Quotes About Beige

of sickly beige flesh—none of them the same length. They wiggled and grasped for something that wasn't there, as if the creature inside was searching to get a grip to pull itself out.

The landing pads and stevedore platforms spread to either side behind the arrivals center, punctuated by drab warehouses and a squat control tower painted so dull a beige it was insulting.

Sense of humor is important in life, not just in clothing. How boring to live a life in beige.

Seela had told her on another visit that her decorator claimed beige was the classiest color, a phrasing that repudiated the statement.

When I was 15, we settled in Santa Monica, in a beige suburban ranch house. By then, my father, Ray, was an architect at Welton Becket's firm. He was handy with a pencil and pen. His figurative drawings were very good, and his talent was intimidating.

against herself and ran her hands over the sections of the bodice where different textures—leather and fur and feathers—had been woven into the sandy beige garment to give it an earthy look. "I have to confess I asked my grandmother." "How did Maddy know? I'm sure I never

A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But it's some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.

adventurous as a pair of elasticated beige trousers

I had never seen charts on which land and sea were so intricately tangled, in a looping scribble of blue and beige.

Our room overlooks the parking lot, and if I peek out from behind the stiff beige curtains

The Kelseys' home is done up in shades of beige and beiger. There are just a few pictures scattered around: of just her and Dave, a burly guy, balding, and a gap-tooth smile.

A beige cat came down the stairs like caramel seeping out of a Caramilk bar.

Lipstick is iconic. It's the one product that marks out an era, and a certain lip colour can define a season. It makes me feel more 'done'. I wear a beige lip in the day, but red when I'm going somewhere - it makes that transition from day to night. I just slick it on; I don't bother with lipliner.

One more piece of advice: Never eat at any place ending in the words corral or barn. The food at those establishments is all beige.

I hate when bands make beige, middle-of-the-road music. I guess you can say 'Lonerism' is the war on beige music.

You probably remember this spelling rule from your elementary school: I before e, Except after c, Or when sounded as a, As in neighbor or weigh. That's certainly a helpful rule—most of the time. It works for words such as beige, ceiling, conceive, feign, field, inveigh, obeisance, priest, receive, shield, sleigh, and weight.

You smile, embarrassed to be a nice girl, and your nails are bare and your V-neck sweater is beige and it's impossible to know if you're wearing a bra but I don't think that you are.

I love the beige, tan, stucco world where the sun bleaches things out to the point that it can look somewhat ugly.

Underneath he has on jeans and a baggy beige jumper that's twenty quids' worth of knitted depression.

There was a perception that life here was-I won't say gray, that's hard for me-but beige.

I tried on Claire's double strand of pearls in the mirror, ran the smooth, lustrous beads through my fingers, touched the coral rose of the clasp. The pearls weren't really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with little knots in between so if they broke, you only lost one. I wished my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.

I grew up in Long Island City. When I was growing up, my parents owned a women's clothing store in Queens. It was for older women. I got my bras there, until I realized I didn't want those huge, taupe bras. Everything was beige, with massive amounts of hooks.

I imported the first Mac into England in 1984; you know, the beige box. I imported what I think were the first four that came into England. I never opened the instruction manual. That was the best thing about it.

A maze of softly-lit slightly-curved beige hallways, all alike.