Quotes About Shades Of Grey

“Antiheroes
Aren't just black and white; they exploit the mystery and allure of shadow, of shades of grey. For the writer, they offer more story possibilities than heroes. They could tip either way, either supporting or fighting him. Reformed antiheroes could revert to bad ways, and even on the side of good, but they cab still use methods that would make a true hero blush or flinch. The only problem is that the characteristics that make them antiheroes can, if use for good, transform them into heroes; and then life tends to be much less entertaining.”

— Helen McCarthy

“We middles see the world in shades of grey rather than in the clear blacks and whites of committed animal activists and their equally vociferous opponents”

— Hal Herzog

“Nothing like a good rib tickling read like Fifty Shades of Grey”

— LIZ

“Teenagers are in the throes of learning the biggest lesson of all: life isn't simple, it isn't black and white. It's multiple and varied shades of grey. If you mix these shades of grey you might end up getting close to black or white, but in the end, it's the darkening of themselves around the edges and the ways in which they bend and break that will make them more wholesome people; people that others will want to be around and who will contribute greatly to society when given the awesome opportunity.”

— Danielle Weiler

“I carry their beauty inside the very soul of my being. Dark with shades of grey. White with storm clouds in the distance. Because of dad and mom, I am not afraid to dream of dark victories and black beauty. I'm not afraid to be in love with the night”

— Diane Keaton

“I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often different shades of grey.”

— Jeffrey Archer

“I spied a copy of the novel Fifty Shades of Grey on the coffee table. "Haley, are you seriously reading that crap?" I gestured to the book with my glass.”

— T.B. Markinson

“In the Community everything was black and white. Here, romantic relationships took on shades of grey; they were full of uncertainty, maybes, broken promises.”

— Claire Merle

“People will always prefer black-and-white over shades of grey, and so there will always be the temptation to hold overly-simplified beliefs and to hold them with excessive confidence”

— Thomas Gilovich

“There's no black and no white, just shades of grey ... But the small betrayals lead to bigger ones, morality is eroded.”

— Kate Mosse

“The world isn't black and white, Annie, it's shades of grey.”

— Tami Hoag

“It's the journeys we make you said not our sins that we have to account for: places we passed on a road and failed to recognise: the light in a gap between trees that we barely noticed storms above a hayfield like the black in monochrome the neither here nor there of detours or oncoming traffic. It's the lives we failed to lead lost in a stalled conversation or glancing away to cottonwoods and miles of blue-stemmed grass and everything we miss each least detail patterns and lines in the packed silt around a mooring windows flecked with light and water shades of grey in this or any other afternoon.”

— John Burnside

“If the "world" believed something, then you had to believe its opposite to be righteous. It made people rage against everything from a global economy to public schooling and immunizations, but mostly I thought it was just an excuse not to have to do the work that seeing shades of grey requires.”

— Mette Ivie Harrison

“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 McGill

“Darlin', I've heard all about fifty shades of grey but I never knew there were fifty shades of denim!”

— Joanne McClean

“A man can drown in shades of grey.”

— Mark Lawrence

“I've never wanted more, until I met you. - Christian Grey, Fifty Shades of Grey”

— E.L. James

“I don't make love ... I fuck hard. Fifty Shades of Grey”

— E.L. James

“Just think how many books I could've sold if Harry had been a bit more creative with his wand. -[On the success of 50 Shades of Grey]”

— J.K. Rowling

“The boy reported - after the Sergeant had slept for a few hours, which was not nearly enough - that YouTube had actually gone down for ten minutes under the weight of traffic. The story was truly global, truly immense: not Obama, not Justin Bieber, not Psy and not Bin Laden had ever touched this, he said. Not Khaled Saeed and not Mohamed Bouazizi, either. If Pippa Middleton and Megan Fox had announced their intention to marry during a live theatrical production of 50 Shades of Grey starring Benedict Cumberbatch, and then taken off their clothes to reveal their bodies tattooed with the text of the eighth Harry Potter novel, they might have approached this level of frenzy. But probably not, the boy said, because not everyone liked Benedict Cumberbatch.”

— Nick Harkaway

“There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.”

