Grayness Quotes

#1. I work much better in sunshine. It's drizzle and grayness that I don't like.

Lucy Davis

#2. People would rather live in homes regardless of its grayness. There is no place like home.

L. Frank Baum

#3. Designers like even grayness, which is the worst thing for a reader.

Erik Spiekermann

#4. But now she's somber. The sunlight in her fine honey-brown hair does nothing to relinquish her from the grayness that overshadows her.

Lauren DeStefano

#5. Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitement. Then there are others, and this dame was one of them, who can drain off energy and joy, can suck pleasure dry and get no sustenance from it. Such people spread a grayness in the air about them.

John Steinbeck

#6. He wasn't good or evil or cruel or extreme in any way but one, which was that he had elevated grayness to the status of a fine art and cultivated a mind that was as bleak and pitiless and logical as the slopes of Hell.

Terry Pratchett

#7. When some of the neural "lights" in question have been switched off by injury, the outcome can be connected to a form of generalized depression, or what Dr. Jim Pfaus of Concordia University calls "anhedonia" - a state of pleasurelessness, bleakness, or grayness, in perceptions of the world.

Naomi Wolf

#8. You live in the same kind of grayness as the filthy stuff that formed you.

Jack Finney

#9. I remember thinking I wanted to die rather than live through another February day of grayness; I didn't tell anyone because I knew it wasn't normal. And normal was all I ever wanted to be.

Sharon E. Rainey

#10. The cult of moral grayness is a revolt against moral values.

Ayn Rand

#11. The shape of the city stood in the grayness like a charcoal drawing sketched across the waste.

Cormac McCarthy

#12. He wanted to know her. Intimate secrets: Why poetry? Why so sad? Why that grayness in her eyes? Why so alone? Not lonely, just alone - riding her bike across campus or sitting off by herself in the cafeteria - even dancing, she danced alone - and it was the aloneness that filled him with love

Tim O'Brien

#13. Even the regular sufferings of fear were better than the ashen grayness of unfeeling, the numbness that had clutched his heart for months. Who knew that no pain was the worst pain, that ordinary agony was the way to feel alive?

Matthew Specktor

#14. I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.

Florence Welch

#15. Poverty always looks the same, no matter where you come across it. The rich can always express their opulence by varying their lives. Different houses, clothes, cars. Or thoughts, dreams. But for the poor there is nothing but compulsory grayness, the only form of expression available to poverty.

Henning Mankell

#16. A crazy certainty had arisen in his mind: a hand - or perhaps a claw - was going to swim up from the grayness of the Kindle's screen, grab him by the throat, and yank him in.

Stephen King

#17. With the awakening of his emotions, his first perception was a sense of futility, a dull ache at the utter grayness of his life.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#18. There is so much blandness and grayness out there, people want to be able to say "it's mine." They want to customize their cars like they customize a jeans jacket.

Neil Gershenfeld

#19. Adam seemed clothed in a viscosity that slowed his movements and held his thoughts down. He saw the world through gray water. Now and then his mind fought its way upward, and when the light broke in it brought him only sickness of the mind, and he retired into the grayness again.

John Steinbeck

#20. Sometimes dirty can come off really cute or come off 'I don't even want you to touch me.'

Kelly Rowland

#21. I don't mean to hate people, I just get forced into it.

Jon Richardson

#22. I have seen and really liked the varied movie adaptations of the book, but 'Little Women' has a sprawling, richly tangled story that needs time and space to weave its magic.

Susanna Kearsley

#23. The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

Samuel Johnson

#24. Society and personality live in a continuing reciprocal relation with each other. The search for personal change without efforts to change the institutions within which we live and grow will, therefore, be met with only limited reward.

Lillian B. Rubin

#25. You can tell the state of civilization by the way people dress. If the people who fought two World Wars came back to 2010 and saw all of us running around in tracksuits, what would they think? It is just about being sloppy.

Daphne Guinness

#26. The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the horizontal plane.

Glenn Gould

#27. Theory of public goods. Theory that if I take you euro (as an elected state government) and give fifty cents back... you will be happier and I will be satisfied.

Radovan Kavicky

#28. You can't ascribe great cosmic significance to a simple earthly event. Coincidence. That's all anything ever is. Nothing more than coincidence.

Scott Neustadter

#29. One thing the coupe never got? ROOF

Nicki Minaj

#30. The public is absolutely fascinated by aging. They don't want to get old. And you can see - read Shakespeare. Read the sonnets. They're all about aging.

Cynthia Kenyon

#31. You conquered me, got to this Special Forces bloke well and truly." His voice husky and low. "You could betray and kill me now and I wouldn't give a shit as long as you'd stay close until I died.

Marquesate

#32. I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.

Ian Rush