Blue Quotes
2391 quotes by 1581 authors
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In coming to the Congress as a new Member and becoming a fellow Blue Dog, we have had an opportunity to share and really spend…
— Jim Costa
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War is not two great armies meeting in the clash and frenzy of battle. War is a boy being carried on a stretcher, looking up…
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
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When I took my clothes off in Blue Velvet, I wanted to convey the brutality of sex abuse. I wanted to look like a quartered…
— Isabella Rossellini
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Adults, older girls, shops, magazines, newspapers, window signs—all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl child treasured
— Toni Morrison
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The poet’s life is just so much crenellated waste, nights and days whipping swiftly or laboriously past the cinematic window. We’re hunched and weaving over…
— Eileen Myles
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Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down…
— Albert Camus
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The sky was yellow and the sun was blue...
— Robert Hunter
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More than that, I believe that the grass is green because green is restful to the human eye, that the sky is blue to give…
— Penelope Fitzgerald
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To go fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air, with the rush of the brook, or with the shimmer of sun…
— Herbert Hoover
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One Blue Dog Democratic House Member reminded me earlier this month of the saying that 'insanity is doing the same thing over and over again…
— John Fund
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...what I feel we ought to do at this juncture is to dash off somewhere where it's quiet and there aren't so many housesdancing the…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless. Christmas dinner's dark and blue. When you stop and try to see it From the turkey's point of view.
— Shel Silverstein
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If we seek for the simplest arrangement, which would enable it [the eye] to receive and discriminate the impressions of the different parts of the…
— Thomas Young
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We have a unique opportunity to unite America, urban and rural, coastal and midwestern, red and blue, under the banner of a truly unifying national…
— William J. Clinton
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There are moments on most days when I feel a deep and sincere gratitude, when I sit at the open window, and there is a…
— Kathe Kollwitz
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It would be quite amusing to preach a bit to all those people who for many years now have been looking at our paintings and…
— Edvard Munch
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I have always been drawn to designing fashions that are rebellious, like black leather jackets on suburban kinds, a corset dress, punk, blue jeans. I…
— Jean Paul Gaultier
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Gathering Blue' was a separate book. I wanted to explore what a society might become after a catastrophic world event. Only at the end did…
— Lois Lowry
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It’s time to burn the beret and bury the blue dress.
— Monica Lewinsky
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Blue is the only color which maintains its own character in all its tones it will always stay blue; whereas yellow is blackened in its…
— Raoul Dufy
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