Pale Quotes - Page 10

• The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison, that he looked like death; not death as it shews in shroud and coffin, but in the guise it wears when life has just departed; when a young and gentle spirit has, but an instant, fled to Heaven: and the gross air of the world has not had time to breathe upon the changing dust it hallowed.

  Charles Dickens

  Lying, Sadness, Boys

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Oliver Twist: Classic English Literature”, p.144, 谷月社

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• I have olive skin, so if I get pale, I look green. I have to tan.

  Nicole Richie

  Pale Skin, Skins, Looks

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• America's demographic shift was obvious to everyone in the 2010 Census - but Republicans stubbornly rejected math, facts, and polls to their electoral peril. While Republicans tailored their platform by and for the pale stale and male, among us, Obama and Democrats are embracing America's diverse mosaic.

  Christine Pelosi

  Math, America, Males

  "President Obama and Democrats Won Embracing Demography as Destiny" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.

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• What a wonderful song, she thought-everything was wonderful tonight, most of all this romantic scene in the den with their hands clinging and the inevitable looming charmingly close. The future vista of her life seemed an unending succession of scenes like this: under moonlight and pale starlight, and in the backs of warm limousines and in low cosy roadsters stopped under sheltering trees-only the boy might change, and this one was so nice.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Song, Nice, Boys

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.159, e-artnow

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• From haunted spring and dale Edg'd with poplar pale The parting genius is with sighing sent.

  John Milton

  Spring, Genius, Parting

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The poetical works of John Milton: With notes of various authors”, p.21

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• I trust that some may be as near and dear to Buddha, or Christ, or Swedenborg, who are without the pale of their churches.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Church, May, Christ

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.47, Xist Publishing

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• Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches, nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair.

  John Steinbeck

  Games, Singing, Despair

  William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck (1971). “William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck”

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• I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge.

  Jules Verne

  Engineering, Skills, Romance

  Jules Verne (2013). “Invasion of the Sea”, p.209, Wesleyan University Press

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• It seemed to me that man himself was like a half-emptied bottle of pale ale, which Time had drunk so far, yet stoppled tight for a while, and drifting about in the ocean of circumstances, but destined ere-long to mingle with the surrounding waves, or be spilled amid the sands of a distant shore.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ocean, Men, Long

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.791, Delphi Classics

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• She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's just broken dawn.

  John Green

  Broken, Black, Skins

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.40, Penguin

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• The inconvenience and the suffering of any children or any family members pales in comparison to the suffering and oppression that goes on in these animal laboratories.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Children, Animal, Suffering

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• For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially pales in comparison.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Soldier, Purpose, Kind

  Kathryn Bigelow, Peter Keough (2013). “Kathryn Bigelow: Interviews”, p.157, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.

  Buffalo Bill

  Government, Ideas, People

  Buffalo Bill (1879). “The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography”, p.365, U of Nebraska Press

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• I went through a mod and goth-phase when I decided that I wouldn't ever be the bronzed beach-bunny. I started going as pale as I possibly could.

  Cate Blanchett

  Beach, Phases, Bunnies

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• Just Donald Trump's tenor and insulting of people is just beyond the pale.

  Charles Koch

  People, Insulting, Trump

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.

  John Gardner

  Dream, Wall, Spinning Around

  John Gardner (2010). “Grendel”, p.8, Vintage

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• Then Carol slipped her arm under her neck, and all the length of their bodies touched fitting as if something had prearranged it. Happiness was like a green vine spreading through her, stretching fine tendrils, bearing flowers through her flesh. She had a vision of a pale white flower, shimmering as if seen in darkness, or through water. Why did people talk of heaven, she wondered

  Patricia Highsmith

  Flower, White, People

  Patricia Highsmith (2011). “The Price of Salt”, p.206, She Winked Press

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• On a cold, fretful afternoon in early October, 1872, a hansom cab drew up outside the offices of Lockhart and Selby, Shipping Agents, in the financial heart of London, and a young girl got out and paid the driver. She was a person of sixteen or so--alone, and uncommonly pretty. She was slender and pale, and dressed in mourning, with a black bonnet under which she tucked back a straying twist of blond hair that the wind had teased loose. She had unusually dark brown eyes for one so fair. Her name was Sally Lockhart; and within fifteen minutes, she was going to kill a man.

  Philip Pullman

  Girl, Eye, Heart

  Philip Pullman (2017). “The Ruby in the Smoke: A Sally Lockhart Mystery”, p.7, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• It’s a sun lamp. I thought you might be tired of your pasty-pale complexion. (Chris) Christopher, I happen to be a Viking in the middle of winter in Minnesota. Lack of a deep tan goes with the whole Nordic territory. Why do you think we raided Europe anyway? (Wulf) Because it was there? (Chris) No, we wanted to thaw out. (Wulf)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Tired, Winter, Thinking

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• He wanted to tell her that he was inspired and vigilant and recklessly alone, that his body contained his unsteady heart and something else, something he felt but could not describe: porous and spiky, shifting with flecks of thought, with urge and memory; salted with brightness, flickerings of white and green and pale gold; something that loved stars because it was made of the same substance.

  Michael Cunningham

  Stars, Memories, Heart

  Michael Cunningham (2007). “Specimen Days: A Novel”, p.4, Macmillan

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• I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming in the gardens, and that I shall see the wind stir into restless beauty the swaying gold of the one, and make the other toss the pale purple of its plumes, so that all the air shall be Arabia for me.

  Oscar Wilde

  Garden, Thinking, Air

  Oscar Wilde (1961). “DE PROFUNDIS”, p.33, VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS

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• Go to Old Delhi,and look at the way they keep chickens there in the market. Hundred of pale hens and brightly colored roosters, stuffed tightly into wire-mesh cages. They see the organs of their brothers lying around them.They know they are next, yet they cannot rebel. They do not try to get out of the coop. The very same thing is done with humans in this country.

  Aravind Adiga

  Country, Brother, Lying

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• In a split second of eternity, everything is changed, transfigured. A few bars of music, rising from an unfamiliar place, a touch of perfection in the flow of human dealings - I lean my head slowly to one side, reflect on the camellia on the moss on the temple, reflect on a cup of tea, while outside the wind is rustling foliage, the forward rush of life is crystalized in a brilliant jewel of a moment that knows neither projects nor future, human destiny is rescued from the pale succession of days, glows with light at last and, surpassing time, warms my tranquil heart.

  Muriel Barbery

  Heart, Destiny, Jewels

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, August, 2006.

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• The Santa Anas blew in hot from the desert, shriveling the last of the spring grass into whiskers of pale straw. Only the oleanders thrived, their delicate poisonous blooms, their dagger green leaves. We could not sleep in the hot dry nights, my mother and I.

  Janet Fitch

  Mother, Spring, Sleep

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.7, Hachette UK

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• I will be thin and pure like a glass cup. Empty. Pure as light. Music. I move my hands over my body - my shoulders, my collarbone, my rib cage, my hip bones like part of an animal skull, my small thighs. In the mirror my face is pale and my eyes look bruised. My hair is pale and thin and the light comes through. I could be a lot younger than seventeen. I could be a child still, untouched.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Children, Moving, Eye

  Francesca Lia Block (2009). “The Hanged Man”, p.14, Harper Collins

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