Colorless Quotes
38 quotes by 37 authors
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
— Noam Chomsky
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What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity…
— Oscar Wilde
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There is one experiment which I always like to try, because it proves something whichever way it goes. A solution of iodine in water is…
— Wilder Dwight Bancroft
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Hollywood parties not only confuse me, but they often disillusion me. The disillusion comes when I meet a movie star I’ve been admiring since childhood.…
— Marilyn Monroe
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Love is the force that leaves you colorless
— Ovid
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Colors are primordial ideas, children of the aboriginal colorless light and its counterpart, colorless darkness Light, that first phenomenon of the world, reveals to us…
— Johannes Itten
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First of all there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of the colorless light of Emptiness, and that will surround you…
— Gautama Buddha
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How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop music is made from…
— Afrika Bambaataa
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But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had spent talking about my soul, had left me with the impression…
— Albert Camus
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If you go through any newspaper or magazine and look for active, kicking verbs in the sentences, you will realize that this lack of well…
— Rudolf Flesch
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I want to be black, to know black, to luxuriate in whatever I might be calling blackness at any particular time, but to do so…
— Henry Louis Gates
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To tell the truth, in Pacific 231 I was on the trail of a very abstract and quite ideal concept, by giving the impression of…
— Arthur Honegger
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When I sing, I don't want them to see that my face is black; I don't want them to see that my face is white…
— Marian Anderson
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Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.
— William Strunk, Jr.
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One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.
— Alex Cox
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Of course, errors are not good for a chess game, but errors are unavoidable and in any case, a game without ant errors, or as…
— Mikhail Tal
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The word 'christian' means different things to different people. To one person it means a stiff, upright, inflexible way of life, colorless and unbending. To…
— Eugene H. Peterson
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Music is colorless. It's for everybody, it's for the world, it's for everybody to enjoy.
— Michael Jackson
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If you are weak, dependent upon others, inclined to allow yourself to be dominated by opinion, to take root wherever you see a little soil,…
— Alfred de Musset
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This is an area where North Carolina does excel. I have known more colorful North Carolina political figures than I have colorless ones.
— Jesse Helms
Who Wrote These Colorless Quotes
37 authors contributed a total of 38 Colorless Quotes, led by these top contributors: