Pale Quotes - Page 17

• The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. A pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Father, White, Black

  Willard Van Orman Quine (1976). “The Ways of Paradox, and Other Essays”, p.132, Harvard University Press

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• If pale beans bubble for you in a red earthenware pot, you can often decline the dinners of sumptuous hosts.

  Martial

  Food, Cooking, Dinner

  Martial (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Martial (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden citron. How lovely yellow is!

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Yellow, Light

  Vincent van Gogh (1959). “Complete Letters: With Reproductions of All the Drawings in the Correspondence”

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• I hate libraries for the way they put stickers on things. I don't approve of folding over pages, or of writing in books. God, forget scissors - that's beyond the pale.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Hate, Book, Writing

  Interview with Peter Andrey Smith, www.believermag.com. May 2012.

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• If I was in Sydney, I love the beach. Even though I'm incredibly pale, I put on these terribly long unattractive rashies, and people laugh at me. My kids laugh at me. But that's what I would do.

  Nicole Kidman

  Beach, Kids, Long

  "Nicole Kidman Loves Playing On the Floor with Her Kids", www.justjared.com. September 27, 2015.

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• Burn pedants in pale fire. Accept no fashions. Be your own fashion. Do not rely on earlier triumphs. Be new at each appearance.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Life, Fashion, Fire

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• The days of my youth, as I look back on them, seem to fly away from me in a flurry of pale repetitive scraps like those morning snow storms of used tissue paper that a train passenger sees whirling in the wake of the observation car.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Morning, Car, Snow

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.6, Hamilton Books

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• Things that never interested you before become fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is so special to you. You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Simple, Thinking

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• Why is it fair game to question conservatives' love or loyalty to children or to their fellow man, but beyond the pale to question liberals' love of country?

  Jonah Goldberg

  Loyalty, Country, Children

  "Patriot Games" by Jonah Goldberg, www.nationalreview.com. April 21, 2004.

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• As desire recedes, the world becomes clear, pale, and empty.

  Mason Cooley

  Desire, World, Empty

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• If we venture beyond the pale of Scripture, we are...exposed to all the illusions of imagination and enthusiasm.

  John Newton

  Imagination, Venture, Enthusiasm

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• See the child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt. He stokes the scullery fire.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Children, Fire, Shirts

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.3, Pan Macmillan

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• A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; her voice is sweet music, her smiles his brightest day, her kiss the guardian of his innocence, her arms the pale of his safety.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Sweet, Kissing, Men

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• The old-fashioned idea that the simple piling up of experiences, one on top of another, can make you an artist, is, of course, so much rubbish. If acting were just a matter of experience, then any busy harlot could make Garbo's Camille pale.

  Helen Hayes

  Simple, Artist, Ideas

  Helen Hayes (2014). “On Reflection: An Autobiography”, p.93, Rowman & Littlefield

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• A work of art contains its verification in itself: artificial, strained concepts do not withstand the test of being turned into images; they fall to pieces, turn out to be sickly and pale, convince no one. Works which draw on truth and present it to us in live and concentrated form grip us, compellingly involve us, and no one ever, not even ages hence, will come forth to refute them.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Art, Fall, Age

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• To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve into my own psyche. Its more about exploring how I feel rather than making pale imitations of something that came before. We are unique beings, and the way we look at things is our own.

  Bat for Lashes

  Artist, Unique, Way

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

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• But the severe rules of discipline which the prudence of the bishops had instituted were relaxed by the same prudence in favour of an Imperial proselyte, whom it was so important to allure, by every gentle condescension, into the pale of the church; and Constantine was permitted, at least by a tacit dispensation, to enjoy most of the privileges, before he had contracted any of the obligations, of a Christian.

  Edward Gibbon

  Christian, Discipline, History

  Edward Gibbon, François Guizot (1859). “Guizot's Gibbon: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.258

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• It is the freedom to blaspheme, to transgress, to move beyond the pale, that is at the heart of all intellectual, artistic and political endeavor. Far from censoring offensive speech, a vibrant and diverse society should encourage it. In any society that is not uniform, grey and homogeneous, there are bound to be clashes of viewpoints.

  Kenan Malik

  Freedom, Moving, Heart

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• There are some women and a lot of dudes who are into my look, but I need to convey that I'm funny ahead of time. That's how I got laid. Every girl I've ever been with is because I was funny, not because they were into a 300-pound bearded, pale dudes.

  Jon Gabrus

  Girl, Needs, Looks

  "Nerdy meathead Jon Gabrus on straddling the bro/geek divide". Interview with Kyle Ryan, film.avclub.com. February 3, 2016.

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• Every time I have to try on a wig for work, I get excited about the colour; I've often thought about going for a platinum bob or also raven black, as it looks so great against pale skin. But I always end up being loyal to my red colour.

  Lily Cole

  Pale Skin, Ravens, Black

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

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• It is the saints who know what being in love is all about. Earthly love pales by comparison.

  Thomas Dubay

  Being In Love, Love Is, Saint

  Thomas Dubay (1989). “Fire Within: St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, and the Gospel, on Prayer”, p.25, Ignatius Press

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• You, sleeping on your bed of nails. Weeping an ocean beyond the pale. Strange, sorrow is your greatest skill. You're suffering from overkill... Choose whether to laugh or to cry. Menace and promise mingle in your eye. Wait, it's only a matter of time. You know everything will be fine... Rain falls down and the seas run high. When you're by my side we can rise above it. Let me dry all the tears inside. On your way you cannot hide from the howling wind and the roaring tide. You might get hurt but your fears will subside when you at last escape from the tears inside.

  Tim Finn

  Running, Hurt, Rain

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• I'm definitely hesitant wearing shorts during the summer. Like for a pale person, you know, summer - everyone in the world is so excited for summer, but pale people, we're just like, oh no.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Summer, People, World

  "Not My Job: Jim Gaffigan Takes A Quiz On Gwyneth Paltrow". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. July 26, 2013.

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• Honest investigation is utterly impossible within the pale of any church, for the reason, that if you think the church is right you will not investigate, and if you think it wrong, the church will investigate you.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Thinking, Atheism, Church

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1874). “The Gods, and Other Lectures”, p.183

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  There really is no such thing as race. We all came from Africa. We are all of the same stardust. We are all going to live and die on the same planet, a Pale Blue Dot in the vastness of space. We have to work together.

  Bill Nye

  Race, Blue, Space

  "Commencement Speech: Bill Nye the Science Guy". my.umbc.edu. May 20, 2015.

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