Shades Of Quotes

#1. Rose petals of a thousand shades fall from the trees as Golds fight beneath them. They're all red in the end.

Pierce Brown

#2. There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion.

Truman Capote

#3. You think we 're both fifty shades of fucked up, don't you?"
- "Nah, not that bad. Maybe twenty-five shades.

Laurelin Paige

#4. border - shades of vermillion, raw sienna, and burnt umber that would grow bolder and more vibrant with the strengthening

Michelle Isenhoff

#5. And all of it was dark. I could see tall shelves, and a few windows covered in thick shades that hid the starlight. In the middle of the room was a circular table with shadows gathered around it. "Who wrote The Wind in the Willows?" asked

Lemony Snicket

#6. To be sucked down by this whirling stream is to fall into abysses of madness, more frightful than those of death; to expel the shades of this chaos and compel it to give perfect forms to our thoughts - this is to be a man of genius; it is to create, it is to be victorious over hell! The

Eliphas Levi

#7. A true well-wisher follows you like a shadow.

Cifar

#8. I'm all about my rugs. I don't like a lot of color. The apartment isn't exactly monotone, but it's full of very soft shades. So, really, the fun is with the carpets.

Nina Garcia

#9. Between the radiant white of a clear conscience and the coal black of a conscience sullied by sin lie many shades of gray
where most of us live our lives. Not perfect but not beyond redemption.

Sherry L. Hoppe

#10. There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.

Rebecca Solnit

#11. Anybody who believes and experiences their life and doesn't have shades of gray in it doesn't live where I live and is simply not in touch with the reality of the human condition.

Alexis Denisof

#12. It was a lovely uneventful spring evening. The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night. When

Haruki Murakami

#13. ...shades of OCD.

Susan Kaye Quinn

#14. Take your filthy paws off my son, you whore, and get out of my house-now! She hisses through gritted teeth.

E.L. James

#15. My favorite colors come from the shades of local earth. Dig in the ground and you'll find so many layers of color-amazing yellows, sand, browns, black, beige.

Axel

#16. In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.

Alfred Marshall

#17. People will always prefer black-and-white over shades of grey, and so there will always be the temptation to hold overly-simplified beliefs and to hold them with excessive confidence

Thomas Gilovich

#18. Some questions had no right answers, only shades of wrong, and people couldn't live in black-and-white. Sometimes there were pops of glorious color, and on other occasions, gray was the only visible hue.

Ann Aguirre

#19. And suddenly, as he noted the fine shades of manner by which she harmonized herself with her surroundings, it flashed on him that, to need such adroit handling, the situation must indeed be desperate.

Edith Wharton

#20. One of the biggest myths debunked by science is that dogs see only in black and white. Contrary to that popular belief, dogs have dichromatic vision, meaning that they can see shades of yellow and blue.

Victoria Stilwell

#21. The light from his torch painted the barren forest in shades of his own reflection, black-haired, gray-eyed and pale for want of a touch. He pulled his cloak close, unable to determine which made him more uncomfortable: the dreary woods or the new moon settling onto his heart like a cloud of moths.

F.T. McKinstry

#22. I remember a rainbow spectrum of men's wing tips parked in rows, triple-A narrow, the leather dyed snake green, lemon yellow, and unstable shades of vermilion and Ditto-ink blue. All of humanity dresses in uniforms of one sort or another, and these shoes were for pimps.

Rachel Kushner

#23. Around us the city glittered in shades of orange and silver, like a paste jewel in a tinfoil crown.

Alexis Hall

#24. A rainbow in shades of grey is just a fog

Robby Miller

#25. When I lie where shades of darkness Shall no more assail mine eyes.

Walter De La Mare

#26. Writers must be fair and remember even bad guys (most of them, anyway) see themselves as good - they are the heroes of their own lives. Giving them a fair chance as characters can create some interesting shades of gray - and shades of gray are also a part of life.

Stephen King

#27. When she had fallen asleep on me, and the saw in the yard was quiet, and a blackbird was singing as the colors of things in the kitchen dimmed until nothing remained of them but lighter and darker shades of gray, I was completely happy.

Bernhard Schlink

#28. MAC allowed me to have complete freedom on the collaborations - from the shades, the look-and-feel, to the campaign visuals. I have to admit that the visual aspect of the collection excites me most. For designers, we care about the photographs much more than a Ferrari.

Philip Treacy

#29. How can you do the right thing when you can't figure out what that is? When all you have before you are choices in various shades of wrong?

Neal Shusterman

#30. He makes me graceful, that's his skill. He makes me sexy, because that's what he is. He makes me feel loved, because in spite of his fifty shades, he has a wealth of love to give.

E.L. James

#31. Every once in awhile, when you can see shades of the person's real interior life, I think that's interesting.

Donal Logue

#32. Got plans for the rest of the day ?"
"No plans," I whispered. Test drive your mattress? Let me pretend to be a Skittle and you can taste my rainbow? Fifty Shades me? Please ! Oh, holy horror, I'm freaking losing it.

