Yellow Quotes

• You create your own decoration. You choose your color, you choose your mood. ... If you are depressed, you put some bright yellow and suddenly you are happy.

  Philippe Starck

  Happy, Depression, Color

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• How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Lovely, Sun

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• I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.

  Conor Oberst

  Best Love, I Hate You, Light

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• Yellow is capable of charming God.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Color, Charming, Capable

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• Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.

  Edmund Burke

  Silence, Golden, Your Freedom

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• Silence isn't golden. It's yellow.

  Zell Miller

  Silence, Golden, Silence Is

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• It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful, serene, gently stimulating character. Hence, experience teaches us that yellow makes a thoroughly warm and comforting impression.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Character, Light, Color

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• Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

  Pablo Picasso

  Photography, Art, Creativity

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• Yellow usually means it's not that serious.

  Bobby Unser

  Mean, Serious

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• Well, my favorite color I guess I would say yellow.

  Fran Drescher

  Color, My Favorite, Wells

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• Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold!

  Thomas Hood

  Gold, Jewelry, Cold

  Thomas Hood (1859). “The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood: With a Biographical Sketch and Notes”, p.306

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• All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.

  Alexander Pope

  Gratitude, Eye, Prejudice

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• Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.

  Alexander Theroux

  Vagueness

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• My way of life
  Is fall'n into the sear and yellow leaf.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Decay, Way

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• Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold

  Aristotle

  Gold, Objects

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• I truly believe that at times like this, silence is not golden. It is yellow.

  Zell Miller

  Believe, Silence, Golden

  Zell Miller (2005). “Zell Miller A Senator Speaks Out on Patriotism Values and Character”, p.49, Xulon Press

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• She turned to the sunlight     And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor:     "Winter is dead.

  A. A. Milne

  Spring, Winter, Neighbor

  A.A. Milne (1950). “When We Were Very Young”, GoodBook Classics

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• The sky was yellow and the sun was blue.

  Robert Hunter

  Blue, Sky, Sun

  Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

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• I can't wear yellow anymore. It's too matchy-matchy with my catheter.

  Joan Rivers

  Age, I Can

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• The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody.

  Tom Stoppard

  Real, Blue, Mystical Experiences

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”, p.13, Faber & Faber

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• Follow the yellow brick road.

  Yip Harburg

  Bricks, Brick Roads, Lullaby

  "We're Off to See the Wizard (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)" (song) (1939)

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• And over it all, the butterflies swarmed, like a million yellow-pettalled flowers dancing on swirling winds.

  Steven Erikson

  Flower, Butterfly, Wind

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• We find from experience that yellow excites a warm and agreeable impression.... The eye is gladdened, the heart expanded and cheered, a glow seems at once to breathe toward us.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Eye, Heart, Breathe

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2012). “Theory of Colours”, p.169, Courier Corporation

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• Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.

  Charles de Lint

  Lying, Night, Blue

  Charles de Lint (2002). “The Onion Girl”, p.190, Macmillan

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• Yellow wakes me up in the morning. Yellow gets me on the bike every day. Yellow has taught me the true meaning of sacrifice. Yellow makes me suffer. Yellow is the reason I'm here.

  Lance Armstrong

  Morning, Sacrifice, Suffering

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