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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• 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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• 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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• Cemeteries in Bohemia are like gardens. The graves are covered with grass and colourful flowers. Modest tombstones are lost in the greenery. When the sun goes down, the cemetery sparkles with tiny candles... no matter how brutal life becomes, peace always reigns in the cemetery. Even in wartime, even in Hitler's time, even in Stalin's time.

  Milan Kundera

  Tombstone, Flower, Garden

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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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• 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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• 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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• I've done more than 10,000 interviews, and I've learnt that you've got to do your homework. I bury myself in research beforehand. And you have to be genuinely interested in people; there's a cornucopia of great, ordinary people out there with wonderful, colourful stories.

  Ray Martin

  Communication, Media, People

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• No one says "Gee Whiz!" very much these days, of course, not even in America - both because that expression has long since been supplanted by others more colourful and less printable, and because our capacity for surprise has long since been dulled by a surfeit of sources.

  Shashi Tharoor

  Expression, America, Long

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• From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.

  Mary Landrieu

  Business, Past, African American

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• A polka-dot has the form of the sun, which is a symbol of the energy of the whole world and our living life, and also the form of the moon, which is calm. Round, soft, colourful, senseless and unknowing. Polka-dots can't stay alone; like the communicative life of people, two or three polka-dots become movement... Polka-dots are a way to infinity.

  Yayoi Kusama

  Live Life, Moon, Two

  "Manhattan suicide addict". Book by Yayoi Kusama, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2005.

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• They said they wanted a lot of feathers, glitter, colourful colours. A costume. So I had a lady here in Calgary make it. She just kind of put together what I had in mind.

  Owen Hart

  Mind, Together, Glitter

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• My sense of view became tactile not colourful, immediate not distant. Something within arms' reach

  Ryan Knighton

  Views, Arms, Tactile

  Ryan Knighton (2007). “Cockeyed”, p.73, PublicAffairs

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• Well, the beginning is actually quite easy, because I can still be quite free about the way I handle things - colours, shapes. And so a picture emerges that may look quite good for a while, so airy and colourful and new. But that will only last for a day at most, at which point it starts to look cheap and fake. And then the real work begins - changing, eradicating, starting again, and so on, until it's done.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Real, Fake

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• The music enchanted the air. It was like the south wind, like a warm night, like swelling sails beneath the stars, completely and utterly unreal... It made everything spacious and colourful, the dark stream of life seemed pulsing in it; there were no burdens any more, no limits; there existed only glory and melody and love, so that one simply could not realize that, at the same time as this music was, outside there ruled poverty and torment and despair.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Stars, Dark, Night

  Erich Maria Remarque (1937). “Three Comrades”

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• When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories - and my absolute favourite was 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.' Everything about it electrified me, and when I re-read Roald Dahl's books as an adult it surprised me.

  David Walliams

  Children, Book, Hands

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have a very lively and colourful show. It's two hours of hits and the music speaks for itself.

  Rod Stewart

  Two, Speak, Hours

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• Under Thatcher, who ruled us with an iron rod, great art was made. Amazing designers and musicians. Acid house was born. Very colourful and progressive.

  Noel Gallagher

  Art, Iron, House

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