Rainbow Quotes - Page 15

• Even for the people who are color-blind to any degree, I believe their experience would also be affected [ in Lords of Rainbow ] if everyone else too only perceived the world in colorless monochrome.

  Vera Nazarian

  Believe, Color, People

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.

  Hortense Calisher

  Children, Memories, Childhood

  Hortense Calisher (1971). “Queenie: a novel”, McNally & Loftin Publishers

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• I caught a tremendous fish
  and held him beside the boat
  half out of water, with my hook
  fast in a corner of his mouth.
  He didn't fight.
  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  I stared and stared
  and victory filled up
  the little rented boat
  from the pool of bilge
  where oil had spread a rainbow
  around the rusted engine
  to the bailer rusted orange,
  the sun-cracked thwarts
  the oarlocks on their strings,
  the gunnels-until everything
  was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!
  And I let the fish go.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Fighting, Orange, Filled Up

  "The Fish" l. 74 (1946)

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• I think you should, yeah. You should wash your beard, then shave it off, nail it to a Frisbee and fling it over a rainbow.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

  "Black Books". www.imdb.com. 2000–2004.

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• Your ego may be just a soap bubble. Maybe for a few seconds it will remain, rising higher in the air. Perhaps for a few seconds it may have a rainbow, but it is only for a few seconds. In this infinite and eternal existence your egos go on bursting every moment. It is better not to have any attachment with soap bubbles.

  Rajneesh

  Air, Attachment, Ego

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• In our world, I rank music somewhere between hair ribbons and rainbows in terms of usefulness.

  Suzanne Collins

  Our World, Hair, Ribbons

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.206, Scholastic Inc.

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• Emma hears me come up the stairs and asks me to watch a movie with her. I stick Band-Aids on my weeping cuts, put on pink pajamas so we match, and snuggle with her under her rainbow comforter. She arranges all of her stuffed animals around us in a circle, everyone facing the TV, then presses play...Ghosts dare not enter here.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Cutting, Animal, Play

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• Drinks like this tend to get called Traffic Lights or Rainbow's Revenge or, in places where truth is more highly valued, Hello and Good-Bye, Mr. Brain Cell.

  Terry Pratchett

  Revenge, Light, Cells

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• Autumn leaves shower like gold, like rainbows, as the winds of change begin to blow, signaling the later days of autumn.

  Dan Millman

  Autumn, Blow, Wind

  Dan Millman (1995). “The Life You Were Born to Live: A Guide to Finding Your Life Purpose”, p.418, H J Kramer

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• Truth and Beauty (perhaps Keats was wrong in identifying them: perhaps they have the relation of Wit and Humour, or Rain and Rainbow) are of interest only to hungry people. There are several kinds of hunger. If Socrates, Spinoza, and Santayana had had free access to a midnight icebox we would never have heard of them. Shall I be ashamed of my little mewing truths?... I ask to be forgiven: they are such tiny ones.

  Christopher Morley

  Philosophy, Rain, People

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• Gay is a subculture, a slur, a set of gestures, a slang, a look, a posture, a parade, a rainbow flag, a film genre, a taste in music, a hairstyle, a marketing demographic, a bumper sticker, a political agenda and philosophical viewpoint. Gay is a pre-packaged, superficial persona-a lifestyle. It's a sexual identity that has almost nothing to do with sexuality.

  Jack Donovan

  Philosophical, Gay, Political

  "Anrophilia: A Manifesto: Rejecting the Gay Identity, Reclaiming Masculinity". Book by Jack Donovan, 2006.

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• We do not always see the things that are nearest to us. We pass by riches that lie close at hand and chase after rainbows.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Lying, Hands, Riches

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• Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found it resulted merely from the refraction of the sunlight by the raindrops. Yet knowledge of its causation could not spoil the rainbow for me. I am sure that it is not given to man to be omniscient. There will always be something left to know, something to excite the imagination of the poet and those attuned to the great world in which they live (p. 64)

  Robert Frost

  Boys, Men, Imagination

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• A man of many seasons and many rainbows - there are so many dimensions of celebration.

  Rajneesh

  Men, Celebration, Seasons

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• Waiting for the winds of change to sweep the clouds away. Waiting for the rainbow's end to cast its gold your way ... You don't get something for nothing. You can't have freedom for free

  Neil Peart

  Change, Freedom, Clouds

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• Rainbow drops - suck them and you can spit in six different colours.

  Roald Dahl

  Different, Six, Spit

  Roald Dahl (1977). “Charlie and the chocolate factory”

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• Thunderstorms and rainbows wrapped together in a convenient pocket-sized parcel.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Cute, Together, Pockets

  Lisa Kleypas (2011). “Scandal In Spring: Number 4 in series”, p.41, Hachette UK

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• The flash of rain, the shining rainbow riding completely around the plane, the lift over mountain ridges, the steady, pure air at dawn take-offs. ... It was so alive and rich a life that any other conceivable choice seemed dull, prosaic, and humdrum.

  Dean Smith

  Rain, Air, Shining

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• Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows, Help us to see That without the dust the rainbow Would not be.

  Langston Hughes

  Dust, Helping

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• Not long ago I learned from a certain person in considerable detail about the worthlessness of your character. All the same, it is you who have given me strength, you who have put the rainbow of revolution in my breast. It is you who have given an object to my life.

  Osamu Dazai

  Character, Long Ago, Revolution

  Osamu Dazai (1968). “The Setting Sun”, p.174, New Directions Publishing

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• As I watch, the sky fills with clouds of snow feathers from every kind of bird there ever was and even some that only exist in the imagination, like the bluebirds that fly over the rainbow.

  Kate Atkinson

  Clouds, Sky, Snow

  Kate Atkinson (2013). “Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel”, p.170, Macmillan

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• I have had my dance with Folly, nor do I shirk the blame; I have sipped the so-called Wine of Life and paid the price of shame; But I know that I shall find surcease, the rest my spirit craves, Where the rainbows play in the flying spray, 'Mid the keen salt kiss of the waves.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Wine, Kissing, Play

  Eugene O'Neill, Donald Clifford Gallup (1980). “Poems, 1912-1944”, Ticknor & Fields, 1980

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• It always amazes me to look at the little, wrinkled brown seeds and think of the rainbows in 'em," said Captain Jim. "When I ponder on them seeds I don't find it nowise hard to believe that we've got souls that'll live in other worlds. You couldn't hardly believe there was life in them tiny things, some no bigger than grains of dust, let alone colour and scent, if you hadn't seen the miracle, could you?

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Believe, Thinking, Dust

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “L. M. MONTGOMERY – Premium Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry & Autobiography (Including Anne Shirley Novels, Chronicles of Avonlea & The Story Girl Series): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, The Golden Road, Kilmeny of the Orchard, The Watchman, Songs of the Sea & many more”, p.757, e-artnow

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• Kids are always chasing rainbows, but baseball is a world where you can catch them.

  Johnny Vander Meer

  Baseball, Kids, Chasing Rainbows

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• Wanna rock you, girl, with a butterfly tunic. / No, I'm not gay, I'm just your emo enuch. / Gonna smile real shy, won't cop a feel, / 'cause I'm your virgin crush, your supersafe deal. / Let those other guys keep sexing. / You and me, we be texting / 'bout unicorns and rainbows and our perfect love. / Girl, we fit together like a hand in a glove. / Now I don't mean that nasty, tell your mum don't get mad. / I even wrote 'You're awesome' on your maxi pads.

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Crush, Emo

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