Shade Quotes · Page 12

Bion used to say that the way to the shades below was easy; he could go there with his eyes shut.

— Diogenes Laertius

There he stood, in the camouflage of sun and shade, disfigured by them and masked by his own nakedness.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unavenged amongst us!

— Joseph Addison

The Shades never recorded anything, Little Daddy and the Bachelors recorded a couple of records, ya.

— Tommy Chong

How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease!

— Oliver Goldsmith

I think the thriller aspect of this film [Fifty Shades Darker] is what excited me most.

— Bella Heathcote

Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done

— Timothy Geithner

There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.

— Rebecca Solnit

I'll start by saying that "Fifty Shades of Grey:" It's like I don't have. an elicit confused relationship to my sexuality. So…

— Lena Dunham

One great benefit of not being on TV every week is that people will be a lot less interested in what I…

— Hugh Laurie

A sunny disposition is worth more than [a monetary] fortune. Young people should know that it can be cultivated; that the mind…

— Andrew Carnegie

A strange thing surely that my Heart, when love had come unsought Upon the Norman upland or in that poplar shade, Should…

— William Butler Yeats

Hence life, as through a cloud, for me I see Vanish, and to the past's dark shade 'tis chas'd; As a grand…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Physically stalking as opposed to Instagram stalking, which was kind of great. Leila [from Fifty Shades Darker ] puts my Insta stalking…

— Bella Heathcote

I don't really do glasses. It's a good look, but I'm not big on wearing clear glasses for fashion. And I don't…

— Trey Songz

You might see some of the movies that I'm in where there are shades of drama or whatever, but for the most…

— Martin Lawrence

When we send our young men and women into harm's way, we have a solemn obligation not to fudge the numbers or…

— Barack Obama

So many assume the truth is either black or white... It's all evolution or it's totally creation, for example. Reality creates consciousness;…

— Peter Shepherd

In its most fundamental sense, execution is a systematic way of exposing reality and acting on it. Most companies don't face reality…

— Lawrence Bossidy

Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Among the hills, when you sit in the cool shade of the white poplars, sharing the peace and serenity of distant fields…

— Anonymous

If doubtful whether to end with "yours faithfully," or "yours truly," or "yours most truly," &c. (there are at least a dozen…

— Lewis Carroll

People keep telling me about the white race and the black race - and it really doesn't make sense. I played Miami,…

— Dick Gregory

Here is Menard's own intimate forest: 'Now I am traversed by bridle paths, under the seal of sun and shade...I live in…

— Gaston Bachelard

I like pastels and lighter shades on darker skins. I feel like it lifts everything and accentuates being chocolate.

— Laura Mvula

The reason there are so many tree-lined boulevards in Paris is so the German army can march in the shade.

— George S. Patton

What would you pack for Armageddon? Sunscreen and shades? Flame-proof underwear? Maybe a travel guide to the Underworld?

— Jana Oliver

Lay not the plummet to the line; religion hath no landmarks; no human keenness can discern the subtle shades of faith.

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

Mozart is a garden, Schubert is a forest in light and shade, but Beethoven is a mountain range.

— Artur Schnabel

The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with…

— Samuel Johnson

False friends are like our shadow, keep close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Beauty is not just a white girl. It's so many different flavors and shades.

— Queen Latifah

There is a point when a personal opinion shades off into an error of fact.

— Gene Siskel

The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack.

— Keith Olbermann

Through thickest gloom look back, immortal shade, On that confusion which thy death has made.

— Phillis Wheatley

Like most professional golfers, I have a tendency to remember my poor shots a shade more vividly than the good ones.

— Ben Hogan

Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust, a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of…

— Aulus Persius Flaccus

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

— Benjamin Franklin

As the day goes by and the sky turns gray, I think about you to make the shade go away

— D

It's not always clear where a healthy patriotism shades into a dangerous nationalism.

— Ross Douthat