Quotes About Sepia

#1. The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour

Beryl Bainbridge

#2. 1915. The year itself looks sepia and soiled-muddied like its pictures. In the snapshots everyone at first seems timid-lost-irresolute. Boys and men squinting at the camera.

Timothy Findley

#3. Sepia in particular tends to make everything look a bit romantic and almost sentimental, hence the fact that it remains such a popular choice for wedding photographs.

Martin Parr

#4. Choosing sepia is all to do with trying to make the image look romantic and idealistic. It's sort of a soft version of propaganda.

Martin Parr

#5. It is neither poor handling nor the weather that turns the pages of a book a fine sepia. It is the reader's imagination.

S.A. Tawks

#6. Without poetry, stories would be told in sepia.

Ellen Hopkins

#7. Like walking through a door. Our relationship immediately attained a sepia tone: the past.

Gillian Flynn

#8. One sunny moment, moving inexorably toward sepia.

Jonathan Galassi

#9. From black and white to a sepia tone, some dreams come with a tint or in monochrome

Shing02

#10. Jenny looked, as usual, elegant and as fine-drawn as a young doe, but oddly muted, as if she had been outlined in sepia.

Anne Rivers Siddons

#11. You can't shoot in sepia, so converting into black and white and then into brown makes everything feel less real.

Martin Parr

#12. This was something he'd done a great deal of when he was very young, so young the memory was washed to sepia with age.

Heidi Cullinan

#13. For as long as I can remember, I have been passionately intrigued by 'Africa,' by the word itself, by its flora and fauna, its topographical diversity and grandeur; but above all else, by the sheer variety of the colors of its people, from tan and sepia to jet and ebony.

Henry Louis Gates

#14. Nothing. That was a nostalgia kiss," he said. "It's sepia colored. People in that kiss are . . . wearing stovepipe hats . . . and children are rolling hoops down the street, and eating penny candy.

Meg Wolitzer

#15. I can't help but think that, comic book-wise, this whole episode would probably fill nothing but a couple interlude frames; like that moment where a character has a sepia-tinted dream before crashing back into their real story.

Melissa Keil

#16. The rain is a screen that changes the colour of the sky, causing a sepia filter to fall over the city. It is as if the city has gone back in time, to the age before the invention of full-coloured photographs. Light becomes suffused and quiet.

Justin Ker

#17. From a distance, at a time of urbanization and connectivity, rodeo and ranching may seem anachronistic notions - quaint and sepia-toned from an America that no longer exists.

John Branch

#18. Then he put that one down behind a framed sepia-tone picture of a baseball player named Cecil Travis and picked up another one and tilted it back to his lips.

Tom Wolfe

#19. As life speeds by, nostalgia has a shorter pregnancy. Games still in progress are given the straight-to-sepia status of "Instant Classics" no matter how oxymoronic that phrase appears.

Steve Rushin

#20. In my early days I was a sepia Hedy Lamarr. Now I'm black and a woman, singing my own way.

Lena Horne

#21. Unlike Ronan, Adam's Aglionby jumper was second-hand, but he'd taken great care to be certain it was impeccable. He was slim and tall, with dusty hair unevenly cropped above a fine-boned, tanned face. He was a sepia photograph.

Maggie Stiefvater

#22. It was like hiking into a Hemingway story; everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext.

Leslie What

#23. The site looks unpromising from a distance, blending in with the surrounding sepia-toned hills, but I'm learning that looks can be deceiving.

Lynn Austin

#24. The right of conquest is not a right. A society can be founded only with the consent of its members. If it is destroyed by conquest, the nation becomes free again; it is not a new society, and if the conquerer tries to create one it will be a dictatorship.

Montesquieu

#25. We've had a digital revolution, but we don't need to keep having it. And I'd like to look after that, to look what comes after the digital revolution.

Neil Gershenfeld

#26. Happiness is not in the having or being- it is in the doing.

Lillian Watson

#27. Talent is essential, but cash buys the opportunity for that talent to be discovered. To pretend otherwise is to spit in the face of every broke genius.

Molly Crabapple

#28. Efforts to bring about democracy have hit a wall and are going backwards.

John McCain

#29. Where there is no justice there can be no secure peace.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#30. Have an open mind and heart. Learn to journey in understanding and forgiveness. It's not always going to be easy but it will be worth it.

Alexandra Elle

#31. You can look for external sources of motivation and that can catalyze a change, but it won't sustain one. It has to be from an internal desire.

Jillian Michaels

#32. Sometimes you learn more from films that aren't terribly successful and, indeed, sometimes you learn more from real disasters than you do from the ones that succeed.

John Rhys-Davies

#33. I'm not a very good writer. But I'm a HELLUVA re-writer.

Laini Giles

#34. I want to live forever! I want to learn how to fly high!

Niall Horan