Blue Quotes

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Just as blueprints don't necessarily specify blue buildings, selfish genes don't necessarily specify selfish organisms. As we shall see, sometimes the most selfish thing a… — Steven Pinker
Maybe i would become a mermaid... i would live in the swirling blue-green currents, doing exotic underwater dances for the fish, kissed by sea anemones,… — Francesca Lia Block
She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth. — Henry James
For a long time I believed the opposite of passion was death. I was wrong. Passion and death are implicit, one in the other. Past… — Marya Hornbacher
White pill, blue pill, yellow pill, purple pill; its like swallowing a rainbow every bedtime. — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature’s geometric signs, In… — John Greenleaf Whittier
I have no idea how he knows when I need him. We can go weeks without speaking, and then, when my blue moods threaten to… — David Levithan
I am an obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empty hands and a blue face. Some fatal… — Gustave Flaubert
..she began to stand around the gate and expect things. What things? She didn't know exactly. Her breath was gusty and short. She knew things… — Zora Neale Hurston
Life is short And pleasures few And holed the ship And drowned the crew But o! But o! How very blue the sea is. — Clive Barker
And immediately Rather than words comes the thought of high windows: The sun-comprehending glass, And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows Nothing, and… — Philip Larkin
It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion. — Fiona Apple
Memory is a tenuous thing. . . . flickering glimpses, blue and white, like ancient, decomposing 16mm film. Happiness escapes me there, where faces are… — Ellen Hopkins
From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All… — Abraham Lincoln
Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky. — Janet Fitch
Wait, I want more green. I hope I did not imply I only wanted your colors. We can't turn a cold shoulder to green, and… — Shannon Hale
No miles of level desert, no jagged mountain heights, no sea of endless blue Neither words nor tears, nor silent fears will keep me from… — Lisa Kleypas
So I stood up and did a handstand on my Guru's roof, to celebrate the notion of liberation. I felt the dusty tiles under my… — Elizabeth Gilbert
She sat down on one of her grandmother's uncomfortable armchairs, and the cat sprang up into her lap and made itself comfortable. The light that… — Neil Gaiman
If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of Mount McCabe and… — Kurt Vonnegut
[My mom's] funny that way, celebrating special occasions with blue food. I think it's her way of saying anything is possible. Percy can pass seventh… — Rick Riordan
I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination. — Charles Baudelaire
The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours. Against the blue candlewick bedspread… — Diane Setterfield
The voice so filled with nostalgia that you could almost see the memories floating through the blue smoke, memories not only of music and joy… — Hubert Selby, Jr.
I couldn't believe I'd come this far, lost Tyson, suffered through so much, only to fail - stopped by a big stupid monster in a… — Rick Riordan

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