Purple Quotes - Page 12

• But if the cow is purple, you'd notice it, OK? The thing that's going to decide what gets talked about, what gets done, what gets changed, what gets purchased, what gets built is, is it remarkable? And remarkable's a really cool word 'cause we think it just means neat, but it also means worth making a remark about, and that is the essence of where idea diffusion is going.

  Seth Godin

  Mean, Thinking, Essence

  "What Makes An Idea Go Viral?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

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• I was born an ugly duckling due to my mother's ill health. She wasn't supposed to be pregnant, there were all kinds of complications, she couldn't survive a cesarean section etc. She said, "They didn't hand me a child, they handed me a purple melon." I heard that when I had grown up and had no idea of the whole story because the family album had pictures of a covered carriage and my mother smiling so I assumed I was asleep.

  Bernie Siegel

  Mother, Children, Hands

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• That which makes you different is what makes you strong. Whether you're gay, straight, purple, orange, dinosaur; I don't care.

  Darren Criss

  Strong, Gay, Orange

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• I love, love, love apricot baby food. My closet in the kitchen is filled with jars of it. I love Lucky Charms and Cocoa Pebbles cereal. I love my purple couch, and I love dancing. I used to have the best stuffed animals, but Samson [her dog] ate them.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Dog, Baby, Animal

  "Leah Garchik's personals". www.sfgate.com. May 26, 1997.

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• I was a strange child. I was the kid with funny hair listening to dodgy music [...] I'd come in with my hoodie and skate-shoes, with purple hair under the hood. I got away with it because I spent all my time in the art room, so they figured I was 'artistic'. I was that kind of kid, listening to Green Day and the Deftones and all that kind of thing.

  Katie McGrath

  Art, Children, Kids

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• I have come to think that one of the most satisfying experiences I know — and also one of the most growth-promoting experiences for the other person — is just fully to appreciate this individual in the same way that I appreciate a sunset.

  Carl Rogers

  Sunset, Clouds, Hands

  "Freedom to learn".

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• Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer a mutable and superficial pleasure; books give delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.

  Petrarch

  Book, Jewels, Giving

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• Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe of the dawn.

  Victor Hugo

  Philosophy, Past, Men

  Victor Hugo (1905). “Works: Les misérables; Fantine. Cosette. Marius. Saint-Denis. Jean Valjean”

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• I don't get pat down, you know what's on the waist,
  I don't mean Jazz when I say I "count base."
  Fly Louis sneakers, Purple Tape coming out the speakers,
  Bumped into my high school teachers,
  They said I wouldn't be nothing, sitting on the bleachers.
  Now I'm sitting in the Phantom, trynna figure out the features.
  I'm a big fish now, I watch for the leeches.

  Sheek Louch

  Teacher, Rap, School

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• Sit back picture yourself swooping up a shell of purple with foam crests of crystal drops soft nigh they fall unto the sea of morning creep-very-softly mist...and then sort of cascade tinkley-bell like (must I take you by the hand, every so slowly type) and then conglomerate suddenly into a peal of silver vibrant uncomprehendingly, blood singingly, joyously resoundingbells....By my faith if this be insanity, then for the love of God permit me to remain insane.

  Robert Hunter

  Morning, Fall, Blood

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• I was doing someones hair the day I first saw my guitar ... a guy was walking down the street with it, and knew that guitar was mine (a 1953 weathered Fender Telecaster) .. I said I'll get you the most beautiful guitar you've ever seen and I'll trade you straight across ... I found him a purple Telecaster and said here's your guitar ... that was it, it was like he knew that guitar belonged to me.

  Roy Buchanan

  Music, Beautiful, Hair

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• Atom bombs, something's wrong. D.E.A sent to Guam. Acid Trips, big fat chics. Purple Finstone Vitamins.All the needy rich are greedy. I find out you don't need me. Berlin wall starts to fall. I trip out to the wall. Hooray Horrah

  Chester Bennington

  Wall, Fall, Atoms

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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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