Shadings Quotes

#1. The walk liberating, I was released from forms, from the perpendiculars, straight lines, blocks, boxes, binds of thought into the hues, shadings, rises, flowing bends and blends of sight ...

A.R. Ammons

#2. As a former English professor, I can assure you that grammar is the qualitative interpolation of language. Adjectives, pronouns, predicates, past pluperfect indicative - ridiculous. It has qualities, shadings, differentiations, rhythmic structures of symbolic meaning.

Frederick Lenz

#3. [Propaganda] does not have multiple shadings; it has a positive and a negative; love or hate, right or wrong, truth or lie, never half this way and half that way ...

Adolf Hitler

#4. Etching will suggest subtle variations of tone, the most delicate shadings, all with black lines, which, as far as lines go, are unsurpassed for sheer beauty.

Walter J. Phillips

#5. In this country shadings of class resist time longer than differentials in age

Julian Barnes

#6. Monopoly may also end in tears, but its tensions are cruder, lacking the infinitely subtle shadings of irritation and acrimony provided by Scrabble.

Craig Brown

#7. There were two off-campus Negro fraternities, one of which Chester pledged for, but even these, he said later, admitted students on the basis of skin shadings, with men of lighter complexion being viewed as more desirable.2

Edward Margolies

#8. I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world of shadings, gradations, nuances, and subtleties. He is a genius and yet he is too explicit. June slips between his fingers. You cannot posses without loving.

Anais Nin

#9. I feel like they're different creatures, live and in the studio, but that's what makes it so interesting to me. If they didn't have any different shadings or colors, you might as well be a hologram or something.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

#10. Old lovers go the way of old photographs, bleaching out gradually as in a slow bath of acid: first the moles and pimples, then the shadings. Then the faces themselves, until nothing remains but the general outlines.

Margaret Atwood

#11. In my dream the shadings of your soul are the dark tincture of rain ...

John Geddes

#12. There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors ... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.

Conrad Hall

#13. To be a genuine individualist requires a great deal of strength and courage. It is never easy to chart new territory, to cross new frontiers, or to introduce subtle shadings to an established color.

Toller Cranston

#14. Reminiscent of the radiant shadings of a sunset, Tangerine Tango marries the vivaciousness and adrenaline rush of red with the friendliness and warmth of yellow, to form a high-visibility, magnetic hue that emanates heat and energy.

Leatrice Eiseman

#15. I would love to have written Roger Zelazny's first five books of 'Amber.' What a great idea he had about the shadings of reality!

Carol Berg

#16. All of us have a bit of a sociopath inside of us, and it's wrong to think that somebody is just clearly sociopathic, because they're not. It's interesting to explore the shadings and nuances within a person. Those feelings exist within more human beings than people may want to acknowledge.

Dan Gilroy

#17. Antiessentialist thinking forces us to view the world differently. We must accept shadings and continua as fundamental. We lose criteria for judgment by comparison to some ideal: short people, retarded people, people of other beliefs, colors, and religions are people of full status.

Stephen Jay Gould

#18. Great books are weighted and measured by their style and matter, and not the trimmings and shadings of their grammar.

Mark Twain

#19. A finished person is a boring person.

Anna Quindlen

#20. Hey, guess who's gay? The Green Lantern from the comic books. Today Mitt Romney knocked him down and shaved his head.

David Letterman

#21. I don't believe in an afterlife. I don't believe in a single or multiple godhead. I respect people who do, but I don't believe it myself.

Tony Judt

#22. I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction.

Harry Crews

#23. I'm an Elvis fan because it was Elvis who really got me out of Liverpool.

John Lennon

#24. Life is the soil, our choices and actions the sun and rain, but our dreams are the seeds.

Richard Paul Evans

#25. My first acting lessons were Shakespeare. The first time I ever started working with a coach was doing scenes from 'Measure for Measure,' which were tough dramatic scenes. And then 'Taming of the Shrew,' which required comedic timing. And that's the kind of stuff I love.

Dave Bautista

#26. In the dark you looked so human in your skin that I called you human in my head and didn't want you then and felt relieved: a love story.

Melissa Broder

#27. You may actually be the only person who gets more than 140 characters from me. That's kind of awesome, right?

Becky Albertalli