Grey Quotes - Page 12

• On the grey rock of Cashel I suddenly saw
  A Sphinx with woman breast and lion paw,
  A Buddha, hand at rest,
  Hand lifted up that blest;
  And right between these two a girl at play
  That, it may be, had danced her life away.

  William Butler Yeats

  Girl, Rocks, Hands

  William Butler Yeats (2008). “COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS”, p.446, Simon and Schuster

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• Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn,
  Come clear of the nets of wrong and right;
  Laugh, heart, again in the grey twilight,
  Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn.

  William Butler Yeats

  Twilight, Heart, Sadness

  'An Irish Airman Foresees his Death'

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• I turn my girl on like fifty shades of grey.

  Drew Chadwick

  Girl, Fifty, Shade

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• I don't think I'd ever want to direct. I don't think I have as much discipline to direct as I would like to have, and I don't want my hair color to not go grey during that process.

  Liana Liberato

  Thinking, Hair, Color

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• ... we see the poor as a mass of shadow, painted in one flat grey wash, at the remote edges of our sunshine.

  Albion Fellows Bacon

  Sunshine, Shadow, Poor

  Albion Fellows Bacon (1914). “Beauty for Ashes, by Albion Fellows Bacon; with Numerous Illustrations”

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• The two
  heart-grey puddles:
  two
  mouthsfull of silence.

  Paul Celan

  Heart, Two, Silence

  Paul Celan (1972). “Selected poems”, Penguin Books Ltd

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• The word 'We' is as lime poured over men, which sets and hardens to stone, and crushes all beneath it, and that which is white and that which is black are lost equally in the grey of it. It is the word by which the depraved steal the virtue of the good, by which the weak steal the might of the strong, by which the fools steal the wisdom of the sages.

  Ayn Rand

  Crush, Strong, Men

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.47, Xist Publishing

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• Maid
  of the luminous grey-eyes,
  Mistress
  of honey and marble implacable white thighs
  and Goddess,
  chaste daughter of Zeus.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Beauty, Daughter, Eye

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.291, New Directions Publishing

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• And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on their temples.

  Hesiod

  Men, Hair, Race

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• I'll walk where my own nature would be leading:
  It vexes me to choose another guide:
  Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding;
  Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side.

  Emily Bronte

  Country, Blow, Wind

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.211, The Floating Press

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• When Philosophy with its abstractions paints grey in grey, the freshness and life of youth has gone, the reconciliation is not a reconciliation in the actual, but in the ideal world.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Gone

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Jesse Glenn Gray (1997). “On Art, Religion, and the History of Philosophy: Introductory Lectures”, p.258, Hackett Publishing

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• I'm not one of those people who think you should go grey and that there is some virtue in looking wrinkly if you don't feel like it. If you do, great. If you don't, just my only caution is watch out. There are a huge number of wrinkle creams that do nothing for you.

  Nora Ephron

  Thinking, Wrinkles, Numbers

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• If I tell you my character has grey hair, you will not see her. If I tell you she has a tiny scar at the upper left corner of her lip from which protrudes one grey whisker—you will make up the rest of her face with absolute clarity. If I tell you my character is waiting in a car, you won’t be ‘caught,’ but if I tell you he pushes his fingers down in the crack of the car seat where the ancient leather has pulled away from the seat frame, and pulls up a small coin purse with a faded note in it—you will be mine.

  Pat Schneider

  Character, Hair, Car

  Pat Schneider (2003). “Writing Alone and with Others”, p.79, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I was very bored at school. I found it very easy and slow and grey. My teachers didn't really know how to handle me, because I was very sarcastic. I was over-confident, arrogant, a typical youngest child. I went through periods of withdrawing into myself and school psychologists tried to figure me out, work out why I didn't fit in. I found that irritating, too.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Sarcastic, Teacher, Children

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• Like the entomologist in search of colorful butterflies, my attention has chased in the gardens of the grey matter cells with delicate and elegant shapes, the mysterious butterflies of the soul, whose beating of wings may one day reveal to us the secrets of the mind.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Butterfly, Garden, Grey Matter

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• I will but confess the sins of my green cloak to my grey friar's frock, and all shall be well again.

  Walter Scott

  Green, Sin, Friars

  Walter Scott (1863). “Ivanhoe a Romance”, p.136

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• Every silver lining has a touch of grey.

  Jerry Garcia

  Silver

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• The poet’s life is just so much crenellated waste, nights and days whipping swiftly or laboriously past the cinematic window. We’re hunched and weaving over the keys of our green our grey or pink blue manual typewriter maybe a darker stone cold thoritative selectric with its orgasmic expectant hum and us popping pills and laughing over what you or I just wrote, wondering if that line means insult or sex. Or both. Usually both.

  Eileen Myles

  Sex, Mean, Past

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• Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.

  Clement Attlee

  Men, Charity, Want

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• My father was often impatient during March, waiting for winter to end, the cold to ease, the sun to reappear. March was an unpredictable month, when it was never clear what might happen. Warm days raised hopes until ice and grey skies shut over the town again.

  Tracy Chevalier

  Father, Winter, Ice

  Tracy Chevalier (1999). “Girl with a Pearl Earring”, E P Dutton

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• Instead of the bright, blue sky of America, I am covered with the soft, grey fog of the Emerald Isle. I breathe, and lo! the chattel becomes a man.

  Frederick Douglass

  Men, Fog, Blue

  Frederick Douglass (2013). “The Complete Autobiographies of Frederick Douglass”, p.262, Simon and Schuster

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• Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of
  his mouth. His nostrils curved back to make another, smaller, v. His yellow-grey eyes were
  horizontal. The V motif was picked up again by thickish brows rising outward from twin creases
  above a hooked nose, and his pale brown hair grew down--from high flat temples--in a point on
  his forehead. He looked rather pleasantly like a blond Satan.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Eye, Hair, Yellow

  1930 Of Sam Spade. The Maltese Falcon,'Spade and Archer'.

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• She feels like kicking out all the windows
  And setting fire to this life
  She could change everything about her using colors bold and bright
  But all the colors mix together - to grey

  Dave Matthews

  Life, Fire, Color

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• I doubt very much if a man whose main literary interests were in works by Mr. Zane Grey, admirable as they may be, is particularly equipped to be the chief executive of this country, particularly where Indian Affairs are concerned.

  Dean Acheson

  Country, Men, Political

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• Many people love grey squirrels, but the reality is that they are a real problem for some of our most threatened native species, like the red squirrel and dormouse. It is not realistic, practical or even desirable to completely eradicate grey squirrels, but we must control them effectively.

  Jim Knight

  Real, Squirrels, People

  "Grey squirrels targeted" by James Meikle, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2006.

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