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.

- Jenny Eclair

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

- Warren Buffett

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

- Tom Peters

As it fell upon a day in the merry month of May, sitting in a pleasant shade which a grove of myrtles made.

- Richard Barnfield

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

- Robert Browning

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

- Norman Parkinson

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

- Leo Buscaglia

I adore Smashbox lip stains. I carry a natural color for daytime and a berry shade for going out at night.

- Jennifer Morrison

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

- John le Carre

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.

- Archibald MacLeish

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

- Jane Austen

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

- Edward Abbey

The most versatile lipstick you can own is a shade that's just a bit brighter than your natural lip color.

- Bobbi Brown

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

- Benjamin Franklin

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

- Baltasar Gracian

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.

- Anu Garg

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.

- Antoine Predock