Blue Quotes
2391 Blue quotes by 1581 unique authors
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We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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"Godling? Demigod?" Lysis nearly howled. "You'd be beaten black and blue in Thebes, and staked out overnight for claims like that. In Sparta, the secret…
— Janet Morris
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When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.
— Henri Matisse
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Yes no yes no yes no? Red blue? Yes red, no blue? No red, yes no? In out, up down? Do don't, can can't? Choices…
— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
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At about the age of seven … I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading: All my characters were white and blue-eyed, they…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but the range of…
— Northrop Frye
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Late in August the lure of the mountains becomes irresistible. Seared by the everlasting sunfire, I want to see running water again, embrace a pine…
— Edward Abbey
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Some of my ancestors fought in the American Revolution. A few more wore red coats, a few wore blue coats, and the rest wore no…
— Edward Abbey
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The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of…
— Edward Abbey
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The psychotic does not merely think he sees four blue bivalves with floppy wings wandering up the wall; he does see them. An hallucination is…
— Philip K. Dick
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My baby lives in shades of blue, blue eyes and jazz and attitude.
— Lana Del Rey
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It is June. This is what I have decided to do with my life just now. I will do this work and lead this life,…
— Elizabeth Hardwick
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I hate to go out on a limb after only one viewing, but Nashville strikes me as Altman's best film, and the most exciting dramatic…
— Andrew Sarris
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My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. … it filled me with soul…
— William Carlos Williams
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The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for…
— Wassily Kandinsky
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As a picture painted in yellow always radiates spiritual warmth, or as one in blue has apparently a cooling effect, so green is only boring.
— Wassily Kandinsky
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What beauty. I saw clouds and their light shadows on the distant dear earth…. The water looked like darkish, slightly gleaming spots…. When I watched…
— Yuri Gagarin
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It [the Earth] was breathtakingly beautiful, like something out of a fairy tale. There is no way to describe the joy of seeing the Earth.…
— Valentina Tereshkova
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There were tens of thousands of pilgrims, from all over the world. They were of all colors, from blue-eyed blondes to black-skinned Africans. But we…
— Malcolm X
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During the past eleven days here in the Muslim world, I have eaten from the same plate, drunk from the same glass, and slept on…
— Malcolm X
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There is an island fantasy A "Someday I'll," we'll never see When recession stops, inflation ceases Our mortgage is paid, our pay increases That Someday…
— Denis Waitley
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All things are created twice; first mentally; then physically. The key to creativity is to begin with the end in mind, with a vision and…
— Stephen Covey
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Lovers O lovers, lovers it is time to set out from the world. I hear a drum in my soul's ear coming from the depths…
— Unknown Author
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I was especially perceptive to all things beautiful that morning-raspberries in blue china bowls were enough to make the heart sing.
— Irene Hunt
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This is ridiculous. It's been months and for some reason I just can't get over us. I'm stronger than this. Enough is enough; no more…
— Ne-Yo
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