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• Scrape the grey sky clean, realize that every dark cloud is a smokescreen meant to blind us from the truth

  Shane Koyczan

  Dark, Clouds, Sky

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• Intuition was not just visual but also auditory and kinesthetic. Those who watched Feynman in moments of intense concentration came away with a strong, even disturbing sense of the physicality of the process, as though his brain did not stop with the grey matter but extended through every muscle in his body.

  James Gleick

  Strong, Grey Matter, Brain

  James Gleick (2011). “Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman”, p.381, Open Road Media

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• Here's the grey rule: embrace things that lead you closer to Jesus, and reject things that lead you away from Jesus.

  Trip Lee

  Jesus, Embrace, Rejects

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• I'm reading a lot of different books, but I always think I have to switch it up a little bit. It's like food - everything in moderation, same with my books, same with my reading. You read books that are good for you and you learn a lot of stuff, then you read 'Fifty Shades of Grey,' which is like candy.

  Shay Mitchell

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  "Celebrity Book Club: Shay Mitchell's Turning 'Fifty Shades'" by Amy Wilkinson, www.mtv.com. June 11, 2012.

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• Botswana is also the only country in the world with a colour in its flag meant to represent rain (a sort of blue-grey). Not many people know this.

  Terry Pratchett

  Country, Rain, Blue

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• I write from a people's point of view. I love people because I understand them. I understand an enemy, I understand a friend, I understand grey areas, and I understand black areas.

  Jack Kirby

  Writing, Views, People

  Interview with Leonard Pitts, Jr., kirbymuseum.org. 1986/1987.

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• I don't think [Fifty Shades of Grey is] a model for anything. Except maybe in bed.

  E. L. James

  Thinking, Bed, Fifty

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• is grey, and I like that about all the characters, the killer, the driver... the movie has a very unlikely Hollywood ending, at the same time it helps you for a sequel too. Those are the things that I think are attractive, it's more, its real life, and people can identify with it and it just grounds it to a certain degree. That's the reason why.

  George Tillman, Jr.

  Real, Character, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• We had the same kind of unemployment here as they had in the worst hit places in the North and you're meant to be on a cushy wicket in the South. If you go up to Newcastle, you can tell that the town's really had money, or Liverpool, you know, the northern towns have got grandeur, whereas Medway, being just a sort of garrison town and dockyard town, you don't have anything like Earl Grey Square or anything like that.

  Billy Childish

  Squares, Towns, Unemployment

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• I either eat too much or starve myself. Sleep for 14 hours or have insomniac nights. Fall in love very hard or hate passionately. I don't know what grey is. I never did.

  Anais Nin

  Falling In Love, Hate, Sleep

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• After Fifty Shades of Grey, I think my writing is pretty tame, isn't it?

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Writing, Thinking, Fifty

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• Grey zones do not interest me at all.

  Niki Lauda

  Interest, Zone

  Source: www.european-business.com

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• Whenever there is discussion, I make it clear that I do not want any grey zones, just black and white.

  Niki Lauda

  Black And White, Want, Clear

  Source: www.european-business.com

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• Jessica, I know I've been...difficult," he said. "All the same—" "Difficult?" She looked up, her grey eyes wide, "You have been impossible. I begin to think you are not right in the upper storey. I knew you wanted me. The only thing I've never doubted was that. But getting you into bed— you, the greatest whoremonger in Christendom— gad, it was worse than the time I had to drag Bertie to the tooth-drawer. And if you think I mean to be doing that the rest of our days, you had better think again. The next time, my lord, you will do the seducing— or there won't be any, I vow.

  Loretta Chase

  Mean, Eye, Thinking

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• No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the grey and grisly bones of his soul.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Soul, Darkness

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.2659, Bantam

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• One moment flying in green sunlight, then the sky suddenly grey and dark.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Dark, Sky, Flying

  Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.256, Egmont UK

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• You must be Warden Ramirez." This is the part where I got nervous. Ramirez loved women. Ramirez never shut up about women. Well, he never shut up about anything in general, but he'd go on and on about various conquests and feats of sexual athleticism and— "A virgin?" Lara blurted. Lara blurted. She turned her head to me, grey eyes several shades paler than they had been, and very wide. "Really, Harry, I'm not sure what to say. Is he a present?

  Jim Butcher

  Eye, Goes On, Shade

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1726, Penguin

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• ... what would Poirot do? Poirot wouldn't flap around in a panic. He'd stay calm and use his little grey cells and recall some tiny, vital detail which would be the clue to everything.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Cells, Stay Calm, Details

  Sophie Kinsella (2012). “I've Got Your Number”, p.8, Random House

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• You're a rotten driver,' I protested. 'Either you ought to be more careful or you oughtn't to drive at all.' 'I am careful.' 'No, you're not.' 'Well, other people are,' she said lightly. 'What's that got to do with it?' 'They'll keep out of my way,' she insisted. 'It takes two to make an accident.' 'Suppose you met somebody just as careless as yourself.' 'I hope I never will,' she answered. 'I hate careless people. That's why I like you.' Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  I Like You, Hate, Eye

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.46, Atlântico Press

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• Peter swept aside Yogi Tea and Harmony Herbal Blend, though he hesitated a second over the chamomile. .... But no. Violent death demanded Earl Grey.

  Louise Penny

  Tea, Yogi, Harmony

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• Those mortals who operate in the grey area between conviction and incredulity are in a position to choose most meaningfully, and with most meaningful consequences […] Perhaps only a doubter can appreciate the miracle of life without end.

  Terryl L. Givens

  Meaningful, Appreciate, Miracle

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• I am tired of the cult of youth. The cultural rejection of old age, the stigmatization of wrinkles, grey hair, of bodies furrowed by the years. I am fascinated by Diana Vreeland, Georgia O’Keeffe and Louise Bourgeois, women who have let time embrace them without ever cheating. Society today condemns this, me, I celebrate it.

  Tom Ford

  Cheating, Tired, Wrinkles

  "GRAY IN L.A.: What Older Women Want Advertisers To Know" Sabine Reichel, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 10, 2016.

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• She had one of those charming faces which, according to the angle from which you see them, look either melancholy or impertinent. Her eyes were grey; her trick of narrowing them made her seem to reflect, the greater part of the time, in the dusk of her second thoughts. With that mood, that touch of arriere pensee, went an uncertain, speaking set of lips.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Eye, Looks, Faces

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• But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiosity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last, I should find that low door in the wall, which others, I knew, had found before me, which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Wall, Heart, Garden

  Evelyn Waugh (2012). “Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder”, p.35, Penguin UK

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• One evening, when we were already resting on the floor of our hut, dead tired, soup bowls in hand, a fellow prisoner rushed in and asked us to run out to the assembly grounds and see the wonderful sunset. Standing outside we saw sinister clouds glowing in the west and the whole sky alive with clouds of ever-changing shapes and colors, from steel blue to blood red. The desolate grey mud huts provided a sharp contrast, while the puddles on the muddy ground reflected the glowing sky. Then, after minutes of moving silence, one prisoner said to another, "How beautiful the world could be.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Beautiful, Running, Moving

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.37, Beacon Press

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