Pale Quotes · Page 5

Shane looked…pale. Pale and shaken and—how predictable was this?—pissed.

— Rachel Caine

Love laid his sleepless head On a thorny rose bed: And his eyes with tears were red, And pale his lips as…

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

I get told I have a 'period' face quite often. Maybe it's the pale skin but I get a lot of pre-Forties…

— Phoebe Fox

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale in insignificance.

— Joseph Bayly

was a clear, pale blue like the eyes of a Siberian husky dog. Human beings just didn't have eyes like that.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

'Pale Fire' by Vladimir Nabokov was bloody hard work but really thrilling.

— Domhnall Gleeson

Always remember, the goals that we have achieved pale in comparison to the daily commitments it took to get there.

— Dabo Swinney

The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today.

— Marty Meehan

I have made tremendous efforts to work in a darker register and express the sinister and tragic quality of the place, given…

— Claude Monet

Pornography is just 'fast-food feminine energy', it will always leave you wanting more, with little or no nutritional value. There is nothing…

— Barry Long

“Oceanic farness treasures tomorrow Mingled tears lost in the sea of sorrow Our immortal love will lead us a way When pale…

— Munia Khan

And there was Frodo, pale and worn, and yet himself again; and in his eyes there was peace now, neither strain of…

— Anonymous

Don't laugh at the voice of the stars. They are far away, their rays are light and pale, and we can barely…

— Leonid Andreyev

Once upon a perfect night, unclouded and still, there came the face of a pale and beautiful lady. The tresses of her…

— Kit Williams

But I just went to work and imagined that I had on the most beautiful pale blue silk dress — because when…

— Anonymous

I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of…

— Jules Verne

Fake tan is really difficult to get right. When I was younger, I'd always do it wrong. I'd leave it on and…

— Anonymous

I'm sad because I want to bow out of my race and leave my beautiful identity? Chinese love Chinese. They love their…

— Muhammad Ali

You must know the story of how the race of ancient days reached the stars, and how they bargained away all the…

— Gene Wolfe

You see that pale, blue dot? That's us. Everything that has ever happened in all of human history, has happened on that…

— Al Gore

A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the land and trees of him dark and somber.…

— John Steinbeck

If once a woman breaks through the barriers of decency, her ease is desperate; and if she goes greater lengths than the…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Ah, sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey…

— William Blake

You must have seen great changes since you were a young man," said Winston tentatively. The old man's pale blue eyes moved…

— George Orwell

My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale... I often feel as if I were dead... I seem to be losing my…

— Robert Schumann

and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon.

— Madeline Miller

Some pale, hueless flicker of sensitivity is in me. God, must I lose it in cooking scrambled eggs for a man.

— Sylvia Plath

So fair, so cold; like a morning of pale spring still clinging to winter's chill.

— Anonymous

A vampire is very easy; you just take a very good-looking actor, put some teeth on them, make them pale, and you're…

— David Hayter

Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.

— Horace

But as I see it, the most corrupt art is the sentimental the art of orange blossoms which make pale women swoon.

— Camille Pissarro

Convulsive anger storms at large; or pale And silent, settles into full revenge.

— John Tillotson

I'm pale, and people need to accept that I'm almost see-through.

— Iliza Shlesinger

My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.

— Diane Ackerman

I do wear lipstick because when I suddenly get pale or green, it seems whole blood goes away.

— Nastassja Kinski

The horseman on the pale horse is Pestilence. He follows the wars.

— Ardel Wray

“And it’s yellow. The way pale yellow should look, like sunshine and butter, mixed with hope and cream.”

— Katherine Reay

Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others.

— James MacGregor Burns

Somewhere out there, beneath the pale moonlight, someone's thinking of me and loving me tonight.

— Linda Ronstadt

I'd like to be a bit less pale because I feel like I look sort of ill sometimes.

— Lara Stone