World Cup". www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2009.

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• The grey paintings, for example, a painted grey surface, completely monochromatic - they come from a motivation, or result from a state, that was very negative. It has a lot to do with hopelessness, depression and such things. But it has to be turned on its head in the end, and has to come to a form where these paintings possess beauty. And in this case, it's not a carefree beauty, but rather a serious one.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Motivation, Example

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• An Emraan Hashmi film has come to guarantee certain ingredients: An intense, grey central character, a beautiful girl - if he gets lucky, then two - couple of kisses, a few bold scenes, fabulous music and a climatic twist.

  Emraan Hashmi

  Beautiful, Girl, Couple

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• I'm trying to incorporate colour into my life. Until recently, everything in my closet was black, white, grey, navy or olive.

  Jennifer Morrison

  White, Navy, Black

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are people who can achieve huge success in life, while adding a bit of fun and a splash of colour to this increasingly grey world.

  Peter James

  Fun, People, World

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• I was silver-white by the time I was 35, but having grey hair makes me look washed out. My wife and son have both said that grey hair doesn't suit me because I have a boyish face.

  David Cassidy

  Son, Hair, White

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• One day you look out and the audience consists of 65,000 people. It's like looking in the mirror and one day you realise you've gone grey.

  Patrick Carney

  Mirrors, People, One Day

  "'We've put in more hours than anyone': The Black Keys interviewed" by Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2011.

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• Joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass: in the blue serenity of the sky: in the reckless exuberance of spring: in the severe abstinence of grey winter: in the living flesh that animates our bodily frame: in the perfect poise of the human figure, noble and upright: in living, in the exercise of all our powers: in the acquisition of knowledge. . . Joy is there everywhere.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Spring, Winter, Exercise

  Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.64, Rabindranath Tagore

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• As a school boy I played with a plastic grenade, it was grey and with caps, it was loaded. In the dirt we would cry and dramatically die, as it flew through the air and exploded.

  Tom Paxton

  School, Boys, Air

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• I feel like I'm the only person - or woman, at least - who hasn't read 'Fifty Shades of Grey.

  Carla Gugino

  Fifty, Shade, Feels

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I recurred on Grey’s Anatomy for three years, and at the same time, I recurred for eight episodes on Rescue Me. And I’d recurred for nine episodes on The Practice. Frankly, the guest star is often the most compelling character.

  Kate Burton

  Stars, Character, Years

  "Emmys 2012: Six Shows in One Season? Kate Burton, Daughter Of Sir Richard, Did It (Q&A)". Interview with Tim Appelo, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 22, 2012.

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• There's some great women doing TV. I would love to do a Grey's Anatomy-type show. I'm a big fan.

  Elizabeth Berkley

  Tvs, Fans, Great Women

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• Grey's Anatomy' has given me a lot of security, especially as my kids have grown older. Plus, for the last eight years, I didn't have to get on a plane and go to do a job out of town or in another part of the world.

  Justin Chambers

  Jobs, Kids, Eight

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 'The Portrait of Dorian Grey' beautifully articulates how the altruistic part of ourselves clashes with our essentially narcissistic state.

  Walton Goggins

  Portraits, Narcissistic, States

  Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. May 31, 2012.

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• Sometimes, the smaller roles in movies can be the most interesting. If you only take the stance that you'll only play central characters in movies, you'll find yourself not being able to indulge in that morally grey terrain that makes support characters so rich and interesting.

  Joel Edgerton

  Character, Play, Indulge In

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Hope E.L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer's dream.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Christian, Dream, Thinking

  Twitter post from Jun 10, 2012

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• Evening had fallen. A rim of the young moon cleft the pale waste of sky line, the rim of a silver hoop embedded in grey sand: and the tide was flowing in fast to the land with a low whisper of her waves, islanding a few last figures in distant pools.

  James Joyce

  Moon, Land, Sky

  James Joyce (2005). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, p.200, Collector's Library

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• Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Christian, Character, Fifty

  Twitter post from Jun 10, 2012

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• Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.

  Billy Joel

  Philosophy, Black And White, Color

  Song: Shades Of Grey, Album: River of Dreams, 1993

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• I went grey at 12, my eyesight went at 17. I've been a crock from very early on.

  Marian Keyes

  Eyesight

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