Gray Quotes - page 2

According to a recent study of the brains of identical and fraternal twins, differences in the amount of gray matter in the frontal lobes are not only genetically influenced but are significantly correlated with differences in intelligence. (Steven Pinker)
I knew the stars, the flowers, and the birds, The gray and wintry sides of many glens, And did but half remember human words, In converse with the mountains, moors, and fens. View quote
John Millington Synge
I've always said that gray hair looks good on everybody but yourself. To me, it makes me look old. View quote
Kenny Rogers
Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country. - March 15, 1783. View quote
George Washington
I went into my own black-out period [1942-45] which lasted two or three years where the canvases would simply build up until they'd get like stone and it was always just a gray mess. The image wouldn't emerge, but I worked pretty regularly. I was fighting to find I knew not what, but I could no longer stay with what I had. View quote
Lee Krasner
It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area. View quote
Tracey Emin
Whenever a snowflake leaves the sky, It turns and turns to say "Good-by! Good-by, dear clouds, so cool and gray!" Then lightly travels on its way. View quote
Mary Mapes Dodge
I rot on the wall, my own Dorian Gray. View quote
Anne Sexton
Speed kills colour... the gyroscope, when turning at full speed, shows up gray. View quote
Paul Morand
I am alone, as though I stood On the highest peak of the tired gray world, About me only swirling snow, Above me, endless space unfurled; With earth hidden and heaven hidden, And only my own spirit's pride To keep me from the peace of those Who are not lonely, having died. View quote
Sara Teasdale
In other words, all of my books are lies. They are simply maps of a territory, shadows of a reality, gray symbols dragging their bellies across the dead page, suffocated signs full of muffled sound and faded glory, signifying absolutely nothing. And it is the nothing, the Mystery, the Emptiness alone that needs to be realized: not known but felt, not thought but breathed, not an object but an atmosphere, not a lesson but a life. (Ken Wilber)
Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done. View quote
Timothy Geithner
How many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summer, or of a windy spell and a still one? If man is so generally less happy in the cities than in the country, it is because all these variations and nuances of sight and smell and sound are less clearly marked and lost in the general monotony of gray walls and cement pavements. View quote
Lin Yutang
All gods have good points, just as have all priests. Personally, I attach much importance to Hanuman, and am kind to his people-the great gray apes of the hills. One never knows when one may want a friend. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
Let them make their war. Whence come night and day? Whence will the eagle become gray? Whence is it that night is dark? Whence is it that the linnet is green? The ebullition of the sea, How is it not seen? View quote
Taliesin
Evening of a hot day started the little wind to moving among the leaves. The shade climbed up the hills toward the top. On the sand banks the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones. View quote
John Steinbeck
Gray skies are just clouds passing over. View quote
Duke Ellington
Youth is fair, a graceful stag, Leaping, playing in a park. Age is gray, a toothless hag, Stumbling in the dark. View quote
Isaac Leib Peretz
It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair. View quote
Alison Bechdel
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste. View quote
William Cullen Bryant
A noticeable man, with large gray eyes. (William Wordsworth)
So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore! View quote
John Greenleaf Whittier
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. View quote
Neil Cavuto
I went drinking with Gray Powell and all I got was a lousy iPhone prototype. View quote
Steve Wozniak
In the night all cats are gray. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes