Gray Quotes

695 quotes by 549 authors

Where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in the green stillness of the country, where he can hear the heart of Nature… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The sun is set; and in his latest beams Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold, Slowly upon the amber air unrolled, The falling… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The bluebird enjoys the preeminence of being the first bit of color that cheers our northern landscape. The other birds that arrive about the same… — John Burroughs
A gray day provides the best light. — Leonardo da Vinci
Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to they… — John Milton
The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case, He turns his quid of tobacco, while his eyes blur with the… — Walt Whitman
See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across The gray-green oaks; and catching, By its soft brown beard, the moss. — Philip James Bailey
On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stairway through the clouds. — Chuck Palahniuk
What you think is an illusion created by your glands, your emotions and, in the last analysis, by the content of your stomach. That gray… — Ayn Rand
Outside, a ceiling of pearly gray clouds coalesced over Manhattan, and the apartment had grown dark. It just keeps dripping. It's been like this all… — Joan Didion
Into the woods, my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent, Into the woods my Master came, Forspent with love and shame. But the olives they were… — Sidney Lanier
Remember the enemy of all painting is gray: a painting will almost always appear grayer than it is, on account of its oblique position under… — Eugene Delacroix
I organize the opposition between colors, lines and curves. I set curves against straight lines, patches of color against plastic forms, pure colors against subtly… — Fernand Leger
In the real world there are many tones, from white at one extreme, through a large number of medium tones to black at the other… — Stan Smith
You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You… — Andrew Solomon
One thing that has become clear over the last several days is that we no longer have 135 choices to make, .. It's really one… — Gray Davis
If you live in Ohio and you don't wear scarlet and gray now, you're an oddball. And it used to be that you could go… — Dave Foley
Most eyes have more than one color, but usually they're related. Blue eyes may have two shades of blue, or blue and gray, or blue… — Elizabeth Moon
Thomas Gray walks as if he had fouled his small- clothes and looks as if he smelt it. — Christopher Smart
The artist, busy and unsettled, can find a moment's peace - and even whole-being rejuvenation - by quietly attuning to a red sky, a gray… — Eric Maisel

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