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60 Best Black and White Quotes

List Of 60 Best Black and White Quotes:

#1 Michael Palin

“I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so.”

#2 Petek Kabakci

“For grey matter, there is no black and white. If you think in black and white, then you do not use enough brain functions.”

#3 Anthony T.Hincks

“A zebra will never see the funny side of things because he is always thinking in black & white.”

#4 Tilicia Haridat

“Don’t ever let the light of your soul dim, even if the world seems black and white.”

#5 Bradley Cooper

”I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you’re gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like that. But I don’t believe that anymore.”

#6 Van Morrison

”There is no black-and-white situation. It’s all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.”

#7 David W. Earle

“Black and white thinking limits understanding and feedback, two necessary ingredients for a successful resolution in creative conflict and successful understanding.”

#8 Andri Cauldwell

“To see in color is a delight for the eye but to see in black and white is a delight for the soul.”

#9 Jim Lehrer

”There are very few really stark black and white stories.”

#10 Emily Giffin

”Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I like exploring this nuanced terrain.”

#11 Naveen Jain

”The human brain works as a binary computer and can only analyze the exact information-based zeros and ones (or black and white). Our heart is more like a chemical computer that uses fuzzy logic to analyze information that can’t be easily defined in zeros and ones.”

#12 Brian Molko

”I believe very strongly that when it comes to desire, when it comes to attraction, that things are never black and white, things are very much shades of grey.”

#13 Pilou Asbaek

”Life is not black and white; there is some gray nuance to it.”

#14 Graham Greene

”Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.”

#15 Joe Wurzelbacher

”I don’t believe there’s two sides to every story. It’s black and white. There’s right and wrong.”

#16 Kriti Sanon

”We are all somewhere or the other a little grey, not black and white. We have our imperfections.”

#17 Rebecca Solnit

”There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.”

#18 Joel Sternfeld

”Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.”

#19 Zayn Malik

”Everything is very black and white for me. I don’t really like playing mind games.”

#20 Ridley Scott

”Life isn’t black and white. It’s a million gray areas, don’t you find?”

#21 Lisa Ling

”There’s so much grey to every story – nothing is so black and white.”

#22 Norman Podhoretz

“The fear of blacks has become the dirty little secret of our political culture.”

#23 Catherine Zeta-JonesCatherine Zeta-Jones

”Being glamorous is about strength and confidence. It’s black and white – dramatic. You have to be strong. ”

#24 Kenneth Eade

“The truth never had any shades of grey – there was always a discernible line between black and white.”

#25 Greg Rusedski

”It’s about you. If you win, it’s you; if you lose, it’s you. Black and white. Nowhere to hide.”

#26 A.J. Darkholme

“The ignorance of the world often makes people believe that life should be black and white – that you must choose sides – and so the world of colorful gradients goes unadmired.”

#27 Maureen O’Hara

”In the beginning, it was all black and white.”

#28 David W. Earle

“When I learned about the gray existing between the black and white of absolute terms, I began to experience more peace. The more I expanded my gray areas (more than 50 shades), the more peace I experienced in my life.”

#29 Jonathan Carroll

“The angel said, “I like black-and-white films more than color because they’re more artificial. You have to work harder to overcome your disbelief. It’s sort of like prayer.”

#30 Benicio Del Toro

”I don’t see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.”

#31 Leonard Nimoy

“Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white… to highlight that contrast.”

#32 Anthony Liccione

“In the beginning, some people try to appear that everything about them is “in black and white,” until later their true colors come out.”

#33 Bill Skarsgard

“In movies, we tend to make things black and white: you’re either this, or you’re that.”

#34 Mehmet Murat ildan

“A country where there are no freedoms is a black and white country; it is colorless and lifeless. Such a country needs nothing but colors, nothing but freedoms!”

#35 Doris Lessing

”Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.”

#36 Paul Dano

“In tragedy, it’s hard to find a good resolution; it’s not black and white: it’s a big fog of gray.”

#37 Vikrmn

“Black and white is salt and pepper of colors, for life tastes bland without them.”

#38 Jack Antonoff

”Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can.”

#39 Cecelia Ahern

“I know the difference between right and wrong. I understand the rules. But today I feel that the rules have been blurred, because today they were literally on my front doorstep.”

#40 Fay Godwin

”Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don’t know.” 

#41 Stuart Pearce

“The way I was brought up by my parents and guided through my football life by the influences of various managers means that in some ways I am black and white.”

#42 Anthony T.Hincks

“Even when your life is full of color, you still need to be reminded that things come in black and white.”

#43 Laura Schlessinger

“When you’re the victim of the behavior, it’s black and white; when you’re the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.”

#44 Emma Hill

“The first draft is black and white. Editing gives the story color.”

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#45 Heidi KlumHeidi Klum

“I don’t know why we work, my husband and I. We just do. We are black and white – yin and yang.”

#46 John Gerzema

”Everywhere, people are beginning to question masculine notions of control, aggression and black-and-white thinking – and instead are favoring more empathetic, nurturing and collaborative approaches. ”

#47 Caleb Reese

“Books bring alluring colors to our mundane black and white world.”

#48 Evan Rachel Wood

”I’ve struggled with gender norms my whole life, always feeling like I wasn’t black-and-white; I was in this gray area, and gray areas really scare people because you can’t define them.”

#49 Frank Lentricchia

“Our personal past is only available to us now through black-and-white film, it’s a medium for communication with the dead, including our dead selves, the way we used to be, which is why we’re drawn to it.”

#50 Christopher Hitchens

”George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as ‘evil.’ Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism. ”

#51 Monty Python

“My philosophy, like color television, is all there in black and white”

#52 Sweety Shinde

“No person is completely wicked, just as no person is perfect. We are all grey”

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#53 Louis Aragon

“Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.”

#54 Vikrmn

“The most colorful thing in the world is black and white, it contains all colors and at the same time excludes all.”

#55 Steve Nash

”Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that’s why people gravitate to that so much.”

#56 Kami Garcia

“Mortals. Everything is so black and white to you.”

#57 Caroline Knapp

”Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts.”

#58 Robert Frank

“The eye should learn to listen before it looks.”

#59 Raina Telgemeier

”I used to rely on black-and-white, and while I was working on ‘Smile,’ I learned to adapt to color on my end.”

#60 C. JoyBell C

“When I was a little girl, everything in the world fell into either of these two categories: wrong or right. Black or white. Now that I am an adult, I have put childish things aside and now I know that some things fall into wrong and some things fall into right. Some things are categorized as black and some things are categorized as white. But most things in the world aren’t either! Most things in the world aren’t black, aren’t white, aren’t wrong, aren’t right, but most of everything is just different. And now I know that there’s nothing wrong with different, and that we can let things be different, we don’t have to try and make them black or white, we can just let them be grey.”

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