Orange Quotes - Page 18

• Beautiful isles! beneath the sunset skies tall, silver-shafted palm-trees rise, between full orange-trees that shade the living colonade.

  William C. Bryant

  Beautiful, Sunset, Orange Trees

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• See the last orange roses, how they blow / Deeper and heavier than in their prime, / In one defiant flame before they go.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Blow, Flames, Rose

  Vita Sackville-West, Victoria Sackville-West (2004). “The Garden”, Frances Lincoln Limited

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• In the time of Spanish rule, and for many years afterwards, the town of Sulaco--the luxuriant beauty of the orange gardens bears witness to its antiquity--had never been commercially anything more important than a coasting port with a fairly large local trade in ox-hides and indigo.

  Joseph Conrad

  Book, Garden, Years

  Joseph Conrad (2000). “Lord Jim and Nostromo: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.411, Modern Library

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• An audience proves its discipline by its capacity for stillness. Those who have never practiced continuous application to an exacting process cannot settle down to simple watching; they must chew gum, they must dig the peel off their oranges, they must shift from foot to foot, from buttock to buttock.

  Rebecca West

  Simple, Feet, Discipline

  Rebecca West (1982). “Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• celebratin' New Year's Eve is like eatin' oranges. You got to let go your dignity t' really enjoy 'em.

  Edna Ferber

  Letting Go, New Year, Years

  Edna Ferber (2015). “Buttered Side Down”, p.53, Booklassic

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• I would stand transfixed before the windows of the confectioners' shops, fascinated by the luminous sparkle of candied fruits, the cloudy lustre of jellies, the kaleidoscope inflorescence of acidulated fruit drops - red, green, orange, violet: I coveted the colours themselves as much as the pleasure they promised me.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Food, Cooking, Jelly

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• She set about preparing her supper. It would have to be one of those classically simple meals, the sort that French peasants are said to eat and that enlightened English people sometimes enjoy rather self-consciously - a crusty French loaf, cheese, and lettuce and tomatoes from the garden. Of course there should have been wine and a lovingly prepared dressing of oil and vinegar, but Dulcie drank orange squash and ate mayonnaise that came from a bottle.

  Barbara Pym

  Food, Wine, Simple

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• Love you not, then, to list and hear
  The crackling of the gorse-flower near,
  Pouring an orange-scented tide
  Of fragrance o'er the desert wide?

  Alfred William Howitt

  Flower, Love You, Desert

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• My favorite TV shows are Orange Is the New Black, House of Cards, Modern Family, and Veep.

  Danai Gurira

  House Of Cards, Tv Shows, Modern Family

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• One of my biggest inspirations growing up was Whitney Houston, so I was devastated to hear about her passing. I'm from East Orange, New Jersey, and started singing at New Hope Baptist Church, so she was like my fellow Jersey girl.

  Naturi Naughton

  Girl, Growing Up, Inspiration

  "Naturi Naughton Talks New Role In ‘The Client List’ & Life After ‘The Playboy Club’". Interview with Brennan Williams, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 6, 2012.

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• But what is to be done? Is it possible to infect ourselves on purpose just in order to have the satisfaction of dying beautifully and tranquilly? No! What is to be done? We must live while we are alive, eat dry bread if there is no roast beef, know many women if it is not possible to love a woman, and, in general, we must not dream about orange trees and palms, when under foot are snowdrifts and the cold tundra.

  Dmitry Pisarev

  Dream, Orange Trees, Order

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• If there were as great a scarcity of soil as of jewels or precious metals, there would not be a prince who would not spend a bushel of diamonds and rubies and a cartload of gold just to have enough earth to plant a jasmine in a little pot, or to sow an orange seed and watch it sprout, grow, and produce its handsome leaves, its fragrant flowers, and fine fruit.

