Blue Quotes

2391 Blue quotes by 1581 unique authors

So I sit there kicked my heels, thinking about New Orleans, and watching a morbid blue-bottle fly attempt to commit suicide by butting his head… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night. I will make a palace fit for… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Ever see a hot shot hit, kid? I saw the Gimp catch one in Philly. We rigged his room with a one-way whorehouse mirror and… — William S. Burroughs
After two hours it stopped raining and in the same moment the spell broke, which Peroquet and the Admiral and Captain Jumeau knew by a… — Susanna Clarke
I really beleive that if the political leaders of the world could see their planet from a distance of, let's say 100,000 miles, their outlook… — Michael Collins
I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the… — Robertson Davies
They think written words are even more powerful,’ whispered the toad. ‘They think all writing is magic. Words worry them. See their swords? They glow… — Terry Pratchett
Blanche, prosaic in a pale yellow sweater and blue jeans, was wondering again if anything mattered—-life, faith--specifically, finishing homework assignments. — Regina Doman
People always think that happiness is a faraway thing," thought Francie, "something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up;… — Betty Smith
Her fingers moved among barnacles and mussels, blue-black, sharp-edged. Neon red starfish were limp Dalis on the rocks, surrounded by bouquets of stinging anemones and… — Janet Fitch
I saw in a blue haze all the world poured flat and pale between the mountains — Annie Dillard
He had electric blue hair that had stuck around his head like tendrils of a startled octopus. — Cassandra Clare
I gazed around the room and my eyes stopped dead on a little boy standing in the corner. This was a particularly eerie doll. Life-sized… — Augusten Burroughs
I went to the door, and Gary tried hard not to notice I was blue. He looked at his feet, and he looked above my… — Janet Evanovich
When they took a young man into Tellson's London house, they hid him somewhere till he was old. They kept him in a dark place,… — Charles Dickens
When the hearthfire turns to blue, what to do? what to do? run outside, run and hide when his eyes are black as crow? where… — Patrick Rothfuss
The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit nature… the artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue penciling the bad spelling… — H. L. Mencken
I don't want to wrong anybody, so I won't go so far as to say that she actually wrote poetry, but her conversation, to my… — P.G. Wodehouse
If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen what we'd come… — Alice Hoffman
At the end of the day faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don't really expect it. Its like one day you… — Zane Grey
I suppose [my life] has most resembled a blue chip stock: fairly stable, more ups than downs, and gradually trending upward over time. A good… — Nicholas Sparks
A crippled child Said, "How shall I dance?" Let your heart dance We said. Then the invalid said: "How shall I sing?" Let your heart… — Gabriela Mistral
All rivers run full to the sea; those who are apart are brought together; the lost ones are redeemed; the dead come back to life;… — Mark Helprin
First, he realized that the sea was blue and that there was an enormous quantity of it, and that it roared and roared-really all the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Now this is the first rule of fight club: There is nothing a blue collar Nobody in Oregon with a public school education can imagine… — Chuck Palahniuk

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