By the way, is there any difference between 'grey' and 'gray'? I believe there is, but I don't know what it is. In one place in the poem Smithers suggests 'gray'. In others he leaves 'grey'. Perhaps he is seeing red. I believe they are sympathetic colours in spectroscope investigations. - Oscar Wilde I don't know where I am, Evan." "I'm seeing red everywhere. It's just...everywhere." "I am underwater right now. You don't understand. I'm underwater." "I need a gun." "Evan? I need- - David Levithan

Here I am flying high over enemy lines in my Sopwith Camel searching for the Red Baron. Who's that behind me? It's the Red Baron! He has me in his sights! Give my regards to Broadway. - Charles M Schulz

O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll. - Rudyard Kipling Then it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, 'ow's yer soul?" But it's "Thin red line of 'eroes" when the drums begin to roll. - Rudyard Kipling They dashed on towards that thin red line tipped with steel. - William Howard Russell

I was a kid who got picked on in school, and now the guys beating up those kids were wearing red caps and using my music to fuel that aggression. But if they listen to the lyrics, the aggression is targeted at them. - Fred Durst I want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red. - Maria Sharapova It was in that garage that Alec worked, no longer wearing red bodices or peeing blue, but doing mysterious greasy things. - V S Naipaul

Livia, I'm going to be okay. You have to believe it." The nape of his neck was just inches from her lips. The only things stopping her from tasting it were red lipstick and one hundred pairs of eyes. "I've always believed it." Livia tilted her head so she could see him. Blake held his lips close to hers. They were lost in each other. - Debra Anastasia And her sweet red lips on these lips of mine Burned like the ruby fire set In the swinging lamp of a crimson shrine, Or the bleeding wounds of the pomegranate, Or the heart of the lotus drenched and wet With the spilt-out blood of the rose-red wine. - Oscar Wilde On my wedding day. I didn't want a natural, blushing-bride look - I had a full-on hairdo and red lips. I thought it would be disingenuous to do the whole virginal look, so even though I had the white dress, I had pink net underneath. - Sophie Ellis Bextor Her caramel skin and curly beach sand hair spreads in wavy chops like the choppy storm waves on...

Light like thin grey soup seeped through the windows. The door opened and Mrs. Dark came in, followed by her sister, who had no head, only the white bone of her spine protruding from her raggedly severed neck. - Cassandra Clare Yes, sir. I'm a real Southern boy. I got a red neck, white socks, and Blue Ribbon beer. - Billy Carter Only then did I see. Something was amiss with Patrick's snap-on one piece, or "onesie" as we manly dads like to call it. His chubby thighs, I now realized, were squeezed into the armholes, which were so tight they must have been cutting off his circulation. The collared neck hung between his legs like an udder. Up top, Patrick's head stuck out through the unsnapped crotch, and his arms were lost somewhere in the billowing pant legs. It was quite a look. - John Grogan And I'll tell you something else for free. If you set a foot over that doorsill, I'll wring your red neck. - Richard Peck Billy stretched and yawned, his withered...

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. - Napoleon Bonaparte It can't drag on this way much longer," she said to herself. "One evening he'll whistle under my window, I'll go down by a ladder or a knotted rope and he will carry me away on a motorcycle, off to a den where his subjects will be assembled. He'll say: 'Here is your new Queen.' And... and... it will be terrible!" viii. Their Queen is away and anarchy reigns! The Journal said so! How grand to be Queen, with a red ribbon and a revolver.. - Colette Poetry isn't like any writing I've ever heard before. I don't understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear half-finished, all fluttering together like brightly colored ribbons in the wind. - Lauren Oliver The color of his pallor, however, was a curiously basic white - unmixed, that is, with the greens and yellows of guilt or abject contrition. It was very like the standard bloodlessness ...

