quotes about Shade
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Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade.
-- Aaron Hill -
Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.
-- Adam Gopnik -
Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.
-- Alberto Manguel -
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And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.
-- Alexander Pope -
To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
-- Alexander Pope -
Anybody who believes and experiences their life and doesn't have shades of gray in it doesn't live where I live and is simply not in touch with the reality of the human condition.
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We are all alike, and we love to keep passion aglow at our feet, Like one that sitteth in shade and complacently smiles at the heat.
-- Alfred Austin -
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In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.
-- Alfred MarshallSource : Alfred Marshall (1977). “Principles of Economics: An Introductory Volume”
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I'd rather see the world as a rainbow than endless shade of gray.
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PROOF, n. Evidence having a shade more of plausibility than of unlikelihood. The testimony of two credible witnesses as opposed to that of only one.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
-- Amos Bronson AlcottSource : Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”
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Annihilating all that's made, To a green thought in a green shade.
-- Andrew MarvellSource : "The Garden" l. 47 (1681)
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But the sky was never quite the same shade of blue again.
-- Anne Rice -
Every anxiety is a mild form of premonition, and from that point the shade deepens till we get the forebodings and hauntings that merge into lunacy.
-- Arthur Alfred Lynch -
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Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect.
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There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion.
-- Audrey Hepburn -
Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust, a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of death; the hour flies.
-- Aulus Persius FlaccusSource : "The Satires". Book by Aulus Persius Flaccus, Satire V, line 151,
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Like most professional golfers, I have a tendency to remember my poor shots a shade more vividly than the good ones.
-- Ben Hogan -
Keep in mind that life produces no maestros, only students of varying shades of ineptitude.
-- Bette Greene -
No amount of toying with shades of print or with printing papers will transform a commonplace photograph into anything other than a commonplace photograph.
-- Bill BrandtSource : Bill Brandt (1948). “Camera in London”
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Some beach, somewhere. There's a big umbrella casting shade over an empty chair. Palm trees are growin' and a warm breeze a blowing. I picture myself right there, on some beach, somewhere.
-- Blake Shelton -
Well, I'm glad we don't have to play in the shade.
-- Bobby Jones -
My future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades.
-- Brad Goreski -
One candle is enough. Its gentle light will be more suitable, will be more gracious when the Shades arrive, the Shades of Love.
-- C.P. Cavafy -
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I feel like I'm the only person - or woman, at least - who hasn't read 'Fifty Shades of Grey.
-- Carla Gugino -
Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.
-- Charles Dickens -
I find it most remarkable that we who are so intimately involved in the battle between good and evil are even more involved with the shades of gray in between them.
-- Christopher GoldenSource : Christopher Golden, Nancy Holder (2001). “Sons of Entropy”, p.160, Simon and Schuster
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A single leaf working alone provides no shade.
-- Chuck Page -
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Nothing grows well in the shade of a big tree.
-- Constantin Brancusi -
Some people will like it [Fifty Shades of Grey] and some won't. I have other movies coming up, this is not what my whole life turns around.
-- Dakota Johnson -
When I was sixteen I was pretending to be Charlie Musselwhite. I had a long raincoat on, my hair slicked back, and the shades.
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One is but a shade of the other.
-- Danielle TrussoniSource : Danielle Trussoni (2010). “Angelology: A Novel”, p.81, Penguin
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It is easy to be accurate if you have the freedom to be complicated, and it is very easy to be simple if you have the freedom to shade the truth. What's hard is to be simple and very accurate, and that takes work to figure out what are the simple truths that are going to sustain your case.
-- David Boies -
I'm very emotional. That's why I wear shades a lot.
-- Duane ChapmanSource : "Duane "Dog" Chapman: What I've Learned" by Kendall Hamilton, www.esquire.com. January 7, 2009.
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I love to see other women in pink. It's good for every shade of skin and hair.
-- Elizabeth HurleySource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Adulthood isn't black and white - it's a thousand shades of grey. Or taupe. It's not who you are, it's where you are.
