Blue Quotes - Page 37

• It 's guid to be merry and wise, It 's guid to be honest and true, It 's guid to support Caledonia's cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.

  Robert Burns

  Wise, Honesty, Scotland

  Robert Burns, Gilbert BURNS, Allan Cunningham (1840). “The Works of Robert Burns. With Life by Allan Cunningham, and Notes by Gilbert Burns [and Others], Etc. [With a Portrait and Facsimiles.]”, p.436

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• When I haven't any blue I use red.

  Pablo Picasso

  Color, Red, Use

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• Even the weather page is in a state of moral decay. What?s wrong with red, white and blue, USA Today? This rainbow weather map is just another example of the homometerological agenda.

  Stephen Colbert

  Weather, Usa, White

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• For we constantly deal with practical problems, with molders, contractors, derricks, stone-men, ropes, builders, scaffoldings, marble assistants, bronze-men, trucks, rubbish men, plasterers, and what-not else, all the while trying to soar into the blue.

  Augustus Saint-Gaudens

  Perseverance, Trying, Rubbish

  "The Reminiscences of Augustus Saint-Gaudens".

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• ...the life of the planet began the long, slow process of modulating and regulating the physical conditions of the planet. The oxygen in today's atmosphere is almost entirely the result of photosynthetic living, which had its start with the appearance of blue-green algae among the microorganisms.

  Lewis Thomas

  Life, Science, Oxygen

  Lewis Thomas (1982). “The Nineteenth Cosmos Club Award, Lewis Thomas, M.D.”

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• Much scientific truth proved to be as hypothetical as poetic allegory. The relationshiip of those rod-connected blue and red balls to an actual atomic structure was about the same as the relationship of Christianity to the fish or the Lamb.

  Tom Robbins

  Truth, Balls, Lambs

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• There is one experiment which I always like to try, because it proves something whichever way it goes. A solution of iodine in water is shaken with bone-black, filtered and tested with starch paste. If the colorless solution does not turn the starch blue, the experiment shows how completely charcoal extracts iodine from aqueous solution. If the starch turns blue, the experiment shows that the solution, though apparently colorless, still contains iodine which can be detected by means of a sensitive starch test.

  Wilder Dwight Bancroft

  Mean, Science, Iodine

  Wilder Dwight Bancroft (1926). “Applied Colloid Chemistry, General Theory”

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• Kant, discussing the various modes of perception by which the human mind apprehends nature, concluded that it is specially prone to see nature through mathematical spectacles. Just as a man wearing blue spectacles would see only a blue world, so Kant thought that, with our mental bias, we tend to see only a mathematical world.

  James Jeans

  Nature, Science, Men

  Sir James Hopwood Jeans (2017). “The Mysterious Universe [New Revised Edition]”, p.115, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• They smoke cigarettes professionally. The smoke is inhaled very sharply and the teeth are bared.Then the head turns to give you a profile and the smoke is exhaled slowly and deliberately and the grey jet stream becomes a beautiful blue cloud of smoke.What are they trying to tell us?

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Beautiful, Clouds, Giving

  Jeffrey Bernard (1986). “Low life”

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• The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Taken, Mean

  Vincent van Gogh (1963). “Letters”, Atheneum Books for Young Readers

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• Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it?''

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Lonely, Dark, Sight

  'Fears in Solitude' (1798)

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• When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, house, a field....Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives your own naive impression of the scene before you.

  Claude Monet

  Art, Thinking, Squares

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• It's sad, because he just doesn't have any ambition outside of loving his wife and his daughter — which should be enough but doesn't seem to be enough in this case.

  Ryan Gosling

  Daughter, Mother, Valentine

  "Q&A: Love is blue, but Mom is boss for Ryan Gosling". Interview with Peter Howell, www.thestar.com. Sept. 15, 2010.

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• When I hit my 20s, I struggled to make it. I got married at 19, and my daughter, Je'Niece, was born a year later. I worked blue collar jobs during the day and comedy clubs at night, and I was earning about $25 a year doing stand-up.

  Bernie Mac

  Daughter, Mother, Jobs

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• When I'm born I'm black, when I grow up I'm black, when I'm in the sun I'm black, when I'm sick I'm black, when I die I'm black, and you...when you're born you're pink, when you grow up you're white, when you're cold you're blue, when you're sick you're green, when you die you're grey and you dare call me coloured.

  Malcolm X

  Growing Up, White, Sick

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• I said to my husband, 'my boobs have gone, my stomach's gone, say something nice about my legs.' He said, 'Blue goes with everything.'

  Joan Rivers

  Fashion, Husband, Nice

  "Joan Rivers dies: Celebrate comedian's life with her 80 bitchiest putdowns and funniest one-liners" by Steve Anglesey and Carl Greenwood, www.mirror.co.uk. September 04, 2014.

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• When I made Blue Moon Swamp, there was a lot of trial and error; I was trying to find people who would be simpatico with my style, and with what I had in mind for the album.

  John Fogerty

  Moon, Errors, People

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• Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you!

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Funny, Food, Health

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• ... do something. Pay your rent for the privilege of living on this beautiful, blue-green, living Earth.

  David Foreman

  Beautiful, Earth Day, Privilege

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• And having suffered for part of the war when I was a child. I was too young to really understand what was going on but one of my favorite pieces of animation now is that Goodbye Blue Sky in The Wall because that deals directly with that period in time.

  Gerald Scarfe

  Goodbye, Children, Wall

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• Blue and green should never be seen together, but the person wearing this mix, will be of interest.

  Jacques Cartier

  Fashion, Clothes, Together

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• When I was fifteen, I remember my mum taking me to the posh clothes shop on London Road to get my first grown-up coat. It was royal-blue and very adult, and I thought, Gosh, this is great! But when my mum said to the assistant, "What's the lowest price you'll take for this?" I nearly died of shame, and wanted to run away.

  Cilla Black

  Running, Clothes, Guilt

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• One of the makeup artists once dyed my dog blue with vegetable blue.

  Mia Kirshner

  Dog, Artist, Makeup

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• It was a beautiful, harmonious, peaceful-looking planet, blue with white clouds, and one that gave you a deep sense of home, of being, of identity. It is what I prefer to call instant global consciousness.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Beautiful, Home, Clouds

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• How do you like to go up in a swing,
  Up in the air so blue?
  Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
  Ever a child can do!
  Up in the air and over the wall,
  Till I can see so wide,
  River and trees and cattle and all
  Over the countryside.
  Till I look down on the garden green,
  Down on the roof so brown-
  Up in the air I go flying again,
  Up in the air and down!

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Summer, Children, Wall

  A Child's Garden of Verses "The Swing" l. 1 (1885)

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