Grey Quotes - Page 3

• My hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears.

  Lord Byron

  Night, Men, Hair

  'The Prisoner of Chillon' (1816) st. 1

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• I don't understand why everyone has to wear black, grey and white.

  Richard Rogers

  White, Black

  "Building civilisation". Interview with Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2006.

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• To begin with, poor people´s memory is less nourished than that of a rich; it has fewer landmarks in space because they seldom leave the place where they live, and fewer reference points in time throughtout lives that are grey and featureless.

  Albert Camus

  Memories, Space, People

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• Your biggest dream? - Nora Grey Kiss you. - Patch Cipriano

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Dream, Kissing, Patches

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• Weeks passed, and the little Rabbit grew very old and shabby, but the Boy loved him just as much. He loved him so hard that he loved all his whiskers off, and the pink lining to his ears turned grey, and his brown spots faded. He even began to lose his shape, and he scarcely looked like a rabbit any more, except to the Boy. To him he was always beautiful, and that was all that the little Rabbit cared about. He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter.

  Margery Williams

  Beautiful, Real, Boys

  Margery Williams, Margery Williams Bianco, William Nicholson (2011). “The Velveteen Rabbit”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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• WhenTime shall turn those amber locks to grey, My verse again shall gild and make them gay.

  Michael Drayton

  Time, Gay, Locks

  'England's Heroical Epistles' (1597) 'Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, to the Lady Geraldine' l. 123

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• Then shouldering their burdens, they set off, seeking a path that would bring them over the grey hills of the Emyn Muil, and down into the Land of Shadow.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Land, Shadow, Path

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.286, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• WAKING AT NIGHT The blue river is grey at morning and evening. There is twilight at dawn and dusk. I lie in the dark wondering if this quiet in me now is a beginning or an end.

  Jack Gilbert

  Morning, Lying, Twilight

  Jack Gilbert (2012). “Collected Poems”, p.354, Knopf

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• I know this one pusher walks around humming a tune and everybody he passes takes it up. He is so grey and spectral and anonymous they don't see him and think it is their own mind humming the tune.

  William S. Burroughs

  Thinking, Mind, Tunes

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.151, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• These old knights are more cunning than you think, or they would never have lived to see their first grey hair.

  George R. R. Martin

  Thinking, Knights, Hair

  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.1110, Bantam

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• Quit calling me Grey. It makes me sound like I’m a boy. Like Dorian Gray.” “Dorian who?” I sighed. “Just think up something else. Plain old Nora works too, you know.” “Sure thing, Gumdrop.” I grimaced. “I take that back. Let’s stick with Grey.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Boys, Thinking, Sound

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence; Finale”, p.974, Simon and Schuster

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• Dear White Fella When I am born I’m black When I grow up I’m black When I am sick I’m black When I go out ina sun I’m black When I git cold I’m black When I git scared I’m black And when I die I’m still black. But you white fella When you’re born you’re pink When you grow up you’re white When you git sick you’re green When you go out ina sun you go red When you git cold you go blue When you git scared you’re yellow And when you die you’re grey And you got the cheek to call me coloured?

  Steven Pinker

  Growing Up, Yellow, White

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• Now the darkness only stays at night time In the morning it will fade away Daylight is good at arriving at the right time No it's not always going to be this grey.

  George Harrison

  Morning, Night, Darkness

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• I have never really lived with anyone in my adult years. I just read my sports ticker. And 50 Shades of Grey.

  Matthew Perry

  Sports, Years, Adults

  "Matthew Perry and Thomas Lennon on The Odd Couple, 50 Shades of Grey, and Manimal". Interview with Jenna Marotta, www.esquire.com. February 26, 2015.

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• Her grey eyes sparkled with passion as she spoke. Sid looked into them and for a second he glimpsed her soul. He saw what she was - fierce and brave. Upright. Impatient. And good. So good that she would sit covered in gore, shout at dangerous men, and keep a long, lonely vigil - all to save the likes of him. He realized she was a rare creature, as rare as a rose in winter.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Lonely, Eye, Passion

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• Not so great in England at the moment; in an online poll we came last, we actually came bottom of European countries for quality of life, because of things like the weather, obviously, late retirement, poor holiday, poor public services, poor health service; it's basically just a kind of grey, godless wilderness, full of cold pies and broken dreams.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Dream, Country

  "Bill Bailey: Dandelion Mind". Documentary, Comedy, 2010.

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• The sea-road is good for wanderers and landless men. There is quenching of thirst on the grey paths of the winds, and the flying clouds to still the sting of lost dreams.

  Robert E. Howard

  Dream, Men, Clouds

  "The Road of Azrael". Book by Robert E. Howard, 1976.

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• All I want is beautiful. I mean, I like grey hair, I love wrinkles. But this is me.

  Alber Elbaz

  Beautiful, Mean, Wrinkles

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• Don't Look Down” is her official debut as Skylar Grey, the singer, born Holly Brook Hafermann and raised in Mazomanie, Wis., has been making albums since she was a tween. Grey and her mother sang as a folk duo under the name Generations; they released three indie discs. “I learned a lot about professionalism, how the show must go on even though I feel like [expletive] sometimes,” Grey remembers. “I have a lot of experience in the studio, performing onstage, talking to an audience. I learned most of that stuff when I was performing with my mom.

  Skylar Grey

  Mom, Mother, Talking

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• The minds of stone lovers had colonised stones as lichens clung to them with golden or grey-green florid stains. The human world of stones is caught in organic metaphors like flies in amber. Words came from flesh and hair and plants. Reniform, mammilated, botryoidal, dendrite, haematite. Carnelian is from carnal, from flesh. Serpentine and lizardite are stone reptiles ; phyllite is leafy-green.

  A. S. Byatt

  Hair, Mind, Green

  A S Byatt (2011). “A Stone Woman (Storycuts)”, p.11, Random House

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• It is the freedom to blaspheme, to transgress, to move beyond the pale, that is at the heart of all intellectual, artistic and political endeavor. Far from censoring offensive speech, a vibrant and diverse society should encourage it. In any society that is not uniform, grey and homogeneous, there are bound to be clashes of viewpoints.

  Kenan Malik

  Freedom, Moving, Heart

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• A good cup of Earl Grey tea - you cant beat it.

  Antonia Thomas

  Tea, Cups, Beats

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• I think, typically, sci-fi can be a little bit grey and thought provoking. Sometimes it leaves you pondering certain questions and things.

  Michelle Monaghan

  Thinking, Thought Provoking, Littles

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• Yon grey lines
  That fret the clouds are messengers of day.

  William Shakespeare

  Clouds, Dawn, Lines

  William Shakespeare, Ad Brown (1850). “Julius Caesar ... With explanatory French notes, by Ad. Brown. Improved with a copious selection of notes from Johnson, Steevens, Malone, Theobald, Warburton, etc”, p.67

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• I am never going to please all 100 million people who read the book. I'll be lucky if half that number are happy with me playing Christian Grey. I know there are campaigns of hate against me already.

  Jamie Dornan

  Christian, Hate, Book

  "Jamie Dornan: 'I hated it when people called me cute'" by Nigel Farndale, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2014.

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