Quotes of Grey - somelinesforyou

“ People who don't Think probably don't have Brains; rather, they have grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake. ”

- Pooh’s Little Instruction Book

“ Every silver lining has a touch of grey. ”

- Jerry Garcia

“ Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent. ”

- H.P. Lovecraft

“ Do not allow the adumbrations of Aristotelian logic to prevent you from seeing a vast spectrum of truths; the post-Boolean continuum of shades of grey where we spend most of our lives. ”

- Bryant H. McGill

“ Here were we fallen in a greate question of ye lawe whyther ye grey mare may be the better horse or not. ”

- Henry More

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

“ Small and fat and constantly facetious, straw- coloured and destitute of marks, he would have been practically indistinguishable hadn't his constant preference for light-grey clothes, for white hats, for very big cigars and very little stories, done what it could for his identity. ”

- Henry James

“ A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, Community, Identity, Stability. ”

- Aldous Huxley

“ What I was writing was not a planned thing, it was organic, with the characters working out their own destiny. Sitting there in the grey old empty bungalow, I felt like a man driving a coach and four, roughly knowing the direction in which the coach would travel, but being pulled along by forces only just under his control. ”

- Winston Graham

“ In a sense, the story, or poem or verse or whatever it is you're writing, you can kind of think of it as a kind of projectile. Imagine it is a kind of projectile which has been specially shaped to be aerodynamic, and that your target is the soft grey putty of the reader's brain. ”

- Alan Moore
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