Grey Quotes - page 2

They left no books, Memorial to their lonely thought In grey parishes: rather they wrote On men's hearts and in the minds Of young children sublime words Too soon forgotten. God in his time Or out of time will correct this. (R. S. Thomas)
The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mateless play; And, while the night is gathering grey, We'll talk its pensive hours away;-. View quote
Emily Brontë
Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Grey Life. View quote
Aldous Huxley
If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing on an average one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and grey eyes -- no other marks or brands recollected. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Not so great in England at the moment; in an online poll we came last, we actually came bottom of European countries for quality of life, because of things like the weather, obviously, late retirement, poor holiday, poor public services, poor health service; it's basically just a kind of grey, godless wilderness, full of cold pies and broken dreams. View quote
Bill Bailey
When all candels be out, all cats be grey, All thingis are then of one colour, as who sey. And this prouerbe faith, for quenching hot desyre, Foul water as soone as fayre, will quenche hot fyre. View quote
John Heywood
The grey mare is the better horse. View quote
John Heywood
A face peered. All the grey night In chaos of vacancy shone; Nought but vast sorrow was there- The sweet cheat gone. View quote
Walter de la Mare
Sometimes, I wake up and the skies are grey and everything's horrible. View quote
Patricia Kaas
There are people who can achieve huge success in life, while adding a bit of fun and a splash of colour to this increasingly grey world. View quote
Peter James
There were two things going on: 1) I had already established in my own mind where I wanted to go with the next series, and having James around as a Grey Eminence would have complicated matters. He had had an amazing life and it was time to bid him good-bye. (Raymond E. Feist)
You don't think in depression that you've put on a grey veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you're seeing truly. View quote
Andrew Solomon
I don't understand why everyone has to wear black, grey and white. View quote
Richard Rogers
Being a football manager is no fun at all. You have to put up with all the hassle. It is not surprising that so many turn grey or have heart attacks. View quote
Ruud Gullit
If you tell people enough times that they are unhappy, incomplete, possibly insane and definitely selfish there is bound to come a grey morning when they wake up with the beginning of a nasty cold and wonder if they are lonely rather than simply "alone.”. View quote
Sara Maitland
And in that one grey hair I saw my whole life and I said "I think I need a hair. View quote
Tim Burton
Oh, ‘twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white, and fixed rules, and nary a shade of grey. View quote
Glen Cook
Peter swept aside Yogi Tea and Harmony Herbal Blend, though he hesitated a second over the chamomile..... But no. Violent death demanded Earl Grey. View quote
Louise Penny
...the moon that hung over the garden like some great priceless pearl, flawed and blemished with grey shadowy ridges as only a very great beauty can risk being. View quote
Anita Desai
People will always prefer black-and-white over shades of grey, and so there will always be the temptation to hold overly-simplified beliefs and to hold them with excessive confidence. View quote
Thomas Gilovich
Whenever there is discussion, I make it clear that I do not want any grey zones, just black and white.* Grey zones do not interest me at all. (Niki Lauda)
Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern. The country is grey and brown and white in trees, snows and skies of laughter always diminishing, less funny not just darker, not just grey. It may be the coldest day of the year, what does he think of that? I mean, what do I? And if I do, perhaps I am myself again. View quote
Frank O'Hara
My very first car was a grey Alfa Romeo Alfasud, which I got in 1987. But, in our family, all cars were for sale - so they might be there in the morning and were gone at night. In the mid-90s, I joined Porsche and the Carrera was the car, and the Carrera 4S was the one they gave me. As a wee boy from Dumfries, I couldn't believe it. View quote
Allan McNish
I was like the good girl, bad girl, there were no grey areas for me. View quote
Belinda Carlisle
George M. is where I met my dear friend Joel Grey. We connected at rehearsal one day during a five-minute break. We were both looking out the same window and we knew in five minutes that we'd made a connection. View quote
Bernadette Peters