{"quotes":[{"text":"I'm against solutions that are worse than the problem. Like old women who want their hair dyed the color of shoe polish to hide the gray.","author":"Neal Shusterman","tags":["audrey","black","gray","neal-shusterman","problems","risa","solutions","unsouled","women"],"id":1132,"author_id":"Neal+Shusterman"},{"text":"I’ve seen how cigarettes went from being advertised in every type of media to being something found to be deadly… they can’t kill me no matter how many of them I smoke but I’ve seen humans die from smoking them… if I were you I would stop smoking them.”“Why should I? You smoke ‘em all the time, you chain-smoke cigarettes,” Mandy pointed out.“Yeah, I started doing that back in the Sixties… for reasons you likely saw on those VHS tapes… but I’m not a person, I’m Pollution, things like that aren’t dangerous to me but they are to you,” Alecto told her. “It’s not a good idea.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["anti-smoking","attack","blast-from-the-past","cancer","chain-smoke","cigar","cigarette","creepy","deadly","depress","depression","disturbing","education","eerie","gray","grief","haunting","health","horror","knowledge","loss","no-smoking","past","pollution","retro","scary","self-help","sick","smog","smoke","spooky","times","tobacco","trapped","vhs-tape","video"],"id":26558,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"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.","author":"John Mahoney","tags":["sister","bride","gray "],"id":30144,"author_id":"John+Mahoney"},{"text":"My natural gravitation is toward the gray and the black and the white and the burgundy. Sort of muted, cool colors.","author":"Jessica Pare","tags":["colors","black","gray "],"id":47779,"author_id":"Jessica+Pare"},{"text":"When the prophet, a complacent fat man,Arrived at the mountain-topHe cried: 'Woe to my knowledge!I intended to see good white landsAnd bad black lands—But the scene is grey.","author":"Stephen Crane","tags":["black","black-and-white","good-and-evil","gray","grey","knowledge","morality","white","wisdom"],"id":69821,"author_id":"Stephen+Crane"},{"text":"In a relationship, prudent application of the gray theory is a key ingredient in assuring years of happiness; “till death do us part”. Balance is at the center of success, satisfaction and a lifetime of love.","author":"Carlos Wallace","tags":["carlos-wallace","gray","gray-area","happiness","happiness","relationship-advice","relationship-advice","relationships","relationships-101","satisfaction","success","success"],"id":71238,"author_id":"Carlos+Wallace"},{"text":"Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitement. Then there are others, and this dame was one of them, who can drain off energy and joy, can suck pleasure dry and get no sustenance from it. Such people spread a grayness in the air about them.","author":"John Steinbeck","tags":["drain","gray","observational","people","vitality"],"id":107725,"author_id":"John+Steinbeck"},{"text":"The lights became stars, which became streaks in the grayspace, and then networks of fading shimmers.","author":"Ashim Shanker","tags":["ambiguity","ashim-shanker","divinity","doubt","ephemeral","evanescence","gray","human-existence","impermanence","light","metaphysical","multiplicity","network","ontology","pluralism","poetry","shimmer","singularity","space","streaks"],"id":135436,"author_id":"Ashim+Shanker"},{"text":"No need to look to see if your former home has vanished yet into the humdrum gray behind you; you'll be able to feel it, the sudden eclipse of the tractor beam the house puts out. Of its forcefield of sadness.","author":"Garth Risk Hallberg","tags":["boring","eclipse","forcefield","former","gray","home","humdrum","sadness"],"id":169035,"author_id":"Garth+Risk+Hallberg"},{"text":"Like a splendid mosaic of myriad colors, she in all her hues of sensitivity would paint her feelings in your mind’s gray skies. She was the butterfly making you run after her. She was the Zahir, a mirage that transcended borders and time-zones.","author":"Avijeet Das","tags":["artistes","borders","butterfly","colors","creativity","gray","inspirational","mirage","mosaic","muses","myriad","paint","sensitivity","sky","time","time-zones","woman","writing-process","writing","zahir"],"id":226772,"author_id":"Avijeet+Das"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":30,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}