Gray Quotes - Page 33

• Several ripe persimmons Left on the branches; Gray clouds come and go.

  Santoka Taneda

  Clouds, Branches, Fruit

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• "You are old, Father William," the young man cried, "The few locks which are left you are gray; You are hale, Father William, a hearty old man,- Now tell me the reason I pray."

  Robert Southey

  Father, Men, Locks

  "The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them" l. 1 (1799) See Carroll 9

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• Amnesia may well be the highest sacrament in the great gray ritual of existence.

  Thomas Ligotti

  May, Existence, Amnesia

  Thomas Ligotti (2009). “Teatro Grottesco”, p.144, Random House

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• How many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summer, or of a windy spell and a still one? If man is so generally less happy in the cities than in the country, it is because all these variations and nuances of sight and smell and sound are less clearly marked and lost in the general monotony of gray walls and cement pavements.

  Lin Yutang

  Summer, Country, Wall

  Lin Yutang (2013). “Lin Yutang - The Importance Of Living”, p.74, Read Books Ltd

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• O wise humanity, terribly wise humanity! How inscrutable is the civilization where men toil and work and worry their hair gray to get a living and forget to play!

  Lin Yutang

  Wise, Men, Hair

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• Our journeys to the stars will be made on spaceships created by determined, hardworking scientists and engineers applying the principles of science, not aboard flying saucers piloted by little gray aliens from some other dimension.

  Robert A. Baker

  Stars, Journey, Flying

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• From the gardener's point of view, November can be the worst month to be faced: Nature is winding things down, the air is cold, skies are gray, but usually the final mark of punctuation to the year as yet to arrive - the snow; snow that covers all in the garden and marks a mind-set for the end of a year's activity. There is little to do outside except to wait for longer days in the new year and the joys of coming holidays.

  H. Peter Loewer

  New Year, Holiday, Garden

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• In order to get one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, in other words, we thought we needed the solitary genius. But if Alexander Graham Bell had fallen into the Grand River and drowned that day back in Brantford, the world would still have had the telephone, the only difference being that the telephone company would have been nicknamed Ma Gray, not Ma Bell.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Order, Ideas, Rivers

  "In the Air" by Malcolm Gladwell, www.newyorker.com. May 12, 2008.

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• LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used ... as a counterpoise to an argument of such weight that it turns the scale of debate the wrong way. An interesting fact in the chemistry of international controversy is that at the point of contact of two patriotisms lead is precipitated in great quantities.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Blue, Two

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2446, Delphi Classics

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• Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, oh sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Ocean, Sea, Stones

  "Break, Break, Break" l. 1 (1842)

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• Outside, a ceiling of pearly gray clouds coalesced over Manhattan, and the apartment had grown dark. It just keeps dripping. It's been like this all week, .. Rain would be a relief.

  Joan Didion

  Rain, Dark, Clouds

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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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• There's a gigantic gray area between good moral behavior and outright felonious activities. I call that the Weasel Zone and it's where most of life happens.

  Scott Adams

  Moral Behavior, Life Happens, Gray Area

  "Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel". Book by Scott Adams, 2002.

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• Earth, left silent by the wind of night,Seems shrunken 'neath the gray unmeasured height.

  William Morris

  Night, Wind, Height

  William Morris (1871). “The Earthly Paradise: A Poem”, p.2

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• This is a slow business to have success in. There are exceptions, but for the most part it's kind of like the last writer standing.... I've got gray. I've got plenty of gray. I'm creating a career slowly, like a coral reef.

  Robert Reed

  Careers, Creating, Coral Reefs

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• I think the writer's job is to paint the gray because no life is clearly defined.

  Andre Dubus

  Jobs, Thinking, Life Is

  Source: entertainmentrealm.com

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• I really am a guy who can be black and white. I don't understand, too much, the gray. And truly I can go from one type of character to another type of character.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Character, Black And White, Guy

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 10, 2008.

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• I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare. When I was at school, I was in Hamlet. I played Claudius, who's supposed to be a 60-year-old man, and I was like 18. It's inherently ridiculous seeing 18-year-old boys with gray beards. That's always funny.

  Steve Coogan

  School, Kids, Boys

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. August 20, 2008.

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• Gray and overcast from my earthly perspective, but it's sunny above these storm clouds. Grace lets us see life from God's point of view.

  Mark Hart

  Clouds, Views, Perspective

  Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.38, Franciscan Media

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• How does Macy Gray or Kid Rock not win over Christina Aguilera?

  Courtney Love

  Kids, Winning, Rocks

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• Become a beacon of enhancement, and then, when the night is gray, all of the boats will move towards you, bringing their bountiful riches.

  James Altucher

  Moving, Night, Riches

  "10 Reasons You Have to Quit Your Job in 2014" by James Altucher, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2014.

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• Courage to me means ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life-not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the bleakness of living. A sort of insistence on the value of life and the worth of transient things...My courage is faith-faith in the eternal resilience of me-that joy'll come back, and hope and spontaneity. And I feel that till it does, I've got to keep my lips shut and my chin high, and my eyes wide

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Mean, Eye, People

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• Life is much more complex than the black-and-white sound bites that you get on television. There are nuances and shades of gray.

  Joe Berlinger

  Black And White, Sound, Television

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The discrepancy between what actually happened and the version of what happened provided by sources is an enormous gray area.

  Edward Jay Epstein

  Discrepancies Between, Source, Gray Area

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• When night falls people become as lonely as snowflakes floating down from a gray city sky. Now and again we fall past a streetlamp and are visible, a brief moment apart, REAL-- we can be seen. We exist. Then we vanish into the gray darkness and the earth draws us to it.

  Erik Fosnes Hansen

  Lonely, Real, Fall

  Erik Fosnes Hansen (1996). “Psalm at Journey's End”, p.160, Macmillan

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