Shade Quotes - Page 24

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

  Amani

  Rainbow, World, Gray

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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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• Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they want, but you need not see them. You simply say, "Here are the perimeters of our attention. If you prowl around under the windows till the crickets go silent, we will pull the shades. If you wish us to suffer your envious curiosity, you must permit us not to notice it." Anyone with one solid human bond is that smug, and it is the smugness as much as the comfort and safety that lonely people covet and admire.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Lonely, Night, People

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Housekeeping: A Novel”, p.154, Macmillan

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• He looked a shade too healthy and nobody likes that. Particularly in New York.

  Kinky Friedman

  New York, Health, Likes

  Kinky Friedman (1993). “Kinky Friedman: Three Complete Mysteries : Greenwich Killing Time/a Case of Lone Star/When the Cat's Away”, Outlet

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• Love is a rainbow curving down from the sky, falling crystals of color, shades of warm that never die.

  Phil Ochs

  Love, Fall, Color

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• Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Christian, Character, Fifty

  Twitter post from Jun 10, 2012

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• The world isn't black and white, Annie, it's shades of grey.

  Tami Hoag

  Black And White, World, Annie

  Tami Hoag (2003). “A Thin Dark Line: A Novel”, p.71, Bantam

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• When I remember that dizzy summer, that dull, stupid, lovely, dire summer, it seems that in those days I ate my lunches, smelled another's skin, noticed a shade of yellow, even simply sat, with greater lust and hopefulness - and that I lusted with greater faith, hoped with greater abandon. The people I loved were celebrities, surrounded by rumor and fanfare; the places I sat with them, movie lots and monuments. No doubt all of this is not true remembrance but the ruinous work of nostalgia, which obliterates the past, and no doubt, as usual, I have exaggerated everything.

  Michael Chabon

  Summer, Stupid, Past

  "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh". Book by Michael Chabon, 1988.

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• Danse Russe If I when my wife is sleeping and the baby and Kathleen are sleeping and the sun is a flame-white disc in silken mists above shining trees,-- if I in my north room dance naked, grotesquely before my mirror waving my shirt round my head and singing softly to myself: "I am lonely, lonely. I was born to be lonely, I am best so!" If I admire my arms, my face, my shoulders, flanks, buttocks against the yellow drawn shades,-- Who shall say I am not the happy genius of my household?

  William Carlos Williams

  Baby, Lonely, Sleep

  "Danse Russe" l. 18 (1917)

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• What e'er you are
  That in this desert inaccessible,
  Under the shade of melancholy boughs,
  Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Desert, Melancholy

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The Complete William Shakespeare Collection (Illustrated)”, p.802, Tyché

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• It is true that our skin is sort of more or less the same shade. But is it true that our skin color makes us a distinctive race? No.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Race, Skin Color, Skins

  "Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?". Interview with Lauren K. Alleyne, www.guernicamag.com. June 17, 2013.

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• I see love in black and white. Passion in shades of “gris”. But when it comes to you and I, color is all I see.

  Lady Gaga

  Love, Relationship, Passion

  FaceBook post by Lady Gaga from Aug 24, 2010

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• How extraordinary it is to be here at all. Awareness of death can jolt us awake to the sensuality of existence. Breath is no longer a routine inhalation of air but a quivering intake of life. The eye is quickened to the play of light and shade and color, the ear to the intricate medley of sound. This is where the meditation leads. Stay with it; rest with it. Notice how distraction is a flight from this, an escape from awe to worry and plans.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Eye, Light, Air

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• I think the thriller aspect of this film [Fifty Shades Darker] is what excited me most.

  Bella Heathcote

  Thinking, Fifty, Film

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• 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, Cold

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

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• People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quite clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations with each passing moment. A single hour can consist of thousands of different colors. Waxy yellows, cloud-spot blues. Murky darkness. In my line of work, I make it a point to notice them.

  Markus Zusak

  Passing Moments, Clouds, Color

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.4, RH Childrens Books

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• When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out.

  John Green

  Real, Light, Ideas

  "Paper Towns". Book by John Green, October 16, 2008.

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• If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement each other, creating a complete landscape that I treasure. The green foliage of the trees casts a pleasant shade over the earth, and the wind rustles the leaves, which are sometimes dyed a brilliant gold. Meanwhile, in the garden, buds appear on the flowers, and colorful petals attract bees and butterflies, reminding us of the subtle transition from one season to the next.

  Haruki Murakami

  Flower, Butterfly, Writing

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• I like exploring both the light parts and the dark parts of a single person. And all of those shades tend to come out most acutely in stories about families.

  Rosemarie DeWitt

  Dark, Light, Stories

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

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• Anybody who believes and experiences their life and doesn't have shades of gray in it doesn't live where I live and is simply not in touch with the reality of the human condition.

  Alexis Denisof

  Believe, Reality, Gray

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• I'm very emotional. That's why I wear shades a lot.

  Duane Chapman

  Emotional

  "Duane "Dog" Chapman: What I've Learned" by Kendall Hamilton, www.esquire.com. January 7, 2009.

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• My mum taught me that redheads shouldn't wear pink, red or orange, but if you choose the right shade, such as a bright orange or a cherry red, it can look fabulous.

  Jane Asher

  Orange, Looks, Red

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• The moon is bland in color. I call it shades of gray. You know, the only color we see is what we bring or the Earth, which is looking down upon us all the time. And to find orange soil on the moon was a surprise.

  Gene Cernan

  Moon, Color, Orange

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• I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often different shades of grey.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Years, White, Black

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• Let the flower of compassion blossom in the rich soil of maître, and water it with the good water of equanimity in the cool, refreshing shade of joy.

  Longchenpa

  Flower, Compassion, Water

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