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“It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.”

Happiness Joy Morning Cold Laughter Dawn Gray Heartless Mirth Cold Heart Morning After

Author:George Ade

“Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.”

Light Seems Time Hair Moon Evening Fancy Gray Gray Hair

Author:Jean Paul

“Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.”

Looks Black Sorrow Distance Gray Long Distance Distance Relationship Sorrow And Happiness

Author:Jean Paul

“I am fine with the fact that some of my hair is gray. If it was all gray overnight, that would be a scary thing.”

Ifs Facts Would Be Hair Fine Scary Gray Scary Things

Author:Matthew Perry

“All of the films that I've made are about the country I live in and grew up in... And I think if you're going to put an artist's eye to it, you're going to put a critical eye to it. I've always been interested in the gray area that exists between the black and white, or the red and blue, and that's where complexity lies.”

Ifs Thinking Made Country Eye Film Lying Artist Black White Grew Grew Up Red Areas Blue Critical Complexity Gray Black And White Gray Area Red And Blue

Author:Robert Redford

“If you want to slice into America, it's pretty red, white, and blue in terms of how it goes about things, but there's a gray area there, and I've always been interested in where things are complicated.”

Ifs Want America Term White Red Areas Blue Complicated Gray Gray Area Red White And Blue

Author:Robert Redford

“And I cannot tell you how much I appreciate that because the days are long, the road is hard, the trials are there and I never know when, I have this little gray cloud that's over my head, when it's gonna start raining on me again. And I do need everyone's prayers. But I also believe that we're here for a purpose, and Mitt is prepared.”

Knows Needs Believe Littles Long Hard Purpose Prayer Rain Appreciate Prepared Clouds Trials Gray

Author:Ann Romney

“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”

“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.”

Black White Millions Behavior Victim Gray Shade Black And White Realism Perpetrators Shades Of Gray

Author:Laura Schlessinger

“Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can't run a state.”

States Running Campaigns Dirty Gray Nasty Naughty

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?”

Black White Millions Areas Gray Black And White Black White Gray Area

Author:Ridley Scott

“I had ordered long legs, but they never arrived. My eyes are weird too, one is gray and the other is green. I have a crooked smile and my nose looks like a ski slope. No, I would not win a Miss contest.”

Looks Long Eye Winning Missing Green Smile Legs Noses Gray Contests Crooked Skis Slopes Long Legs Crooked Smiles

Author:Jane Seymour

“They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate other monuments and eventually to find their way out of the great, gray federal wilderness.”

Way Use Brave Wilderness Gray Compass Monument Columbia Silhouettes

Author:Hugh Sidey

“Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.”

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Author:Benjamin Spock

“Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.”

Way Pain Suffering Natural Quality Horror Depression Experience Gray Physical Pain Drizzle

Book:Darkness visible: a memoir of madness

Source: Darkness visible: a memoir of madness

“I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!”

Ifs Needs Writing Kind Persons Happens Kids Hair Garden Raises Gray Bows Irrelevant Blonde

Author:Taylor Swift

“Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.”

Ifs Age Young Speak Hair Aging Tongue Gray Gray Hair

Author:Rabindranath Tagore

“The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.”

Persons Literature Business Morning Hair Gray Dew Combs Gonzo Gray Hair Morning Dew Life After High School

Author:Hunter S. Thompson

“When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.”

Interesting Color Grew Grew Up Entertainment Gray Color And Life

Author:Pete Townshend

“Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.”

World Film Black White Saws Television Color Entertainment Cinema Gray Black And White

Author:Pete Townshend

“It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.”

Art Light Pain Gray

Author:Eddie Vedder

“To wear a gray tweed suit, you have to be mature and confident in yourself. Some people can't pull it off.”

People Suits Mature Gray Suits You Tweed Confident In Yourself

Author:Dwyane Wade

“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.”

Way I Can Temptation Yield Gray Resisting Temptation Hedonist

Author:Oscar Wilde

“There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”

“Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.”

“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”

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

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”

“A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.”

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.”

“But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.”

Sky Horse Woods East Gray Pale Uncles Easter Cousin Aunt Grandma Grandpa Wagons Lanterns Aunts And Uncles Little House On The Prairie

Book:The little house treasury

Source: The little house treasury

“The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.”

