Shade Quotes - Page 27

• Design is defined by light and shade, and appropriate lighting is enormously important.

  Albert Hadley

  Light, Design, Important

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• Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, Defended by the riding-hood's disguise; Or, underneath the umbrella's oily shade, Safe through the wet on clinking pattens tread, Let Persian dames the unbrella's ribs display, To guard their beauties from the sunny ray; Or sweating slaves support the shady load, When eastern monarchs show their state abroad; Britain in winter only knows its aid, To guard from chilling showers the walking maid.

  John Gay

  Winter, Support, Maids

  John Gay (1826). “Gay's Fables and Other Poems: Cotton's Visions in Verse ; Moore's Fables for the Female Sex ; with Sketches of the Authors' Lives”, p.197

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• Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light: light and shade reveal these forms.

  Le Corbusier

  Eye, Light, Play

  Le Corbusier (2013). “Towards a New Architecture”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• Let us go over, and sit in the shade of the trees.

  Stonewall Jackson

  Tree, Last Words

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• I have never really lived with anyone in my adult years. I just read my sports ticker. And 50 Shades of Grey.

  Matthew Perry

  Sports, Years, Adults

  "Matthew Perry and Thomas Lennon on The Odd Couple, 50 Shades of Grey, and Manimal". Interview with Jenna Marotta, www.esquire.com. February 26, 2015.

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• I have a sofa on which I never nap, big windows with an ocean view that I rarely see because I keep the pleated shades down at all times while working. I know I'm a potential slacker, so I don't tempt myself.

  Dean Koontz

  Ocean, Naps, Views

  "Interview with the Master of Suspense, Dean Koontz (part 1)". Interview with Trisha Sugarek, www.writeratplay.com. June 28, 2014.

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• A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor a person perfected without trials. Someone is enjoying shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

  Warren Buffett

  Long, Tree, Today

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• ...the whole universe is through and through the playing of love in every shade of the word's use, from animal lust to divine charity.

  Alan Watts

  Animal, Lust, Use

  Alan Watts (1973). “This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience”, Vintage

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• What's a Sun-Dial in the shade?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Sun, Awe Inspiring, Awe

  Benjamin Franklin, Edmund Sears Morgan (2007). “Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin”, p.142, Yale University Press

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• I was raped: I said no and he wouldn't stop. I also had a scar on my back and blood coming out of my ass. To some that's just rough sex. Some would read that sentence and be turned on by that: the 51st Shade of Gay.

  Kevin Sessums

  Sex, Gay, Blood

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• We long to find someone who has been where we've been, who shares our fragile places, who sees our sunsets with the same shades of blue. Soul mates. They somehow validate the depth of our experiences.

  Beth Moore

  Sunset, Blue, Long

  Beth Moore (2004). “Things Pondered”, p.2, B&H Publishing Group

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• The tree can teach you forbearance and tolerance. It offers shade to all, irrespective of age, sex or religion, nationality or status. It helps with fruit and shade even to the foe who lays his axe on its trunk! The dog can teach you a lesson in Faith, Self-less service and the process of Dedication.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Dog, Sex, Dedication

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• Very great charm of shadow and light is to be found in the faces of those who sit in the doors of dark houses. The eye of the spectator sees that part of the face which is in shadow lost in the darkness of the house, and that part of the face which is lit draws its brilliancy from the splendour of the sky. From this intensification of light and shade the face gains greatly in relief and beauty by showing the subtlest shadows in the light part and the subtlest lights in the dark part.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Eye

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.128, OUP Oxford

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• In every political community there are varying shades of political opinion. One of the shadiest of these is the liberals. An outspoken group on many subjects. Ten degrees to the left of center in good times. Ten degrees to the right of center if it affects them personally. Here, then, is a lesson in safe logic.

  Phil Ochs

  Political Opinions, Community, Groups

  "Phil Ochs in Concert". Live album by Phil Ochs (introduction to the song "Love Me, I'm a Liberal"), March 1966.

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• Let the children be free; encourage them; let them run outside when it is raining; let them remove their shoes when they find a puddle of water; and when the grass of the meadows is wet with dew, let them run on it and trample it with their bare feet; let them rest peacefully when a tree invites them to sleep beneath its shade; let them shout and laugh when the sun wakes them in the morning.

  Maria Montessori

  Running, Morning, Children

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• Express yourself through your art - whether it’s your drawings in a sketchpad, tattoos on your skin, the shade of your lipstick, or the clothes that you wear.

  Kat Von D

  Tattoo, Art, Drawing

  "Kat Von D’s New Clothing Line Looks Surprisingly ... Normal" by Marielle Bingham, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 31, 2011.

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• Polly Jean, I love you. I love the texture of your skin, the taste of your saliva, the softness of your ears. I love every inch and every part of your entire body. From your toes and the beautifully curved arches of your feet, to the exceptional shade and warmth of your dark hair. I need you in my life, I hope you need me too.

  Nick Cave

  Love You, Dark, Hair

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• Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.

  Alexander Pope

  Envy, Shadow, Substance

  Alexander Pope (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)”, p.154, Delphi Classics

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• Astrology is a sickness, not a science ... It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive.

  Maimonides

  Astrology, Tree, Superstitions

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• The people of your world became so stupid and rude that my companions and I no longer enjoyed teaching them. You must surely have heard of us: we were called oracles, nymphs, spirits, fairies, household gods, lemures, larvas, lamias, sprites, water-nymphs, incubi, shades, spirits of the dead, specters and ghosts.

  Cyrano de Bergerac

  Stupid, Teaching, Nymphs

  "The Other World: Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon". Book by Cyrano de Bergerac, 1657.

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• God, like all highest things, Hides light in shade, And in the night his visitings To sleep and dreams are clearliest made.

  Arthur Symons

  Dream, Sleep, Night

  Arthur Symons (1909). “Poems”

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• Color-blocking two bold shades feels so modern.

  Brad Goreski

  Block, Color, Two

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• Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?

  Alexander Pope

  Mother, Weed, Men

  Alexander Pope (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)”, p.355, Delphi Classics

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• Days, pale slices between nights, they blend, not exactly alike, transparencies so lightly tinted that only stacked all together do they darken to a fatal shade.

  John Updike

  Night, Together, Pale

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit Redux”, p.102, Random House

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• In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Dark, Black And White, Thinking

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