Shade Quotes - Page 16

• February is the uncertain month, neither black nor white but all shades between by turns. Nothing is sure.

  Gladys Hasty Carroll

  White, Black, Months

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• If Bacchus ever had a color he could claim for his own, it should surely be the shade of tannin on drunken lips, of John Keat's 'purple-stained mouth,' or perhaps even of Homer's dangerously wine-dark sea.

  Victoria Finlay

  Wine, Dark, Color

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• Teach him to live unto God and unto thee; and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Women, Woods, Plant

  Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.54

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• Im in love with red. I think its such a passionate color. Every flag of every country pretty much has red it it. Its power, theres no fence sitting with red. Either you love it or you dont. I think its blood and strength and life. I do love red. I love all colors. Great shades of blue, you find them in nature. Theyre all magic.

  Bryan Batt

  Country, Thinking, Blue

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• This language is from the head. It is a way of mentally classifying people into varying shades of good and bad, right and wrong. Ultimately, it provokes defensiveness, resistance, and counterattack. It is a language of demands.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, People, Demand

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• I feel like in L.A., you wake up, you put your diamond studs on, put your workout gear, your cute shades, and it is kind of the outfit you stay in the entire day.

  Adrienne Bailon

  Cute, Workout, Wake Up

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• The least glimmering or shade of acting, in man or woman, is a sure motive of envy in the rest; and, if their malice can't persuade the town's-people into a dislike of their performance, they'll cruelly endeavor to taint their characters.

  Charlotte Charke

  Character, Men, Envy

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• Since the journey is a metaphor - the most ambiguous and seductive of metaphors, we tell ourselves - it can also be born of immobility. There is no need to drag our bodies around so much, all dressed up. It's hot, there are flies, diseases. It is enough to close our eyes, seated on a chair in the shade, to float on the waves of imagination. Isn't that what books are there for?

  Dacia Maraini

  Book, Eye, Journey

  Dacia Maraini, Dick Kitto, Elspeth Spottiswood (1999). “The Silent Duchess”, p.258, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• I once saw, on a flower pot in my own living room, the efforts of a field mouse to build a remembered field. I have lived to see this episode repeated in a thousand guises, and since I have spent a large portion of my life in the shade of a nonexistent tree I think I am entitled to speak for the field mouse.

  Loren Eiseley

  Flower, Thinking, Effort

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• The movie Fifty Shades of Grey is considerably better written than the book. It is also sort of classy-looking, in a generic, TV-ad-for-bath-oil way. Dakota Johnson, who plays the virgin English-literature major Anastasia Steele, and Jamie Dornan, who plays Christian Grey, the wildly rich and sexually particular business titan who wants Miss Steele in his playroom, are exceedingly attractive actors with enviably supple bodies well suited to nakedness. And really, under the circumstances, movable parts matter more than acting skills.

  Lisa Schwarzbaum

  Christian, Book, Play

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• I like pastels and lighter shades on darker skins. I feel like it lifts everything and accentuates being chocolate.

  Laura Mvula

  Chocolate, Skins, Accentuate

  "Laura Mvula on why she, like many black women, shaves her head". Interview with Anita Bhagwandas, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2013.

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• Marsala enriches our mind, body and soul, exuding confidence and stability. Marsala is a subtly seductive shade, one that draws us in to its embracing warmth.

  Leatrice Eiseman

  Seductive, Soul, Mind

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• When we send our young men and women into harm's way, we have a solemn obligation not to fudge the numbers or shade the truth about why they're going, to care for their families while they're gone, to tend to the soldiers upon their return, and to never ever go to war without enough troops to win the war, secure the peace, and earn the respect of the world.

  Barack Obama

  War, Men, Winning

  2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 27 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

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• They passed out of the shade beneath the eaves and flew into sunglare and silence and it was an action she only partly saw, elusive and mutely beautiful, the birds so sunstruck they were consumed by light, disembodied, turned into something sheer and fleet and scatter-bright.

  Don DeLillo

  Beautiful, Light, Silence

  Don DeLillo (2011). “The Body Artist”, p.7, Pan Macmillan

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• The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. Slaughtering animals for their fur or harming them for cosmetic purposes is disgusting and not worth the perfect shade of lipstick.

  Laura Mennell

  Animal, Vanity, Perfect

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

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• We are all alike, and we love to keep passion aglow at our feet, Like one that sitteth in shade and complacently smiles at the heat.

  Alfred Austin

  Passion, Feet, Heat

  Alfred Austin, “A Woman’s Apology”

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• In the city of flesh I travel without maps, a worried tourist: and Ottilie was a very Venice. I stumbled lost in the blue shade of her pavements. Here was a dreamy stillness, a swaying, the splash of an oar. Then, when I least expected it, suddenly I stepped out into the great square, the sunlight, and she was a flock of birds scattering with soft cries in my arms.

  John Banville

  Cities, Venice, Squares

  John Banville (2011). “The Newton Letter”, p.31, Pan Macmillan

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• Aquamarine is an airy blue with a dreamy feel. Cool and calming, ethereal Aquamarine is a shade with a wet and watery feel. Open and expansive, this restful blue also acts as a stress reducer.

  Leatrice Eiseman

  Stress, Blue, Calming

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• Embrace an effortless a-line silhouette in the seasons must have indigo shades.

  Lubov Azria

  Lines, Silhouettes, Embrace

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• Glacier Gray is an unobtrusive gray that contrasts and enhances; bouncing off other shades without taking away from them as it slips into the background to allow other colors to take center stage. Nature’s most perfect neutral, Glacier Gray is a shade that is timeless. Quietly assuring and peacefully relaxing, Glacier Gray, is above all, constant.

  Leatrice Eiseman

  Color, Perfect, Glaciers

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• Clothes are nothing more than a fig leaf. And the bodies beneath are just another layer of clothing, an outfit of flesh with an impractically thin leather exterior, in various shades of pink, yellow and brown. The souls alone are real. Seen in this way, there can never be any such thing as social unease or shyness or embarrassment. All you need do is greet your fellow soul.

  Michel Faber

  Real, Yellow, Clothes

  Michel Faber (2014). “The Book of Strange New Things”, p.77, Canongate Books

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• The legendary tumbleweed is really a nurse crop that protects the growth of prairie grasses under its shade, and then sacrifices itself and blows away.

  Antoine Predock

  Sacrifice, Blow, Nurse

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• The photographer has almost as much control over his subject matter as a painter. He can control light and shade, form and space, pattern and texture, motion and mood, everything except composition.

  Andreas Feininger

  Light, Space, Texture

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• I saw them kissing in the shade and knew the sum of all my lore: God gave them Youth, God gave them Love, and even God can give no more.

  Ridgely Torrence

  Kissing, Giving, Saws

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• Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade.

  Aaron Hill

  Night, Veils, Treason

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