-- Elizabeth Noble -
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Metal shades only give directional lighting, which is great for a desk or work area, but not for ambient lighting. Fabric shades are much softer.
-- Emily Henderson -
O virtue, I have followed you through life, and find you at last but a shade.
-- Euripides -
I have as much pink as you can have. I love to see other women in pink. It's good for every shade of skin and hair.
-- Evelyn Lauder -
There is a point when a personal opinion shades off into an error of fact.
-- Gene SiskelSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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If anything she was a shade too plump, but she knew the ninety-seven ways of making love that the Hindus are supposed to set much store by―though mind you, it is all nonsense, for the seventy-fourth position turns out to be the same as the seventy-third, but with your fingers crossed.
-- George MacDonald FraserSource : George MacDonald Fraser (2013). “Flashman: A Novel”, p.67, Penguin
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February is the uncertain month, neither black nor white but all shades between by turns. Nothing is sure.
-- Gladys Hasty Carroll -
A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
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Certain shades of limelight wreck a girl's complexion.
-- Holly Golightly -
Night steals on; and the day takes its farewell, like the words of a departing friend, or the last tone of hallowed music in a minister's aisles, heard when it floats along the shade of elms, in the still place of graves.
-- James Gates Percival -
NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station.
-- James Lovelock -
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To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is environment, it is how one feels, it is light and shade, it is inner music.
-- Jan MorrisSource : Jan Morris (2011). “Conundrum”, p.26, Faber & Faber
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What would you pack for Armageddon? Sunscreen and shades? Flame-proof underwear? Maybe a travel guide to the Underworld?
-- Jana Oliver -
My mum taught me that redheads shouldn't wear pink, red or orange, but if you choose the right shade, such as a bright orange or a cherry red, it can look fabulous.
-- Jane Asher -
Try asking sometime. Not all women will stand for that 50 Shades crap, you know.
-- Jill Shalvis -
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You must be Warden Ramirez." This is the part where I got nervous. Ramirez loved women. Ramirez never shut up about women. Well, he never shut up about anything in general, but he'd go on and on about various conquests and feats of sexual athleticism and— "A virgin?" Lara blurted. Lara blurted. She turned her head to me, grey eyes several shades paler than they had been, and very wide. "Really, Harry, I'm not sure what to say. Is he a present?
-- Jim Butcher -
Sets of lines can say something about the direction and nature of the light. They are used by great fresco painters as a sign for shade.
-- John French Sloan -
And shade the violets, That they may bind the moss in leafy nets.
-- John Keats -
During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.
-- John le Carre -
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Good and bad; shade and sunlight, there's but a hair's breath between them. It's all one in the end.
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A life without rain is like the sun without shade.
-- Karen WhiteSource : Karen White (2012). “After the Rain”, p.79, Penguin
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I ripped through the blue shade of the constraints of color.
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The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack.
-- Keith OlbermannSource : Keith Olbermann (2008). “Truth and Consequences: Special Comments on the Bush Administration's War on American Values”, p.11, Random House
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When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color.
-- Khaled Hosseini -
cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same colour.
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He looked a shade too healthy and nobody likes that. Particularly in New York.
-- Kinky Friedman -
In the cherry blossom's shade there's no such thing as a stranger.
-- Kobayashi Issa -
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Horror Hotel, as wraith called Shade's house. "Vampires, demons, and werewolves check in... and then they make out, and-
-- Larissa Ione -
I like pastels and lighter shades on darker skins. I feel like it lifts everything and accentuates being chocolate.
-- Laura MvulaSource : "Laura Mvula on why she, like many black women, shaves her head". Interview with Anita Bhagwandas, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2013.
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Glacier Gray is an unobtrusive gray that contrasts and enhances; bouncing off other shades without taking away from them as it slips into the background to allow other colors to take center stage. Nature’s most perfect neutral, Glacier Gray is a shade that is timeless. Quietly assuring and peacefully relaxing, Glacier Gray, is above all, constant.
-- Leatrice Eiseman -
Aquamarine is an airy blue with a dreamy feel. Cool and calming, ethereal Aquamarine is a shade with a wet and watery feel. Open and expansive, this restful blue also acts as a stress reducer.
