Pale Quotes - Page 16

• But when you read a book, what you see are black squiggles on pulped wood or, increasingly, dark pixels on a pale screen. To transform these icons into characters and events, you must imagine. And when you imagine, you create.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Book, Character, Dark

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• Jason's fingers itched to draw his sword. He'd met plenty of scary demigods, but he was starting to realize that Nico di Angelo--as pale and gaunt as he looked--might be more than he could handle.

  Rick Riordan

  Scary, Might, Jason

  Rick Riordan (2013). “The House of Hades (Heroes of Olympus Book 4)”, p.320, Penguin UK

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• I feel the urge, familiar now, to wrench myself from my body and speak directly into her mind. It is the same urge, I realize, that makes me want to kiss her every time I see her, because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating. Our fingers, loosely woven a moment ago, now clutch together, her palm tacky with moisture, mine rough in places where I have grabbed too many handles on too many moving trains. Now she looks pale and small, but her eyes make me think of wide-open skies that I have never actually seen, only dreamed of.

  Veronica Roth

  Distance, Moving, Eye

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• Now she looks pale and small, but her eyes make me think of wide- open skies that I have never actually seen, only dreamed of.

  Veronica Roth

  Eye, Thinking, Sky

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Allegiant (Divergent Trilogy, Book 3)”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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• My Tris should look pale and small--she is pale and small, after all--but instead the room is full of her.

  Veronica Roth

  Rooms, Looks, Should

  Veronica Roth (2015). “Allegiant Collector's Edition”, p.8, HarperCollins

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• Ah, sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey is done; Where the youth pined away with desire And the pale virgin shrouded in snow Arise from their graves, and aspire Where my sunflower wishes to go.

  William Blake

  Sweet, Time, Journey

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'Ah, Sun-flower!'

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• What, Sheamus? Oh no, I can see him...he's pretty pale......What? oh no, he's even whiter than that. He's like a jar of mayonaisse with eyeballs and a ketchup haircut.

  John Cena

  Wwe, Jars, Eyeballs

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• It was the tenderness mingled with melancholy which we bring to a time that belongs irrevocably to the past, when a pale, delicate shadow rises from it bearing the lilies of the dead, and in it we find a forgotten likeness to ourselves. And that faint, wistful shadow, that pale scent, seemed to vanish away into a wide, full, warm stream - the life that now lay open before him.

  Robert Musil

  Past, Delicate Life, Shadow

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• The pale and quiet moon Makes her calm forehead bare, And the last fragments of the storm, Like shattered rigging from a fight at sea, Silent and few, are drifting over me.

  James Russell Lowell

  Fighting, Moon, Sea

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.8

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• I was never given this advice, people aren't given this advice, focus on growing and maintaining relationships for your network, and that's key. And most of the advice tends to be, you know, discover your strengths, build up your resume, get a title, all of that stuff pales in comparison.

  Reid Hoffman

  Keys, People, Focus

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk; with blood too pale and tame To pay the debt they owe to shame; Buy cheap, sell dear; eat. drink, and sleep down-pillowed, deaf to moaning want; Pay tithes for soul-insurance; keep Six days to Mammon, one to Cant

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Sleep, Mean, Men

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “The Works of Whittier, Volume III (of VII) Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform”, p.150, tredition

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• It's funny that all these goths paint their faces with such white make-up and that is the actual colour of my skin, I am that pale!

  Kelly Osbourne

  White, Skins, Faces

  "Kelly Osbourne: How she grew from an ugly duckling into a sexy swan - pics" by Alun Palmer, www.mirror.co.uk. September 4, 2010.

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• For me, the summer will be pure gray - mother-of-pearl gray, very pale gray. To me, this is the big statement for summer. Then we have light blue, light turquoise, lots of pink.

  Gianni Versace

  Summer, Mother, Eye

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Evening had fallen. A rim of the young moon cleft the pale waste of sky line, the rim of a silver hoop embedded in grey sand: and the tide was flowing in fast to the land with a low whisper of her waves, islanding a few last figures in distant pools.

  James Joyce

  Moon, Land, Sky

  James Joyce (2005). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, p.200, Collector's Library

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• Advice to rock gods: drugwise, stick to Ibuprofen, decaf lattes, and pale Pilsners ... If your stomach is not a flat slab, please leave your shirt on while performing ... If your girlfriend asks you to choose between her and your music, sell your instruments immediately - especially if you're a drummer ... Finally, go easy on the supermodels, don't forget to tune, and remember: a tiny bit of dry ice and lasers goes a long way. Ditto with tattoos.

  Ian Shoales

  Tattoo, Girlfriend, Rocks

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• And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear.

  Edmund Waller

  Soul, Doe, Guests

  Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham, Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon (1822). “The Poems of Edmund Waller ...”, p.100

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• Four Seasons fill the measure of the year; There are four seasons in the mind of man: He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear Takes in all beauty with an easy span: He has his Summer, when luxuriously Spring's honey'd cud of youthful thought he loves To ruminate, and by such dreaming high Is nearest unto heaven: quiet coves His soul has in its Autumn, when his wings He furleth close; contented so to look On mists in idleness—to let fair things Pass by unheeded as a threshold brook. He has his Winter too of pale misfeature, Or else he would forego his mortal nature.

  John Keats

  Summer, Dream, Spring

  John Keats (1847). “The Poetical Works of John Keats”, p.244

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• Find what is it that never sleeps and never wakes, and whose pale reflection is our sense of 'I'

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Sleep, Reflection, Never Sleep

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• A basic ingredient in the manufacture of perfume, the attar-a heavy, pale-yellow oil stored in small metal drums-had been put up as collateral by Bulgaria, in lieu of gold, at the Moscow Narodny Bank, a Communist finance house for East-West trade.

  S. J. Perelman

  Pale Yellow, Oil, House

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• If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt, if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry; if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius; and Fancy herself would lie muffled up in her robe, inactive, pale, and bloated.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Lying, Doubt, Would Be

  Walter Savage Landor (1829). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.222

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• Thou has conquered, O pale Galilean.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Christianity

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• From my childhood, I remember a tiny old woman named Mary, made pale and almost translucent by time. Mary's childhood memories extended back to the confusing and violent finale of the Civil War, and she told stories of brutal murders in those days and refused to name some of the killers, as if dead men might still be prosecuted in the late 1950s.

  Charles Frazier

  Memories, War, Men

  "Week three: Charles Frazier on writing Cold Mountain" by Charles Frazier, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.

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• A lot of geeks are pale, bespectacled, wear dark clothing and don't get out much - the stereotype exists because it is very often true. I could pass for a non-geek but it would be inaccurate.

  China Mieville

  Dark, Would Be, Geek

  "This much I know". Interview with Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2004.

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• Somewhere out there, beneath the pale moonlight, someone's thinking of me and loving me tonight.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Philosophy, Thinking, Tonight

  Song: Somewhere Out There

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• When I look down at my pale, skinny body, I wonder why any woman would want to sleep next to it, let alone embrace it.

  Neil Strauss

  Sleep, Looks, Body

  Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.11, Canongate Books

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