Shade Quotes

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

Certain shades of limelight wreck a girl's complexion.

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.

Allah made us all a different shade and colour. Nations and tribes recognize one another! 'Cause every single person is your sister and brother.

February is the uncertain month, neither black nor white but all shades between by turns. Nothing is sure.

Every anxiety is a mild form of premonition, and from that point the shade deepens till we get the forebodings and hauntings that merge into lunacy.

Friendship is a tree to take shelter from the storm, to find shade from the blazing sun, to climb its bratches to get a better view, and to swing from when we're happy.

I believe in rainbows and all of that. But there are darker colors … and it's the shade that defines the light.

Beautiful isles! beneath the sunset skies tall, silver-shafted palm-trees rise, between full orange-trees that shade the living colonade.

Annihilating all that's made, To a green thought in a green shade.

Many a night I saw the Pleiads, Rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies, Tangled in a silver braid.

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit.

I'm a firm believer in shades of gray.

In the hands of a master, light and shade is one of the great qualities of art.

Til shade is gone, til water is gone Into the shadow with teeth bared Screaming defiance with the last breath To spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the Last Day.

Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.

In a way there's only a fine shade of difference between the healthy and the deranged.

A sunny disposition is worth more than [a monetary] fortune. Young people should know that it can be cultivated; that the mind like the body can be moved from the shade into sunshine.

I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.

The circus comes as close to being the world in microcosm as anything I know; in a way, it puts all the rest of show business in the shade.

Aquamarine is an airy blue with a dreamy feel. Cool and calming, ethereal Aquamarine is a shade with a wet and watery feel. Open and expansive, this restful blue also acts as a stress reducer.

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

Art is the subjective, preferential treatment of certain elements of reality; it selects and resets, distributes light and shade, omits and underlines, softens and emphasises.

I never saw an ugly thing in my life.

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.

It's not always clear where a healthy patriotism shades into a dangerous nationalism.

I never think that sticking slavishly to one period is successful, a touch of nostalgia adds charm. One needs light and shade because if every piece is perfect the room becomes a museum and lifeless.

I see my subject as an orchestration of shapes, patterns, shade, cast shadows, tonal groupings and aerial perspective.

Departing summer hath assumed An aspect tenderly illumed, The gentlest look of spring; That calls from yonder leafy shade Unfaded, yet prepared to fade, A timely carolling.

I turn my girl on like fifty shades of grey.

He speaks truly who speaks the shade.

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

Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible to be excessive in flattery of one's peers.

I saw them kissing in the shade and knew the sum of all my lore: God gave them Youth, God gave them Love, and even God can give no more.

God enabled me to so agonize in prayer that I was quite wet with perspiration, though in the shade and the cool wind. My soul was drawn out very much from the world, for multitudes of souls.

Like most professional golfers, I have a tendency to remember my poor shots a shade more vividly than the good ones.

Sets of lines can say something about the direction and nature of the light. They are used by great fresco painters as a sign for shade.

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

In the long vista of the years to roll,\\ Let me not see my country's honor fade;\\ Oh! let me see our land retain its soul!\\ Her pride in Freedom, and not Freedom's shade.

Prosperity suits some people, and they blossom best in a glow of sunshine; others need the shade, and are the sweeter for a touch of frost.

You might be a redneck if the best way to keep things cold is to leave'em in the shade.

Teach him to live unto God and unto thee; and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade.

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.

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten . . .

Lay not the plummet to the line; religion hath no landmarks; no human keenness can discern the subtle shades of faith.

While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.

With warning hand I mark Time's rapid flight, From Life's glad morning to its solemn night; Yet, through the dear Lord's love, I also show There's light above me by the shade I throw.

Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.

A life without rain is like the sun without shade.

As it fell upon a day In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made.