Colourful Quotes

• Having small touches of colour makes it more colourful than having the whole thing in colour.

  Dieter Rams

  Colour, Whole

  "Dieter Rams at home, 2004". Interview with Bruce Sterling, www.wired.com. September 29, 2010.

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• Ours is a colourful and diversified world. It is also a complex one.

  Li Peng

  World, Complexes

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• I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

  Taylor Swift

  Disbelief

  "Taylor Swift: 'I want to believe in pretty lies'". Interview with Alex Macpherson, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2012.

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• I know I've had an unusual beginning and a colourful life, but that wouldn't matter if I couldn't make it speak to other people.

  Jeanette Winterson

  People, Matter, Speak

  Source: www.newstatesman.com

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• Why would anybody lie? The truth is always more colourful.

  Jerry Hall

  Lying, Writing, Truth Is

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• I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.

  Taylor Swift

  Morning, Quiet, Failing

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• When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• Poets have tried to describe Ankh-Morpork. They have failed. Perhaps it's the sheer zestful vitality of the place, or maybe it's just that a city with a million inhabitants and no sewers is rather robust for poets, who prefer daffodils and no wonder. So let's just say that Ankh-Morpork is as full of life as an old cheese on a hot day, as loud as a curse in a cathedral, as bright as an oil slick, as colourful as a bruise and as full of activity, industry, bustle and sheer exuberant busyness as a dead dog on a termite mound.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dog, Cities, Oil

  "Mort". Book by ‎Terry Pratchett, 1987.

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• The life we live is just a colourful and deposit toy.
  Some of us take it so seriously and fight and cry for it.
  Some of us break and throw it.
  Either we give extreme importance, either not enough.
  Better to stay far from extremes.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Fighting, Giving, Toys

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• So, before leading my troops into battle, we would get drunk and drugged up, sacrifice a local teenager, drink their blood, then strip down to our shoes and go into battle wearing colourful wigs and carrying dainty purses we'd looted from civilians. We'd slaughter anyone we saw, chop their heads off and use them as soccer balls. We were nude, fearless, drunk and homicidal. We killed hundreds of people - so many I lost count.

  General Butt Naked

  Soccer, Teenager, Sacrifice

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• As society has changed, what had formerly been unacceptable has become colorful.

  Iggy Pop

  Changed

  "Iggy Pop's Trail of Destruction". Interview with Erik Hedegaard, www.rollingstone.com. December 11, 2003.

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• If life has given us no more than a prison cell, let's at least decorate it as best we can-with the shadows of our dreams, their colourful patterns engraving our oblivion on the static surface of the walls.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Wall, Philosophical

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• All in all, Tolkien fans are as varied, remarkable and marvelous as the books and the worlds that they share. They make me feel a little like a Hobbit who glimpses colourful strangers passing but has never left the Shire.

  John Howe

  Book, Glimpse, Fans

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• I made it," you said, gruffly, "for you." You shoved it onto my finger. It was roughly carved, shaped from a lump of something colourful and cold...a ring made entirely from a gemstone. It was beautiful. It glinted emerald greens and blood reds over my skin, and had tiny flecks of gold catching the light. I couldn't stop staring at it. "Why?" I asked. You didn't answer that. Instead you touched the ring gently and looked piercingly at me, unsaid questions in your eyes.

  Lucy Christopher

  Beautiful, Eye, Light

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• Life would be so colourful if only I had a drink problem.

  Steven Morrissey

  Memorable, Would Be, Problem

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• As a child, these colourful superheroes that could fly, or were horrifying like Ghost Rider and the Hulk, with this tremendous rage or these supernatural powers, provided an escape for me from my mundane existence, from my lack of friends or my inability to communicate well with people. They liberated me.

  Nicolas Cage

  Children, People, Superhero

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• China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a curiosity around the world for its art and culture, one that continues to grow. I can, however, tell people that it is a show with no actor.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, People, Curiosity

  "Ai Weiwei: 'China's Art World Does Not Exist'". www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2012.

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• Seeking those elusive individuals is like mining for rare gems. It will take hard work, patience, and a persistent attitude. To find that rich seam of colourful stones, you will have to chip through dirt and rock. You will have to learn how to hold rubble in your hands and see the fortune inside.

  Chris Murray

  Attitude, Hard Work, Rocks

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• Some critics thought the ontology and theory of qualities absurd. No one had ever seen these little atoms, and furthermore, how could their mere arrangement produce a noisy, colourful, world in which day followed night and animals generated their own kind? Instead of a world created, cared, for and supervised by supernatural persons, the Epicureans appeared to the theologians to be assigning everything to chance. The latter were appalled by Lucretius's view of religion as cruel and oppressive and by the Epicurean insistence that death is the end of all experience.

  Catherine Wilson

  Animal, Night, Views

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The brassy wood-pigeons Bubble their colourful voices, and the sun Rises upon a world well-tried and old.

  Ted Hughes

  Voice, World, Woods

  1967 'Stealing Trout on a May Morning'.

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• I became a journalist at 17. A few hours later, I saw my first dead body, which was somewhat... colourful. That's when I learned you can go on throwing up after you run out of things to throw up.

  Terry Pratchett

  Running, Body, Saws

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• I then discovered the Pop Art of Warhol, Lichtenstein, and Peter Max. I was inspired that these fun and colourful images could be presented seriously on canvas.

  Joe Average

  Art, Fun, Max

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• I like colourful knickers, but most importantly a great pair of knickers should be taken off with more joy than they were put on.

  Elle Macpherson

  Taken, Joy, Pairs

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• Some of the very heroic and colourful figures in our history are sons of Sabaragamuwa - Parakramabahu I, born in Dedigama, the warrior King Rajasinghe I also known as Sitawaka Rajasingha, Edirille Rala born in Colombo and baptised Domingo Corea, who returned to the village of his ancestors Atulugama near Sitawaka and turned against the Portuguese.

  Dominicus Corea

  Kings, Warrior, Son

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• Also, I've spent an entire week without reading any books or talking about them too loudly. I'm learning to work my apparat's screen, the colourful pulsating mosaic of it, the fact that it knows every last stinking detail about the world, whereas my books only know the minds of their authors.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Book, Reading, Talking

  "Lenny Hearts Eunice" by Gary Shteyngart, www.newyorker.com. June 14-21, 2010.

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