Grey City Quotes

#1. The cool, grey city of love.

George Sterling

#2. The pearl-grey city, the opal that is Paris ...

Anais Nin

#3. The grey city and its lost hearts force its way between myself and my healing.

Jeanette Winterson

#4. Who have you chosen to become?

Bill Jensen

#5. of them gave those thoughts a second consideration

James A. Moore

#6. We were passing the city cemetery. Adjoining it was a field occupied only by a couple of amiable and moth-eaten horses, and a grey tower. I asked what the tower was for. My grandfather answered that it held a giant's arm.

Isobelle Carmody

#7. Twenty-three stories up and all I could see out the windows was grey smog. They could call it the City of the Angels if they wanted to, but if there were angels out there, they had to be flying blind.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#8. A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.

Rudyard Kipling

#9. The cold is waiting to ooze through the soles of your shoes. Maggot-damp, this city is festering: home to hollow faces of grey flesh. They stare from windows unclean, into the sun never reaches: dismal lives lived in dismal constriction.

Emmanuelle De Maupassant

#10. The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

#11. Those dull, unmusterious city unemployables, dressed in their grey, secondhand suits.

Anthony J. Carson

#12. If I walk outside without lipstick, I feel naked.

Sofia Vergara

#13. Edinburgh suited Ann; she liked the tall, dignified buildings of grey stone, the short days that sank into street-lamped evenings at five o'clock, and the dual personality of the city's main street, which on one side had glittering shops and on the other the green sweep of Princes Street Gardens.

Maggie O'Farrell

#14. The process is the most beautiful part.

Quincy Jones

#15. But by God, if I don't get laid tonight, my cooter will go nuclear and wipe out a city block.

Kendall Grey

#16. I looked inside my typewriter. There's a city in there. Black and grey columns and no inhabitants.

Helen Oyeyemi

#17. when we're done, I'll be where the night never stops
cradling a bruise that's shaped like you
wondering why sleep never came to me
wondering how I still dreamed

Alicen Grey

#18. His hair has gone grey. He passes every day. They say he walks the length of the city.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#19. Every man should own a navy cashmere jacket with gold buttons, a grey suit, black shoes shoes for the city, brown shoes for elsewhere. Everything else should be simple and really well made.

Thom Browne

#20. And the giants fall one by one, to fill the cup of Rot and Ruin. A city laid waste by the feats of man, never to rise again.

Audrey Grey

#21. She wasn't looking at herself in the glass, but out at a great silver moon hanging beyond a thin metal balcony that looked over the grey towers of a human city.

Denny B. Reese

#22. I'm completely taken and impressed by the planning authority of Singapore and its Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). It's the most cutting-edge agency in the world. They have very effective guidelines for development, and they review design as it evolves.

Moshe Safdie

#23. One of the strong principles that I believe in is that you're always learning, whether you're a commissioner, a current general manager, a president or an owner, or somebody that's trying to become a general manger or a coach in the NFL.

Roger Goodell

#24. The sky all at once is overhead dim and grey, puzzle of blocks sprawl, their own horizon; the city looks like a cemetery full of weak daylight, cool and a little wrong, making Ella feel a little put upon, like leap-year day - nothing in itself, but a nudge jostling every other day.

Michael Cisco