Bob Hope, Red Skelton, and Eddie Cantor... help us keep our balance. - Hattie Mcdaniel Red Skelton... I broke into tears when I met him. - Rip Taylor

I am a die-hard Red Sox fan, and yes, I dated a Yankee fan. I know I should be kicked out of The Nation for that, but I couldn't help it. He was way too charming back then. - Monica Alexander All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life. - John Cheever Seriously, our nation is never going to be on the same page on issues like gun control, welfare, the economy, the environment, etc. I doubt we'll ever come to terms on tastes great or less filling and hybrids versus Hummers, and there will always be Yankees fans and Red Sox fans, and never the 'twain shall meet. Fortunately, all it takes for us to be of one mind is some buttercream frosting. - Jen Lancaster I'm helplessly and permanently a Red Sox fan. It was like first love...You never forget. It's special. It's the first time I saw a ballpark. I'd thought nothing would ever replace cricket. Wow! Fenway Park at 7 o'clock in the evening. Oh, just...

I am a die-hard Red Sox fan, and yes, I dated a Yankee fan. I know I should be kicked out of The Nation for that, but I couldn't help it. He was way too charming back then. - Monica Alexander Just as the Red Sox proved the critics wrong, Maine can compete and can win. - John Baldacci There was no telling who would win. It would definitely be close. But she knew which side she was pulling for. Go Red Sox. - Sherrilyn Kenyon All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life. - John Cheever You know, a lot of people say they didn't want to die until the Red Sox won the World Series. Well, there could be a lot of busy ambulances tomorrow. - Johnny Damon We picked the Red Sox because they lose. If you root for something that loses for 86 years, you're a pretty good fan. You don't have to win everything to be a fan of something. - Jimmy Fallon I became a Yankees fan for a few years. But now, I gotta say, I'm reall...

The First Amendment rejects red tape, cover-up and double-speak. - Roy Barnes Red tape has killed more people than bullets.. - Ben Bova In order for me to get through all the red tape and just allow people to just get at my talent, I've got to set the record straight. And you can't set half the record straight; when you tell it, you've got to tell it all. - Corey Clark We can get rid of red tape. - Charlie Daniels You know that I am living proof that the American Dream is real. Growing up, our congressman cut through government bureaucratic red tape to help my mom buy our first house. That's the kind of congressman I'll be. - Geoff Davis It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It's about health and safety regulations and green fines. - Nigel Farage Here in the UK the government has decided to accept the recommendations of the Better Regulation Task Force to measure and make targeted reductions in the...

I spent the next two weeks flopped on my grandmother's super-bourgeois rose-colored velvet sofa, consuming massive quantites of grapes, reading obsessively. - Elif Batuman Do you have a red velvet cake?" "Of course," the waiter said, as if this was a ridiculous question. How dare I assume that they didn't have red velvet cake. The nerve. - Chelsea M Cameron I wrapped my arms around my knees and stared through the window's wavy glass. The red velvet curtains were drawn around the tiny alcove, and I was enveloped by an odd sense of peace, knowing that in twenty minutes, the halls were going to be crowded; music was going to be blaring; and I was going to go from being an only child to one of a hundred sisters, so I knew to savor the silence while it lasted. - Ally Carter I still love red velvet cake. - Molly Sims My mom FedExes a red velvet cake she makes from scratch to me every birthday. - Molly Sims I decorated my house like a medieval gothic castle, E...

Where we hope to land (and where we do land, though only for a fleeting moment, enough for tired wings to catch the wind anew) is a 'there' which we thought of little and knew of even less. - Zygmunt Bauman I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed. - Bob Dylan But a funny thing happened four years later. I was invited to play for an alumni team against the Red Wings. - Ted Lindsay At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it. - Ted Lindsay Through the years, I have so many wonderful memories of playing with the Red Wings: winning four Stanley Cups, scoring big goals, going into battle every night side by side with my teammates, playing with every ounce of effort I could muster. - Ted Lindsay I know the sky falls down every day. The sun drops into the ocean and splashes browns and reds and yellows and oranges into the world outside my window. A million leaves from a hundred different branches dip in the wind, flu...

Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn. Forth, Eorlingas! - J R R Tolkien All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to herald the feet of many rose-red dawns. - Oscar Wilde It is on!" Aech shouted into his comlink. "it is on like Red Dawn! - Ernest Cline My boyfriend and I just got a projector, so we've been screening movies on the roof and projecting them against the wall next door. The last one we did, the theme was, 'The Russians are coming.' So we screened 'Red Dawn' and 'Top Gun.' - Olivia Thirlby 'Red Dawn' was very resonant with a lot of people - they love that movie. I always thought it was a little hysterical. - Lea Thompson 'Red Dawn' was really the most fun I ever had making a movie, because I love Westerns, and I love the idea of being a tomboy, and riding horses and shootin...

