Grey Levels

Famous quotes containing the words grey and/or levels:

    “We have not the slightest idea that women are made of such light material that the breath of any fool or knave may blow them on the rocks of ruin.”
    —Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)

    “Pushkin’s composition is first of all and above all a phenomenon of style, and it is from this flowered rim that I have surveyed its seep of Arcadian country, the serpentine gleam of its imported brooks, the miniature blizzards imprisoned in round crystal, and the many-hued levels of literary parody blending in the melting distance.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)