Coloured Quotes
97 quotes by 93 authors
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But I think I’m coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood.
— Virginia Woolf
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I have not forgotten that you can see the world through pieces of coloured glass.
— R. K. Laxman
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It reminded us that propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a meaning and a purpose…
— George Orwell
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The wide wonder of Broadway is disconsolate in the daytime; but gaudily glorious at night, with a milling crowd filling sidewalk and roadway, silent, going…
— Sean O'Casey
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The sky is no longer out there, but it is right on the edge of the space you are in. The sense of colour is…
— James Turrell
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I am too rich already, for my eyes mint gold. - Coloured Money
— Mervyn Peake
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I wish they would use English instead of Greek words. When I want to know why a leaf is green, they tell me it is…
— John Ruskin
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I hated the things they believe in, the things they so innocently and charmingly pretended. I hated the sanctimonious piety that let people hurt helpless…
— Ellen Glasgow
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There was one bursting now, a delicate constellation of many-coloured stars which drifted down and lingered in the still air.... The final rocket went up,…
— Jan Struther
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The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the…
— Oscar Wilde
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And come, blue deeps! magnificently strown With coloured clouds — large, light, and fugitive...
— David Gray
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The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial…
— Alfred Richard Orage
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Shut your eyes, wait, think of nothing. Now, open them ... one sees nothing but a great coloured undulation. What then? An irradiation and glory…
— Paul Cezanne
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Every day is great for me. I dislike rose-coloured glasses.
— Mark E. Smith
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The near end of the street was rather dark and had mostly vegetable shops. Abundance of vegetables - piles of white and green fennel, like…
— D. H. Lawrence
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People do evil things because they are evil. Some people are evil in the way that some things are coloured indigo. They commit their evil…
— Terry Eagleton
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I go to castings and see several black and Asian girls, then I get to the show and look around there's just me and maybe…
— Jourdan Dunn
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My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking…
— Alice Eve
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The nature of matter, or body considered in general, consists not in its being something which is hard or heavy or coloured, or which affects…
— Rene Descartes
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The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French,…
— Henry Walter Bates
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