The hallway was lined with numbered doors, odd numbers on one side and even numbers on the other, and large ornamental vases, too large to hold flowers and too small to hold spies. - Lemony Snicket We've both got into the blue beetle. He got into the red door, I got into the white one. - Jim Butcher For the longest time I studied revenge to the exclusion of all else. I built my first torture chamber in the dark vaults of imagination. Lying on bloody sheets in the Healing Hall I discovered doors within my mind that I'd not found before, doors that even a child of nine knows should not be opened. Doors that never close again. I threw them wide. - Mark Lawrence Murder had a blood red door on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone. - Alice Sebold

I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish to have them in the neighborhood. But the world that contained even the imagination of Ffnir was richer and more beautiful, at whatever the cost of peril. - J R R Tolkien See that day as I remember it. A day in June, River Severn rolling to the sea, diamonded with sunlight, gulls gliding over the quays on a mild breeze that lifted the Red Dragon standard over Camelot. A quiet enough day for the end of my world. - Parke Godwin After The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, the audience would like to know where, when, and who arrests Hannibal Lecter for the first time. This is the story of Red Dragon. - Dino De Laurentiis I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And I think it's very character driven. - Emily Watson

I want a red dress. I want it flimsy and cheap, I want it too tight, I want to wear it until someone tears it off me. I want it sleeveless and backless, this dress, so no one has to guess what's underneath. - Kim Addonizio The panel on the right portrayed Jesus emerging from his tomb, as Mary Magdalene, in a red dress (also iron, or perhaps grated particles of gold), holds out to him a purple garment (manganese dioxide) and a loaf of yellow bread (silver chloride). - Alan Bradley Hello!" The girl in the blood-red dress beamed at Leo. "Are you Dionysus?" There was only one answer to that. "Yes!" Leo yelped. "Absolutely. I am Dionysus. - Rick Riordan All, Pyle? Wait until you're afraid of living ten years alone with no companion and a nursing home at the end of it. THen you'll start running in any direction, even away from that girl in the red dressing-gown, to find someone, anyone, who last until you are through. - Graham Greene You are bea...

What's amazing is that I'm recognized all over the world through 'Red Dwarf.' British fans are exceptional, but the American fans are something else. Some of them fly 500 miles to stand in line for three hours, just to meet me, then when they do they collapse. It makes you feel like a rock star! - Craig Charles There was never any career plan. When 'Red Dwarf' started I thought we were doing a curious little sitcom on BBC2, I didn't think I was becoming an actor. I didn't see that 21 years later I'd still be talking about it, let alone filming a new one. For me everything's always been an accident. - Craig Charles Step up to red alert." Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb." - Rimmer & Kryten, "Red Dwarf - Rob Grant

If I stand here, I can see the Little Red Haired girl when she comes out of her house... Of course, if she sees me peeking around this tree, she'll think I'm the dumbest person in the world... But if I don't peek around the tree, I'll never see her... Which means I probably AM the dumbest person in the world... which explains why I'm standing in a batch of poison oak. - Charles M Schulz When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do you remember the Peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown kicked the football and kissed the Little Red Haired Girl? Neither do I.' - Lev Yilmaz

It was obvious that bigotry was never a one-way operation, that hatred bred hatred! - Isaac Asimov And, well, mine are kind of on the heavy side anyway. The first day or two, I don't want to do ANYTHING. Make sure you keep away from me then.' I'd like to, but how can I tell?' I asked. O.K., I'll wear a hat for a couple of days after my period starts. A red one. That should work,' she said with a laugh. 'If you see me on the street and I'm wearing a red hat, don't talk to me, just run away. - Haruki Murakami Twice Flush had done his utmost to kill his enemy; twice he had failed. And why had he failed, he asked himself? Because he loved Miss Barrett. Looking up at her from under his eyebrows as she lay, severe and silent on the sofa, he knew that he must love her for ever. Things are not simple but complex. If he bit Mr. Browning he bit her too. Hatred is not hatred; hatred is also love. - Virginia Woolf That satisfied me until I began to figure th...