  Galileo Galilei

  Flower, Jewels, Gold

  Galileo Galilei, Andrea Frova, Mariapiera Marenzana (2006). “Thus Spoke Galileo: The Great Scientist's Ideas and Their Relevance to the Present Day”, p.174, Oxford University Press

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• Time will come; we will plant trees to other planets! I see the orange trees and the cherries in the far lands beyond the earth.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Orange Trees, Land, Earth

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• I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.

  John Grisham

  Apples, Genius, Serious

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• I was so unhealthy. I used to go to 'Cold Stone Creamery,' get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Ice Cream, Stones, Tubs

  "High School Musical Star Vanessa Hudgens on Cheetos, Working Out, and Breaking Up (with Zac Efron)". Interview with Claire Connors, www.shape.com.

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• People think six is a great many, when it's children. ...they don't mind six pairs of boots, or six pounds of apples, or six oranges, especially in equations, but they seem to think that you ought not to have five brothers and sisters.

  E. Nesbit

  Brother, Children, Thinking

  E. Nesbit (2013). “Delphi Complete Novels of E. Nesbit”, p.77, Delphi Classics

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• Both the five-year-olds looked at me with bewilderment and a bit of fearful uncertainty. I had a sudden horrifying image of the woman I might become if I'm not careful: Crazy Aunt Liz. The divorcee in the muumuu with the dyed orange hair who doesn't eat dairy but smokes menthols, who's always just coming back from her astrology cruise or breaking up with her aroma-therapist boyfriend, who reads the Tarot cards of kindergarteners and says things like, "Bring Aunty Liz another wine cooler, baby, and I'll let you wear my mood ring.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Baby, Crazy, Wine

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• ...thinking that the world was like an orange, that I could split it open with my thumbnail and find a whole different world, the grown-up world, the secrets beneath the skin.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Thinking, Secret, Skins

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Certain Girls: A Novel”, p.356, Simon and Schuster

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• A middle-aged woman who looked like someone's cleaning lady, a shrieking adolescent lunatic and a talkshow host with an orange face... It didn't add up. Suicide wasn't invented for people like this. It was invented for people like Virginia Woolf and Nick Drake. And Me. Suicide was supposed to be cool.

  Nick Hornby

  Suicide, Virginia, People

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• It's what I'll be singing in the morning. It won't be God Save the Ruddy King or All Things bleeding Bright and Beautiful. It'll be Orange and Lemons for Big Joe, for all of us.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Beautiful, Morning, Kings

  Michael Morpurgo (2014). “Private Peaceful”, p.119, Scholastic Inc.

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• What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.

  Anne Carson

  Cutting, Quota, Toss

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• Imagine ten or tweleve orange chairs arrainged in a circle, with the happy woen from the flyer sitting at opposite ends. Only problem was, from day one, they weren't happy. Someone, whoever made that flyer, must have digitally turned their frowns upside down. They wrote about death. About the evilness of men. About the destruction of-and I quote- "the greenish, bluish orb with wisps of white." Seriously, that's how they descibed it. They went on to call Earth a knocked-up gaseous alien needing an abortion.

  Jay Asher

  Men, Opposites, Circles

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• The disc, being flat, has no real horizon. Any adventurous sailor who got funny ideas from staring at eggs and oranges for too long and set out for the antipodes soon learned that the reason why distant ships sometimes looked as though they were disappearing over the edge of the world was that they were disappearing over the edge of the world.

  Terry Pratchett

  Real, Eggs, Ideas

  "The Light Fantastic". Book by ‎Terry Pratchett, 1986.

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• I’m in a shallow hole, not filled with the humming orange bubbles of my hallucination but with old, dead leaves.

  Suzanne Collins

  Hallucinations, Shallow, Holes

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.262, Scholastic Inc.

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• Was his body made out of orange rocks and did he at any point yell 'It's clobbering time'?" "I find your attempt at levity inappropriate." "Consider me properly chastised.

  Ilona Andrews

  Rocks, Body, Inappropriate

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