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272 Shades quotes by 235 unique authors

We are violets blue, For our sweetness found Careless in the mossy shades, Looking on the ground. Love's dropp'd eyelids and a kiss,-- Such our… — Leigh Hunt
We bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread, And range an Indian waste without a tree. — William Cowper
I mourn in grey, grey as the sleeted wind the bled shades of twilight, gunmetal, battleships, industrial paint. — Marge Piercy
In tears I tossed my coin from Trevi's edge. A coin unsordid as a bond of love-- And, with the instinct of the homing dove,… — Robert Underwood Johnson
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 preparing a study or a picture, it seems to me very important to begin by an indication of the darkest values... and to continue… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that. — Adam Gopnik
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
When I was sixteen I was pretending to be Charlie Musselwhite. I had a long raincoat on, my hair slicked back, and the shades. — Dan Aykroyd
I would paint a portrait which would bring the tears, had I canvas for it, and the scene should be -- solitude, and the figures… — Emily Dickinson
How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease! — Oliver Goldsmith
I am stuck with my passion for the objective world, for the constantly shifting shades of meaning to the events of my life, to the… — Burton Silverman
Death, with funereal shades in vain surrounds me, My reason through his darkness seeth light: 'Tis the last step which brings me close to Thee:… — Alphonse de Lamartine
Not because I'm trying to be fabulous, but I love those big crazy Jackie O shades. — Alicia Keys
Beauty is not just a white girl. It's so many different flavors and shades. — Queen Latifah
I believe very strongly that when it comes to desire, when it comes to attraction, that things are never black and white, things are very… — Brian Molko
All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's… — Edward Norton
When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray. — Laura Schlessinger
Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey and about issues. — Matt Taibbi
Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty. — Gabrielle Union
He domesticated and developed the native wild flowers. He had one hill-side solidly clad with that low-growing purple verbena which mats over the hills of… — Willa Cather
The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night. — Haruki Murakami
I am: yet what I am none cares or knows, My friends forsake me like a memory lost; I am the self-consumer of my woes,… — John Clare
Did she ever regret her choices? Were her decisions more clear-cut than mine - or are there always shades of gray whe it comes to… — Emily Giffin
Through this atmosphere of torrid splendor moved wan beings as richly upholstered as the furniture, beings without definite pursuits or permanent relations, who drifted on… — Edith Wharton

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