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Quotes About Grey

That's the Elektra I tried to portray: one that's always in the grey. She is a tortured soul.
~ Elodie Yung
Love comes in every color, but the fact is... I never needed 50 Shades of Grey, Just turn the lights down low and give me every shade of blackness.
~ Phonte
None could see her without pity, unless he had a felon's heart; she was so tightly bound. The tears ran down her face and fell upon her grey gown where ran a little thread of gold, and a thread of gold was twined into her hair.
~ Joseph Bédier
I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giants or elves or dwarves, or whatever they are, they're still human, and the human heart is still in conflict with the self.
~ George R. R. Martin
The countryside stretched flat as far as the eye could see; and the tufts of trees clustered around the farmhouses were widely spaced dark purple stains on the vast grey surface that merged at the horizon into the dull tone of the sky.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Sometimes at twilight the grey vapours of the horizon have parted to grant me glimpses of the ways beyond;
~ H.P. Lovecraft
The cool, grey city of love.
~ George Sterling
Carefully the leaves of autumn sprinkle down the tinny sound of little dyings and skies sated of ruddy sunsets of roseate dawns roil ceaselessly in cobweb grey and turn to black for comfort.
~ Maya Angelou
Raphael looked around at the sombre grey Waters lapping the Walls and the dripping Statues. She didn't say anything. 'It's usually a lot drier than this,' I said quickly in case she was thinking that my Home was inhospitable and damp.
~ Susanna Clarke
the fields of learning and performance are an exploration of greyness—
~ Josh Waitzkin
I feel certain negative characters, or the ones with grey shades, provide more scope for acting. These characters help you excel. And such interesting characters allure me.
~ Dino Morea
Yes, it had a mouth full of teeth, yellow, shiny teeth. It had yellow eyes and grey hair all over its body.
~ Harry Gilbert
Its radiant glow seemed much lighter and happier than this northern sky of eternal grey cloud.
~ Stefan Zweig
Then came the crumbling away of a grey veil from the face of the night.
~ Mervyn Peake
Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.
~ Jodi Picoult
Elle ferma ses petits yeux noirs et replaça sa tête en position. Le chat laissa reposer avec précaution ses canines acérées sur le cou doux et gris. Les moustaches noires de la souris se mêlaient aux siennes. Il déroula sa queue touffue et la laissa traîner sur le trottoir. Il venait, en chantant, onze petites filles aveugles de l'orphelinat de Jules l'Apostolique.
~ Boris Vian
The doctor reached his gloved hands toward Grey's neck. As the tips of his fingers made contact, Grey darted his head forward.
~ Justin Cronin
There were two things going on: 1) I had already established in my own mind where I wanted to go with the next series, and having James around as a Grey Eminence would have complicated matters. He had had an amazing life and it was time to bid him good-bye.
~ Raymond E. Feist
His full parenthesis was closed, and he was once more but a sentence, of a sort, in the general text, the text that, from his momentary street-corner, showed as a great grey page of print that somehow managed to be crowded without being 'fine'.
~ Henry James
The Golden Bowl, 1904 It had rained heavily in the night, and though the pavements were now dry, thanks to a cleansing breeze, the August morning, with its hovering, thick-drifting clouds and freshened air, was cool and grey. The multitudinous green of the Park had been deepened, and a wholesome smell of irrigation, purging the place of dust and of odours less acceptable, rose from the earth.
~ Henry James
Grey cloth coaxes the lime trees of friends shadowing berries dropped by the grateful earth.
~ Bradley Chicho
When the prophet, a complacent fat man, Arrived at the mountain-top He cried: "Woe to my knowledge! I intended to see good white lands And bad black lands— But the scene is grey.
~ Stephen Crane
Yokohama does not improve on further acquaintance. It has a dead-alive look. It has irregularity without picturesqueness, and the grey sky, grey sea, grey houses, and grey roofs, look harmoniously dull.
~ Isabella Bird
By embracing the nearly ludicrous suggestion that a gloppy grey knot of neurons has consciousness, you've already taken the big step.
~ Brian Greene