Scarlet Quotes - Page 5

• In America, the word art has become like the word adultery. It's this big scarlet letter. When you say you're an artist, people are like, "Ugh."

  Julie Taymor

  Art, America, People

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• lips all crude scarlet, and eyes as absurdly big and round as a child's good-by kiss.

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

  Children, Eye, Kissing

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (2012). “The Sick-a-Bed Lady: And Other Tales”, p.243, The Floating Press

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• Love was a fever that came along a few years after chicken-pox and measles and scarlet fever.

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

  Years, Fever, Pox

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (2012). “The Sick-a-Bed Lady: And Other Tales”, p.79, The Floating Press

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• I love color. It must submit to me. And I love art. I kneel before it, and it must become mine. Everything around me glows with passion. Every day reveals a new red flower, glowing, scarlet red. Everyone around me carries them. Some wear them quietly hidden in their hearts. And they are like poppies just opening, of which one can see only here and there a hint of red petal peeking out from the green bud.

  Paula Modersohn-Becker

  Art, Flower, Passion

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• People call me an optimist, but I'm really an appreciator ... years ago, I was cured of a badly infected finger with antibiotics when once my doctor could have recommended only a hot water soak or, eventually, surgery.... When I was six years old and had scarlet fever, the first of the miracle drugs, sulfanilamide, saved my life. I'm grateful for computers and photocopiers ... I appreciate where we've come from.

  Julian Simon

  Grateful, Doctors, Years

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• The love that loves a scarlet coat Should be more uniform.

  Honorius Augustodunensis

  Coats, Uniforms, Should

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• It has never occurred to me before, but this is truly how it is: all of us on earth walk constantly over a seething, scarlet sea of flame, hidden below, in the belly of the earth. We never think of it. But what if the thin crust under our feet should turn into glass and we should suddenly see?

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Thinking, Glasses, Flames

  "We". Book by Yevgeny Zamyatin, D-503, 1921.

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• ...wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behavior. For that there must be words, but words without reason... Not so much like drops of water, though water, it is true, can wear holes in the hardest granite; rather, drops of liquid sealing-wax, drops that adhere, encrust, incorporate themselves with what they fall on, till finally the rock is all one scarlet blob.

  Aldous Huxley

  Fall, Home, Rocks

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• She looked, and a scarlet butterfly flew away from her, away down the length of the tower, and then another, another, an unraveling scarf of butterflies like winged blood.

  Tanith Lee

  Butterfly, Blood, Towers

  Tanith Lee (2014). “Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer: Expanded Edition”, p.73, Wildside Press LLC

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• Before The World Was Made If I make the lashes dark and the eyes more bright and the lips more scarlet, or ask if all be right from mirror after mirror, no vanity's displayed: I'm looking for the face I had before the world was made. What if I look upon a man as though on my beloved, and my blood be cold the while and my heart unmoved? Why should he think me cruel or that he is betrayed? I'd have him love the thing that was before the world was made.

  William Butler Yeats

  Eye, Heart, Dark

  1928 'A Woman Young and Old', part 2 'Before the World was Made', stanza 1. Collected in The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933).

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• A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Running, Art, Use

  SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, Choi Hyun (2016). “A Study in Scarlet”, p.32, ebookspub

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• I bet it breaks your heart to have two of your friends pine for me the way they do," he said proudly. "Luna...and now Scarlet. They can't keep their hands off of me." "It's just because you are foreign to them. It's like if they went to the zoo and stared at the monkeys. You are the monkey.

  Ellen Schreiber

  Zoos, Heart, Hands

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• Cogswhallop glanced skeptically at the complex runes. "Are you sure this'll work, gen'ral?" "Of course I'm sure-" Ping. The silvery note echoed in the cramped room. Makenna felt her face turn scarlet.

  Hilari Bell

  Rooms, Faces, Notes

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• Everyone seems to want more form me. I am a thoroughly disappointing girl around. I shall wear a scarlet 'D' upon my bosom for all to see so that they will know not to raise their expectations.

