Top 75 Shade Quotes

If I do go to the beach there have to be certain rules: it can’t be a pebbly beach, there has to be some shade and there has to be a beach bar. I don’t want to go off the beaten track.

I’m the girl that’s on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded. But my weird thing is, I only tan my legs. My whole body‘s covered in the shade, and I tan my legs.

Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.

I’m not sure I could ever write for adults. That’s not to throw shade or anything, but I feel like teenagers are much more open-minded and willing to listen sometimes.

Disrespect is tired. Shade is old. Sipping ‘tea‘ isn’t cute. But loving, supporting, giving, being grateful and perpetuating light, is.

You create the color first, and then the name that fits. It depends – there are no rules. You watch a fabulous old movie, and you suddenly get inspired by it to create a lipstick shade, or you walk through a gorgeous garden and find the most beautiful flower shade for an eye shadow, and then you name it.

Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men.

I do write about race a lot, but I don’t think writers – of any shade or background or whatever – have to write about certain subjects.

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.

There are varying degrees of shade. There is funny shade, warning shade, tea shade, and mean girl shade.

I look at some of my early stuff – back when I was 12 or 13 years old – and I was already doing cross-hatching back then. I don’t know where I picked that up. I think I was in a hurry, and I wanted to shade something really fast, and I tried cross-hatching a shadow.

What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.

I love to see other women in pink. It’s good for every shade of skin and hair.

Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

‘Evening Shade’ was such an eye-opening experience. I was 19 when I went on that show. I had barely had an acting class. So as Burt Reynolds continued to bring me back for the next three years, I learned so much from him and all the other legends that were on the show.

Words in a person‘s word stock are like paints on a palette. It helps to have just the right shade when you need it.

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

I’ve always really liked being active. I do Spinning classes, I run, I have a trainer, I do Pilates with my sister Shade.

My mum taught me that redheads shouldn’t wear pink, red or orange, but if you choose the right shade, such as a bright orange or a cherry red, it can look fabulous.

I have a few rules on lipstick… I don’t wear gloss because I can’t talk properly. I like matte lipsticks; I like an opaque shade that you can’t see my lip color through at all.

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, – light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

In real life, I don’t think anybody is all one shade. People who are perceived to be really good have bad thoughts and inclinations that they sometimes act on, I’m sure, and people have different sides to themselves.

Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.

What ‘Flashpoint’ does is examine the inherent inconsistencies in Shade’s past and attempt to explain it and give it some logic.

I think some sing-songwriter music can just be very serious – after an hour and a half of it, you are exhausted – so I try and give it light and shade.

I love the Fashion Fair Concealer Wheel. That’s my little secret. It comes with three colors in it. What I like about it is that you could almost cover your whole face in it if you want because you can mix the colors to create the perfect shade that works with your skin.

You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of light and shade on nature‘s own hues and tints.

The legendary tumbleweed is really a nurse crop that protects the growth of prairie grasses under its shade, and then it sacrifices itself and blows away.

Measure your mind’s height by the shade it casts.

If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.

No shade to the other artists in Chicago… but if you got confidence in yourself and you know you’re Number One, say it.

Here’s what I’ve found in Louisiana: The voters want to know what you believe, what you stand for, and what you plan to do, not what shade your skin is.

The cast clubs were a big part of it, too. I found I wasn’t getting that instant feedback I was used to with a forged blade. The sweet spot is a shade bigger, and when I didn’t hit the ball dead center, I didn’t know it, because it still felt great.

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

I always have to have my lipstick. Sometimes I have more than one shade: start with one color for the morning, one for night. Sometimes I have a couple shades just in case I need something more powerful for the day.

I’ve been known to write on the Underground in London and on the subway in New York. I have two or three cafes in Paris that I go into. I find a corner with a little shade, and I can work.

To walk into a casting room full of people who look like you is a crazy thing. What is the thing that necessitates all of us having the exact same shade of skin and having the same hair? What about this deodorant commercial needs that?

Every time we rock our babies in the night, we bring order back to a disordered world. Every time we look down at our children and cry, we make the world one shade brighter. That’s what children do to us – and for us.

