Colorful Quotes - Page 9

• Words and thoughts concerning compassionate action that are not put into practice are like beautiful flowers that are colorful but have no fragrance.

  Nhat Hanh

  Beautiful, Flower, Practice

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2003). “Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Isabelle was holding an umbrella. It was clear plastic, decorated with decals of colorful flowers. It was one of the girliest things Simon had ever seen, and he didn’t blame Alec for ducking out from under it and taking his chances with the rain.

  Cassandra Clare

  Rain, Flower, Chance

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes. From the western half of the sky the sun was shying little golden disks at the sea--if you gazed intently enough you could see them skip from wave tip to wave tip until they joined a broad collar of golden coin that was collecting half a mile out and would eventually be a dazzling sunset.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Children, Eye

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2014). “The Offshore Pirate: Short Story”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• Outside, a gusty October breeze was combing leaves from the trees and sending them across her backyard in colorful skitters.

  Stephen King

  Tree, Backyards, October

  Stephen King (2014). “Big Driver”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• The Bagshaws aren't boys. They're bombs with very colorful fuses.

  Ally Carter

  Boys, Bombs, Fuse

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• If you find a girl who reads, keeps her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea (coffee) and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She'll talk as if the characters in the book are real because, for a while, they always are. Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable.

  Robert Pattinson

  Girl, Couple, Real

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• A feud should live a full and colorful life, and then it should die a natural death and be forgotten.

  Paul Newman

  Anger, Feuds, Forgotten

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• When a fissure off the California coast started pumping and dumping oil on the nearby towns and beaches, everybody started dumping on Union Oil. Matters weren't helped one iota by a manufactured quotation attributed to Union's president, Fred Hartley, alleging his amazement at the publicity for the loss of a few birds.... Fred Hartley never said what the press reported, as the transcript and the Senate committee members definitely established. But I don't suppose the truth will ever catch up with the more colorful falsehood.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Beach, Nature, Loss

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• The dance grew into a colorful flower bouquet which caught and contained the glow of sun-happy summer days, the secret of star-studded nights, and the wistful sweetness of overcast and rainy hours.

  Mary Wigman

  Dance, Summer, Stars

  Mary Wigman (1966). “The language of dance”

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• Life consists of sadness too. And sadness is also beautiful; it has its own depth, its own delicacy, its own deliciousness, its own taste. A man is poorer if he has not known sadness; he is impoverished, very much impoverished. His laughter will be shallow, his laughter will not have depth, because depth comes only through sadness. A man who knows sadness, if he laughs, his laughter will have depth. His laughter will have something of his sadness too, his laughter will be more colorful.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Laughter, Sadness

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• No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.

  Walter Raleigh

  Women, Fool, Garments

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• It's been suggested that most women fail to write significantly because the female mind is viscerotonic, and occupied almost exclusively with the moment-to-moment reality of emotions. If this is true, literature's loss is science fiction's gain, for Out of Bounds, Judith Merril's collection of short stories, is a warm and colorful rendering of the minutiae of the future.

  Alfred Bester

  Writing, Loss, Reality

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• Ever since I was very young, as far back as I can remember, I have loved making pictures. I knew even as a child that, when I grew up, I would be an artist of some kind. The lovely feeling of my pencil touching paper, a crayon making a star shape in my sketchbook, or my brush dipping into bright and colorful paints — these things affect me as joyfully today as they did all those years ago.

  Eric Carle

  Stars, Children, Artist

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• Tobias Buckell combines old world with new in his novel CRYSTAL RAIN. While the rich cultures, drawn in part from Caribbean history and lore, echo a familiar landscape, he brings it out of the Earth milieu and into a bold new universe where technology and tradition collide. I enjoyed his colorful characters and musical use of language; his voice is fresh and entirely readable.

  Karin Lowachee

  Rain, Character, Technology

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• Joaquin Jackson's frank and colorful account of his long career as a modern-day Texas Ranger thrills like an action novel, yet the stories are true, sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, but always gripping. I could hardly put the book down. . . .The writing is superb.

  Elmer Kelton

  Book, Writing, Texas

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• Like the entomologist in search of colorful butterflies, my attention has chased in the gardens of the grey matter cells with delicate and elegant shapes, the mysterious butterflies of the soul, whose beating of wings may one day reveal to us the secrets of the mind.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Butterfly, Garden, Grey Matter

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• Although I'm known for my long, colorful locs, I still don't take my hair too seriously. I experiment a lot, dyeing it and constantly switching styles to grab attention. My hair is one of my best accessories and changing it helps express who I am.

  Ledisi

  Who I Am, Hair, Long

  "Erykah Badu, Ledisi and Solange Cover ESSENCE's May Beauty Issue". Essence Interview, www.essence.com. Apil 1, 2014.

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• When you look at the whole package of energy, the food you eat should match the story you want to live, which means: as fresh as possible, without dullness, repetition, and routine. As colorful as possible, giving delight to the eyes; food is a rainbow brought down to earth. As cheerful as possible, maximizing moments of happiness and pleasure.

  Deepak Chopra

  Mean, Eye, Rainbow

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• New ideas need audiences like flowers need bees. No matter how bright and colorful, they will die unless others work to spread them

  Simon Sinek

  Flower, Ideas, Matter

  FaceBook post by Simon Sinek from Mar 12, 2016

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• Meditation is another dimension of natural beauty. People talk about appreciating natural beauty-climbing mountains, seeing giraffes and tigers in Africa, and all sorts of things. But nobody seems to appreciate this kind of natural beauty of ourselves. This is actually far more beautiful than flora and fauna, far more fantastic, far more painful and colorful and delightful.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Beautiful, Climbing, Practice

  Chogyam Trungpa (2001). “Glimpses of Abhidharma: From a Seminar on Buddhist Psychology”, p.66, Shambhala Publications

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• I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn't feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It's a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.

  Ariana Grande

  Beautiful, Fun, Kids

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• My signature look is an eighties baby doll dress, combat boots with colorful socks sticking out, and then mounds of jewelry. I love silver and turquoise. I go to Montana every winter, so I hunt around for cool pieces there.

  Zoey Deutch

  Baby, Winter, Signatures

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• Your shower shoes have fungus on them. You'll never make it to the bigs with fungus on your shower shoes. Think classy, you'll be classy. If you win 20 in the show, you can let the fungus grow back and the press'll think you're colorful. Until you win 20 in the show, however, it means you are a slob.

  Crash Davis

  Mean, Winning, Thinking

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• Everything is judged by its appearance; what is unseen counts for nothing. Never let yourself get lost in the crowd, then, or buried in oblivion. Stand out. Be conspicuous, at all cost. Make yourself a magnet of attention by appearing larger, more colorful, more mysterious than the bland and timid masses.

  Robert Greene

  Unseen, Attention, Cost

  Robert Greene (2010). “The 48 Laws Of Power”, p.9, Profile Books

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• In all my years of New York cab riding I have yet to find the colorful, philosophical cabdriver that keeps popping up on the late movies.

  Jean Shepherd

  New York, Philosophical, Years

  Jean Shepherd (2010). “The Ferrari in the Bedroom”, p.78, Broadway Books

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