Purple Quotes - Page 5

• My dancers must be able to do anything, and I don't care if they are black or white or purple or green. I want to help show my people how beautiful they are. I want to hold up the mirror to my audience that says this is the way people can be, this is how open people can be.

  Alvin Ailey

  Beautiful, Dance, Mirrors

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• Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled “enemy?

  Sylvia Plath

  Heart, Men, Enemy

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.46, Anchor

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• All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life's work.

  Helena Rubinstein

  Fashion, White, United States

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• In the spangled sky, the rainbow, the woodland hung with diamonds, the sward sown with pearly dew, the rosy dawn, the golden clouds of even, the purple mountains, the hoary rock, the blue boundless main, Nature's simplest flower, or some fair form of laughing child or lovely maiden, we cannot see the beautiful without admiring it.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Beautiful, Nature, Children

  Thomas Guthrie (1862). “The Way to Life: Sermons”, p.161

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• The only medal that I am certain I deserved is the Purple Heart.

  Bob Kerrey

  Heart, Certain, Medal

  Interview with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com.

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• When the starry sky, a vista of open seas, or a stained-glass window shedding purple beams fascinate me, there is a cluster of meaning, of colors, of words, of caresses, there are light touches, scents, sighs, cadences that arise, shroud me, carry me away, and sweep me beyond the things I see, hear, or think, The "sublime" object dissolves in the raptures of a bottomless memory. It is such a memory, which, from stopping point to stopping point, remembrance to remembrance, love to love, transfers that object to the refulgent point of the dazzlement in which I stray in order to be.

  Julia Kristeva

  Memories, Thinking, Sky

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• ...Why are all these masks winking?" Jason pointed around the room with his fork. The loremaster dabbed at his mouth with a frilled purple napkin. "One eye is open to all truth, the other closed to all deception.

  Brandon Mull

  Eye, Deception, Jason

  Brandon Mull (2013). “Brandon Mull's Beyonders Trilogy: A World Without Heroes; Seeds of Rebellion; Chasing the Prophecy”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the turquoise seas of the tropics.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Beautiful, Sea, Lakes

  "Soul survivor" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2007.

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• It wasn’t easy looking dignified wearing a bed sheet and a purple cape.

  Rick Riordan

  Rome, Bed, Capes

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• I've named a couple things after Edgar Allan Poe: the cat, and my garden upstate, where I only planted black flowers and purple flowers - and there's a raven statue.

  Hilarie Burton

  Couple, Flower, Cat

  "Esquire Presents Me in My Place with Hilarie Burton". Interview with Laura Lane, www.esquire.com. June 6, 2011.

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• There is a certain amount of pornography that exists throughout Purple Rain, but the appeal is obvious. You can really pick that picture apart and see where "A" fits into "B" and so on. It was very wisely done.

  Gene Kelly

  Rain, Done, Fit

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The ash her purple drops forgivingly
  And sadly, breaking not the general hush;
  The maple swamps glow like a sunset sea,
  Each leaf a ripple with its separate flush;
  All round the wood's edge creeps the skirting blaze,
  Ere the rain falls, the cautious farmer burns his brush.

  James Russell Lowell

  Fall, Rain, Sunset

  James Russell Lowell (2012). “The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell, With a Biographical Sketch and Notes, a Portrait and Other Illustrations”, p.70, tredition

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• Yet, there was once a king worthy of that name. That king was Arthur. It is paramount disgrace of this evil generation that the name of that great king is no longer spoken aloud except in derision. Arthur! He was the fairest flower of our race, Cymry's most noble son, Lord of the Summer Realm, Pendragon of Britain. He wore God's favour like a purple robe. Hear then, if you will, the tale of a true king.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Summer, Kings, Flower

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• I love purple because my name is Amethyst.

  Iggy Azalea

  Names, Amethyst

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

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• Caleb and Tris exchange a look. The skin on his face and on her knuckles is nearly the same colour, purple-blue-green, as if drawn with ink. This is what happens when siblings collide - they injure each other in the same way.

  Veronica Roth

  Sibling, Blue, Skins

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• There are purple grapes in the Land of Git-Thare.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Land, Grapes

  "The Land of Git-Thare", reported in "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th ed., 1919.

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• Not to be purple, but I've never been a 'bad boy' kind of girl. I like manners.

  Toks Olagundoye

  Girl, Boys, Kind

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• When we first began and I was 14, my influences were the stuff that was in my parent's record collection like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin.

  Daniel Johns

  Parent, Records, Zeppelins

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

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• Over the summit, I saw the so-called Mono desert lying dreamily silent in the thick, purple light -- a desert of heavy sun-glare beheld from a desert of ice-burnished granite.

  John Muir

  Lying, Light, Ice

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.348, Library of America

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• I'm a soldier who didn't know how nasty the battle was going to be, and now, I've got a purple heart and I'm back.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Heart, Soldier, Battle

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• All things of the sea belong to Venus; pearls and
  shells and alchemists' gold and kelp and the riggish
  smell of neap tides, the inshore green, and purple
  further out and the joy of distances and the roar of
  falling masonry, all these are hers, but she doesn't
  come out of the sea for all of us.

  John Cheever

  Distance, Fall, Sea

  John Cheever, Blake Bailey (2009). “John Cheever: Complete Novels”

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• I came in with a completely new perspective. I would write songs and they would pick tunes they felt were in the Purple vein.

  Tommy Bolin

  Song, Writing, Perspective

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• Reality itself is steadily becoming more colored. Think of what factories were like, especially in Italy at the beginning of the 19th century, when industrialization was just beginning: gray, brown and smoky. Color didn't exist. Today, instead, most everything is colored. The pipe running from the basement to the 12th floor is green because it carries steam. The one carrying electricity is red, and that with water is purple. Also, plastic colors have filled our homes, even revolutionized our taste. Pop art grew out of that and was possible because of this change in taste.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Running, Art, Home

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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• Oh, grown-ups cannot understand, And grown-ups never will, How short the way to fairyland Across the purple hill.

  Alfred Noyes

  Way, Hills

  Alfred Noyes (2008). “The Flower of Old Japan”, p.81, Wildside Press LLC

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• O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen!
  Bare long after the rest are green;
  But as the time steals onwards, while none perceives
  Slowly she clothes herself with leaves--
  Hides her fruit under them, hard to find.
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  But by and by, when the flowers grow few
  And the fruits are dwindling and small to view--
  Out she comes in her matron grace
  With the purple myriads of her race;
  Full of plenty from root to crown,
  Showering plenty her feet adown.
  While far over head hang gorgeously
  Large luscious berries of sanguine dye,
  For the best grows highest, always highest,
  Upon the mulberry-tree.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Queens, Flower, Feet

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