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Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory. -- Harvey Mackay
Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings. -- Horace
The tones of gray, pale turquoise and pink will prevail. -- Christian Dior
Pale blind diver, luckless slinger, lost discoverer, in you everything sank! -- Pablo Neruda
Pale sky, white land; like somewhere past the end of the world -- Rinsai Rossetti
'Pale Fire' by Vladimir Nabokov was bloody hard work but really thrilling. -- Domhnall Gleeson
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At my door the Pale Horse stands to carry me to unknown lands. -- John Hay
Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces. -- Horace
Pale January lay In its cradle day by day Dead or living, hard to say. -- Alfred Austin
Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight. But roaring Bill, who killed him, thought it right. -- Hilaire Belloc
It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking. -- Julius Caesar
In buskined measures move Pale Grief and pleasing Pain, With Horror, tyrant of the throbbing breast. -- Thomas Gray
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. -- Horace
Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings -- Horace
Pale sunlight, pale the wall. Love moves away. The light changes I need more grace than I thought. -- Rumi
Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king. -- Horace
There's music along the river For Love wanders there,Pale flowers on his mantle, Dark leaves on his hair." -- James Joyce
Pale death approaches with equal step, and knocks indiscriminately at the door of teh cottage, and the portals of the palace. -- Horace
I saw pale kings and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried- "La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall! -- John Keats
Pale brows, still hands and dim hair, I had a beautiful friend And dreamed that the old despair Would end in love in the end.... -- William Butler Yeats
Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory. If it's written down, you can look it up. Just be damn sure you write it down. -- Harvey Mackay
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.] -- Horace
The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire. -- Michael Chabon
Pale in her fading bowers the Summer stands,Like a new Niobe with claspÃ¨d hands,Silent above the flowers, her children lost,Slain by the arrows of the early Frost. -- Richard Henry Stoddard
Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage War with the lines of Darkness; and the moon, Pale ghost of Night, comes haunting the cold earth After the sun's red sea-death--quietless. -- Philip James Bailey
Did you ever see the customers in health - food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half - dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific. -- Bill Cosby
Pale purple as the bloom om a ripe plum, veined with the gold of late flowering gorse, set with small slender birches,just turning yellow,with red-berried rowans and thicket of bracken, the heath lay steeped in sunshine. -- Flora Thompson
Pale amber sunlight falls across The reddening October trees.... Are we not better and at home In dreamful Autumn, we who deem No harvest joy is worth a dream? A little while and night shall come, A little while, then, let us dream... -- Ernest Dowson
Pale and pinched-up faces hovered about the windows where was tempting food; hungry eyes wandered over the profusion guarded by one thin sheet of brittle glass--an iron wall to them; half-naked shivering figures stopped to gaze at Chinese shawls and golden stuffs of India. -- Charles Dickens
There really is no such thing as race. We all came from Africa. We are all of the same stardust. We are all going to live and die on the same planet, a Pale Blue Dot in the vastness of space. We have to work together. -- Bill Nye
Night, like a giant, fills the church, from pavement to roof, and holds dominion through the silent hours. Pale dawn again comes peeping through the windows: and, giving place to day, sees night withdraw into the vaults, and follows it, and drives it out, and hides among the dead. -- Charles Dickens
Have you ever danced with the Devil in the pale moonlight? -- Jack Nicholson
The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun. -- William Shakespeare
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance , the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this point of pale light. -- Carl Sagan
Why so pale and wan, fond lover, Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale? -- John Suckling
Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. -- Patrick Rothfuss
No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to. -- Seneca the Younger
Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it. -- Walt Disney
We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us. -- Mark Twain
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Each of us from the seance stood alone. Like so many pillars of salt, we had tried to look back and failed. And in the eyes of the others who shared the pale, flat sky with us, there was sometimes suspicion, sometimes a little fear. -- Joan Lowery Nixon
If you look at Earth from space you see a dot, that's here. That's home. That's us. It underscores the responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known. -- Carl Sagan
Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism. -- Audre Lorde
Journalists are always calling my features Edwardian or Victorian, whatever that means. I am small, and people were smaller in those times. I'm pale and sickly-looking. I look fragile-like a doll. But sometimes I just wish I had less of a particular look, one that was more versatile. -- Helena Bonham Carter
They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting on an arm. An ankle overlapping an ankle, as they sat on a beach, and not removed. One night they fell asleep, side by side... He slept curled against her back, a dark comma against her pale elegant phrase. -- A. S. Byatt
In the pale light of daybreak the gravestones looked like so many white sails of boats anchored in a busy harbor. They were sails that would never again be filled with wind, sails that, too long unused and heavily drooping, had been turned into stone just as they were. The boats' anchors had been thrust so deeply into the dark earth that they could never again be raised. -- Yukio Mishima
People don't associate red hair, pale skin, and freckles with beauty. -- Shirley Manson
I have olive skin, so if I get pale, I look green. I have to tan. -- Nicole Richie
I love summer, but my legs are so pale I can never wear shorts or a bikini. -- Emma Roberts
Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see. -- John Gardner
My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale... I often feel as if I were dead... I seem to be losing my mind. -- Robert Schumann
But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
