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Quotes About Blue

The cloudlets are lazily sailing O'er the blue Atlantic sea.
~ Heinrich Heine
There were all these conservative colors that you don't see any more, this navy blue, navy blue is the hardest color to match so it dates really obviously because the idea people have in their head of a dark neutral blue changes over the years, people in the fashion industry, the way they perceive a dark blue is affected by the other colors they are working with at the time.
~ Helen DeWitt
the sun rose like an emperor, beaming over a shocked blue sky.
~ Helen Fremont
Later (swifts) gather higher in the sky...And then, all at once, as if summoned by a call or a bell, they rise higher and higher until they disappear from view. These ascents are called vesper flights....Vespers are evening devotional prayers, the last and the most solemn of the day, and I have always thought 'vesper flights' the most beautiful phrase, an ever-falling blue.
~ Helen Macdonald
But apparently it was the bed linen that changed her mind. Cool blue silk and cotton patchwork. When Dad laid the stitched pillowcase and duvet out for her on the sofa, the colours reminded her of something she'd never seen. She said to us, "Imagine everyone in the house—even people we don't know—all wrapped up safe in blue, like fishes. What fun . . .
~ Helen Oyeyemi
The countryside is beautiful. I've never seen anything like it. Thatched roofs on the houses. Snow everywhere, the sky is so blue. I'm 22 years old today.
~ Henry Rollins
The sea looked as if it had been licked clean, blue and clear and smooth, and there were a few woolly little clouds in the sky. Legend said that these clouds were sheep who had simply wandered over the cliff tops one day, special sheep who now went on grazing in the sky and were never shorn. In any case, they were a good sign.
~ Leonie Swann
President Bush says he now wants to simplify the tax code. Only those in the blue states will pay.
~ letterman david iii
Time was defined by change, and very little changed for a blue whale. He noticed everything but was concerned with nothing.
~ Lev Grossman
The Mississippi Delta is not always dark with rain. Some autumn mornings, the sun rises over Moon Lake, or Eagle, or Choctaw, or Blue, or Roebuck, all the wide, deep waters of the state, and when it does, its dawn is as rosy with promise and hope as any other.
~ Lewis Nordan
Mücken haben die blaue Ziege gestochen.
~ Jasper Fforde
La poésie ressemble à la mort. Je connais son Å"il bleu. Il donne la nausée. Cette nausée d'architecte toujours taquinant le vide, voilà le propre du poète. Le poète est, comme nous, invisible aux vivants.
~ Jean Cocteau
Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I feel in colour, strong tones that I hue down for the comfort of the pastelly inclined. Beige and magnolia and a hint of pink are what the well-decorated heart is wearing; who wants my blood red and vein-blue?
~ Jeanette Winterson
I'm such a massive fan of 'Strictly,' so I was overwhelmed when I got asked to be a host on 'It Takes Two.' It came completely out of the blue!
~ Rylan Clark-Neal
blue. True? False? What's the coolest thing
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Sundew did not dignify that with an answer, since she was pretty sure it would involve more yelling at him, and apparently she didn't really enjoy yelling at Blue. (Yelling at Swordtail, on the other hand, was always satisfying.)
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Blue sat up, yawning, and looked over Cricket's shoulder. "Maybe it thinks it's time to hatch because it's not in the Nest anymore." "Oh my stars," Cricket said. "Is that a thing? A real thing? Can it really tell it's not in the Nest?
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Ice-blue diamonds cascaded from her ears and around her neck and all along her tail band, but none of them glittered as sharply or as dangerously as her eyes.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Oh, you'd be surprised what some goldfish are planning," Blue said.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
First there was the sky, high, pure and of a darker blue than he had ever seen. And then there was the sea, a lighter, immensely luminous blue that reflected blue into the air, the shadows and the sails; a sea that stretched away immeasurably when the surge raised the frigate high, showing an orderly array of great crests, each three furlongs from its predecessor, and all sweeping eastwards in an even, majestic procession.
~ Patrick O'Brian
Those who can't afford a uniform may wear a blue armband / from which the meadow pipit filches a single strand / to bind its nest. The rest of us are bound / by honor alone.
~ Paul Muldoon
Mi loca, pensó. Mi inevitable loca, mi inolvidable loca. Mi imposible loca, afirmó leve mirando el perfil hermosamente verde azulado por un reflejo de pleamar.
~ Unknown
Winter brings a colder palette with more heavy blue and violet, Fall has substantial more reddish and brown, Summer brings a variation of pastel colours and Spring fresh green and tangerine.
~ Siren Waroe