Color Quotes - Page 19

• You don't play a game or color a picture with a child to show your superiority. Rather, you choose to limit yourself so as to facilitate and honor that relationship.

  William P. Young

  Children, Games, Play

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• A writer does not own words any more than a painter owns colors. So lets dispense with this originality fetish… Look, listen and transcribe and forget about being original.

  William S. Burroughs

  Doe, Looks, Originality

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• I eased back on my elbows, tilting my head back to look up at the sky, which was pinkish, streaked with red. This was the time we knew best, that stretch of day going from dusk to dark. It seemed like we were always waiting for nighttime here. I could feel the trampoline easing up and down, moved by our own breathing, bringing us in small increments up and back from the sky as the colors faded, slowly, and the stars began to show themselves.

  Sarah Dessen

  Stars, Dark, Sky

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.31, Penguin

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• And red is not the color of apples or roses or the dresses that pretty girls wear in the summertime. That is not the color of red at all.

  Rick Yancey

  Girl, Apples, Rose

  Rick Yancey (2012). “The Isle of Blood”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• Well Vin says that there's something behind all this, right? Some evil force of doom or whatever? Well, if I were said force of doom, then I certainly wouldn't have used my powers to turn the land black. It just lacks flair. Red. Now, that would be an interesting color. Think of the possibilities--if the ash were red, the rivers would run like blood. Black is so monotonous that you can forget about it, but red--you'd always be thinking, 'Why, look at that. That hill is red. That evil force of doom trying to destroy me certainly has style.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Running, Thinking, Blood

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.1499, Macmillan

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• You can say anything with a Post-It. I’m not entirely sure why that is. Maybe the friendliness of the squares makes it easier. A square is nicely compact and less intimidating than a full page. And they come in cheerful colors. Non-white paper is kind of inherently festive. Or maybe paper that sticks feels more important than paper that can blow away. (Though you can move them, if you need to put them somewhere else.) They might not be as lasting as words carved in stone, but Post-It thoughts will stay. For awhile, at least.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Moving, Blow, Squares

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• There was a new kind of strength in the gravity of her face, and her colors still gave her that look of deep-seated health and ardor.

  Willa Cather

  Looks, Faces, Kind

  Willa Cather (2012). “My Ántonia”, p.168, Courier Corporation

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• Chronicler picked up his pen, but before he could dip it, Kvothe held up a hand. "Let me say one thing before I start. I've told stories in the past, painted pictures with words, told hard lies and harder truths. Once, I sang colors to a blind man. Seven hours I played, but at the end he said he saw them, green and red and gold. That, I think, was easier than this. Trying to make you understand her with nothing more than words. You have never seen her, never heard her voice. You cannot know.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Lying, Past, Men

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• There is no idea so bad that it cannot be made to look brilliant with the proper application of fonts and color.

  Scott Adams

  Ideas, Looks, Fonts

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• The world that was not mine yesterday now lies spread out at my feet, a splendor. I seem, in the middle of the night, to have returned to the world of apples, the orchards of Heaven. Perhaps I should take my problems to a shrink, or perhaps I should enjoy the apples that I have, streaked with color like the evening sky.

  John Cheever

  Lying, Night, Sky

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• I like black for clothes, small items, and jewelry. It's a color that can't be violated by any other colors. A color that simply keeps being itself. A color that sinks more somberly than any other color, yet asserts itself more than all other colors. It's a passionate gallant color. Anything is wonderful if it transcends things rather than being halfway.

  Yana Toboso

  Clothes, Black, Passionate

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• you wouldn't happen to have a pipe and a bit of tobacco about, would- i heard that! gandalf enjoyed a good pipe! why do you think he's called gandalf the gray? it wasn't for the color of his robes

  Margaret Weis

  Thinking, Quit Smoking, Gray

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• As soon as I turned the key I saw it hanging, the color of fire and sunset. the colour of flamboyant flowers. ‘If you are buried under a flamboyant tree, ‘ I said, ‘your soul is lifted up when it flowers. Everyone wants that.’ She shook her head but she did not move or touch me.

