In The Gray Quotes

They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes. I arrived with gray, silent, sober, oppressed paintings. One critic said they were paintings that thought.

The discrepancy between what actually happened and the version of what happened provided by sources is an enormous gray area.

Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.

Be patient. Life can seem pretty gray while those beautiful wings of yours are being formed. All in due time, dear one. All in due time.

The Moon is essentially gray - no color - looks like plaster of paris - soft of gray sand.

On that gray street, with the smell of industrial smokes in the air and the afternoon bleeding away to evening, downtown Derry looked only marginally more charming than a dead hooker in a church pew.

Magnificent autumn! He comes not like a pilgrim, clad in russet weeds; not like a hermit, clad in gray; but like a warrior with the stain of blood in his brazen mail.

Several ripe persimmons Left on the branches; Gray clouds come and go.

Well you can't win the lottery if you don't have a ticket

I am attracted to generic or 'industrial' colours; paper bag brown, file cabinet gray, industrial green, that kind of thing.

Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his [mankind's] ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

At my age, turning gray is kind of a blessing, where it softens all of the other horrible things it does to you, but it is what it is.

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can't run a state.

Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day.

Between the black of yesterday and the white of tomorrow is the great gray of today.

To wear a gray tweed suit, you have to be mature and confident in yourself. Some people can't pull it off.

So I buy it. The most perfect little cardigan in the world. People will call me the Girl in the Gray Cardigan. I’ll be able to live in it. Really, it’s an investment.

On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stairway through the clouds.

Quintus..." Geryon mused. "Short gray hair, muscular, swordsman?" "Yeah." "Never heard of him.

No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home.

I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!

When they shall paint our sockets gray And light us like a stinking fuse, Remember that we once could say, Yesterday we had a world to lose.

I must remember to forgive myself. Because there's an awful lot of gray to work with. No one can live in the light all the time."-A Great and Terrible Beauty

Black is the hardest color in the world to get right-except for gray.

You don't buy them; they don't come in package.

...Do you see things in black and white, or are there shades of gray for you?" "I hope there's gray...Black and white make things easier, but only if you don't want to think.

The light of genius never sets, but sheds itself upon other faces, in different hues of splendor. Homer glows in the softened beauty of Virgil, and Spenser revives in the decorated learning of Gray.

Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died.

I'm a firm believer in shades of gray.

I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I'm not paralyzed from the neck up.

If I see everything in gray, and in gray all the colors which I experience and which I would like to reproduce, then why should I use any other color?

Everything is a reenactment. We are reenacting the world in the mind. The world is not inside there. It does not reside in the gray matter of the brain.

For me songs are born out of the gray space, the things I don't fully understand, the things that I can't put in my pocket.

Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life.

Gray sail against the sky, Gray butterfly! Have you a dream for going. Or are you the blind wind's blowing?

Three were the fates. Poverty that chains; gray drudgery that grinds the hope away, and gaping ignorance that starves the soul.

The most interesting thing about being alive is that there is no black and white; there are many shades of gray.

In the night all cats are gray.

Remember the enemy of all painting is gray: a painting will almost always appear grayer than it is, on account of its oblique position under the light.

Vancouver is one of my favorite places on earth. It's gray and rainy there a lot of the time, but for some reason, even though it's gray and rainy, I feel like it's a sunny day.

Youth is fair, a graceful stag, Leaping, playing in a park. Age is gray, a toothless hag, Stumbling in the dark.

A lot of contemporary American culture makes its way to this county. Cuba is not some gray, isolated backwater. This is a happening place.

Eternity has no gray hairs! The flowers fade, the heart withers, man grows old and dies, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages, but time writes no wrinkles on the brow of Eternity.

Going gray is like ejaculating: you know it can happen prematurely, but when it does it comes as a total shock.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

A committee is a group of individuals who all put in a perfectly good color, and it comes out gray.

LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers - particularly to those who love not wisely but other men's wives.

It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.