Purple Quotes - Page 9

• Let us candidly confess our indebtedness to the needle. How many hours of sorrow has it softened, how many bitter irritations calmed, how many confused thoughts reduced to order, how many life-plans sketched in purple!

  Caroline Wells Healey Dall

  Confused, Irritation, Order

  Caroline Wells Healey Dall (1868). “The College, the Market, and the Court: Or Woman's Relation to Education, Labor, and Law”, p.9

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• After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix and picking up the Woodstock soundtrack. Listening to his version of 'Star Spangled Banner' and 'Purple Haze.' My brother played acoustic guitar and, idolising him, I thought, 'I'm going to get a guitar.'

  Kirk Hammett

  Brother, Stars, Air Guitar

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• I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, 'Geez, this is ridiculous.' You just see through all that sort of stuff. I never liked those Deep Purples or those sort of things. I always hated it. I always thought it was a poor man's Led Zeppelin.

  Angus Young

  Men, Zeppelins, Stuff

  "Angus Young of AC/DC Opens Up in His First Guitar World Interview from 1984". Interview with Steven Rosen, www.guitarworld.com. August 23, 2011.

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• If you look closely at any face, you'll start to see that different areas of the flesh tones are tinged with four other colors - red, green, purple and yellow.

  Doug Dawson

  Color, Yellow, Different

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• My life growing up was a twisted Bronx version of The Color Purple. It had a much different soundtrack and no trees, but that desperation was the same.

  Tracy Morgan

  Growing Up, Color, Tree

  Tracy Morgan, Anthony Bozza (2009). “I Am the New Black”, p.12, Spiegel & Grau

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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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• 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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• 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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• So, The Color Purple changed my life. It changed everything about my life because, in that moment of praying and letting go, I really understood the principle of surrender. The principle of surrender is that, after you have done all that you can do, and you've done your best and given it your all, you then have to release it to whatever you call God, or don't call God.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Letting Go, Color, Principles

  Source: collider.com

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• For the first time, I wasn't embarrassed by the look of beauty, of elegance, because when you see someone who has only one rag as their property, but it happens to be beautiful and pink and silk, beauty doesn't have to be separated... I have always said that you shouldn't have biases, you shouldn't have prejudices. But before that [before his trip to India, circa 1975] I'd never been able to use purple, because it was too beautiful.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Beautiful, India, Rags

  "Rauschenberg: Art and Life". Book by Mary Lynn Kotz, 1990.

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• You should hear me on my own. It's horrendous.I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, Geez, this is ridiculous.

  Angus Young

  Zeppelins, Saws, Ridiculous

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• Go and copulate with yon purple lizard.

  Roger Zelazny

  Lizards

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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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• I feel like the reason I ended up becoming a playwright is because I never choose the right word. As a kid, my fantasy profession was to be a novelist. But the thing about writing prose - and maybe great prose writers don't feel this way - but I always felt it was about choosing words. I was always like, "I have to choose the perfect word." And then it would kill me, and I would choose the wrong word or I would choose too many perfect words - I wrote really purple prose.

  Annie Baker

  Writing, Kids, Perfect

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I can't stand purple. It doesn't suit me.

  Jenny Joseph

  Suits, I Can

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• When I am old, I shall wear purple.

  Jenny Joseph

  "Older and wiser: Carol Ann Duffy introduces poems of ageing". www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2010.

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• If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple.

  Epictetus

  Complaining, Slave, Ifs

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• I had a suit made for me when I was five. It was double-breasted, mohair and purple. My mother was very particular about clothing - it always used to have to go back into the plastic and it used to drive me insane.

  Ozwald Boateng

  Mother, Insane, Suits

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• The key to success is to find a way to stand out--to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins.

  Seth Godin

  Keys, Cows, Way

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• When I'm a blonde, I can say the world is purple, and they'll believe me because they weren't listening to me.

  Kylie Bax

  Stupid, Believe, Dumb

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• A field is the most just possession for men. For what nature requires it carefully bears: barley, oil, wine, figs, honey. Silver-plate and purple will do for the tragedians, not for life.

  Philemon

  Wine, Men, Oil

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• I always have two bracelets on my right arm. One is a purple and white bracelet from a fan. I love it! I also wear a bracelet from a waterpark- I've had it on for two or three years. My mom says it's pretty nasty, actually. But you'll never see me without them ever! In magazine photos, the bracelets are sometimes airbrushed out, but viewers will always see me wearing them during scenes.

  Miley Cyrus

  Mom, Years, Two

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• 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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