I buy Coppertone Water Babies in abundance at the airport, SPF 60 or 70. I like being pale; I like looking like a creature from the dead world. I like looking like a ghost. -- Jennifer Stone
No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to. -- Seneca the Younger
For me, science is already fantastical enough. Unlocking the secrets of nature with fundamental physics or cosmology or astrobiology leads you into a wonderland compared with which beliefs in things like alien abductions pale into insignificance. -- Paul Davies
A lot of geeks are pale, bespectacled, wear dark clothing and don't get out much - the stereotype exists because it is very often true. I could pass for a non-geek but it would be inaccurate. -- China Mieville
I won't use abortion as a litmus test with a pro-choice individual. Someone that is an activist on the abortion issue, I think, goes outside the pale, and I cannot support an activist on the abortion issue. -- Ken Buck
Once upon a perfect night, unclouded and still, there came the face of a pale and beautiful lady. The tresses of her hair reached out to make the constellations, and the dewy vapours of her gown fell soft upon the land. -- Kit Williams
There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound. -- Thomas Hardy
America's demographic shift was obvious to everyone in the 2010 Census - but Republicans stubbornly rejected math, facts, and polls to their electoral peril. While Republicans tailored their platform by and for the pale stale and male, among us, Obama and Democrats are embracing America's diverse mosaic. -- Christine Pelosi
I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well. -- Bram Stoker
I'm quite British; I've got big, flat feet, and I can't wear heels. I've got very, very pale Celtic skin, so my legs are always a frightening blue color. So when you take out clothes that reveal your legs, shoes that have any kind of heel, no shop will actually take my money. -- Caitlin Moran
I am very benign-looking. I'm somewhat like a golden retriever: It's not hard to look at me. I'm perfectly fine. It's not like things jut out and make you nervous. But the lovely thing about being so pale and having such pasty features is that I can look like pretty much anything, which is nice. -- Elizabeth Mitchell
I don't mind being pale. In high school, it seemed like everybody cared about being tan all year round, but I haven't really thought about it since then. I don't go to a tanning bed, and I get bored when I lay out. I put sunscreen on when I'm in the sun, and sometimes I get tan, but I don't really think about it very much. -- Taylor Swift
Go sit down and look pale. -- Stephenie Meyer
Thou has conquered, O pale Galilean. -- Algernon Charles Swinburne
Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts -- William Shakespeare
Warm evenings, pale mornings, bottle of blues -- Gram Parsons
Our devil has pale skin and blue eyes -- Jose Angel Gutierrez
The first pale blossom of the unripened year. -- Anna Letitia Barbauld
The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night. -- Alexander Smith
An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation. -- William Shakespeare
God hath yoked to guilt her pale tormentor,--misery. -- William C. Bryant
Have goals so big your problems pale in comparison. -- Grant Cardone
In pale moonlight / the wisteria's scent / comes from far away. -- Yosa Buson
As desire recedes, the world becomes clear, pale, and empty. -- Mason Cooley
These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives -- Cliff Burton
Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new. -- Cormac McCarthy
Her skin is pale as watermelon sucked free of its juices. -- Jaclyn Moriarty
He was Death, and he'd ridden in on a pale horse... -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I'm bald, blind and pale. I'm like a gigantic recessive gene. -- Jim Gaffigan
The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder. -- Juvenal
The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother -- Anna Freud
I'm pale-skinned so I don't feel at my best on a beach. -- Clive Anderson
I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small. -- Georg Brandes
Because I'm a pale person, I take care of my skin religiously. -- Dakota Fanning
Other things titillate me more keenly than the pale pleasures of marriage. -- Christina, Queen of Sweden
The horseman on the pale horse is Pestilence. He follows the wars. -- Ardel Wray
Colourful autumn is a tristful travel to the pale Planet of Melancholy! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100oC -- Umberto Eco
Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known. -- Carl Sagan
Earth is only a pale version of heaven, not the other way around. -- Greg Laurie
Convulsive anger storms at large; or pale And silent, settles into full revenge. -- John Tillotson
Napa cabbage is very beautiful, all those long, pale leaves with ruffled edges. -- Nobu Matsuhisa
Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Far out of sight forever stands the sea, Bounding the land with pale tranquillity. -- Yvor Winters
Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me -- Langston Hughes
I've been doing a pale imitation of Bill Murray for most of my career. -- Tom Hanks
She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death. -- Bram Stoker
No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. -- John Milton
The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun." -- William Shakespeare
In the woods where snow is thick, bars of sunlight lay like pale fire. -- Katherine Mansfield
He who would see old Hoghton right Must view it by the pale moonlight. -- William Hazlitt
With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail. -- Charles Churchill
Where, where for shelter shall the guilty fly, When consternation turns the good man pale? -- Edward Young
How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail! -- Alexander Pope
Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind. -- Will Durant
Memories have no life. They're just pale reminders of a time that's gone-like faded photographs. -- Kevin Brooks
That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts. -- William Shakespeare
Somewhere out there, beneath the pale moonlight, someone's thinking of me and loving me tonight. -- Linda Ronstadt
So fair, so cold; like a morning of pale spring still clinging to winter's chill. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale in insignificance. -- Joseph Bayly
You can't be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst. -- Jim Broadbent
Her eyes hold the pale moon in them, the way a still pond holds stars. -- Katherine Applegate
Iâ??m actually pale blue: it takes me a week of sunbathing to turn white. -- Billy Connolly
From haunted spring and dale Edg'd with poplar pale The parting genius is with sighing sent. -- John Milton
The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process. -- Virginia Woolf

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