Colours Quotes
286 Colours quotes by 237 unique authors
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In Paris, everybody is in black! But you know, in Ukraine everyone wears bright colours.
— Olga Kurylenko
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Even if you don't like colours, you will end up having something red. For everyone who doesn't like colour, red is a symbol of a…
— Christian Louboutin
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What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You…
— Ian Mcewan
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You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the colours all the…
— Gerry Mulligan
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The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours.
— Suzi Quatro
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South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black or…
— Tariq Ramadan
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The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.
— Albert Schweitzer
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When I was a teenager, I was really into hair; I dyed it different colours and had loads of haircuts. I shaved my head when…
— Chloe Sevigny
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I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have…
— Ed Sheeran
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The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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It was great to play an ex-marine cockney thug. All my roles are as different as the colours of the rainbow.
— Luke Treadaway
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If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colours suspended in the…
— James M. Barrie
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You never know the palette of the one you kill until the mind disgorges its finest colours.
— Anne Rice
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...the problem of space remained, she thought, taking up her brush again. It glared at her. The whole mass of the picture was poised upon…
— Virginia Woolf
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I flung open the door. I got a momentary flash of about a hundred and fifteen cats of all sizes and colours scrapping in the…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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For I am Saruman the Wise, Saruman Ring-maker, Saruman of Many Colours!' I looked then and saw that his robes, which had seemed white, were…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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On the evenings when my parents held parties, the drawing-room mirrors multiplied to infinity the scintillations of a crystal chandelier. Mama would take her seat…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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All colours are arbitrary.
— Carl Sagan
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It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.
— Anne Rice
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Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
— Roberto Bolano
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He sat on as the sun's rays came slowly down through the trees, lower and lower, and when the lowest reached a branch not far…
— Patrick O'Brian
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.
— J D Salinger
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We learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them the colours they are known by;…
— Thomas Hardy
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Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying…
— Richard Dawkins
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Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and…
— Charles Dickens
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