Drab Quotes
34 Drab quotes by 33 unique authors
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One of the grandest figures that ever frequented Eastern Yorkshire was William Smith, the distinguished Father of English Geology. My boyish reminiscence of the old…
— William Crawford Williamson
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The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
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To hell with exciting. I'd rather be drab as hell and win.
— Woody Hayes
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To put yourself into a situation where a mistake cannot necessarily be recouped, where the life you lose may be your own, clears the head…
— Al Alvarez
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The Drab Age is over. Color is coming into its own again. Until very recently people were literally scared out of their wits by color.…
— Dorothy Draper
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Mirrors have come to mean much more than the original 'looking glass.' They are now a part of the decorative scheme of a modern home.…
— Dorothy Draper
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Is there wisdom in innocence? I think there is, but there is a cult now of drab men and women, for whom the world, and…
— Phillip Mann
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I was haunted always by my other life-my drab room in the Bronx, my square foot of the subway, my fixation upon the day's letter…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes…
— Harold Bloom
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Sometimes I look around my living room, and the most real thing in the room is the television. It's bright and vivid, and the rest…
— Michael Crichton
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I hated the things they believe in, the things they so innocently and charmingly pretended. I hated the sanctimonious piety that let people hurt helpless…
— Ellen Glasgow
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Emotions are the color of life; we would be drab creatures indeed without them. But we must control these emotions or they will control us.
— John Moulder Wilson
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I have few illusions: the cause is lost in advance. As for me, I do my part, which is to drag a fairly drab existence…
— Rene Magritte
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Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb?
— Emily Dickinson
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I allow myself to be understood as a colorful fragment in a drab world.
— Errol Flynn
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If we make up our minds that this is a drab and purposeless universe, it will be that, and nothing else. On the other hand,…
— Helen Keller
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A sob caught in my chest. I didn't even know what a gray was, other than a drab color. All I knew was that I…
— Michelle Rowen
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When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page.
— George Steiner
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You see, I don't belive that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, that has been the main reason for our policy…
— Graham Chapman
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We knew the pain of winter rushing up your skirt, and the ache of keeping your knees together in class, and how drab and infuriating…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Dear Diary, Today I tried not to think about Mr. Knightly. I tried not to think about him when I discussed the menu with Cook...…
— Jane Austen
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Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them…
— Stephen King
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That's all I've ever dreamed of, Mr. Bones. To make the world a better place. To bring some beauty to the drab humdrum corners of…
— Paul Auster
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But I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn't it be a rather drab world if everybody was wise and…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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The drab brown front of the house made it look as if it had been built from rusty spare parts. Someone always put lace curtains…
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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