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Expectations, Want

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• The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings, and a fat white body with black spots running down it like a snowman's coal buttons. No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Running, Eye, Black And White

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “Prodigal Summer”, p.140, Faber & Faber

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• You do not seek to kill me, Dumbledore?" called Voldemort, his scarlet eyes narrowed. "Above such brutality, are you?" "We both know that there are other ways of destroying a man, Tom," Dumbledore said calmly. "Merely taking your life would not satisfy me, I admit - " "There is nothing worse than death, Dumbledore!" snarled Voldemort. "You are quite wrong," said Dumbledore, speaking as lightly as though they were discussing the matter over drinks. "Indeed, your failure to understand that there are things much worse than death has always been your greatest weakness.

  J. K. Rowling

  Eye, Men, Weakness

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• From the first, you enchanted me. You are more than beautiful. You are smart and strong and determined. When I'm with you. I want to be a better man. I want to be worthy of you. I want to provide for you I want to give you the life you deserve. One day, I will. Because I know, deep in my soul, that to part is to die. - Gideon to Scarlet (wedding vows)

  Gena Showalter

  Beautiful, Strong, Smart

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• my mind is a big hunk of irrevocable nothing which touch and taste and smell and hearing and sight keep hitting and chipping with sharp fatal tools in an agony of sensual chisels i perform squirms of chrome and ex -ecute strides of cobalt nevertheless i feel that i cleverly am being altered that i slightly am becoming something a little different, in fact myself hereupon helpless i utter lilac shrieks and scarlet bellowings

  e. e. cummings

  Taste And Smell, Sight, Agony

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• It's Nathaniel Hawthorne Month in English. Poor Nathaniel. Does he know what they've done to him? We're reading The Scarlet Letter one sentence at a time, tearing it up and chewing on its bones. It's all about SYMBOLISM, says Hairwoman. Every word chosen by Nathaniel, every comma, every paragraph break -- these were all done on purpose. To get a decent grade in her class, we have to figure out what he was really trying to say. Why couldn't he just say what he meant? Would they pin scarlet letters on his chest? B for blunt, S for straightforward?

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Reading, Class, Symbolism

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• It was a day as different from other days as dogs are from cats and both of them from chrysanthemums or tidal waves or scarlet fever.

  John Steinbeck

  Dog, Cat, Different

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.201, Penguin

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• The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion. We reject the burden of their memory, and have anodynes against them. But the little things, the things of no moment, remain with us. In some tiny ivory cell the brain stores the most delicate, and the most fleeting impressions.

  Oscar Wilde

  Memories, Flower, Passion

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• I wonder if I can write this history, or if on every page there will be some sneaking show of a bitterness I thought long dead. I think myself cured of all spite, but when I touch pen to paper, the hurt of a boy bleeds out with the sea-spawned ink, until I suspect each carefully formed black letter scabs over some ancient scarlet wound.

  Robin Hobb

  Hurt, Writing, Boys

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Assassin's Apprentice: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.2, Spectra

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• That's definitely true! It was before my father died, so I can't attribute it to an obsession with death. When I was seven, I loved those old Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone. The Scarlet Claw was one of my faves. And I loved all the Halloween's and that film about the haunted house... Burnt Offerings, with Oliver Reed. Every birthday party was a slumber party and we'd watch horror films.

  Cate Blanchett

  Father, Halloween, Party

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• September is a sweep of dusky, purple asters, a sumac branch swinging a fringe of scarlet leaves, and the bittersweet scene of wild grapes when I walk down the lane to the mailbox. September is a golden month of mellow sunlight and still clear days. ... Small creatures in the grass, as if realizing their days are numbered, cram the night air with sound. Everywhere goldenrod is full out.

  Jean Hersey

  Night, Air, Purple

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• Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.

  Isaiah

  White, Snow, Wool

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