Color Quotes - Page 12

• Whatever colors you have in your mind, I'll show them to you and you'll see them shine.

  Bob Dylan

  Shining, Mind, Shows

  Song: Lay, Lady, Lay, Album: Nashville Skyline, 1969

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• You see, to me, for just a moment, despite all of the colors that touch and grapple with what I see in this world, I will often catch an eclipse when a human dies. I've seen millions of them. I've seen more eclipses than I care to remember

  Markus Zusak

  World, Care, Remember

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.11, RH Childrens Books

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• Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.

  Herman Melville

  Health, Differences, Orange

  1891 Billy Budd, Foretopman (first published1924), ch.21.

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• Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and taught others the theory of ideas which they had and he had not. In the social sphere these gifted ones are mostly women; they can watch a world which they never saw, and estimate forces of which they have only heard. We call it intuition.

  Thomas Hardy

  Ideas, Intuition, Saws

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• Great minds may have cold hearts. Form but no color. It is an incompleteness. And so they are afraid of any woman who both thinks and feels deeply.

  Sena Jeter Naslund

  Heart, Thinking, Mind

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• What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.

  Annie Dillard

  Lying, Holiness, Stuff

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• … people didn't seem to be able to remember what it was like with the elves around. Life was certainly more interesting then, but usually because it was shorter. And it was more colorful, if you liked the color of blood.

  Terry Pratchett

  Blood, People, Interesting

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• It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.

  Anthony Burgess

  Life, Real, Orange

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• With blue vinyl-tile floor, pale-green wainscoating, pink walls, a yellow ceiling, and orange-and-white stork-patterned drapes, the expectant fathers' lounge churned with the negative energy of color overload. It would have served well as the nervous-making set for a nightmare about a children's-show host who led a secret life as an ax murderer. The chain-smoking clown didn't improve the ambience.

  Dean Koontz

  Children, Wall, Father

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Life Expectancy”, p.8, Bantam

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• I'm gonna do the whole bedroom in camel color - it's an old lady color.

  Amy Sedaris

  Camels, Bedroom, Old Lady

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• I come home that morning, after I been fired, and stood outside my house with my new work shoes on. The shoes my mama paid a month's worth a light bill for. I guess that's when I understood what shame was and the color of it too. Shame ain't black, like dirt, like I always thought it was. Shame be the color of a new white uniform your mother ironed all night to pay for, white without a smudge or a speck a work-dirt on it.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Mother, Morning, Home

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.162, Penguin

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• My mother is convinced that yellow is a happy color and that a happy girl would get a husband. -Penelope Featherington

  Julia Quinn

  Marriage, Girl, Mother

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• And even if you didn't fall in love in the eighties, in your mind it will feel like the eighties, all innocent and airbrushed, with bright colors and shoulder pads and Pat Benetar or the Cure on the soundtrack.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Falling In Love, Mind, Pads

  Jonathan Tropper (2009). “This Is Where I Leave You: A Novel”, p.44, Penguin

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• They that are against Superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I will wear all colours but black, then am I superstitious in not wearing black.

  John Selden

  Running, Wearing Black, Superstitions

  "Table Talk, Being the Discourses of John Selden".

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• From when I was a really small girl on, I would pick every fabric, every color on the walls, and I was always redecorating. Like once every couple of months I would redecorate my room. I had a full wall that was all collage - the entire wall - when I was in junior high. And then it would kind of morph with me as I was growing.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Girl, Wall, Couple

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• I support any procedure that allows photographers to express themselves, whether that involves color, black and white, platinum, palladium and digital technology.

  John Sexton

  Black And White, Artist, Technology

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• Go to a wig store with your girlfriends, never by yourself. You need someone to say, 'Girl that looks good!' You need someone to encourage you to try pieces on. Try to purchase a wig close to your natural hair color as possible, don't come in with brown hair and try to leave as a redhead unless you are fine with that!

  Sherri Shepherd

  Girl, Hair, Trying

  "Behind the Brush: Wiggin’ Out with Sherri Shepherd". "Ebony" Interview, www.ebony.com. December 13, 2012.

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• You know, I love all kinds of activism. I certainly think blacks deserve to have something whether it is affirmative action or an opportunity that should be opened up to them. But at the same time I believe that people of color are not the only poor people in America and all over the world.

  Russell Simmons

  Believe, Opportunity, Thinking

  "More Questions with Russell Simmons". content.time.com. May 3, 2007.

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• There's tons of little tricks that that go into making the perfect shoe, but I think color, comfort is really important and different sizes of heels.

  Jessica Simpson

  Thinking, Shoes, Perfect

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• Major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound skepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.

  Barbara Smith

  White, People, Profound

  "Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism".

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• In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds, the smells that lodge an image in the mind and put the listener in the burning house.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Powerful, Smell, House

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• So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and hold someone's hand and not have to say anything.

  Alice Sebold

  Quilts, Hands, Cake

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.229, Pan Macmillan

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• Well... I had braces and I had to wear headgear! I loved my braces, actually. For me, they were like a piece of jewelry! Instead of the silver or pewter I had gold braces. It was so much fun, I loved them. I got to change the colors and stuff and I had the rubber bands.

  Jordin Sparks

  Fun, Gold, Rubber Bands

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• It's meant to be pretty," whispers Octavia, and I can see the tears threatening to spill over her lashes. Posy considers this and says matter-of-factly, "I think you'd be pretty in any color." The tiniest of smiles forms on Octavia's lips. "Thank you.

  Suzanne Collins

  Thinking, Tears, Matter

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.63, Scholastic Inc.

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• Cause' I don't wanna' spend my life jaded, waiting to wake up one day and find that I've let all these years go by wasted. Oh I don't wanna' keep on wishing, missing, but still every morning the color of the night, I ain't spending no more time wasted.

  Carrie Underwood

  Morning, Night, Years

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