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Quotes About Grey

That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself.
~ Anita Brookner
Gandalf the Grey was always the guy I prefer. Gandalf the White was driven to do a particular job, whereas Gandalf the Grey is a bit more humane.
~ Ian Mckellen
You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.
~ Aaron Sorkin
The White Company offers its loyalists an altogether better, whiter world. The White people have edited out any colours that aren't white, off-white, milk chocolate, grey, taupe or black. They can't be doing with Johnnie Boden's cheery Sloane jokes, his spots and stripes, his occasional 'if it's me, it's U' loud colours.
~ Peter York
The tiniest event can tear a hole in the grey curtain of reaction which has marked the horizons of possibility under capitalist realism. From a situation in which nothing can happen, suddenly anything is possible again.
~ Mark Fisher
It was of grey stone, huge block set on block;but it caught the sunlight like a dolphin's back at dawn.
~ Robin McKinley
What I felt at this moment was black dispair - but no, this was wrong because the color black has vitality , the night is black and has stars and a moon, and mysterious and important events can happen in the darkness. Despair, I decided, was grey: endless, bottomless, without night or day, time, sun or stars.
~ Dorothy Gilman
It was one of those still, grey, pearly days, with no wind, when sky and water seemed to merge into one, and everything was soft and sad and dreamy.
~ Joan G. Robinson
Her grey, sun strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her.
~ F Scott Fitzgerald
It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with grey turning, gold turning light.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
When I was presenting 'Animal Hospital,' the grey started to creep into my beard and moustache. I used my wife's mascara to darken it.
~ Rolf Harris
mauve-grey envelope
~ Ruth Rendell
now the Great Fear's rolled round the world and washes over Newspaper Grey air
~ Allen Ginsberg
The Dogman?" He looked grey. Grey-clothed, grey-haired, grey-faced, like the life had leaked out of him to leave a wispy husk a sudden gust might whisk away. "The man looks a touch past his best." Shivers cast a lazy eye towards Scale, and back. He had a way of saying a lot with a few words. "Least he had one.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Not out of them are the shows of history erected: the world would be a grey, bloodless place were it composed entirely of Miss Schlegels. But the world being what it is, perhaps they shine out in it like stars.
~ E.M. Forster
fact, I've always had a fondness for seaside towns, particularly out of season when the streets are empty and the sky is grey and drizzling.
~ Anthony Horowitz
She feels like kicking out all the windows And setting fire to this life She could change everything about her using colors bold and bright But all the colors mix together - to grey
~ Dave Matthews
I am definitely a summer person. Don't get me wrong: I love winter when it's beautiful and sunny - I don't really care about cold - I just hate the grey.
~ Doutzen Kroes
When I awoke on the verandah I saw a grey morning, smelt the rain on the red earth, and remembered that I had to go away.
~ Ruskin Bond
The ochre-yellow linoleum floor hasn't been scrubbed for some time; splotches of dirt bloom on it like grey pressed flowers.
~ Margaret Atwood
Supposing A sinister spacecraft came down on the field, And a hatch in the saucer slid back and revealed - A nightmare of Martians, all grey and green streaks, And they each had three legs and three eyes and three beaks! ... Eric Finney
~ John Foster
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
Compromise in colors is grey.
~ Edi Rama
If anything, 'Fifty Shades of Grey' is a generic romance cynically engineered to appeal to the lowest common denominator of female fantasy.
~ Meghan Daum