Purple Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• 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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• Memories must enter the bloodstream, must churn awhile through the heart's mill, must be crushed and polished, be nearly forgotten or cling like burs to other stories before they spill forth in purple patterns, shapes of small bones and worm rot, shapes of clouds and the spaces between leaves.

  Keith Miller

  Memories, Heart, Clouds

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• The real truth is, there's no such thing as a red state or a blue state, they're all purple. Some are more purple than others and our job is to get them all deep purple and then blue. And we can do that.

  Howard Dean

  Jobs, Real, Blue

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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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• The greenish sky glows up in misty reds,      The purple shadows turn to brick and stone,The dreams wear thin, men turn upon their beds,      And hear the milk-cart jangle by alone.

  Sara Teasdale

  Dream, Men, Sky

  Sara Teasdale (1911). “Helen of Troy, and Other Poems”

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• If Bacchus ever had a color he could claim for his own, it should surely be the shade of tannin on drunken lips, of John Keat's 'purple-stained mouth,' or perhaps even of Homer's dangerously wine-dark sea.

  Victoria Finlay

  Wine, Dark, Color

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• Thus departed Hiawatha, Hiawatha the Beloved, In the glory of the sunset, In the purple mists of evening, To the regions of the home-wind, Of the Northwest-Wind, Keewaydin, To the Islands of the Blessed, To the Kingdom of Ponemah, To the Land of the Hereafter!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Blessed, Sunset, Home

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, George Housman Thomas (1860). “The Song of Hiawatha ... Illustrated by John Gilbert”, p.211

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• Lightning my pilot sits; In a cavern under is fettered the thunder, It struggles and howls at fits; Over earth and ocean, with gentle motion, This pilot is guiding me, Lured by the love of the genii that move In the depths of the purple sea; Over the rills, and the crags, and the hills, Over the lakes and the plains, Wherever he dream, under mountain or stream The Spirit he loves remains; And I all the while bask in heaven's blue smile, Whilst he is dissolving in rains.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Dream, Rain, Ocean

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1847). “The works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, ed. by mrs. Shelley”, p.259

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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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• Ninety percent of a shirt that not only was bright purple and green but with a design on it that, if you moved too quickly, might cause a seizure in an unsuspecting onlooker.

  Lewis Black

  Design, Green, Might

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• Green clovers. Blue diamonds. Orange Stars. Pink hearts. Purple horseshoes. Man, I never know if I'm looking at a bowl of cereal or having another acid flashback.

  David Henry

  Stars, Food, Heart

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• The very term ['mental disease'] is nonsensical, a semantic mistake. The two words cannot go together except metaphorically; you can no more have a mental 'disease' than you can have a purple idea or a wise space". Similarly, there can no more be a "mental illness" than there can be a "moral illness." The words "mental" and "illness" do not go together logically. Mental "illness" does not exist, and neither does mental "health." These terms indicate only approval or disapproval of some aspect of a person's mentality (thinking, emotions, or behavior).

  E. Fuller Torrey

  Wise, Mistake, Thinking

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• Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and he would often go out of doors, after his morning meal, without either shoes or tunic; not that he sought vain-glory from such novelties, but he would accustom himself to be ashamed only of what deserves shame, and to despise all other sorts of disgrace.

  Plutarch

  Fashion, Morning, Doors

  Plutarch (2011). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.528, Bantam

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• For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable - gave me a carton of albums like "Blue Kentucky Girl," by Emmylou Harris, and "Off the Wall," by Michael Jackson. It's all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can't have a music collection without Prince's "Purple Rain" - it just can't be done!

  Connie Britton

  Birthday, Girl, Wall

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

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• Katy Perry is the sexiest woman I've ever kissed. It was amazing and very purple - she had purple lipstick on. I don't think there will ever be anything cooler than kissing her until I marry her maybe!

  Niall Horan

  Kissing, Thinking, Sexiest

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• Day-colored wine, night-colored wine, wine with purple feet or wine with topaz blood, wine, starry child of earth.

  Pablo Neruda

  Children, Wine, Night

  Pablo Neruda, Margaret Sayers Peden (2000). “Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda”, p.163, Univ of California Press

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• I see music in colours. I love music that's black, pink, purple or red - but I hate music that's green, yellow or brown.

  Charli XCX

  Hate, Yellow, Black

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• I had the misfortune of getting what skateboarders call hippers. It's when you fall on your hip again and again and again, just the same spot. It turns into like a blue purple bruise and it's just torture because I had to keep on doing the same move, going around in the pool again.

  Emile Hirsch

  Moving, Fall, Blue

  "Interview: The Stars Of Lords Of Dogtown". Interview With Fred Topel, www.ign.com. June 1, 2005.

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• I grew up watching foreign programs - American, English, Mexican, and very little Kenyan. 'The Color Purple' was the first time I saw people who looked like me.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Color, People, Mexican

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• The foxglove, with it's stately bells Of purple, shall adorn thy dells.

  David Macbeth Moir

  Flower, Foxgloves, Bells

  David Macbeth Moir (1852). “The Poetical Works of David Macbeth Moir”, p.140

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• Everybody was starting to grow long hair and wear pink suits and purple glasses and stuff and then, I suppose, some people thought we were crazy, but we weren't really crazy because we're all still here!

  Noel Redding

  Crazy, Glasses, Hair

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• Lo, the most excellent sun so calm and haughty, The violet and purple morn with just-felt breezes, The gentle soft-born measureless light, The miracle spreading bathing all, the fulfill'd noon, The coming eve delicious, the welcome night and the stars, Over my cities shining all, enveloping man and land.

  Walt Whitman

  Stars, Night, Men

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.534, NYU Press

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• The sun tells the best joke of a day full of them, setting so spectacularly that you can almost smell the tropical paradise lazing somewhere over this rim of endless, gray socialist towers. Miles of square windows explode orange, red, and purple, like a million TV sets broadcasting the apocalypse. Clouds unspool. The sky drains of birds.

  Tod Wodicka

  Orange, Clouds, Squares

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