Colours Quotes
286 Colours quotes by 237 unique authors
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So many humans. So many colours. They keep triggering inside me. They harass my memory. I see them tall in their heaps, all mounted on…
— Markus Zusak
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We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if…
— Jean Rhys
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Imagine a city where graffiti wasn't illegal, a city where everybody could draw whatever they liked. Where every street was awash with a million colours…
— Banksy
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First the colours. Then the humans. That’s usually how I see things. Or at least, how I try.
— Markus Zusak
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The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody.
— Tom Stoppard
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The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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What Descartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, and especially in taking the colours of thin plates into philosophical consideration.…
— Isaac Newton
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Because you are never here but always there, I forget not you but what you look like You drift down the street in the rain,…
— Margaret Atwood
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Last comes the class of persons, of nervous organization and enfeebled vigour, whose sensual appetite craves highly seasoned dishes, men of a hectic, over-stimulated constitution.…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.
— Albert Camus
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Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch…
— Oscar Wilde
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I went about the job in a direct way. I took the hatchet in both my hands and vigorously beat the fish on the head…
— Yann Martel
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The mountain trembled like an earthquake. Dust flew into the sky. And the rock turned dark red, like the color of blood'. 'How would you…
— Mohsin Hamid
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On a ruinous wall I came upon a poster dating from the previous year and announcing that ‘six handsome bulls’ would be killed in the…
— George Orwell
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In that little party there was not one who would desert another; yet we were of different countries, different colours, different races, different religions--and one…
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
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New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.
— Charles Dickens
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There is a latent fairy in all women, but look how carefully we have to secrete her in order to be taken seriously. And fairies…
— Dawn French
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I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.
— Oscar Wilde
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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. That is, if…
— Anne Rice
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Rainbow drops - suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
— Roald Dahl
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We stay this way until twilight colours the window and the hour calls me home
— David Levithan
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That day, I really believed that I had grasped something and that henceforth my life would be changed. But insights cannot be held for ever.…
— Nicolas Bouvier
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1. Find your own style and have the courage to stick to it. 2. Choose your clothes for your way of life. 3. Make your…
— Joan Crawford
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Was it the case that colours dimmed as the eye grew elderly? Or was it rather that in youth your excitement about the world transferred…
— Julian Barnes
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It’s ignorant to think you know everything about a person. There’s many different sides to everybodys personality and there’s just different colours to a personality.
— Kelly Clarkson
Who Wrote These Colours Quotes
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