Pale Quotes
514 quotes by 371 authors
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The crooked little tomato branches, pulpy and pale as if made of cheap green paper, broke under the weight of so much fruit; there was…
— John Updike
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Together, the property rights and public choice schools show only that, if you start by assuming a purely individualistic model of human behavior and treat…
— Paul Starr
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As soon as we put something into words, we devalue it in a strange way. We think we have plunged into the depths of the…
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz and blues far…
— Larry Coryell
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The sun shines, snow falls, mountains rise and valleys sink, night deepens and pales into day, but it is only very seldom that we attend…
— Reginald Horace Blyth
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God wrote His loveliest poem on the day He made the first silver poplar tree, And set it high upon a pale-gold hill For all…
— Grace Noll Crowell
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Pale sunlight, pale the wall. Love moves away. The light changes I need more grace than I thought.
— Unknown Author
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Winter Song The browns, the olives, and the yellows died, And were swept up to heaven; where they glowed Each dawn and set of sun…
— Wilfred Owen
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A pale sun poked impudent marmalade fingers through the grizzled lattice glass, and sent the shadows scurrying, like convent girls menaced by a tramp.
— Vivian Stanshall
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Water. Oil pales beside it, and the value of the land itself is measured by it.
— Larry J. McKinney
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The age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk; with blood too pale and tame To pay the debt they owe to shame; Buy…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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It's funny that all these goths paint their faces with such white make-up and that is the actual colour of my skin, I am that…
— Kelly Osbourne
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For me, the summer will be pure gray - mother-of-pearl gray, very pale gray. To me, this is the big statement for summer. Then we…
— Gianni Versace
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Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.
— Will Durant
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On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are…
— Freya Stark
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Understand, I'll slip quietly away from the noisy crowd when I see the pale stars rising, blooming, over the oaks. I'll pursue solitary pathways through…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's gloom the first…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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O God! I screamed, and "O God! Again and again; for there before my eyes - pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the land and trees of him dark and somber. The events, the…
— John Steinbeck
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I suppose everybody has a mental picture of the days of the week, some seeing them as a circle, some as an endless line, and…
— Angela Thirkell
Who Wrote These Pale Quotes
371 authors contributed a total of 514 Pale Quotes, led by these top contributors: