Purple Quotes - Page 10

• Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Distance, Light, Age

  "Humanity in the city". Book by Edwin Hubbell Chapin, 1854.

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• I feel like the reason I ended up becoming a playwright is because I never choose the right word. As a kid, my fantasy profession was to be a novelist. But the thing about writing prose - and maybe great prose writers don't feel this way - but I always felt it was about choosing words. I was always like, "I have to choose the perfect word." And then it would kill me, and I would choose the wrong word or I would choose too many perfect words - I wrote really purple prose.

  Annie Baker

  Writing, Kids, Perfect

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• So, The Color Purple changed my life. It changed everything about my life because, in that moment of praying and letting go, I really understood the principle of surrender. The principle of surrender is that, after you have done all that you can do, and you've done your best and given it your all, you then have to release it to whatever you call God, or don't call God.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Letting Go, Color, Principles

  Source: collider.com

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• I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.

  Alice Walker

  Thank You, Gratitude, Appreciation

  Alice Walker (1982). “El color púrpura”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• You are obvious, boy. You are difficult to miss. If you came to me in company with a purple lion, a green elephant, and a scarlet unicorn astride which was the King of England in his Royal Robes, I do believe that it is you and you alone that people would stare at, dismissing the others as minor irrelevancies.

  Neil Gaiman

  Kings, Believe, Boys

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.69, A&C Black

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• I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, 'Geez, this is ridiculous.' You just see through all that sort of stuff. I never liked those Deep Purples or those sort of things. I always hated it. I always thought it was a poor man's Led Zeppelin.

  Angus Young

  Men, Zeppelins, Stuff

  "Angus Young of AC/DC Opens Up in His First Guitar World Interview from 1984". Interview with Steven Rosen, www.guitarworld.com. August 23, 2011.

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• What I like about The Sims is that I don't have a normal life at all, so I play this game where these people have these really boring, mundane lives. It's fun. My Sims family is called the Cholly family. I don't know why I picked that name; it's kind of random. The teenage daughter is my favourite, because I just had her go through this Goth phase. She's really kind of nerdy and she just became a concert violinist, which is pretty huge for the family. And she got into private school. But she started wearing black lipstick and she dyed her hair purple. It's pretty huge.

  Gerard Way

  Daughter, Teenage, Fun

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• Whether the color of your skin is black, white, yellow, brown or purple - the extent of this tragedy is so incredibly devastating that we had to do something.

  Bert McCracken

  Color, Yellow, White

  "Rockers Plug In for Katrina". Ventura County Star, September 10, 2005.

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• My metaphor for acting in movies - not on stage because it's completely different on stage - is to put colors on an easel for the director to paint his own painting with in the editing room, long after I've left. You buy me for red and black, so I better give you really great red and black, but if I can give you purple, pink, green and brown too, I will.

  Scott Glenn

  Color, Editing, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I don't care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Swings, Long

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

  Jenny Joseph

  Suits, I Can

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• Cold air rises from the ground as the sun goes down.  The eye-burning clarity of the light intensifies. The southern rim of the sky glows to a deeper blue, to pale violet, to purple, then thins to grey.  Slowly the wind falls, and the still air begins to freeze.  The solid eastern ridge is black; it has a bloom on it like the dust on the skin of a grape.  The west flares briefly.  The long, cold amber of the afterglow casts clear black lunar shadows.  There is an animal mystery in the light that sets upon the fields like a frozen muscle that will flex and wake at sunrise.

  J. A. Baker

  Fall, Eye, Animal

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• We've been in a war and a recession. That's why acccent colors with yellow and purple are popular. They're optimistic and flirty and happy colors.

  David Bromstad

  Flirty, War, Optimistic

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• For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see,
  Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be;
  Saw the heavens fill with commerce, Argosies of magic sails,
  Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales;
  Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'd a ghastly dew,
  From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue.

  Alfred the Great

  Rain, Twilight, Eye

  "Locksley Hall" l. 123 (1842)

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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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