Audrey Hepburn
Actress, Humanitarian
"There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion."
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Shade
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Audrey Hepburn
Actress, Humanitarian
"There is a shade of red for every woman."
Alfred Marshall
Economist
"In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context."
Charles Dickens
Novelist
"Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it."
Henry David Thoreau
Writer, Philosopher
"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."
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"Some beach, somewhere. There's a big umbrella casting shade over an empty chair. Palm trees are growin' and a warm breeze a blowing. I picture myself right there, on some beach, somewhere."
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"He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade."
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"You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak."
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"There he stood, in the camouflage of sun and shade, disfigured by them and masked by his own nakedness."
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"Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts."
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"A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning."
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"A hunter of shadows, himself a shade."
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"What e'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time."
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"Love is a tree; and lovers are its shade."
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"Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power."
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"Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems"
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"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."
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"A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener."
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"Allah made us all a different shade and colour. Nations and tribes recognize one another! 'Cause every single person is your sister and brother."
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"Nothing more powerfully excites any affection than to conceal some part of its object, by throwing it into a kind of shade, whichat the same time that it shows enough to prepossess us in favour of the object, leaves still some work for the imagination."
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"I'm a firm believer in shades of gray."
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"I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not."
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"I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth for a walk at the eleventh hour of four o'clock in the afternoon, too late to redeem the day, when the shades of night were already beginning to be mingled with the daylight, have felt as if I had committed some sin to be atoned for."
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"In a way there's only a fine shade of difference between the healthy and the deranged."
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"The window shades have all been removed. Nighttime is now free to encroach."
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