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Quotes About Shade

"Spring is the time of the year, when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade."
~ Charles Dickens
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
~ Charles Dickens
Sun benches at the curb bespeak another season, truncated poplars that having served for shade served also later for the fire.
~ William Carlos Williams
Between the trees, on gentle and too cleverly irregular slopes of sweet green grass, the bright umbrellas shaded the hotel's guests from the unfaltering radiance of the Lado-Acheson sun.
~ William Gibson
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
You have a consistent character yourself and you wish all the facts of life to be consistent, but they never are. For instance you despise public service because you want work always to correspond to its aims, and that never happens. You also want the activity of each separate man to have an aim, and love and family life always to coincide––and that doesn't happen either. All the variety, charm and beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Toda la diversidad, la hermosura, el encanto de la vida, se componen de luces y sombras.
~ Leo Tolstoy
You have a wholesome character, and you want all of life to made up of wholesome phenomena, but that doesn't happen... All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
~ Leo Tolstoy
All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow
~ Leo Tolstoy
All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow." Levin
~ Leo Tolstoy
Metal shades only give directional lighting, which is great for a desk or work area, but not for ambient lighting. Fabric shades are much softer.
~ Emily Henderson
I struggled all the time to find makeup that was light enough.
~ Nicola Roberts
There's a reason why Europeans take siesta in the middle of the day. It's not just because it's hot, but because it doesn't feel good to be outside or look at light when it's coming straight down overhead.
~ Greig Fraser
It was an early, very warm morning in July, and it had rained during the night. The bare granite steamed, the moss and crevices were drenched with moisture, and all the colors everywhere had deepened. Below the veranda, the vegetation in the morning shade was like a rain forest of lush, evil leaves and flowers ...
~ Tove Jansson
Sunlight and shade,' his oma had commented once. Jathan liked that, mostly because shade meant that even though things were dim for a time, the sun was still there, just on the other side of the barrier.
~ Tricia Goyer
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
~ Truman Capote
In the hands of a master, light and shade is one of the great qualities of art.
~ John French Sloan
If you don't have shadows, you're not in the light.
~ Lady Gaga
there's sunlight and shade, spots and patterns of colour, your mind is elsewhere–so you don't make out what is right in front of you.
~ Yann Martel
Can you imagine it, Alister? Can you imagine what it was like for a shade like me to experience the world again through all of your senses- vision and touch, and smell and taste and hearing?" "I wouldn't have gone to the library, I'll tell you that," Han said. Crow laughed. "I like you, Alister. All of this would have been easier if you were unlikable. And stupid. You would have been considerably more tractable.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
I want shade, I want shade and anonymity. from "The Departure
~ Clarice Lispector
Although extraordinary valor was displayed by the entire corps of Spartans and Thespians, yet bravest of all was declared the Spartan Dienekes. It is said that on the eve of battle, he was told by a native of Trachis that the Persian archers were so numerous that, their arrows would block out the sun. Dienekes, however, undaunted by this prospect, remarked with a laugh, 'Good. Then we will fight in the shade.
~ Herodotus
Sand can be any shade of yellow, from peroxide blond to canary, or even with a tinge of pink. Yellow sand is tender.
~ Herta Muller
A hunter of shadows, himself a shade.
~ Homer