Shades Of Grey Quotes

• 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, Shade

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

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• Just think how many books I could've sold if Harry had been a bit more creative with his wand." -[On the success of 50 Shades of Grey]

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Thinking, Creative

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• I believe very strongly that when it comes to desire, when it comes to attraction, that things are never black and white, things are very much shades of grey.

  Brian Molko

  Believe, Black And White, Desire

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• My inner goddess is doing the merengue with some salsa moves.

  John Green

  Moving, Fifty, Shade

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• Never trust a man who can dance.

  E. L. James

  Men, Fifty, Shade

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• I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Success, Determination

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• There is a very fine line between listening and stalking.

  Jay Baer

  Greed, Listening, Nausea

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• Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high.

  E. L. James

  Hero, Long, Expectations

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• There's a very fine line between pleasure and pain. They are two sides of the same coin, one not existing without the other.

  E. L. James

  Pain, Two Sides, Coins

  E L James (2017). “Fifty Shades from Christian’s Point of View: Includes Grey and Darker”, p.195, Random House

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• The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Confidence, Men

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• There is a very fine line between love and nausea.

  James Earl Jones

  Greed, Nausea, Lines

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• Men aren't really complicated. They are very simple, literal creatures. They usually mean what they say. And we spend hours trying to analyze what they've said, when really it's obvious.

  E. L. James

  Mean, Simple, Men

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• Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Leadership, Peace, Military

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957”, p.152, Best Books on

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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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• There is nothing gray about whether a follower of Christ should see 50 Shades of Grey. This is a black and white issue. Don’t go. Don’t watch it. Don’t read it. Don’t rent it.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Black And White, Issues, Watches

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• Adulthood isn't black and white - it's a thousand shades of grey. Or taupe. It's not who you are, it's where you are.

  Elizabeth Noble

  Black And White, Shade, Where You Are

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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.

  Lisa Schwarzbaum

  Book, Oil, Baths

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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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• Just because everyone CAN publish a book these days, doesn't mean everyone SHOULD. The world doesn't need 1000 knock-offs of 50 Shades of Grey. I'm not so sure the world even needed ONE 50 Shades of Grey.

  Oliver Gaspirtz

  Book, Mean, Needs

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• NO I haven't read 50 Shades of Grey - I've been close enough to Jay Leno in real life.

  Sarah Thyre

  Real, Shade, Enough

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• Who here actually thinks I would do 50 Shades of Grey as a movie? Like really. For real. In real life.

  Emma Watson

  Boyfriend, Good Life, Real

  Emma Watson @EmmaWatson, twitter.com. March 16, 2013.

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• There's no black and no white, just shades of grey...But the small betrayals lead to bigger ones, morality is eroded.

  Kate Mosse

  Betrayal, White, Black

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• Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.

  Jodi Picoult

  White, Black, Shade

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.313, Penguin

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

  Tami Hoag

  Black And White, World, Shade

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

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• I feel like I'm the only person - or woman, at least - who hasn't read 'Fifty Shades of Grey.

  Carla Gugino

  Fifty, Shade, Grey

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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