-- Leatrice Eiseman -
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Timeless and versatile, Toasted Almond is an organic shade that speaks to authenticity and all that is natural.
-- Leatrice Eiseman -
If the Labour manifesto is a pale shade of austerity, then I believe Labour will be defeated at the next election
-- Len McCluskey -
If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.
-- Lord Chesterfield -
Embrace an effortless a-line silhouette in the seasons must have indigo shades.
-- Lubov Azria -
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I have to walk dogs." "Oh," Gansey replied, sounding deflated. "Well, okay." "But it'll only take an hour." "Oh," he repeated, about fourteen shades brighter. "Shall I pick you up, then?
-- Maggie Stiefvater -
Lay not the plummet to the line; religion hath no landmarks; no human keenness can discern the subtle shades of faith.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper -
And of course the word love has many shades of meaning, as do many, many of the words in our living, breathing language
-- Mary Balogh -
A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten . . .
-- Mary E. Pearson -
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Maybe there was no one way to define it. Maybe there were as many shades of love as the blues of the sky,
-- Mary E. Pearson -
We have all our playthings. Happy are they who are contented with those they can obtain; those hours are spent in the wisest manner that can easiest shade the ills of life, and are the least productive of ill consequences.
-- Mary Wortley Montagu -
Interesting shade #23 Lush Golden Blonde highlights. Heyyyyyy.... The woman in the awful suit was me! The woman in the cheap shoes was me!
-- MaryJanice Davidson -
Different shades of life make the painting more beautiful.
-- Michael Dolan -
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Lo and behold! God made this starry wold, The maggot and the mold; lo and behold! He taught the grass contentment blade by blade, The sanctity of sameness in a shade.
-- Nathalia CraneSource : "Markham v. Prodigy". TIME magazine, November 23, 1925.
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How can you do the right thing when you can't figure out what that is? When all you have before you are choices in various shades of wrong?
-- Neal Shusterman -
I don't know if many people know this about me, but I have multiple sclerosis. So I don't have time for a lot of shades of gray. I don't have time for BS.
-- Neil Cavuto -
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
-- Nelson HendersonSource : "Under Whose Shade". Book by Wesley Henderson, 1982.
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I like to make people look as good as they'd like to look, and with luck, a shade better.
-- Norman Parkinson -
Me wretched! Let me curr to quercine shades! Effund your albid hausts, lactiferous maids! O, might I vole to some umbrageous clump,-- Depart,--be off,--excede,--evade,--erump!
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He speaks truly who speaks the shade.
-- Paul CelanSource : Paul Celan (1980). “Paul Celan: poems”
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Through thickest gloom look back, immortal shade, On that confusion which thy death has made.
-- Phillis WheatleySource : Phillis Wheatley (1838). “Poems of Phillis Wheatley: A Native African and a Slave”, p.55, Applewood Books
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As it fell upon a day In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made.
-- Richard BarnfieldSource : 'Poems: In Divers Humours' (1598) 'An Ode'
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I dwell 'neath the shades of Harvard In the State of the Sacred Cod, Where the Lowells speak only to Cabots And the Cabots speak only to God
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Of all the phantoms fleeting in the mist Of time, though meagre all and ghostly thin; Most unsubstantial, unessential shade Was earthly fame.
-- Robert PollokSource : Robert Pollok (1829). “The Course of Time: A Poem, in Ten Books”, p.81
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He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
-- Samuel Johnson -
NO I haven't read 50 Shades of Grey - I've been close enough to Jay Leno in real life.
-- Sarah Thyre -
The world isn't black and white, Annie, it's shades of grey.
-- Tami HoagSource : Tami Hoag (2003). “A Thin Dark Line: A Novel”, p.71, Bantam
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The moon, the moon, so silver and cold, Her fickle temper has oft been told, Now shade--now bright and sunny-- But of all the lunar things that change, The one that shows most fickle and strange, And takes the most eccentric range, Is the moon--so called--of honey!
-- Thomas Hood -