Christine Zolendz

#33. Several shades of the color, cloudy, silvery shades, churn underneath the surface of his skin, making him look marbled, textured. It paints a barely believable portrait. Every feature on him works in harmony to create, well, a person. But he's unlike any person I've ever seen.

Chelsea Scott

#34. This language is from the head. It is a way of mentally classifying people into varying shades of good and bad, right and wrong. Ultimately, it provokes defensiveness, resistance, and counterattack. It is a language of demands.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#35. Don't get stabbed. It makes everything awkward.

Maureen Johnson

#36. There is a point when a personal opinion shades off into an error of fact.

Gene Siskel

#37. If an action must be taken that will benefit the majority at the cost of the minority, is it morally indefensible?
If an action taken for the benefit of a majority occurs at the expense of a minority, is it moral action?

Garth Nix

#38. Imagining themes that are specific to coating lines, shapes, shades, thoughts, the decoration of our homes and the objects of utility or pure pleasure, adapting its purpose in a material-specific way to metal or wood, marble or fabric - it is, without any doubt, an absorbing occupation.

Emile Galle

#39. Oh, please," I moan as he bites my little toe

E.L. James

#40. I don't think I have the right parts to appreciate '50 Shades of Grey'.

Chris Colfer

#41. She had expressed herself, as women will, in a smug broadside of pastel shades. Nothing clashed because nothing had the strength to clash; everything murmured of safety among the hues; all was refinement.

Mervyn Peake

#42. Everyone thinks I named my cat Mango because of his orange eyes, but that's not the case. I named him Mango because the sounds of his purrs and his wheezes and his meows are all various shades of yellow-orange.

Wendy Mass

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

Adam Gopnik

#44. Thieves and prostitutes. Our mothers were in that car, along with a teacher, a librarian, elderly people, and a newborn baby - thieves and prostitutes.

Ruta Sepetys

#45. It Will be better to die quickly with only the taste of freedom on our lips than to live long lives pretending not to see the walls that imprison us.

Beth Revis

#46. As we progress, various shades of meaning and deeper levels of understanding will complement this initial effort.

Gustavo Gutierrez

#47. Who here actually thinks I would do Fifty Shades of Grey as a movie? Like really. For real. In real life ... ? ... Good. Well that's that sorted then.

Emma Watson

#48. Because I want to have sex with him
and because that's sinful
I'm blushing and flushing furiously under his scrutinizing scrutiny.

Jess C. Scott

#49. The only man I've ever been attracted to, and he comes with a bloody contract, a flogger, and a whole world of issues.

E.L. James

#50. I organize the opposition between colors, lines and curves. I set curves against straight lines, patches of color against plastic forms, pure colors against subtly nuanced shades of gray.

Fernand Leger

#51. I want you to understand that what is black to one person is white to another. And nothing in this world is so perfect that it is pure white, or so bad it is pure black. Everything concerning human beings comes in shades of gray, Carrie.

V.C. Andrews

#52. All fine films, novels, and plays, through all shades of the comic and the tragic, entertain when they give the audience a fresh model of life empowered with an affective meaning.

Robert McKee

#53. I'll always come back to you, he tells me, pulling me close.
Always.
Beth Revis (Shades of Earth pg. 441)

Beth Revis

#54. Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.

Sam Hunt

#55. My family has always had Cape Verdean pride but I don't think it was something the kids in the family necessarily understood. However, I was very conscious of the fact that both sides of my family were drastically different and my aunts, cousins, and uncles varied in different shades of brown.

Aeriel Miranda

#56. In the Community everything was black and white. Here, romantic relationships took on shades of grey; they were full of uncertainty, maybes, broken promises.

Claire Merle

#57. The scene we stepped into was straight out of 50 Shades of Grey - Geriatric Edition.

R.S. Grey

#58. The child's face is close to her own now, but there is still no detail. It is a blur, a watercolor painting left out in the rain, the shades running, blending into one another. Only the eyes remain clear; black and hungry, jealous of life.

John Connolly

#59. I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so.

Michael Palin

#60. To her the world really wasn't just black and white, its shades were in varying shades of gray. Circumstance and experience shaped a person from the moment they were born. Everyone was a complex mix of bad and good. "Is

J.M. Dabney

#61. MacMillian narrowed his eyes at the man in the fedora. Neither he nor his friend looked a day older than nineteen, at most. "You're a ... minister?"
The man's lips twitched. "Of sorts.

Laura Oliva

#62. The movie Fifty Shades of Grey is considerably better written than the book. It is also sort of classy-looking, in a generic, TV-ad-for-bath-oil way.

Lisa Schwarzbaum

#63. Shades of Harry the deserter, I thought furiously. What in God's name is the British army coming to? Glorious traditions, my aunt Fanny.

Diana Gabaldon

#64. No light; but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell; hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end . . .

