Purple Quotes - Page 10

• I know not which I love the most, Nor which the comeliest shows, The timid, bashful violet Or the royal-hearted rose: The pansy in purple dress, The pink with cheek of red, Or the faint, fair heliotrope, who hangs, Like a bashful maid her head.

  Phoebe Cary

  Flower, Rose, Dresses

  Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”

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• All the selling out talk is really overrated, the funny thing is it hardly ever comes from bands, it comes from some kid who thinks they're so punk because they have a purple mohawk

  Tom DeLonge

  Kids, Thinking, Funny Things

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• And just as I was climbing into that first-class seat, and wrapping myself in a blanket, just as I was adjusting my pillow behind my head, and having a sip of that champagne, and just as I was bringing down and adjusting my Thai purple sleep mask, I had an inkling. I had a flash. I suddenly thought I knew what it was that had killed Marilyn Monroe.

  Spalding Gray

  Sleep, Climbing, Class

  "Fictional character: Spalding Gray". "Swimming to Cambodia", www.imdb.com. 1987.

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• Punch a black belt in the face, he becomes a brown belt. Punch him again, purple.

  Carlson Gracie

  Art, Black, Faces

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• I still think the best metal bands have a blues feel. The first Black Sabbath album is kind of a bludgeoning of blues. Deep Purple also started out as a blues band.

  Greg Ginn

  Thinking, Black, Albums

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• Avoid restaurants with names that are improbable descriptions, such as the Purple Goose, the Blue Kangaroo or the Quilted Orangutan.

  Calvin Trillin

  Blue, Names, Kangaroos

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• God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone's sexual preferences are or if they're black, brown or purple.

  Dolly Parton

  Judging, Black, Matter

  "Dolly Parton: 'I may look fake but I'm real where it counts'". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2011.

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• You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own — What are you when the rose is blown?

  Henry Wotton

  Spring, Years, Rose

  Sir Henry Wotton, John HANNAH (Archdeacon of Lewes.) (1857). “Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others. Edited by the Rev. John Hannah”, p.14

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• I can't stand purple. It doesn't suit me.

  Jenny Joseph

  Suits, I Can

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• When I am old, I shall wear purple.

  Jenny Joseph

  "Older and wiser: Carol Ann Duffy introduces poems of ageing". www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2010.

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• If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple.

  Epictetus

  Complaining, Slave, Ifs

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• I had a suit made for me when I was five. It was double-breasted, mohair and purple. My mother was very particular about clothing - it always used to have to go back into the plastic and it used to drive me insane.

  Ozwald Boateng

  Mother, Insane, Suits

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• The key to success is to find a way to stand out--to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins.

  Seth Godin

  Keys, Cows, Way

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• When I'm a blonde, I can say the world is purple, and they'll believe me because they weren't listening to me.

  Kylie Bax

  Stupid, Believe, Dumb

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• A field is the most just possession for men. For what nature requires it carefully bears: barley, oil, wine, figs, honey. Silver-plate and purple will do for the tragedians, not for life.

  Philemon

  Wine, Men, Oil

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• I always have two bracelets on my right arm. One is a purple and white bracelet from a fan. I love it! I also wear a bracelet from a waterpark- I've had it on for two or three years. My mom says it's pretty nasty, actually. But you'll never see me without them ever! In magazine photos, the bracelets are sometimes airbrushed out, but viewers will always see me wearing them during scenes.

  Miley Cyrus

  Mom, Years, Two

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• It's like The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat, about the discovery of penicillin. Out of these strange accidents come huge discoveries. A certain purple bleeds into red and all of a sudden you have something unexpected.

  Carly Simon

  Discovery, Magic, Red

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• If I'm feeling tired, I just say, 'I'm going to paint my nails purple and put some lipstick on!'

  Emma Watson

  Tired, Feelings, Nails

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• My favorite color is purple. I have a huge velvet purple comforter on my bed.

  Meredith Brooks

  Color, Bed, Velvet

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• How could I resist? Look, I love that record and have nothing but great, great memories of my time with BLACK SABBATH . Tony was really busy but got his solos to me at the last minute as he promised and they are just fantastic. I think BLACK SABBATH fans will be over the moon when they hear what he's done. As for Roger and Ian , well, they just sound great on this song so it really did become 'Black Purple'. Personally, I love the irony of it all.

  Ian Gillan

  Song, Memories, Thinking

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

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• We spent a long time learning the craft of songwriting, Roger Glover and I, for a few years before we joined Deep Purple. You learn about the percussive value of words, and you learn about rhyme and meter. You learn that you can't transform a poem into a song lyric, mostly because the spoken shape of words is different than the sung shape of words. You wouldn't use the vowel 'U' or the vowel sound 'ooo' for a high note for example, its very difficult.

  Ian Gillan

  Song, Years, Long

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

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• It's really an orchestral piece featuring a group and it was quite revolutionary at the time and it in fact, it kicked Deep Purple off as a name in Great Britain because it made all the newspapers. Everyone was writing about us. And there was some confusion as to what kind of band we were after that, which is why Deep Purple in Rock is such a hard unbending album of really furious hard heavy rock. Heavy metal hadn't been invented at that point.

  Roger Glover

  Writing, Rocks, Names

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• If lesbians were purple, none would be admitted to respected places. But if all lesbians suddenly turned purple today, society would be surprised at the number of purple people in high places.

  Sidney Abbott

  Numbers, People, Would Be

  Sidney Abbott, Barbara Love (1978). “Sappho was a right-on woman: a liberated view of lesbianism”, Scarborough House

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• Now we notice that Mars doesn't have any atmosphere either and won't support life. In spite of the fact that it turns green and red and purple with the seasons, it doesn't support life.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Support, Atmosphere, Green

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• Ah, yes! I wrote the "Purple Cow" - I'm sorry, now, I wrote it! But I can tell you anyhow, I'll kill you if you quote it!

  Gelett Burgess

  Sorry, Writing, Cows

  "Confessional" l. 1 (1914) See Gelett Burgess 1

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