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• I am not going to respect... gray hairs unless there is wisdom beneath them.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Respect, Hair, Gray Hair

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• If you saw me every day, you would actually think I am wearing the exact same gray suit.

  Thom Browne

  Thinking, Saws, Suits

  "Thom Browne On Tokyo, His Father and Fast Fashion Collaborations". Interview with Sarah Leon, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2011.

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• It's amazing how much time and money can be saved in the world of dating by close attention to detail. A white sock here, a pair of red braces there, a gray slip-on shoe, a swastika, are as often as not all one needs to tell you there's no point in writing down phone numbers and forking out for expensive lunches because it's never going to be a runner.

  Helen Fielding

  Writing, Shoes, Lunch

  Bridget Jones's Diary "January" (1996)

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• Our toil is sweet with thankfulness, Our burden is our boon; The curse of earth's gray morning is The blessing of its noon.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Sweet, Morning, Blessing

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems”, p.170, tredition

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• Air pollution is turning Mother Nature prematurely gray.

  Irv Kupcinet

  Mother, Air, Environment

  "Global Peace Lovers". Book by Aasef Shafik, 2008.

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• We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.

  Agnes Repplier

  Cheer, Laughter, Memories

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• Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.

  William C. Bryant

  Ocean, Waste, Melancholy

  William Cullen Bryant, “Thanatopsis”

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• That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,-- Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.

  William C. Bryant

  Ocean, Men, Green

  William Cullen Bryant, “Thanatopsis”

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• Where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in the green stillness of the country, where he can hear the heart of Nature beat, or in the dark, gray town where he can hear and feel the throbbing heart of man?

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Country, Heart, Dark

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “The Works: Hyperion”, p.46

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• The sun is set; and in his latest beams Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold, Slowly upon the amber air unrolled, The falling mantle of the Prophet seems.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Fall, Twilight, Clouds

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.845, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The bluebird enjoys the preeminence of being the first bit of color that cheers our northern landscape. The other birds that arrive about the same time--the sparrow, the robin, the phoebe-bird--are clad in neutral tints, gray, brown, or russet; but the bluebird brings one of the primary hues and the divinest of them all.

  John Burroughs

  Cheer, Color, Bird

  John Burroughs (1976). “The birds of John Burroughs: keeping a sharp lookout”

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• A gray day provides the best light.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Light, Gray Days

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• Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to they grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale.

  John Milton

  Twilight, Bird, Silence

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 598

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• The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case, He turns his quid of tobacco, while his eyes blur with the manuscript.

  Walt Whitman

  Eye, Printing, Cases

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.16, NYU Press

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• See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across The gray-green oaks; and catching, By its soft brown beard, the moss.

  Philip James Bailey

  Sunshine, Gold, Beard

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.146

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• What you think is an illusion created by your glands, your emotions and, in the last analysis, by the content of your stomach. That gray matter you're so proud of is like a mirror in an amusement park which transmits to you nothing but distorted signals from reality forever beyond your grasp.

  Ayn Rand

  Reality, Thinking, Mirrors

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.260, Hamilton Books

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• On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stairway through the clouds.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Clouds, Looks, Sides

  "Invisible Monsters". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September 17, 1999.

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• Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement.

  Anna Quindlen

  Long, Pieces, Life Is

  Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)

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• Into the woods, my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent, Into the woods my Master came, Forspent with love and shame. But the olives they were not blind to Him, The little gray leaves were kind to Him: The thorn-tree had a mind to Him, When into the woods He came.

  Sidney Lanier

  Tree, Mind, Olives

  Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.141, University of Georgia Press

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• Remember the enemy of all painting is gray: a painting will almost always appear grayer than it is, on account of its oblique position under the light.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Light, Enemy, Painting

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• I organize the opposition between colors, lines and curves. I set curves against straight lines, patches of color against plastic forms, pure colors against subtly nuanced shades of gray.

  Fernand Leger

  Curves, Color, Lines

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• In the real world there are many tones, from white at one extreme, through a large number of medium tones to black at the other extreme. To achieve a three-dimensional effect on paper you need just three - white, black and medium gray.

  Stan Smith

  Real, White, Numbers

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• One thing that has become clear over the last several days is that we no longer have 135 choices to make. It's really one choice likely to emerge from question number two, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and that leaves the voters with a clear choice. They can retain Gray Davis as governor, or they can elect Arnold Schwarzenegger and his crew from Pete Wilson to run the governor's office.

  Gray Davis

  Running, Two, Numbers

  "Should I stay or should I withdraw?" by John Mercurio, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2003.

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• If you live in Ohio and you don't wear scarlet and gray now, you're an oddball. And it used to be that you could go around town even in Columbus and see a bunch of people in Michigan shirts ... And that's horrible, isn't it?.

  Dave Foley

  Ohio, People, Michigan

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• Most eyes have more than one color, but usually they're related. Blue eyes may have two shades of blue, or blue and gray, or blue and green, or even a fleck or two of brown. Most people don't notice that.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Eye, Blue, Color

  Elizabeth Moon (2004). “The Speed of Dark: A Novel”, p.70, Ballantine Books

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