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Source: Complete Short Stories of Rudyard Kipling: 25 Illustrated Collections: 440+ Tales in One Volume – Ultimate Short Story Collection: Plain Tales from the Hills, Soldier’s Three, The Jungle Book, The Phantom ‘Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories, Land and Sea Tales…

“They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes. I arrived with gray, silent, sober, oppressed paintings. One critic said they were paintings that thought.”

Said Color Painting Huge Silent Critics Violent Gray Wrestling Oppressed Strokes Sober Brushes Brush Strokes

Author:Antoni Tapies

“There are so many dreams beyond our nights, and so much sunshine beyond our gray walls. But we can't see it when we stay at home. There is so much sky above our roof. Is the door so old that it won't open, or are we at home because we're afraid of catching a chill?”

Home Dream Night Opportunity Doors Sky Wall Sunshine Gray Roof Chill Catching Stay At Home

Author:Francoise Hardy

“I need to have a quick wardrobe. Two or three blazers with dark gray pants, two pairs of jeans, two light blue shirts, a casual shirt, two pairs of shoes, one formal one not. Small accessories like Tod's Greca belt and our woven bracelets for a wild touch.”

Needs Two Light Three Dark Blue Shoes Shirts Pairs Gray Pants Formal Jeans Belts Casual Wardrobe Woven Accessories Pair Of Shoes Bracelet Blazers Light Blue

Author:Diego Della Valle

“Decade after decade, artists came to paint the light of Provincetown, and comparisons were made to the lagoons of Venice and the marshes of Holland, but then the summer ended and most of the painters left, and the long dingy undergarment of the gray New England winter, gray as the spirit of my mood, came down to visit.”

Source: Tough Guys Don't Dance: A Novel

“Looking at the poems of John Gray when I saw the tiniest rivulet of text meandering through the very largest meadow of margin, I suggested to Oscar Wilde that he should go a step further than these minor poets; he should publish a book all margin; full of beautiful, unwritten thoughts.”

Should Book Beautiful Steps Saws Poet Gray Minors Oscars Publish Margins Meadows Unwritten Wilde

Author:Ada Leverson

“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.”

Matter Differences Brain Study Amount Gray Twins Identical Fraternal Gray Matter

Book:The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Source: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

“I went drinking with Gray Powell and all I got was a lousy iPhone prototype.”

Drinking Gray Iphone Prototype

Author:Steve Wozniak

“My Weimaraners are perfect fashion models. Their elegant, slinky forms are covered in gray - and gray, everyone knows, goes with anything.”

Knows Form Perfect Fashion Models Covered Gray Elegant Fashion Model Slinkies

Author:William Wegman

“I'm drawn to the classic antihero, the guy who's probably made a bunch of mistakes and really has the capacity to go either way. That's the most interesting type of character for me to watch, to see what decisions they'll make. There's a lot of gray area there for a writer to explore.”

Way Made Character Guy Decision Interesting Mistake Watches Type Areas Capacity Bunch Classic Gray Most Interesting Gray Area Antiheroes

Author:Kurt Sutter

“I'm a guy who has problems with moderation. All or nothing. Binge and purge. Kill or be killed. Gray is not a color I wear well. I should be dead. I know that. I should not be successful. I know that too. My daily existence is a toss of the coin - one side, fear, the other side, gratitude.”

Knows Should Wells Problem Guy Sides Existence Successful Color Gratitude Being Successful Gray Moderation Coins Toss Binge

Author:Kurt Sutter

“Man is made of the wholly common, and custom is his nurse; woe then to them who lay irreverent hands on his old house-furniture, the dear inheritance from his forefathers: For time consecrates, and what is gray with age becomes religion.”

Men Made Hands Age House Common Lays Dear Customs Gray Nurse Woe Furniture Inheritance Forefathers Irreverent Old Houses

Book:The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German

Source: The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German

“I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!”

Courses Color Intention Paint Gray

Author:Alberto Giacometti

“But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.”

Real Ends Expression Intellectual Gray Exaggeration Real Beauty

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts

“What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.”

Imagination Loyalty Customs Gray Fidelity Lethargy Dorian Grey Portrait Of Dorian Gray

Book:The Picture Of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray

“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 prideTo keep me from the peace of those Who are not lonely, having died.”

World Earth Spirit Heaven My Own Space Highest Lonely Died Tired Endless Snow Gray

Book:Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale

Source: Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale

“Never say you are too old. You do not say it now, perhaps; but by and by, when the hair grows gray and the eyes grow dim and the young despair comes to curse the old age, you will say, "It is too late for me." Never too late! Never too old! How old are you--thirty, fifty, eighty? What is that in immortality? We are but children.”

Children Eye Age Young Grows Hair Despair Late Old Age Immortality Curse Thirty Fifty Too Late Gray Eighty Old You Never Too Late

Author:Lyman Abbott

“The color of truth is gray.”

Color Truth Is Intellectual Intelligence Gray

Author:Andre Gide

“The gray-green stretch of sandy grass,Indefinitely desolate;A sea of lead, a sky of slate;Already autumn in the air, alas!One stark monotony of stone,The long hotel, acutely white,Against the after-sunset lightWithers gray-green, and takes the grass's tone.”

Long White Air Sea Sky Stones Green Grass Tone Sunset Hotel Autumn Gray Alas Starks Slate Monotony Desolate Sandy

Author:Arthur Symons

“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.”

Humans Remember Stars Sides Half Flower Mountain Bird Gray Converses Moors

Book:Synge: Complete Plays: In the Shadow of the Glen; Riders to the Sea; The Tinker's Wedding; The Well of the Saints; The Playboy of the Western World; Deirdre of the Sorrows

Source: Synge: Complete Plays: In the Shadow of the Glen; Riders to the Sea; The Tinker's Wedding; The Well of the Saints; The Playboy of the Western World; Deirdre of the Sorrows

“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.”

Way Turns Sky Dear Clouds Gray Snowflake

Book:When Life is Young: A Collection of Verse for Boys and Girls

Source: When Life is Young: A Collection of Verse for Boys and Girls

“Beauty in this Iron Age must turn, From fluid living rainbow shapes to torn, And sootened fragments, ashes in an urn, On whose gray surface runes are traced by a Norn, Who hopes to wake the Future to arise, In Phoenix-fashion, and to shine with rays, To blast the sight of modern men whose dyes, Of selfishness and lust have stained our days...”