Grey Quotes - Page 3

• During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.

  John le Carre

  War, Literature, Shade

  "John le Carré at the NFT". Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2002.

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• Oh, Grey, no one really likes keeping secrets. The only thing that makes a secret fun is knowing that you weren't supposed to tell it.

  Kate Morton

  Fun, Keeping Secrets, Knowing

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• Love her as in childhood Through feeble, old and grey. For you’ll never miss a mother’s love Till she’s buried beneath the clay.

  Frank McCourt

  Mother, Childhood, Missing

  Frank McCourt (1999). “Angela's Ashes: A Memoir”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Time wastes too fast : every letter I trace tells me with what rapidity Life follows my pen ; the days and hours of it, more precious, my dear Jenny! than the rubies about thy neck, are flying over our heads like light clouds of a windy day, never to return more -- every thing presses on -- whilst thou are twisting that lock, -- see! it grows grey ; and every time I kiss thy hand to bid adieu, and every absence which follows it, are preludes to that eternal separation which we are shortly to make!

  Laurence Sterne

  Kissing, Clouds, Light

  Laurence Sterne (1830). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: In One Volume, with a Life of the Author”, p.257

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• Had I known but yesterday what I know today, I’d have taken out your two grey eyes and put in eyes of clay. And had I known but yesterday you’d be no more my own, I’d have taken out your heart of flesh and put in one of stone.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Taken, Heart, Eye

  Carolyn Parkhurst (2003). “The Dogs of Babel: A Novel”, p.31, Hachette UK

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• He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight.

  Jon Krakauer

  Nature, Heart, Air

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.31, Pan Macmillan

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• There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey.

  Chris Heimerdinger

  Black And White, Two, People

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• I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.

  George R. R. Martin

  Character, Black And White, White

  "A conversation with Game of Thrones author George R. R. Martin". The Sydney Morning Herald Interview, www.smh.com.au. August 1, 2011.

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• And in that one grey hair I saw my whole life and I said "I think I need a hair.

  Tim Burton

  Thinking, Hair, Needs

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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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• I'm a real Londoner. We have very grey weather in London, and I think it encourages a very eclectic and crazy fashion sense. I mix high-street stuff with more high-end fashion and vintage.

  Emma Watson

  Fashion, Crazy, Real

  "Watson a sorceress of style". Interview with Katie Ellis, www.perthnow.com.au. May 9, 2011.

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• I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giants or elves or dwarves, or whatever they are, they're still human, and the human heart is still in conflict with the self.

  George R. R. Martin

  Heart, Character, Writing

  "Producers David Benioff, Dan Weiss & George R.R. Martin Talk GAME OF THRONES Season 3 and 4, Martin’s Cameo, the End of the Series, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 20, 2013.

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• Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey and about issues.

  Matt Taibbi

  Winning, Thinking, Issues

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• What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream.

  Taylor Swift

  Mom, Ice Cream, Csi

  "Five Questions with Taylor Swift". www.seventeen.com. January 20, 2009.

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• Who shot him? I asked. The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Gun, Men, Necks

  Dashiell Hammett (2007). “Vintage Hammett”, p.75, Vintage

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• On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.

  Taylor Swift

  Play, Care, Causes

  "Taylor Swift talks acting, college and a dream collaboration with 'amazing' T.I." by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. Vobember 18, 2008.

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• The old grey donkey, Eeyore stood by himself in a thistly corner of the Forest, his front feet well apart, his head on one side, and thought about things. Sometimes he thought sadly to himself, "Why?" and sometimes he thought, "Wherefore?" and sometimes he thought, "Inasmuch as which?" and sometimes he didn't quite know what he was thinking about.

  A. A. Milne

  Depression, Thinking, Feet

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.38, Egmont UK

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• Little by little things began to assume a new aspect. The sense of insecurity vanished, words came of themselves, I was no longer so painfully conscious of everything I said. I drank on and felt the great soft wave approach and embrace me; the dark hour began to fill with pictures and stealthily the noiseless procession of dreams appeared again superimposed on the dreary, grey landscape of existence.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Dream, Dark, Insecurity

  Erich Maria Remarque (1937). “Three Comrades”

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• Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.

  Jodi Picoult

  White, Black, Shade

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.313, Penguin

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• Because subjects like literature and art history have no obvious material pay-off, they tend to attract those who look askance at capitalist notions of utility. The idea of doing something purely for the delight of it has always rattled the grey-bearded guardians of the state. Sheer pointlessness has always been a deeply subversive affair.

  Terry Eagleton

  Art, Ideas, Looks

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• End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Rain, Journey, Glasses

  "Fictional character: Gandalf". "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King", www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, and they don't Think.

  A. A. Milne

  Mistake, Thinking, People

  A.A. Milne (2013). “The House at Pooh Corner”

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• Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint. In her spacious and quiet streets men walked and spoke as they had done in Newman's day; her autumnal mists, her grey springtime, and the rare glory of her summer days - such as that day - when the chestnut was in flower and the bells rang out high and clear over her gables and cupolas, exhaled the soft airs of centuries of youth. It was this cloistral hush which gave our laughter its resonance, and carried it still, joyously, over the intervening clamour.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Summer, Laughter, Flower

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• Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.

  Chip Kidd

  Humanity, Architect, Shoulders

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• The snow lay thin and apologetic over the world. That wide grey sweep was the lawn, with the straggling trees of the orchard still dark beyond; the white squares were the roofs of the garage, the old barn, the rabbit hutches, the chicken coops. Further back there were only the flat fields of Dawson's farm, dimly white-striped. All the broad sky was grey, full of more snow that refused to fall. There was no colour anywhere.

  Susan Cooper

  Fall, Dark, White

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