Top 100 Shades Of Quotes
#1. I'm a multi-faceted woman and person, like all women are - there's no black and white. We have shades of grey in the middle. And even many more colours that other people don't see!
Shakira
#2. I carry their beauty inside the very soul of my being. Dark with shades of grey. White with storm clouds in the distance. Because of dad and mom, I am not afraid to dream of dark victories and black beauty. I'm not afraid to be in love with the night
Diane Keaton
#3. There was a time when black and navy blue suits were pretty much everything you saw. That has completely changed. People are wearing big checks, checks with browns and blues and shades of gray, and the scale is very large, and some of them are very bold with heavy contrasts.
Patrick Grant
#4. Careful writers and discerning readers delight in the profusion of words in the English lexicon, no two of which are exact synonyms. Many words convey subtle shades of meaning,
Steven Pinker
#5. 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
#6. Ancient mirror Macick mirror Shades of gray Hidden Forbidden Within, away Part the mist Macick kissed Call the fey Reveal the past The spell is cast I save the day!
P.C. Cast
#7. Let's stop by the shades of a tavern--
Selling raspberry handshakes,
Let's recline by the shimmer of a lantern-
Trampling the silence of snowflakes;
Ashfaq Saraf
#8. The heroic example of other days is in great part the source of the courage of each generation; and men walk up composedly to the most perilous enterprises, beckoned onward by the shades of the brave that were.
Arthur Helps
#9. A pattern of raised crisscrossed scars, some old and white, others more recent in various shades of pink and red. Exposing the stress of the structure underneath its paint
Amy Efaw
#10. But choices are rarely black and white. Right or wrong. They are a million shades of gray.
Dwight Okita
#12. It was a large, neatly kept cottage, with a well-tended yard full of chickens. Hollyhocks grew along the side, in shades of red and violet, unless magic had gotten into them again, in which case they had a tendency to go plaid.
T. Kingfisher
#13. NO I haven't read 50 Shades of Grey - I've been close enough to Jay Leno in real life.
Sarah Thyre
#14. 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
#15. Keep in mind that life produces no maestros, only students of varying shades of ineptitude.
Bette Greene
#17. It was then that we connected. His sound bounced through my head and out my eyes, painting my world with new shades of color. I still remember the smile that unnoticeably took my face as I inched for another touch.
Charles Lee
#18. Film has far more color shades. It's called 'bit depth' in digital terms. And most bit depth in digital is about twelve, but film bit depth can be twenty to thirty. And so you just have more shades of yellow and red and oranges and everything.
Greg MacGillivray
#19. I now know all shades of the color green, having spent 90 days staring at that green screen. I'll never forget that color, as long as I live.
Rob Letterman
#20. 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
#21. Brighter shades of blue and red than he had ever seen. The
Brandon Mull
#22. When all you have to look at is white, given time you will see a symphony in shades of pale.
Mark Lawrence
#23. If you gathered together all the shades of blue in the world and picked the bluest, the epitome of blue, this was the color you would choose.
Haruki Murakami
#24. I counted seventy-three shades of grey in an eight-by-ten room.
Glen Duncan
#25. 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
#26. The moon is bland in color. I call it shades of gray. You know, the only color we see is what we bring or the Earth, which is looking down upon us all the time. And to find orange soil on the moon was a surprise.
Eugene Cernan
#27. Shades of gray, I thought, knowing I was slipping into places I had vowed I'd never go.
Kim Harrison
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. Thanh Hoa itself is a rich agricultural province. Rice fields, a pattern of many shades of green, stretch far into the distance along the road, which also winds through foothills and the fringes of heavy jungle where tigers are said to roam. The vegetation, wild or cultivated, is lush.
Noam Chomsky
#32. The Academy Awards are passed out on Sunday. It's voted by members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Or as I call them, 50 shades of white.
David Letterman
#34. Delegation is not a binary thing. There are shades of grey between a dictatorship and an anarchy.
Jurgen Appelo
#35. Bonapartist democrat."
"Grey shades of a quiet mouse colour.
Victor Hugo
#36. Autumn that year painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron and russet, and the days were clear and crisp under harvest skies.
Sharon Kay Penman
#37. If anything, 'Fifty Shades of Grey' is a generic romance cynically engineered to appeal to the lowest common denominator of female fantasy.
Meghan Daum
#38. The truth? What the Hell is the truth? We're born, we live and we die. Everything else is just shades of opinion.
David Gemmell
#39. I have never really lived with anyone in my adult years. I just read my sports ticker. And 50 Shades of Grey.
Matthew Perry
#40. During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.
John Le Carre
#41. When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.
Cyril Connolly
#42. I love dishes that feature the various shades of a single colour, making you stop to check what's in there.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#43. More advice: if your message is to be printed, use high-quality paper to maximize the contrast between characters and their background. If you use color, you are more likely to be believed if your text is printed in bright blue or red than in middling shades of green, yellow, or pale blue.
Daniel Kahneman
#44. We long to find someone who has been where we've been, who shares our fragile places, who sees our sunsets with the same shades of blue. Soul mates. They somehow validate the depth of our experiences.
Beth Moore
#45. 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
#46. The Lilac Rose Collection isn't just about purple. It features dusty pinks and heather grays, which are more natural shades of purple and are perfect for creating a feminine smoky eye.
Bobbi Brown
#47. Because life's dictates did not allow for quick and easy distinctions between right and wrong or good and bad. Choices were made between shades of gray, and there was healing and harm to be weighed on both sides of each.
Terry Brooks
#48. My baby lives in shades of blue, blue eyes and jazz and attitude.
Lana Del Rey
#49. Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters.