— Rebecca Solnit

“Angry Trish had changed all his contacts to characters from Fifty Shades of Grey. He knew this because Al's Auto Shop, usually listed first, was now "50 Shades of Grey gave me more orgasms than you." After that he had Anastasia Steele and A Helicopter. Worst of all, his mom-whose number he could thankfully remember-was listed as The Red Room of Pain.”

— Debra Anastasia

“People will say, 'I really don't like romance,' or, 'I don't read it - at all!' So how do they know? Weirdly, I think that the 'Fifty Shades of Grey' phenomenon introduced women to romance who would never have read it. And that means that they then go on to read my books, and that would be great.”

— Ruth Glick

“I've never read any of the '50 Shades of Grey' books because the Internet pre-educated me about the 'my inner goddess is doing the merengue with some salsa moves' material.”

— Andrea Seigel

“Sometimes I worry I'm writing 'Fifty Shades of Grey' for teenagers, but I'm not.”

— Lauren Myracle

“I'm reading a lot of different books, but I always think I have to switch it up a little bit. It's like food - everything in moderation, same with my books, same with my reading. You read books that are good for you and you learn a lot of stuff, then you read 'Fifty Shades of Grey,' which is like candy.”

— Shay Mitchell

“Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.”

— Jodi Picoult

“I'd make a snide comment about the youths of america but I'm too impressed by the fact that she's reading something other than Fifty Shades of Grey.”

— Jodi Picoult

“Directing 'Fifty Shades of Grey' has been an intense and incredible journey for which I am hugely grateful. I have Universal to thank for that.”

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

“Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters.”

— Bret Easton Ellis

“The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.”

— Iris Apfel

“I feel like I'm the only person - or woman, at least - who hasn't read 'Fifty Shades of Grey.'”

— Carla Gugino

“A few years ago when she'd read Paul several passages from Fifty Shades of Grey, they'd both giggled like teenagers.
"The biggest fantasy in that book," Paul had said, "is that he changes in the end.”

— Karin Slaughter

“During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.”

— John Le Carre

“A lot of people still maintain genre prejudice. I still meet matrons who tell me kindly that their children enjoyed my books but of course they never read them, and people who make sure I know they don't read that space-ship stuff. No, no, they read Literature-realism. Like The Help, or Fifty Shades of Grey.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“I'm proud of 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' I don't need to distance myself from that. The more work I do, the more the general public sees the different things I can do. Do I think it opened doors? Yeah. More people know my name.”

— Dakota Johnson

“Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey and about issues.”

— Matt Taibbi

“I counted seventy-three shades of grey in an eight-by-ten room.”

— Glen Duncan

“If anything, 'Fifty Shades of Grey' is a generic romance cynically engineered to appeal to the lowest common denominator of female fantasy.”

— Meghan Daum

“The movie Fifty Shades of Grey is considerably better written than the book. It is also sort of classy-looking, in a generic, TV-ad-for-bath-oil way.”

— Lisa Schwarzbaum

“I turn my girl on like fifty shades of grey.”

— Drew Chadwick

“I don't think [Fifty Shades of Grey is] a model for anything. Except maybe in bed.”

— E.L. James

“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.”

— Elizabeth Noble

“No new reader, however charitable, could open "Fifty Shades of Grey," browse a few paragraphs, and reasonably conclude that the author was writing in her first language, or even her fourth.”

— Anthony Lane

“NO I haven't read 50 Shades of Grey - I've been close enough to Jay Leno in real life.”

— Sarah Thyre

“I think love keeps on changing every day.
It's not black and white and it's definitely more than 50 shades of grey.”

— Ville Valo

“I have never really lived with anyone in my adult years. I just read my sports ticker. And 50 Shades of Grey.”

— Matthew Perry

“Who here actually thinks I would do Fifty Shades of Grey as a movie? Like really. For real. In real life ... ? ... Good. Well that's that sorted then.”

— Emma Watson

“Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.”

— Billy Joel

“I think it's common sense to shy away from the erotic. Perhaps this grand experiment, which started with Lady Chatterley's Lover, of seeing what you can write and how you can write about sex, has reached a certain weary terminus with Fifty Shades of Grey.”

— Richard Flanagan