  Jean Rhys

  Flower, Moving, Sunset

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• That's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you don't care whether things are true or false as long as they partake of the magical glory.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Loss, Giving, Long

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2010). “A Life in Letters”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• Not Exactly True That skin hate is dead. There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear. But when you live afraid of your neighbor, the monster you should most walk in terror of thrives. It starts as a little thing, small enough to burrow into your pores, take up excruciating residence in the dark recesses of your brain. Its name is paranoia, and it spreads like an oil spill, there in the shadows, chokes your humanity. Threatens your soul.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Hate, Dark, Oil

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Perfect”, p.325, Simon and Schuster

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• My first vision of earth was water veiled. I am of the race of men and women who see all things through this curtain of sea and my eyes are the color of water.

  Anais Nin

  Eye, Men, Race

  "House of Incest". Book by Anais Nin, 1936.

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• ...they told me of color, that it was an illusion of the eye, an event in the perceiver's mind, not in the object; they told me that color had no reality; indeed, they told me that color did not inhere in a physical body any more than pain was in a needle. And then they imprisoned me in darkness; and though there was no color there, I still was black, and they still were white; and for that, they bound and gagged me.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Pain, Eye, Reality

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• I'm the guy who reputedly denies that people experience colors or pains, and thinks that thermostats think — just ask my critics.

  Daniel Dennett

  Pain, Thinking, People

  Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart.

  Bono

  Heart, Greed, Use

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• Without memories to cloud it, the mind perceives with absolute clarity. Each observation stands out in stark relief. In the beginning, when there's not yet a smudge, the slate still blank, there is only the present moment: each vital detail, shocked color, the fall of light. Like film stills. The mind relentlessly open to the world, deeply impressed, even hurt by it: not yet gauzed by memory.

  Nicole Krauss

  Hurt, Memories, Fall

  Nicole Krauss (2003). “Man Walks Into a Room”, p.138, Anchor

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• Hey, our hair's the same color," I said, eyeing us side by side in the mirror. Sure is, Girlfriend." Eric grinned at me. "But are you blond all the way down?" Don't you wish you knew?" Yes," he said simply. Well, you'll just have to wonder." I am," he said. "Blond everywhere," I could tell as much from your chest hair." He raised my arm to check my armpit. "You silly women, shaving your body hair," He said, dropping my arm.

  Charlaine Harris

  Girlfriend, Silly, Mirrors

  Charlaine Harris (2003). “Dead in Dixie”

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• She didn't see him at first. She was watching the dancers. Her color was high, and there were deep dimples at the corners of her mouth. She looked nine miles out of place, but he had never loved her more. This was Willa on the edge of a smile.

  Stephen King

  Dancer, Mouths, Dimples

  Stephen King (2008). “Just After Sunset: Stories”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• You should be thankful that dark colors suit you. Not everyone wears black well." "Why, Lady Olivia, is that a compliment?" "Not so much as a compliment to you as an insult to everyone else," she assured him. "Thanks heaven for that. I don't think I would know how to conduct myself in a world in which you offered compliments.

  Julia Quinn

  Dark, Thinking, Suits You

  FaceBook post by Julia Quinn from Feb 26, 2015

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• You're not gay, are you?" Simon's greenish color deepened. "If I were, I would dress better.

  Cassandra Clare

  Gay, Dresses, Ifs

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “Sample of the CITYs”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• The things that we preceive as beautiful may be different, but the actual characteristics we ascribe to beautiful objects are similar. Think about it. When something strikes us as beautiful, it displays more presence and sharpness of shape and vividness of color, doesn't it? It stands out. It shines. It seems almost iridescent compared to the dullness of other objects less attractive.

  James Redfield

  Beautiful, Thinking, Shining

  James Redfield (2009). “Celestine Insights - Limited Edition of Celestine Prophecy and Tenth Insight”, p.31, Hachette UK

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