Bret Easton Ellis
#50. There were indeed some shades of pleasure that could be colored only by another hand
Sylvia Day
#51. He knew that her eyes were made up of dozens of shades of brown, with that one enchanting circle of green constantly daring him to take a closer look, to see if it was really there or just a figment of his imagination.
Julia Quinn
#52. 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
#53. All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.
Edward Norton
#54. The weather in this land was quite unruly, and if you couldn't appreciate the many shades of gray, you had no business living in it.
Alden Garrat Warrior Heart
Dee Farrell
#56. You'll never make your mark as a writer unless you develop a respect for words and a curiosity about their shades of meaning that is almost obsessive. The English language is rich in strong and supple words. Take the time to root around and find the ones you want
William Zinsser
#57. 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
#58. Ain't no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
Billy Joel
#59. She lived in shades of black and gray - sometimes a dark purple will slip in in the form of shoelaces or a headband - but she painted the entire world with color. She painted my entire world with color.
Nicole Williams
#60. 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
#61. I've never wanted more, until I met you. - Christian Grey, Fifty Shades of Grey
E.L. James
#62. You might see some of the movies that I'm in where there are shades of drama or whatever, but for the most part, I don't get offered serious roles.
Martin Lawrence
#63. We've invented a thousand shades of gray, devising a comfortable Christian existence we can all live with - super awesome, except the Bible doesn't support it. According to Scripture, no real disciple serves God while addicted to the dollar. There
Jen Hatmaker
#64. Dogmatic kind of biblical literalism that gained increasing strength among evangelicals toward the end of the nineteenth century was reduced space for academic debate, intellectual experimentation, and nuanced discrimination between shades of opinion.
Mark A. Noll
#65. Not forever does the bulbul sing In balmy shades of bowers, Not forever lasts the spring Nor ever blossom flowers. Not forever reigneth joy, Sets the sun on days of bliss, Friendships not forever last, They know not life, who know not this.
Khushwant Singh
#66. I'd make a snide comment about the youths of america but I'm too impressed by the fact that she's reading something other than Fifty Shades of Grey.
Jodi Picoult
#67. He tasted like midnight and wind, and shades of rich brown and light blue. Colors that made her feel safe and guarded.
Stephanie Garber
#68. Darlin', I've heard all about fifty shades of grey but I never knew there were fifty shades of denim!
Joanne McClean
#69. In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers.
Maggie Stiefvater
#70. Lay not the plummet to the line; religion hath no landmarks; no human keenness can discern the subtle shades of faith.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
#71. At least you used to know 'there's the villain, there's the good guy', but today there are more shades of grey.
Charles Roven
#72. Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.
Maya Angelou
#73. Of all the shades of red, she hated the wet, sticky brightness of crimson the most.
Dana Marton
#74. I asked Granny one time if she thought green might be God's favorite color since he'd made so many shades of it.
Sheila Kay Adams
#75. Life is much more complex than the black-and-white sound bites that you get on television. There are nuances and shades of gray.
Joe Berlinger
#76. The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack.
Keith Olbermann
#77. I love that very traditional fairy tale where it's not all 'happily ever after.' I like all that old school, bloody, 'Brothers Grimm' sort of stuff. So you have all those shades of gray in there.
Erin Morgenstern
#78. Egypt! from whose all dateless tombs arose Forgotten Pharaohs from their long repose, And shook within their pyramids to hear A new Cambyses thundering in their ear; While the dark shades of forty ages stood Like startled giants by Nile's famous flood.
Lord Byron
#79. See, now there's an idea for an adult panel. Fifty Shades of Gallifrey. Scarf bondage and alternative uses for sonic screwdrivers." Oh,
Kathryn Lively
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. The addition of vinaigrette to freshly roasted vegetables gives them a freshness and juiciness they don't normally have; the acidity brings out new shades of flavour, too.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#83. When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
Laura Schlessinger
#84. The essence of diversity is the individual's experience of it. Diversity is about personalised shades of experience emanating from universal colours of humanity, but each person takes from the universal what is relevant to them and alters it by their own interpersonal experience.
Camila Batmanghelidjh
#85. Time, the foe of man's dominion,
Wheels around in ceaseless flight,
Scattering from his hoary pinion
Shades of everlasting night.
Thomas Love Peacock
#86. 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
#87. He watched you like a man starved for the only thing that could fulfill his hunger."
My eyes popped out and my body flushed about a thousand shades of red. "Oh, wow ...
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#88. Just think how many books I could've sold if Harry had been a bit more creative with his wand. -[On the success of 50 Shades of Grey]
J.K. Rowling
#89. Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.
Louise Erdrich
#90. 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
#91. I don't know if many people know this about me, but I have multiple sclerosis. So I don't have time for a lot of shades of gray. I don't have time for BS.
Neil Cavuto
#92. We look in the mirror and see the shades of other faces looking back through the years; we see the shape of memory, standing solid in an empty doorway. By blood and by choice, we make our ghosts; we haunt ourselves.
Diana Gabaldon
#93. There's no black and no white, just shades of grey ... But the small betrayals lead to bigger ones, morality is eroded.
Kate Mosse
#94. When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color.
Khaled Hosseini
#95. Now multitudes of root words are identical in the American languages over vast areas some of them with precisely the same senses, and others with various shades of analogical meaning.
John W. Dawson
#97. There are many languages that don't make a distinction between green and blue and treat these as shades of one color.
Guy Deutscher
#98. Nothing like a good rib tickling read like Fifty Shades of Grey
LIZ
#99. I am not as strong as my words pretend to be. Not
as quiet as these caesuras promise. This heart is a patchwork quilt of people
that leave different shades of blue inside of me.
Shinji Moon
#100. Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
Billy Joel
