"I think the names of colors are at……" — A. S. Byatt
"I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful."
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101 Quotes by A. S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt has 101 quotes on this site.
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Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses,…
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I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and…
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a…
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
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I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be…
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I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly…
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I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask…
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I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.
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I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from…
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I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are…
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I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.
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More Color Quotes
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one of 3,174 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you.…
— Chinua Achebe
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The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
— Marcus Aurelius
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You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you…
— Richard Bach
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
— Honore de Balzac
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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
— Honore de Balzac
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Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security…
— Dave Barry
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For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.
— Lynda Barry
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It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.
— Lance Bass
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To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite,…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you…
— Glenn Beck
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I like bold colors but usually wear black.
— Mayim Bialik
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