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• Toad talked big about all he was going to do in the days to come, while stars grew fuller and larger all around them, and a yellow moon, appearing suddenly and silently from nowhere in particular, came to keep them company and listen to their talk.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Stars, Moon, Toads

  Kenneth Grahame (1914). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.17, Hayes Barton Press

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• I have scars on my hands from touching certain people...Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me. Other things, too. Charlotte once ran away from me, outside the studio, and I grabbed her dress to stop her, to keep her near me. A yellow cotton dress I loved because it was too long for her. I still have a lemon-yellow mark on the palm of my right hand. Oh God, if I'm anything by a clinical name, I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

  J. D. Salinger

  Life, Hair, Hands

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• I write in the morning at a table, longhand on yellow legal pads, just like Nixon, when I’m doing fiction.

  Gore Vidal

  Morning, Writing, Fiction

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• Oh yes! he loved yellow, this good Vincent, this painter from Holland - those glimmers of sunlight rekindled his soul, that abhorred the fog, that needed the warmth.

  Paul Gauguin

  Fog, Soul, Sunlight

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• And I don't care what else anyone has ever told you, the Sun is white, not yellow. Human color perception is a complicated business, but if the Sun were yellow, like a yellow lightbulb, then white stuff such as snow would reflect this light and appear yellow-a snow condition confirmed to happen only near fire hydrants.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, White, Fire

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.293, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I had forgotten what mustard fields looked like... Sheet upon sheet of blazing yellow, half way between sulphur and celandine, with hot golden sunshine pouring down upon them out of a dazzling June sky. It thrilled me like music.

  Monica Baldwin

  Sunshine, Sky, June

  Monica Baldwin (2016). “I Leap Over The Wall - Contrasts And Impressions After Twenty-Eight Years In A Convent”, p.71, Read Books Ltd

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• So many nurses had turned into emotionally disturbed handmaidens of the war, in their yellow-and-crimson uniforms with bone buttons.

  Michael Ondaatje

  War, Nurse, Buttons

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.178, Vintage

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• The principle tragedy of my life is, like all tragedies, an irony of Destiny. I reject real life as if it were a condemnation; I reject dreams as if they were an ignoble liberation. [...]After the end of the stars uselessly whitened in the morning sky and the breeze became less cold in the barely orange tinged in the yellow of the light on the scattered low clouds, I, who hadn't slept, could finally, slowly raise my body, exhausted from nothing from the bed from which I had thought the universe.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Morning, Stars

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• A thousand trees are seen towards heaven rising, With beautiful and sweetly-scented apples; The orange, wearing on its lovely fruit The colour Daphne carried in her hair; Bent low, nay almost fallen to the ground, The citron, heavy with its yellow load; And, last, the graceful lemon with its fruit Of pleasant smell and shaped like virgins' breasts.

  Luis de Camoes

  Beautiful, Hair, Smell

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• The key of D is daffodil yellow, B major is maroon, and B flat is blue.

  Marian McPartland

  Keys, Blue, Maroon

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• Insects influenced the shape of the Australian house. Some, like the white ant and lthe Lyctus borer, worked quietly and invisibly until a little shower of yellow dust or a sudden collapse indicated their presence. Others, like the mosquito and housefly, were less dangerous and more objectionable. The former type influenced structure in minor ways; the latter affected planning to a major degree.

  Robin Boyd

  Dust, White, House

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• You have no idea how crazy I am, I should be wearing yellow Caution tape, I'm that bonkers.

  Robin Benway

  Crazy, Ideas, Tape

  Robin Benway (2010). “The Extraordinary Secrets of April, May, & June”, p.79, Penguin

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• I see music in colours. I love music that's black, pink, purple or red - but I hate music that's green, yellow or brown.

  Charli XCX

  Hate, Purple, Black

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• I said, 'Ooh, Dad, I want the yellow ones.' He said, 'Where?' I said, 'Right there, Dad. I want the yellow ones.' Everybody goes, 'Those are green'. That's how I knew I was colorblind.

  Michael Rosenbaum

  Dad, Green, Want

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• Turquoise, yellow, pink, a lot of the pastel colors are some of the more popular suit colors this year. But it varies from old to young.

  Amy Wright

  Past, Color, Years

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• I wrote 'Big Yellow Taxi' on my first trip to Hawaii. I took a taxi to the hotel and when I woke up the next morning, I threw back the curtains and saw these beautiful green mountains in the distance. Then, I looked down and there was a parking lot as far as the eye could see, and it broke my heart this blight on paradise. That's when I sat down and wrote the song.

  Joni Mitchell

  Beautiful, Song, Morning

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• People accuse journalism of being too personal; but to me it has always seemed far too impersonal. It is charged with tearing away the veils from private life; but it seems to me to be always dropping diaphanous but blinding veils between men and men. The Yellow Press is abused for exposing facts which are private; I wish the Yellow Press did anything so valuable. It is exactly the decisive individual touches that it never gives; and a proof of this is that after one has met a man a million times in the newspapers it is always a complete shock and reversal to meet him in real life.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Men, Giving

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• If a period is a stop sign, then what kind of traffic flow is created by other marks? The comma is a speed bump; the semicolon is what a driver education teacher calls a “rolling stop”; the parenthetical expression is a detour; the colon is a flashing yellow light that announces something important up ahead; the dash is a tree branch in the road.

  Roy Peter Clark

  Teacher, Light, Expression

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• Cedars are terribly sensitive to change of time and light - sometimes they are bluish cold-green, then they turn yellow warm-green - sometimes their boughs flop heavy and sometimes float, then they are fairy as ferns and then they droop, heavy as heartaches.

  Emily Carr

  Change, Light, Heartache

  Emily Carr, Michael Breur, Kerry Mason Dodd (1984). “Sunlight in the shadows: the landscape of Emily Carr”

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• Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth.

  Robert Frost

  Sorry, Taken, Journey

  Robert Frost, Gary D. Schmidt (1994). “Robert Frost”, p.21, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• The pie should be eaten "while it is yet florescent, white or creamy yellow, with the merest drip of candied juice along the edges, (as if the flavor were so good to itself that its own lips watered!) of a mild and modest warmth, the sugar suggesting jelly, yet not jellied, the morsels of apple neither dissolved nor yet in original substance, but hanging as it were in a trance between the spirit and the flesh of applehood...then, O blessed man, favored by all the divinities! eat, give thanks, and go forth, 'in apple-pie order!'"

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Blessed, Men, White

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• The first of all simple colours is White ... We shall set down White for the representative of light, without which no colour can be seen; Yellow for the earth; Green for water; Blue for air; Red for fire; and Black for total darkness.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Fire, Light, Air

  "A Treatise on Painting: the Painting Art".

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• She was wearing a canary-yellow two-piece bathing suit, one piece of which she would not actually be needing for another nine or ten years.

  J. D. Salinger

  Years, Two, Pieces

  J. D. SALINGER (1968). “FOR ESME- WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR”

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• Beside the brook and on the umbered meadow, Where yellow fern-tufts fleck the faded ground, With folded lids beneath their palmy shadow The gentian nods in dewy slumbers bound.

  Sarah Helen Whitman

  Shadow, Slumber, Ferns

  Sarah Helen Whitman (1853). “Poems”, p.61

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• About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden.

  Frank Yerby

  New Orleans, Sea, Rivers

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