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The moon is essentially gray, no color. It looks like plaster of Paris, like dirty beach sand with lots of footprints in it.


James A. Lovell

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The moon is essentially gray, no color; looks like plaster of Paris or sort of a grayish beach sand.
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EUGENE CERNAN The moon is bland in color. I call it shades of gray. You know, the only color we see is what we bri...
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ALBERTO GIACOMETTI I used a kind of gray-green early on in my practice for painting steel, to make it look more like it...
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PAUL ROBESON Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
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VARUN AHUJA The color of truth is gray.
ANDRE GIDE the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, ...
JODI PICOULT If therefore you shall be remembered for what you did with what you had more than what you had, use ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Some people see acting as a kind of stroll on the beach, and some people see it as a kind of skydive...
AMANDA HALE Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.
JAPANESE PROVERB Boys and girls like color, lots of different colors from floor to ceiling,
DEBBIE TRAVIS You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like...
BEBE REXHA Love is like quick sand, if u fall in it then there is no way out.
KAZI SHAMS I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... Drowning his misery with alcohol and junk food was like sticking plaster on an infected cut. It mask...
JAY NORTHCOTE Her caramel skin and curly beach sand hair spreads in wavy chops like the choppy storm waves on the ...
AMI BLACKWELDER I like a real beach. A crowded one, you know? People, towels, umbrellas. I hate those little private...
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY It looks like it is all in line with expectations.
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BRUCE LEE The moon will never lie to anyone. Be like the moon. No one hates the moon or wants to kill it. The ...
HENRY ROLLINS I speak the truth. Not everyone who says they are ready to hear it really are.
MONIKA ZANDS A lot of gentlemen who are 40 or over are blending away their gray with semipermanent color. It cove...
JENNIFER HALL A dirty player is somebody who ultimately is trying to hurt somebody. There's a huge difference....
NDAMUKONG SUH During one new moon at perigee, I stood on high ground, watching salt ponds overflow, cover the beac...
LUANNE RICE Memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.
JODI PICOULT No more pencils/no more books/no more teachers’ dirty looks/when the teacher rings the bell/drop y...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We walked on the moon. We made footprints somewhere no one else had ever made footprints, and unless...
FRANK COTTRELL BOYCE I like the word clandestine. It feels medieval. Sometimes I think of words as being alive. If clande...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaste...
WILLIAM JAMES Concrete is, essentially, the color of bad weather.
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OLEG MANAEV Spending money is like pouring water into sand and earning it is like taking water back from sand.
VIKRANT PARSAI We had one make a direct strike, in 1821. We believe, by all records, it was a Category 3, with 112 ...
DAVE ROBINSON To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN I said, I prefer the ocean when it's gray. Or not really gray. A pale, in-between color. It reminds ...
LAUREN OLIVER Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.
Things are the only hidden meaning ...
ALBERTO CAEIRO There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Chan...
JODI PICOULT It looks like Hiroshima is what it looks like,
HALEY BARBOUR I'm sure with the groove he's in, everything looks like a beach ball to him. I don't think we're mak...
SCOTT BAKER Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people ...
JODI PICOULT Everyday, you leave a footprint!
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Like Godfather, you look at a movie like that, or something that James Gray has directed, a film wit...
BILL SIENKIEWICZ The sand was smooth. The damp morning fog had hardened its top layer and the heat of the day had set...
VICTORIA KAHLER We can make anything with sand. People like it because it captures the kid in them.
DAVE HENDERSON Why is it that, in spite of all the mirrors in the world, no one really knows what he looks like?
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Certainly there's a lot less sand behind those breakwaters since Hurricane Katrina, ... But, having ...
GREGORY STONE If I see everything in gray, and in gray all the colors which I experience and which I would like to...
ALBERTO GIACOMETTI Aye, well, I've got my garden.
LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing.
LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds,
LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument.
LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ...
LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w...
LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t...
LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec...
LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
LIKE I Married to the Mob.
LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge.
LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
LIKE I On a sea floor that looks like a sandy mud bottom, that at first glance might appear to be sand and ...
SYLVIA EARLE Time is like a handful of sand- the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers
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JAMES A. GARFIELD A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.
JAMES A. GARFIELD If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze...
JAMES A. BALDWIN The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
JAMES A. GARFIELD Instead of showing visibly distinct alternate identities, the typical DID patient presents a polysym...
JAMES A. CHU