Best 129 quotes in «shade quotes» category

You cannot forever hide your true face in the shade; it will eventually be caught by the light!

Yimello,' said Bernard finally, breaking the silence. 'Gesundheit?' I asked. 'It's a name for one of the colors that's invisible to us. Yimello," said Bernard. "There could also be glowl and novaly and replitz." 'Yes.' I nodded, stunned the kid could actually string together so many words at once. 'And, uh, don't forget the beautiful grynn, the luminous dulloff, or the subtle winooze.' Bernard's face lit up. He stood and started pacing the room, speaking quickly. 'Or salty, and insomnia, and carefree, and talkative, and lonely, and burnt, and punctual.' 'Some of my favorite colors,' I agreed, nodding. 'We could paint this room whisper. Or zigzag. Or maybe a nice shade of ignored and invisible.

You hide it well, but I can see it, Lord Verniers. You hate us. We have beaten you to obedience but it's still there, like dry tinder waiting for a spark.

A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor a person perfected without trials. Someone is enjoying shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Adulthood isn't black and white - it's a thousand shades of grey. Or taupe. It's not who you are, it's where you are.

A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones.

A life without rain is like the sun without shade.

and when they pulled her from the wreck, you know, she still had on her shades

And if sun comes / How shall we greet him? / Shall we not dread him, / Shall we not fear him / After so lengthy a / Session with shade?

And shade the violets, That they may bind the moss in leafy nets.

And the Lord God prepared a plant and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be shade for his head to deliver him from his misery. So Jonah was very grateful for the plant.

And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep, A shade that follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep?

Annihilating all that's made, To a green thought in a green shade.

Aquamarine is an airy blue with a dreamy feel. Cool and calming, ethereal Aquamarine is a shade with a wet and watery feel. Open and expansive, this restful blue also acts as a stress reducer.

A parallel between color and music can only be relative – just as a violin can give warm shades of tone, so yellow has shades, which can be expressed by various instruments.

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us.

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.

As it fell upon a day In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made.

At least you used to know 'there's the villain, there's the good guy', but today there are more shades of grey.

Astrology is a sickness, not a science ... It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive.

A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning.

beyond this place of wrath and tears looms but the horror of the shade

Be your strong and simple words Keen to wound as sharpened swords, And wide as targes let them be, With their shade to cover ye.

Bion used to say that the way to the shades below was easy; he could go there with his eyes shut.

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

Cabbage soup and barley. They're Russia's national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.

But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat, The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat, To closer shades the panting flocks remove; Ye gods! And is there no relief for love?

Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.

Be like a tree. The tree gives shade even to him who cuts off its boughs.

Calum offered to paint my nails but I said no because he always uses the wrong shade of purple.

Certain shades of limelight wreck a girl's complexion.

Embrace an effortless a-line silhouette in the seasons must have indigo shades.

February is the uncertain month, neither black nor white but all shades between by turns. Nothing is sure.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

Good and bad; shade and sunlight, there's but a hair's breath between them. It's all one in the end.

I do not sleep to let others sleep in the shade of my waking.

Horror Hotel, as wraith called Shade's house. "Vampires, demons, and werewolves check in... and then they make out, and-

If doubtful whether to end with "yours faithfully," or "yours truly," or "yours most truly," &c. (there are at least a dozen varieties, before you reach "yours affectionately"), refer to your correspondent's last letter, and make your winding-up at least as friendly as his: in fact, even if a shade more friendly, it will do no harm!

Economic problems have no sharp edges. They shade off imperceptibly into politics, sociology, and ethics. Indeed, it is hardly an exaggeration to say that the ultimate answer to every economic problem lies in some other field.

I studied shades, textures by painting after the Old Masters, the classical European paintings, as part of my educational process.

If conversation be an art, like painting, sculpture, and literature, it owes its most power charm to nature; and the least shade of formality or artifice destroys the effect of the best collection of words.

I have a sofa on which I never nap, big windows with an ocean view that I rarely see because I keep the pleated shades down at all times while working. I know I'm a potential slacker, so I don't tempt myself.

I like pastels and lighter shades on darker skins. I feel like it lifts everything and accentuates being chocolate.

Imagination has the right to feast in the shade of the tree that it turns into a forest.

I never saw an ugly thing in my life.

If anything she was a shade too plump, but she knew the ninety-seven ways of making love that the Hindus are supposed to set much store by―though mind you, it is all nonsense, for the seventy-fourth position turns out to be the same as the seventy-third, but with your fingers crossed.

I gave him a smile. I was aiming for sweet, but he turned a shade paler and scooted a bit farther from me. Note to self: work more on sweet and less on psycho-killer.

In a way there's only a fine shade of difference between the healthy and the deranged.

In Sacramento, my brown was not halfway between black and white. On the leafy streets, on the east side of town, where my family lived, where Asians did not live, where Negroes did not live, my family's Mexican shades passed as various.

I organize the opposition between colors, lines and curves. I set curves against straight lines, patches of color against plastic forms, pure colors against subtly nuanced shades of gray.