Gray Quotes

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

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.

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.

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

It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.

Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done.

Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.

It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.

I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I'm not paralyzed from the neck up.

People that are 40, they don't sit around at talk about gray hair and how it covers their hair. They talk about highlighting, of course they're covering gray, but they don't talk about it that way. They're going to get their colors because they need a little lightening.

Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.

I don't think England is that gray but India is like a long drone.

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.

The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring.

We know well and we know chronically ill, but there is a whole bunch of gray in between where I think we can heal people before they become chronically sick. I believe our thoughts make us sick.

Fair use is always going to be a gray area, and it should be. We need to allow for things we can't see yet.

Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories.

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

Like Godfather, you look at a movie like that, or something that James Gray has directed, a film with minimal or pin lighting as opposed to everything being lit bright and flat, where everything is evident.

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

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.

I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.

I'd say that my musical influences are anywhere from pop-rock electronica, new age and classical. But I think that specifically, bands - I love Jem, I love Sigur Ross, I love David Gray, I love Elliot Smith... a lot of different people. But I don't find lyrical inspiration from anybody.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life's work.

Sometimes I miss the spirit of London, but it's a very gray place.

Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.