There was always comical aspects of everything I’ve done, ‘Playing The Field‘ again, I played a comical character even though it was a drama – I like the light and shade.

If I want to do a contour, Tom Ford‘s Shade and Illuminate is great. It also feels really nice on the skin and looks really natural.

It’s hard to find powder and things for my skin tone. I look at Rihanna‘s collection, and I’m always in awe because there’s a shade that exists for every skin tone.

If I could only have one grooming tool, it would be floss. I don’t want to have broken Cheetos in my teeth. To protect myself from the sun, I can find shade under a tree. To moisturize my skin, I could get really sweaty and then just rub it on myself. But how are you going to clean between your teeth without floss?

I’ve had nothing to do with the intelligence world since I left it, in any shade or variety.

Anyone’s views on what they want the intelligence to be will never impact the intelligence that I deliver. I won’t shade intelligence for anyone.

When I take good care of myself, it lifts my spirits, boosts my confidence, and makes me feel strong. When someone tries to throw me shade, it bounces right off. I look those haters straight in the eye, keep my chin up and shoulders back. Because I know I’m a fierce queen – and they know it, too.

My mother was my first and most important influence. When I was a little girl, she would take me shopping for pigments that flattered dark skin tones, mixing and playing until she’d created her ideal shade.

I’m a hardcore reality lover. I love characters that people can relate with and yet a tinge of grey shade.

Leaving the house in a pair of flip-flops in Manhattan is disgusting to me, no shade.

When I would visit my Granny as a little boy, we would play this game of closing our eyes and describing everything around us. The color of a tie. The shade of a cloth. It was really quite a wonderful way to learn how to look, to notice things and to appreciate what is around you.

I remember taking a 4×4 up the Sani Pass in South Africa, which goes up into Lesotho. It’s a dangerous hairpin trail on this treacherous road and I went up in winter. Half of the road stays in the shade. We turned the corner on this hairpin and just hit black ice.

I go to see some big shows of other bands, and I feel like I’m so bombarded and over-stimulated that I lose interest in the music. There has to be light and shade, and less stimulating moments. There has to be an arc to the show.

I’m often characterized as an optimistic writer, and certainly my ‘Neanderthal Parallax’ and ‘WWW’ trilogies shade toward the utopian. I like to think that’s not simple naivete, but rather a reasonable approach.

I spend most flights staring out into that endless cloudscape and watching the planet drift by below. I never understand people who close the window shade. There’s magic out there.

One great benefit of not being on TV every week is that people will be a lot less interested in what I have in my supermarket basket. I could even un-tint my car windows – or at least opt for a lighter shade.

In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint your portrait.

I like to make people look as good as they’d like to look, and with luck, a shade better.

The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. Slaughtering animals for their fur or harming them for cosmetic purposes is disgusting and not worth the perfect shade of lipstick.

I’m the shade queen and no one throws shade better than me!

The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

I don’t throw shade at anybody like, ‘You sound like me.’

NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station.

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you’ll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I’m gone. But I know that the steps we’re taking are the right steps.

In the CoverGirl Melting Pout Matte Lipstick ads, I am wearing this gorgeous purple color called Seismic. It’s such a different shade, but it works well with my face. I’ve got hazel eyes, and so purple kind of compliments it. It’s a nice shade to put on when I’m feeling a little sassy.

I’m continuing to write and love ‘Hellblazer.’ Also, I’m writing a ‘Flashpoint’ mini-series ‘ with art by George Perez – which features Shade the Changing Man and Enchantress.

Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn’t know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance.

Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.

I’m fair-skinned, so beaches are a bit boring for me. I’m either smeared in lotion or under a shade. However, I do love the sea – diving, swimming and snorkelling.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Not every song of Lynyrd Skynyrd‘s was a single, but songs like ‘Tuesday‘s Gone’ and ‘The Ballad of Curtis Loew’ and ‘Made in the Shade,’ ‘I Need You,’ people learned those songs from the radio because radio played albums, not just singles.

A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work.

A pearly white shade for a tux would look classy and glamourous.