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Color In Quotes

The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward.
- Aberjhani

Only you could put color in a colorless world.
- Kristen Ashley

You may fancy yourself safe and think yourself strong. But a chance tone of color in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, a line from a forgotten poem that you had come across again, a cadence from a piece of music that you had ceased to play. I tell you Dorian, that it is on things like these that our lives depend.
- Oscar Wilde

My father once nearly came to blows with a female dinner guest about whether a particular patch of embroidery was fuchsia or magenta.
But the infinite gradations of color in a fine sunset - from salmon to canary to midnight blue - left him wordless.
- Alison Bechdel

For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?
- John Steinbeck

Wenna followed us out. "You've done him some good, Clary, I have to say! He's got color in his cheeks, and he's stepping along as if he was sixty again," she told Goodwin as she walked us to the gate. "You'll come back?"
"Of course," Goodwin said. "But thank Cooper for his improved spirits. Once he'd insulted her a few times, he was in the pink.
- Tamora Pierce

The love of a
man is like a drop of color into something clear.
- Simon Van Booy

I was the only person of color in the Senate, and my colleagues were Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Trent Lott.
- Carol Moseley Braun

There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.
- John Calvin

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
- William Hazlitt

You must understand as a kid of color in those days, the Harlem Globetrotters were like being movie stars.
- Wilt Chamberlain

The best color in the whole world, is the one that looks good, on you!
- Coco Chanel

Blue is the most common eye color in Oria Province, but there is something different about his eyes and I'm not sure what it is. More depth? I wonder what he sees when he looks at me. If he seems to have depth to me, do I seem shallow and transparent to him?
- Ally Condie

Tell me the truth. When you were a kid, did you always color inside the lines?"
"Coloring in the lines is the whole point. That's why they have lines," I said.
"That's where you're wrong. The lines are there just to hold you in. Like a prison. Think what you might have created if there hadn't been any lines.
- Eileen Cook

The master of ceremonies asked people to say what they thought the function of the novel might be in modern society, and one critic said, "To provide touches of color in rooms with all-white walls." Another one said, "To describe blow-jobs artistically.
- Kurt Vonnegut

It always seemed ridiculous to me that people would want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.
- John Green

That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.
- John Green

Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue, there seemed to be no color in anything except the posters that were plastered everywhere.
- George Orwell

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
- Antonio Gaudi

If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US.
- Jim Henson

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
- Hans Hofmann

I found it mildly depressing that the height of color in Washokey came from the seasonal produce shipped from other states.
- Kirsten Hubbard

A brick could be used as a color in a new line of lipstick, designed to woo the mason of every woman's dreams.
- Jarod Kintz

The bands of color in a rainbow remind me of my band, Bands of Color. We're not very musical, but we sure are bright.
- Jarod Kintz

Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.
- Martin Kippenberger

As I'm debating running for the exit, Nash leans down to whisper at my ear.
"Is something wrong?"
"I feel like the only splash of color in an abstract painting."
"You are the splash of color. But there's nothing wrong with that.
- M Leighton

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
- James Russell Lowell

I peek up at his features, at the crooked grin i want to savor, at the color in his eyes i'd use to paint a million pictures.
- Tahereh Mafi

But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.
- Paul Mccartney

You scan the cheering bleachers for the strange boy's face: handsome, reserved, with the eye patch, a little dramatic, a little scary. You finally find him sitting there in the middle of the sixth row. He is wearing a dark green army jacket and is staring back at you. He looks sad and beautiful, like a watercolor in a hospital room.
- Joe Meno

Lavender used to be my favorite color in the box of sixty-four crayons - you know, the one with the sharpener built into the side...It seemed like it could draw anything. It was the right color for everything. I drew lavender flowers and my father's lavender eyes, my mother's lavender smile. They were the same to me, mother, father, flowers. All good. All lavender. And I was lavender, too.
- Melinda Metz

Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute, oboe, and violin, each in its own language of key, scale, and color. In the first set, each solo is interrupted by its successor; in the second, each interruption is recontinued, in order. Revolutionary or gimmicky? Shan't know until it's finished, and by then it'll be too late.
- David Mitchell

Choose your friends and mates, not by the money in their bank account, creed, ethnicity, or color; instead, choose character, actions, heart, and soul. When we bleed, we bleed the same color.
- Ana Monnar

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
- Florence Nightingale

I wouldn't use the same color in a picture in more than one place.
- Robert Rauschenberg

Color intermingled with color. People intermingled with people. Color and people intercoursing together.
- Beatrice Sparks

When I offered the word "Womanism" many years ago, it was to give us a tool to use, as feminist women of color, in times like these. These are the moments we can see clearly, and must honor devotedly, our singular path as women of color in the United States. We are not white women and this truth has been ground into us for centuries, often in brutal ways.
- Alice Walker

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