Shade Quotes - Page 21

• I have little feet because nothing grows in the shade.

  Dolly Parton

  Feet, Littles, Grows

  Twitter post from Feb 17, 2011

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• Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance.

  Galina Vishnevskaya

  Color, Voice, Musical

  "Galina Vishnevskaya obituary" by Tully Potter, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2012.

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• It is indeed acceptable practice to sometimes split an infinitive. If infinitive-splitting makes available just the shade of meaning you desire or if avoiding the separation creates a confusing ambiguity or patent artificiality, you are entitled to happily go ahead and split!

  Richard Lederer

  Writing, Practice, Confusing

  Richard Lederer (2012). “Lederer on Language: A Celebration of English, Good Grammar, and Wordplay”, p.58, Marion Street Press

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• It turns out that the 'Cry It Out' method of baby sleep training, where you ignore that your kid is screaming, crying and turning 40 shades of purple so that she can break herself out of the habit of being spoiled and cuddled to sleep, does more harm - way more - than good.

  Denene Millner

  Baby, Sleep, Kids

  Denene Millner (2017). “My Brown Baby: On the Joys and Challenges of Raising African American Children”, p.32, Agate Publishing

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• I'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic ancestor from the East as well because I have deep-set eyes. Make-up artists are constantly trying to shade my eyelids, and I have to point out that I don't have any!

  Olivia Williams

  Eye, Artist, Trying

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• No hot guys should be allowed to have an English accent and drive a motorcycle. Not to mention wear the leather jacket or sport the cool shades. Hot guys should be forced into footie pajamas.

  Jandy Nelson

  Sports, Leather Jackets, Guy

  Jandy Nelson (2014). “I'll Give You the Sun”, p.101, Penguin

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• Part of the difficulty in trying to be both an artist and a businessperson is this: You make a picture because you have seen something beyond price; then you are to turn and assign to your record of it a cash value. If the selling is not necessarily a contradiction of the truth in the picture, it is so close to being a contradiction—and the truth is always in shades of gray-that you are worn down by the threat.

  Robert Adams

  Artist, Trying, Records

  Robert Adams (1994). “Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews”

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• I always have to have my lipstick. Sometimes I have more than one shade: start with one color for the morning, one for night. Sometimes I have a couple shades just in case I need something more powerful for the day.

  L'Wren Scott

  Morning, Couple, Powerful

  "L’Wren’s Got a Brand-New Bag". www.interviewmagazine.com. June 9, 2011.

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• I'd rather see the world as a rainbow than endless shade of gray.

  Amani

  Rainbow, World, Gray

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• The larvae! The scent of young blood entices and draws them closer. There's no need to venture into antiquity to evoke the shades of the dead.

  Jean Lorrain

  Blood, Needs, Scent

  Jean Lorrain (1994). “Monsieur de Phocas”, Hippocrene Books

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• I have as much pink as you can have. I love to see other women in pink. It's good for every shade of skin and hair.

  Evelyn Lauder

  Hair, Skins

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• Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect.

  Arthur Frederick Saunders

  Light, Nonsense, Effects

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• You've got to be taught to be afraid Of people whose eyes are oddly made, Of people whose skin is a different shade. You've got to be carefully taught.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Eye, People, Tolerance

  "You've Got to Be Carefully Taught" (song) (1949)

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• Before me floats an image, man or shade, / Shade more than man, more image than a shade.

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, Floats

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.210, Wordsworth Editions

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• So many assume the truth is either black or white... It's all evolution or it's totally creation, for example. Reality creates consciousness; consciousness creates reality. Actually truth is inclusive, neither black nor white, nor a shade of grey. Indeed, truth is a multicolored spectrum, a beautiful hologram!

  Peter Shepherd

  Beautiful, Reality, White

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• Cultural expectations shade and color the images that parents-to-be form. The baby product ads, showing a woman serenely holding her child, looking blissfully and mysteriously contented, or the television parents, wisely and humorously solving problems, influence parents-to-be.

  Ellen Galinsky

  Baby, Children, Motherhood

  Ellen Galinsky (1981). “Between generations: the six stages of parenthood”, Smithmark Pub

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• If ever you come upon a grove of ancient trees which have grown to an exceptional height, shutting out a view of sky by a veil of pleached and intertwining branches, then the loftiness of the forest, the seclusion of the spot and your marvel at the thick unbroken shade in the midst of the open spaces, will prove to you the presence of deity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Space, Views, Sky

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• PROOF, n. Evidence having a shade more of plausibility than of unlikelihood. The testimony of two credible witnesses as opposed to that of only one.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Two, Proof

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.238, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The violets whisper from the shade Which their own leaves have made: Men scent our fragrance on the air, Yet take no heed Of humble lessons we would read.

  Christina Rossetti

  Humble, Men, Air

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.26, Delphi Classics

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• The moving accident is not my trade; To freeze the blood I have no ready arts: 'Tis my delight, alone in summer shade, To pipe a simple song for thinking hearts.

  William Wordsworth

  Summer, Song, Art

  'Hart-leap Well' (1800) pt. 2, l.1

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• Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Giving, Merit, Modesty

  "Characters: Of Personal Merit," #17, 1688.

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• When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable.

  Mark Twain

  Eight, Weather, Ideas

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.513, Courier Corporation

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• The moon, the moon, so silver and cold, Her fickle temper has oft been told, Now shade--now bright and sunny-- But of all the lunar things that change, The one that shows most fickle and strange, And takes the most eccentric range, Is the moon--so called--of honey!

  Thomas Hood

  Moon, Honey, Eccentric

  Thomas Hood (1852). “Prose and verse”, p.162

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• We are violets blue, For our sweetness found Careless in the mossy shades, Looking on the ground. Love's dropp'd eyelids and a kiss,-- Such our breath and blueness is.

  Leigh Hunt

  Kissing, Blue, Violet

  Leigh Hunt (1860). “The poetical works of Leigh Hunt”, p.290

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• We bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread, And range an Indian waste without a tree.

  William Cowper

  Self, Tree, Waste

  William Cowper (1872). “The task, Tirocinium, and other poems”, p.8

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