Quotes About Shades

The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.

The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night.

The darkness behind my closed eyelids was like the cloud-covered sky, but the gray was somewhat deeper. Every few minutes, someone would come and paint over the gray with a different-textured gray - one with a touch of gold or green or red. I was impressed with the variety of grays that existed. Human beings were so strange. All you had to do was sit still for ten minutes, and you could see this amazing variety of grays.

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.

Don't get me wrong: not all camo is trendy or cute. The right camo and camo shades, though... perfection.

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.

We can bring to characters dark and bright sides that nobody even dreams about.

The color of truth is gray.

The world is complicated and full of grays, but there's still truth there to be found.

I generally don't think most situations can be labeled as black or white.

Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.

...the whole universe is through and through the playing of love in every shade of the word's use, from animal lust to divine charity.

And of course the word love has many shades of meaning, as do many, many of the words in our living, breathing language

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

But the life of a Willa Cather, a Lillian Helman, and Virginia Woolf - - - would it not be a series of rapid ascents and probing descents into shades and meanings — into more people, ideas and conceptions? Would it not be in color, rather than black-and-white, or more gray? I think it would. And thus, I not being them, could try to be more like them: to listen, observe, and feel, and try to live more fully.

I had a suspicion that my mother had called Jody and begged her to ask me out, so I wouldn't sit around in my room all day with the shades drawn. I didn't want to go at first, because I thought Jody would notice the change in me, and that anybody with half an eye would see I didn't have a brain in my head.

When I go to Iran, I see... that there are all different shades and colors in Iran, from atheist to religious zealot. So Iran is no different than any other country. I mean, they are connected with the rest of the world.

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.

Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?

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.

My African heritage is a part of reggae music roots, and the concept is that the album, 'Revelation Part 1: The Root of Life' is a tribute to roots reggae music. The fruit is what blossoms into different colors and shades, but the root has to stand predominant.

An individual's perception is their reality colored in the shades they desire--not necessarily the color that it is.

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.

Christian, you are the state lottery, the cure for cancer, and the three wishes from Aladdin's lamp all rolled into one