Purple Quotes - Page 17

• Teacher, teacher, I declare, I see your purple underwear.

  Allan Sherman

  Education, Teacher, Underwear

  Song: Turn Back the Clock

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• Deep Purple is a damn good band and we've made a niche in rock 'n' roll history. Maybe not a huge one but enough to be very proud of.

  Jon Lord

  Rocks, Rock N Roll, Band

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• I went through this phase where I thought pink and purple matched. To dance class, I'd wear purple tights and pink leg warmers and paint my shoes purple. It was really odd.

  Carrie Ann Inaba

  Class, Shoes, Phases

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• The Law waits for you to stumble on a mode of being, a soul different from the FDA-approved purple-stamped standard dead meat - & as soon as you begin to act in harmony with nature the Law garottes & strangles you - so don't play the blessed liberal middleclass martyr - accept the fact that you're a criminal & be prepared to act like one.

  Hakim Bey

  Blessed, Fda, Law

  Hakim Bey (2003). “T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism”, p.21, Autonomedia

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• I thought symphaths didn't have a conscience." "I'm half my mother's boy, too. So I have a little." "Aren't you lucky." The Reverend's chin dipped down, and his eyes flashed pure, purple evil for a split second. Then he smiled. "No… all the rest of you are fortunate.

  J.R. Ward

  Mother, Eye, Boys

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4”, p.1783, Penguin

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• May you and your triple cursed wash water turn purple with orange spots and fall down a bottomless pit!

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Fall, Orange, Water

  Patricia C. Wrede (2015). “Searching for Dragons”, p.204, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Lilacs, False Blue, White, Purple,
  Colour of lilac,
  Your great puffs of flowers
  Are everywhere in this my New England ...
  Lilacs in dooryards
  Holding quiet conversation with an early moon;
  Lilacs watching a deserted house; ...
  Lilacs, wind-beaten, staggering under a lopsided shock of bloom,
  You are everywhere.

  Amy Lowell

  Spring, Flower, Moon

  Amy Lowell, “Lilacs”

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• I saw what Purple meant to people and I still hear it now when I'm in Europe. I'm always shocked that I'm still asked about Purple because it was such a long time ago.

  David Coverdale

  Europe, Long, People

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• What's purple mean?" Adrian put his hand on the door. "Gotta go, Sage. Dont want to keep Dorothy waiting

  Richelle Mead

  Mean, Doors, Hands

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.85, Penguin

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• I think I had a lot of bad hair moments. In the early 80's just sometimes I wore purple lipstick or green lipstick.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Thinking, Hair, Green

  Source: www.today.com

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• There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.

  Seneca the Younger

  Ambition, Luxury, Evil

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• I haven't been in Washington over the last - ever. I'm not part of Washington. I got to serve as governor of a state, a purple state and I was the most successful conservative governor probably, during the time that I was there.

  Jeb Bush

  Successful, Lasts, Conservative

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Led Zeppelin. Queen. Deep Purple. These were the bands I listened to. I still listen to them.

  Yul Vazquez

  Queens, Band, Zeppelins

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• When I was five years old I was on a merry go round. There was a gunshot nearby. The horses stampeded. There I was running down the street on a purple wooden horse.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Running, Horse

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• We keep hearing from [Barack] Obama and Hillary Clinton and Washington Republicans that they're searching for these mythical moderate rebels. It's like a purple unicorn. They never exist. These moderate rebels end up being jihadists.

  Ted Cruz

  Rebel, Hearing, Unicorn

  Ted Cruz at CNN Facebook Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable; A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.

  Alexander Pope

  Expression, Style, Dresses

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.57

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• Dance and Provencal song and sunburnt mirth! On for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene! With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth.

  John Keats

  Song, Mouths, Mirth

  'Ode to a Nightingale' (1820) st. 2

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• Though folly, robed in purple, shines, Though vice exhausts Peruvian mines, Yet shall they tremble and turn pale When satire wields her mighty flail.

  Charles Churchill

  Shining, Vices, Satire

  Charles Churchill (1822). “The Poems of Charles Churchill ...”, p.77

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• Morn on the waters, and purple and bright Bursts on the billows the flushing of light O'er the glad waves, like a child of the sun, See the tall vessel goes gallantly on.

  Thomas Kibble Hervey

  Children, Light, Water

  Thomas Kibble Hervey (1829). “The poetical sketch-book, including a 3rd ed. of Australia”, p.8

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• An altered look about the hills; A Tyrian light the village fills; A wider sunrise in the dawn; A deeper twilight on the lawn; A print of a vermilion foot; A purple finger on the slope; A flippant fly upon the pane; A spider at his trade again; An added strut in chanticleer; A flower expected everywhere.

  Emily Dickinson

  Spring, Flower, Twilight

  Emily Dickinson (1994). “The Works of Emily Dickinson”, p.114, Wordsworth Editions

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• I try to avoid purple patches, fine writing, all that kind of thing... because I think they're a mistake. And then sometimes it comes through and sometimes it doesn't, but that's not up to me. It's up to chance.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Mistake, Writing, Thinking

  Jorge Luis Borges (1998). “Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations”, p.77, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.

  Joaquin Miller

  Wall, Moon, Broken

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• I see myself as no color. I can play the role of a man. I can paint my face white if I want to and play the role of white. I can play a green, I can be a purple. I think I have that kind of frame and that kind of attitude where I can play an animal. If you think in color, then everyone around you is going to think in color and that puts limits on the way you think. I don't think like that. A lot of the roles that I'm doing are roles that a man or a person of any color can do.

  Grace Jones

  Attitude, Thinking, Animal

  "New Again: Grace Jones". Interview with Andy Warhol, André Leon Talley, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2014.

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• The life of each and every one of us has been written. The crucifix is my autobiography. The blood is the ink. The nails the pen. The skin the parchment. On every line of that body I can trace my life. In the crown of thorns I can read my pride. In the hands that are dug with nails, I can read avarice and greed. In the flesh hanging from him like purple rags, I can read my lust. In feet that are fettered, I can find the times that I ran away and would not let him follow. Any sin that you can think of is written there.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Pride, Thinking, Blood

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• Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.

  Victor Hugo

  Teaching, Men, Tyrants

  Victor Hugo (19??). “Poems. The history of a crime”

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