Grey Quotes

433 Grey quotes by 336 unique authors

The world isn't black and white, Annie, it's shades of grey. — Tami Hoag
Over to my left is the big grey wall in front of the church. Are we the Thoughts of God? a poster asks. No, I… — Scarlett Thomas
The old grey donkey, Eeyore stood by himself in a thistly corner of the Forest, his front feet well apart, his head on one side,… — A A Milne
The snow lay thin and apologetic over the world. That wide grey sweep was the lawn, with the straggling trees of the orchard still dark… — Susan Cooper
Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without… — Chip Kidd
Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint. In her spacious and quiet streets men walked and spoke as they had done in… — Evelyn Waugh
No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, and they don't Think. — A A Milne
End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Because subjects like literature and art history have no obvious material pay-off, they tend to attract those who look askance at capitalist notions of utility.… — Terry Eagleton
Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey. — Jodi Picoult
Little by little things began to assume a new aspect. The sense of insecurity vanished, words came of themselves, I was no longer so painfully… — Erich Maria Remarque
He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste… — Jon Krakauer
Had I known but yesterday what I know today, I’d have taken out your two grey eyes and put in eyes of clay. And had… — Carolyn Parkhurst
Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end… — Raymond Chandler
...Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled Upon the wharves of sorrow, and… — William Butler Yeats
My sisters and I stand, arms around each other, laughind and wiping the tears from each others eyes. The flash of the Polaroid goes off… — Amy Tan
Stand by the grey stone when the thrush knocks, and the setting sun with the last light of Durin’s Day will shine upon the key-hole. — J.R.R. Tolkien
She had one of those charming faces which, according to the angle from which you see them, look either melancholy or impertinent. Her eyes were… — Elizabeth Bowen
Time wastes too fast : every letter I trace tells me with what rapidity Life follows my pen ; the days and hours of it,… — Laurence Sterne
Oh, Grey, no one really likes keeping secrets. The only thing that makes a secret fun is knowing that you weren't supposed to tell it. — Kate Morton
Grey has no agenda. . . . Grey has the ability, that no other colour has, to make the invisible visible. — Roma Tearne
FROZEN DREAM I'll take the dream I had last night And put it in my freezer, So someday long and far away When I'm an… — Shel Silverstein
Harshness vanished. A sudden softness has replaced the meadows' wintry grey. Little rivulets of water changed their singing accents. Tendernesses, hesitantly, reach toward the earth… — Rainer Maria Rilke
I have an evening dress, pink mull over silk (I'm perfectly beautiful in that), and a blue church dress, and a dinner dress of red… — Jean Webster
I have to keep moving I don't want to think I'm going to work all day today I don't want to stop Don't want to… — Henry Rollins

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