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• If she was suggesting she was too wise with the weight of her experience to fall prey to infatuation - well, the disproof was sitting before her in the form of a gray-eyed prince with a thoughtful set to his mouth that she found quite distracting.

  Kristin Cashore

  Wise, Fall, Thoughtful

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.165, Penguin

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• I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no end to our story until death comes and the body decays.

  Carmen Laforet

  Stories, Decay, Goes On

  Carmen Laforet, Edith Grossman (2007). “Nada”

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• Blue is the insides of something mysterious and lonely. I'd look at fish and birds, thinking the sky and water colored them. The first abyss is blue. An artist must go beyond the mercy of satin or water-from a gutty hue to that which is close to royal purple. All seasons and blossoms inbetween. Lavender. Theatrical and outrageous electric. Almost gray. True and false blue. Water and oil. The gas jet breathing in oblivion. The unstruck match. The blue of absence. The blue of deep presence. The insides of something perfect.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Lonely, Thinking, Artist

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• There is black. There is white. Gray is a cowardly excuse to mix our wants with our needs.

  Kim Harrison

  White, Black, Needs

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• I took the jacket off, changed my T-shirt for a dark gray tank top, slipped on the tangle of the back sheath, and put the jacket on again. Thugs are us. Great. Just add a super-tight ponytail and loads of mascara, and I’d be ripe to play a supervillain’s evil mistress. Ve haf vays of making you gif us your DNA sample.

  Ilona Andrews

  Dark, Thug, Dna

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• And beyond the timeless meadows and emerald pastures, the rabbit holes and moss-covered oak and rowan trees and the "slippy sloppy" houses of frogs, the woodland-scented wind rushed between the leaves and blew around the gray veil that dipped below the fells, swirling up in a mist, blurring the edges of the distant forest. (View from Windermere in the Lake District)

  Susan Branch

  Lakes, Views, Wind

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• I can't believe that I changed so little. I expected to look old and hollow and gray, but I guess it's only me on the inside that has shriveled and deteriorated.

  Beatrice Sparks

  Believe, Looks, Littles

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• Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Morning, Growing Up

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.171, Cambridge University Press

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• Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by petal, leaf by leaf.

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Flower, Night, Rose

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• Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Father, Heart

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty'”, p.25, Sai ePublications via PublishDrive

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• Gray imagined Kat scolding her husband in an operatic duet that has been going on between husbands and wives for ages, that eternal mix of exasperation and love." -- James Rollins

  James Rollins

  Husband, Wife, Age

  FaceBook post by James Rollins from May 03, 2012

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• I went into my own black-out period which lasted two or three years where the canvases would simply build up until they'd get like stone and it was always just a gray mess. The image wouldn't emerge, but I worked pretty regularly. I was fighting to find I knew not what, but I could no longer stay with what I had.

  Lee Krasner

  Fighting, Years, Two

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• When I'm old and gray, I want to have a house by the sea. And paint. With a lot of wonderful chums, good music, and booze around. And a damn good kitchen to cook in.

  Ava Gardner

  Hate, Sea, House

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• Silver gray hair Neatly combed in place There were four generations Of love on her face She was so wise No surprise passed her eyes She's seen it all

  Dianne Reeves

  Wise, Grandma, Eye

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• Under the harvest moon,
  When the soft silver
  Drips shimmering
  Over the garden nights,
  Death, the gray mocker,
  Comes and whispers to you
  As a beautiful friend
  Who remembers.

  Carl Sandburg

  Beautiful, Moon, Night

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Harvest Poems: 1910-1960”, p.40, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response. The gray area between yes and no. Silence.

  Dan Brown

  Silence, Yes And No, Answers

  Dan Brown (2003). “The Da Vinci Code: A Novel”

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• Silence emerges from the sound of rain and spreads in a crescendo of gray monotony over the narrow street I contemplate. I’m sleeping while awake, standing by the window, leaning against it as against everything. I search in myself for the sensations I feel before these falling threads of darkly luminous water that stand out from the grimy building facades and especially from the open windows. And I don’t know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don’t know what to think or where I am.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Rain, Fall, Sleep

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.63, Penguin UK

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• One of my favorite stories is my first kissing scene with Linda Gray.

  Christopher Atkins

  Kissing, Stories, First Kiss

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

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• When Eddie Gray plays on snow, he doesn't leave any footprints.

  Don Revie

  Play, Snow, Footprint

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• I'm a firm believer in shades of gray.

  Blake Ross

  Entrepreneur, Shade, Firm

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• The colors are stunning. In a single view, I see - looking out at the edge of the earth: red at the horizon line, blending to orange and yellow, followed by a thin white line, then light blue, gradually turning to dark blue and various gradually darker shades of gray, then black and a million stars above. It's breathtaking.

  William C. McCool

  Stars, Dark, Light

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• I am attracted to generic or 'industrial' colours; paper bag brown, file cabinet gray, industrial green, that kind of thing.

  Robert Mangold

  Bags, Paper, Green

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• I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters. I find flawed characters much more interesting than perfect ones and enjoy the challenge of making readers root for them in spite of their unsympathetic path and destructive choices. Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I like exploring this nuanced terrain.

  Emily Giffin

  Real, Writing, Character

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• It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor.

  Edward E. Barnard

  Clouds, Sea, Land

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• I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.

  Sally Kirkland

  Art, School, California

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