Blue Quotes - Page 34

• His eyes are blue, and blue eyes up close are a celestial phenomenon: nebulae as seen through telescopes, the light of unnamed stars diffused through dusts and elements and endlessness. Layers of light. Blue eyes are starlight.

  Laini Taylor

  Stars, Eye, Light

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• Nico di Angelo ran up to me with a big grin on his face. "Percy, this is awesome!" His blue-feathered bronze helmet was falling in his eyes, and his breastplate was about six sizes too big. I wondered if there was any way I'd looked that ridiculous when I'd first arrived.

  Rick Riordan

  Fall, Eye, Way

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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• I dont know whether you've ever looked into a miner's eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you've ever seen. I think perhaps that's why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.

  Alan Bennett

  Time, Eye, Thinking

  Alan Bennett (2007). “Writing Home”, p.590, Macmillan

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• Before I go to meet my Maker, I want to use the salt left in my shaker. I want to find out if it's true The Blue Danube is really blue, Before I kiss the world goodbye.

  Howard Dietz

  Death, Goodbye, Kissing

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• I want free life, and I want fresh air;
  And I sigh for the canter after the cattle,
  The crack of the whip like shots in battle,
  The medley of horns, and hoofs, and heads
  That wars, and wrangles, and scatters and spreads;
  The green beneath and the blue above,
  And dash, and danger, and life and love.

  Frank Desprez

  Life And Love, Freedom, War

  Frank Desprez, “Laska”

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• It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.

  Millard Fuller

  Life, Graduation, Humorous

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• Her blue eyes sought the west afar,
  For lovers love the western star.

  Walter Scott

  Love, Life, Stars

  Sir Walter Scott (1855). “The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott”, p.31

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• So What or Kind of Blue were done in that era, the right hour, the right day. It's over; it's on the record.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Done, Records

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• If I were to choose the sights, the sounds, the fragrances I most would want to see and hear and smell--among all the delights of the open world--on a final day on earth, I think I would choose these: the clear, ethereal song of a white-throated sparrow singing at dawn; the smell of pine trees in the heat of the noon; the lonely calling of Canada geese; the sight of a dragon-fly glinting in the sunshine; the voice of a hermit thrush far in a darkening woods at evening; and--most spiritual and moving of sights--the white cathedral of a cumulus cloud floating serenely in the blue of the sky.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Spiritual, Song, Lonely

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• Each soul has its appointed doom. How is it you dare to raise a mortal boy so high - high enough to flout the gods? Bring godhead where a man may reach out and take it? growls Enlil, and lightning splits a clear blue sky.

  Janet Morris

  Love, God, Men

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.358, Paradise Publishing

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• I am very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is deficient. It gives a lot of factual information, puts all our experience in a magnificently consistent order, but it is ghastly silent about all and sundry that is really near to our heart, that really matters to us. It cannot tell us a word about red and blue, bitter and sweet, physical pain and physical delight; it knows nothing of beautiful and ugly, good or bad, God and eternity.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Beautiful, Sweet, Pain

  "Nature and the Greeks". Book by Erwin Schrodinger, 1954.

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• I'm sad and blue, about nobody but you. I told you that I loved you right from the start, you told me the same and now you try to break my little heart.

  Leon Redbone

  Broken Heart, Trying, Littles

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• Bravery is a complicated thing to describe. You can't say it's three feet long and two feet wide and that it weighs four hundred pounds or that it's colored bright blue or that it sounds like a piano or that it smells like roses. It's a quality, not a thing.

  Mickey Mantle

  Courage, Piano, Smell

  Mickey Mantle (1964). “The Quality of Courage”, p.28, U of Nebraska Press

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• It is easy to suppose that few people realize on that occasion, which comes to all of us, when we look at the blue sky for the first time, that is to say: not merely see it, but look at it and experience it and for the first time have a sense that we live in the center of a physical poetry, a geography that would be intolerable except for the non-geography that exists there - few people realize that they are looking at the world of their own thoughts and the world of their own feelings.

  Wallace Stevens

  Sky, People, Feelings

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination”, p.65, Vintage

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• Each band or level, being a particular manifestation of the spectrum, is what it is only by virtue of the other bands. The color blue is no less beautiful because it exists along side the other colors of a rainbow, and "blueness" itself depends upon the existence of the other colors, for if there were no color but blue, we would never be able to see it.

  Ken Wilber

  Beautiful, Color, Rainbow

  "The Spectrum of Consciousness". Book by Ken Wilber, 1993.

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• I think Virgin Blue is still a very promising and exciting business.
  Now, I know that's not a view that's widely held in the market but I think the market is simply throwing it into the too-hard basket at the present time because of the oil price events.
  But we think it is still a very exciting business.

  Chris Corrigan

  Inspirational, Business, Optimistic

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• Meanwhile, as we read, two little girls slept as if couched on zephyrs on the south side of the parlor floor, in a room that had bunny wallpaper...and a bookcase crammed with the collected Beatrix Potter. Snow White was in a youth bed and Rose Red was in a crib, and next to them was the little blue and white guest room that one of them would have one day. Because I recognize emotions only in retrospect, I didn't know that I was happy. As always, there was something nagging at my mind's corners. But I did know that I had all that it is proper in this world to wish for.

  Mary Cantwell

  Happiness, Girl, Two

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• Each new development starts from something else. It does not come out of a blue sky. You make use of that which has already entered the mind.... That is the real reason for accumulating knowledge.

  Robert Crawford

  Real, Knowledge, Sky

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• Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the Universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the Universe going.

  Stephen Hawking

  Light, Law, Religion

  "The Grand Design". Book by Stephen Hawking, 2010.

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• Ev'ry heart beats true 'neath the Red, White and Blue

  George M. Cohan

  4th Of July, Heart, White

  "You're a Grand Old Flag" by George M. Cohan, 1906.

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• To be a writer is to sit down at one's desk in the chill portion of every day, and to write; not waiting for the little jet of the blue flame of genius to start from the breastbone - just plain going at it, in pain and delight. To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again, and once more, and over and over...

  John Hersey

  Pain, Writing, Flames

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• Tis like the birthday of the world,
  When earth was born in bloom;
  The light is made of many dyes,
  The air is all perfume:
  There's crimson buds, and white and blue,
  The very rainbow showers
  Have turned to blossoms where they fell,
  And sown the earth with flowers.

  Thomas Hood

  Spring, Flower, White

  Thomas Hood (1860). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood”, p.176

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• Spring has again returned.
  The Earth is like a child that knows many poems.
  Many, O so many. For the hardship
  of such long learning she receives the prize.
  
  Strict was her teacher.
  The white in the old man's beard pleases us.
  Now, what to call green, to call blue,
  we dare to ask: She knows, She knows!

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Teacher, Children, Spring

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• How many million Aprils came before I ever knew how white a cherry bough could be, a bed of squills, how blue And many a dancing April when life is done with me, will lift the blue flame of the flower and the white flame of the tree Oh burn me with your beauty then, oh hurt me tree and flower, lest in the end death try to take even this glistening hour.

  Sara Teasdale

  Hurt, Spring, Flower

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.1, Рипол Классик

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• Lilacs, False Blue, White, Purple,
  Colour of lilac,
  Your great puffs of flowers
  Are everywhere in this my New England ...
  Lilacs in dooryards
  Holding quiet conversation with an early moon;
  Lilacs watching a deserted house; ...
  Lilacs, wind-beaten, staggering under a lopsided shock of bloom,
  You are everywhere.

  Amy Lowell

  Spring, Flower, Moon

  Amy Lowell, “Lilacs”

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