Way White Sky Edges Track Enormous Lakes Flats Gray Smooth Wagons Gray Skies

Book:The little house treasury

Source: The little house treasury

“Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.”

World Kind Ends Dangerous Mass Conviction Awful Gray

Author:Bono

“There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.”

Age Hair Humorous Aging Cures Gray Getting Older Frenchmen Gray Hair Guillotine Jeeves Grey Hair

Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.”

Life Life Is Black White Issues Color Labels Gray Black And White

Author:Zakk Wylde

“When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.”

Looks Book Dream Eye Beautiful Sleep Fire Shadow Nostalgia Retirement Gray Glowing Overhead Bending Nodding Bending Down

Author:William Butler Yeats

“I love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair.”

Hair Gray Wrinkles Old Woman Gray Hair

Author:Alber Elbaz

“I don't know if it's the sunshine, or the fact that I actually have a job, but I do like L.A. a lot. In New York, it can be gray and rainy and cold, and you still don't have any money, and you feel like a bad Dickens character.”

Ifs Knows Feels Stills Character Facts Jobs New York Cold Sunshine Gray Rainy Dickens

Author:Rich Sommer

“It's evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.”

Water Color Dust Evening Gray Liquid

Book:Cat's Eye

Source: Cat's Eye

“The sky outside the window was changing rapidly from deep, velvety blue to cold, steely gray and then, slowly, to pink shot with gold.”

Sky Cold Shots Window Gold Blue Gray

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.”

Ifs Men World Has Beens Different Humanity Sin Known Laughing Originals Gray Caves Original Sin Dorian Grey Portrait Of Dorian Gray

Book:The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Short Stories

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Short Stories

“An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.”

Should Art Beautiful Artist Gray Beautiful Things Dorian Grey Portrait Of Dorian Gray

Book:The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition

“You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?”

“If I had grown up in that house I couldn't have loved it more, couldn't have been more familiar with the creak of the swing, or the pattern of the clematis vines on the trellis, or the velvety swell of land as it faded to gray on the horizon . . . . The very colors of the place had seeped into my blood.”

Ifs Has Beens House Blood Land Color Patterns Familiar Horizon Gray Swings Faded Vines

Book:The Secret History

Source: The Secret History

“Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights; destined finally to go out into that dirty gray turmoil to follow love and pride; a new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken.”

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“An ash-gray dog with a white blaze on its forehead burst onto the rough terrain of the market on the first Sunday in December, knocked down tables of fried food, overturned Indians' stalls and lottery kiosks, and bit four people who happened to cross its path.”

People Firsts Bits White Path Four Happened Dog Crosses Tables Indian Sunday Rough Gray Ashes Foreheads December Lottery Knocked Down Terrain Fried Food

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“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”

Country Blind Gentleman Patriotism March Gray Permit Spectacles

Author:George Washington

“It had ceased raining in the night and he walked out on the road and called for the dog. He called and called. Standing in that inexplicable darkness. Where there was no sound anywhere save only the wind. After a while he sat in the road. He took off his hat and placed it on the tarmac before him and he bowed his head and held his face in his hands and wept. He sat there for a long time and after a while the east did gray and after a while the right and godmade sun did rise, once again, for all and without distinction.”

Long Hands Faces Night Sound Darkness Sun Dog Wind Long Time Rain Standing East Sat Distinction Hats Gray Inexplicable

Author:Cormac McCarthy

“She didn't feel thirty. But then again again, what was being thirty supposed to feel like? When she was younger, thirty seemed so far away, she thought that a woman of that age would be so wise and knowledgeable, so settled in her life with a husband and children and a career. She had none of those things. She still felt as clueless as she had felt when she was twenty, only with a few more gray hairs and crow's feet around her eyes.”

Feels Children Stills Would Be Eye Age Felt Careers Wise Feet Hair Husband Twenties Thirty Gray Far Away Her Eyes Crow Knowledgeable Clueless Gray Hair

Book:PS, I Love You: A Novel

Source: PS, I Love You: A Novel

“Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels; literature was born on the day when a boy came crying "wolf, wolf" and there was no wolf behind him.”

Writing Bigs Running Literature Born Behinds Boys Cry Gray Valleys Heels Neanderthals Crying Wolf

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“The only true animal is a cat, and the only true cat is a gray cat.”

Animal Cat Gray

Author:Lucy Maud Montgomery