Purple Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• 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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• Professor Irwin Corey had some of the best timing in the world, and that is something you can't steal. He talked nonsense, not punch-lines, per se. It was a great performance thing he did and his timing was impeccable. Pat Paulsen was a master of comedy too. The Smothers Brothers' strength was not in the content, but how it was said. We had a couple of our albums, including the Purple Onion album, translated in script form. It didn't work at all. It is no wonder that writers had a hard time writing for the Smothers Brothers, because they wrote impressions, but there was something else.

  Tommy Smothers

  Brother, Couple, Writing

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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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• It was, as I have said, a fine autumnal day; the sky was clear and serene, and nature wore that rich and golden livery which we always associate with the idea of abundance. The forests had put on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tendered kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet.

  Washington Irving

  Autumn, Sky, Ideas

  Washington Irving (1967). “Rip Van Winkle: The legend of Sleepy Hollow and other tales”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• An Islamic writer recalls her joy in the clothes she wore as a young girl at a wedding: They were always in beautiful bright colors: crimson, pink, turquoise, purple, and embroidered with sparkling crystals, sequins and beads. ... The older girls and women would wear glamorous heavily-beaded silk blouses and long, princess-like skirts. I wanted to wear those fairy-tale clothes too. I longed even more to wear a sari which the women wore so elegantly and which flattered their curves.

  Shelina Zahra Janmohamed

  Beautiful, Girl, Fashion

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• There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. Nothing is more touching than the death of the young, the strong.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Memories, Fall, Twilight

  "The Philosophy of Ingersoll: To Plow is to Pray, to Plant is to Prophesy, and the Harvest Answers and Fulfils".

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• I do quite a lot of art, with a small 'a'. I guess that is how I was dredged up, with paints and crayons. Even when I was at nursery, I knew instinctively how to mix colours, how to make purple or orange.

  Amanda Harlech

  Art, Orange, Nurse

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• When it comes to racism, you hear people say, "I don't care if people are white, black, purple or green." Hold on, now, purple or green? Come on now, you gotta draw the line somewhere.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, White

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• The hand of Vengeance found the Bed To which the Purple Tyrant fled The iron hand crush'd the tyrant's head And became Tyrant in his stead.

  William Blake

  Crush, Tyrants, Iron

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.119, Penguin

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• Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev can no longer attend concerts by his favorite group Deep Purple without having to fear that the musicians will wear T-shirts with Pussy Riot written on them.

  Alexei Navalny

  Pussy, Musician, Groups

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• Beyonce, to me, doesn't have a f--king 'Purple Rain', but she's the biggest thing on Earth. How can you be that big without at least one 'Sweet Home Alabama' or 'Old Time Rock & Roll'? People are like, 'Beyonce's hot. Got a nice f--king ass.' I'm like, 'Cool, I like skinny white chicks with big t--s.' Doesn't really f--king do much for me.

  Kid Rock

  Sweet, Kings, Nice

  "Kid Rock gets stung by Beyonce's 'Beyhive' after slamming the singer but his response is KILLER" by Claire Rutter, www.mirror.co.uk. February 28, 2015.

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