Paul Theroux

#65. The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it in the shades of privacy.

Samuel Johnson

#66. We are at war. War has a way of stripping us of perspective. War is about life and death, and it paints everything in shades of now or never.

Amy Harmon

#67. With a stroke of love on the canvas of my soul I'm painting a perfect world with shades of Michelangelo With each promise made in every heart that knows we can live in a perfect world in shades of Michelangelo I hear songs of children echo in the sky I hear songs of children a tomorrow so bright!

Belinda Carlisle

#68. But spring in England is like a prolonged adolescence, stumbling, sweet and slow, a thing of infinitesimal shades, false starts, expectations, deferred hopes, and final showers of glory.

Laurie Lee

#69. Put the chicken in the fridge. This is not a sentence I had ever expected to hear from Christian Grey, and only he can make it sound hot, really hot.

E.L. James

#70. Delegation is not a binary thing. There are shades of grey between a dictatorship and an anarchy.

Jurgen Appelo

#71. I have never really lived with anyone in my adult years. I just read my sports ticker. And 50 Shades of Grey.

Matthew Perry

#72. Imagine you saw a colour in your dream, which you have never seen before. It doesn't consist of any colours or shades that you know. Trying to describe that colour would be as difficult as trying to belive that there is enough love & compassion in the world so every human can feel happiness.

Egor Kraft

#73. If the "world" believed something, then you had to believe its opposite to be righteous. It made people rage against everything from a global economy to public schooling and immunizations, but mostly I thought it was just an excuse not to have to do the work that seeing shades of grey requires.

Mette Ivie Harrison

#74. How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease!

Oliver Goldsmith

#75. Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters.

Bret Easton Ellis

#76. Ned was clad in a white linen doublet with the direwolf of Stark on the breast; his black wool cloak was fastened at the collar by his silver hand of office. Black and white and grey, all the shades of truth.

George R R Martin

#77. A man can drown in shades of grey.

Mark Lawrence

#78. Just because everyone CAN publish a book these days, doesn't mean everyone SHOULD. The world doesn't need 1000 knock-offs of 50 Shades of Grey. I'm not so sure the world even needed ONE 50 Shades of Grey.

Oliver Gaspirtz

#79. Ain't no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.

Billy Joel

#80. If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well.

E.L. James

#81. This is all I know, too. Perhaps together we can chart a new course.

E.L. James

#82. Shades of a new morning standing still are worse than the shades of night. At least a person can understand the dark of night. It's not fickle like the day.

Sarah E. Wright

#83. He tasted like midnight and wind, and shades of rich brown and light blue. Colors that made her feel safe and guarded.

Stephanie Garber

#84. Why does he have such an unnerving effect on me? His over-whelming good looks maybe? The way his eyes blaze at me? The way he strokes his index finger against his lower lip? I wish he'd stop doing that.

E.L. James

#85. Of all the shades of red, she hated the wet, sticky brightness of crimson the most.

Dana Marton

#86. If you want to cry. cry in front of me.
I should know - Cristian Grey

E.L. James

#87. These days, I no longer believe there ever are truly good guys or bad guys in war, at least in the Middle East. They're generally shades of gray. But that doesn't translate well on television. It was too complicated. Too remote.

Richard Engel

#88. Not to mention that he's hotter than seven shades of hell and could probably make me forget my convictions when he kisses me.

M. Leighton

#89. Besides, immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control things.

E.L. James

#90. There were shades of grey, among the stark blacks and whites.

L.A. Weatherly

#91. And in this quiet moment, as I close my eyes, spent and sated, I think I'm in the eye of the storm. And in spite of all he's said and what he hasn't said, I don't think I have ever been so happy.

E.L. James

#92. We middles see the world in shades of grey rather than in the clear blacks and whites of committed animal activists and their equally vociferous opponents

Hal Herzog

#93. I don't think [Fifty Shades of Grey is] a model for anything. Except maybe in bed.

E.L. James

#94. People who believe in miracles do not make much fuss when they actually encounter one

Alice Munro

#95. Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind; No general object of desire is known, Each has his will, and each pursues his own.

William Gifford

#96. Maybe there was no one way to define it. Maybe there were as many shades of love as the blues of the sky,

Mary E. Pearson

#97. Don't use your skin tone as a guide to choosing the color of your eye shadow. Rather, for everyday application, pick shades of shadow that bring out your eye color.

Bobbi Brown

#98. No new reader, however charitable, could open "Fifty Shades of Grey," browse a few paragraphs, and reasonably conclude that the author was writing in her first language, or even her fourth.

Anthony Lane

#99. But to use the knowledge of the threading, you must learn the making of the shades. When to sadden with the iron pot. How to bloom the colors. How to bleed.

Lois Lowry

#100. Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume degrees of apparentness and, as it were, lighter and darker shadows and shades of appearance- different 'values', to use the language of painters?

Friedrich Nietzsche