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Quotes About Colors

Crayola makes all kinds of crazy colors. You know. Burnt umber. Burnt sienna. Blanched almond. Baby-shit yellow. And so on, and so forth. I'm just saying, cockroaches Have their own color. It's distinct. Crayola should get on that. The kids'll love it.
~ Chuck Wendig
the way he spoke was magical, but after a while even his voice began to grate and he began to remind me of the colors of the walls in the hotel rooms in which he stayed...
~ Colum McCann
It was the time between the lights when colours undergo their intensification and purples and golds burn in window-panes like the beat of an excitable heart; when for some reason the beauty of the world revealed and yet soon to perish (here I pushed into the garden, for, unwisely, the door was left open and no beadles seemed about), the beauty of the world which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
~ Virginia Woolf
The wind blew, from what quarter I know not, but it lifted the half-grown leaves so that there was a flash of silver-grey in the air. It was the time between the lights when colors undergo their intensification and purples and golds burn in windowpanes like the beat of an excitable heart; when for some reason the beauty of the world revealed and yet soon to perish ... has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
~ Virginia Woolf
and it was the moment between six and seven when every flower-roses, carnations, irises, lilac-glows; white, violet, red, deep orange; every flower seems to burn by itself, softly purely in the misty beds; and how she loved the grey-white moths spinning in and out, over the cherry pie, over the evening primroses!
~ Virginia Woolf
the grass still a soft deep green, the house starred in its greenery with purple passion flowers, and rooks dropping cool cries from the high blue. But something moved, flashed, turned a silver wing in the air.
~ Virginia Woolf
All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
There are two kinds of visual memory: one when you skillfully recreate an image in the laboratory of your mind, [...]; and the other when you instantly evoke, with shut eyes, on the dark innerside of your eyelids, the objective, absolutely optical replica of a beloved face, a little ghost in natural colors.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Ideas in modern Russia are machine-cut blocks coming in solid colors; the nuance is outlawed, the interval walled up, the curve grossly stepped.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
The cell was filled to the ceiling with the oils of twilight, containing extraordinary pigments
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Želim da ustanem, da raširim ruke za beskrajni zagrljaj, da se velikim, blistavim re?ima obratim nevidljivoj publici. Po?eo bih ovako: – O bogovi duginih boja...
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Everything, even what was saddest and most shameful in his past life, was overlaid with the deceptive charm of colours. He was horrified to realize how little he had used his eyes - for these colours moved across too vague a background and their outlines were singularly blurred
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Perhaps the only difference between me and other people is that I've always demanded more from the sunset. More spectacular colors when the sun hit the horizon. That's perhaps my only sin.
~ Lars von Trier
I can't remember the first game but I know you were assigned to different teams, the red team, the yellow team, the blue team, all different colors. There were 26 different colors. Also, if you had a sore arm, you wore a gray cap. If you had a bad leg, you wore white socks. This way, if you're hitting the ball and you didn't hustle, they would know it's because you had a bad leg.
~ lasorda tommy
Autumn is the time when Nature takes her watercolor to the trees.
~ Laura Jaworski
A woman's spirit blossoms in the colors of her soul.
~ Laurel Burch
There's some language of flowers stuff that says what color roses mean what things. So I got you all the colors of roses they had because your everything….
~ Lauren Dane
The sea wolves of these two islands are of various colors and of the size and thickness of a calf
~ Laurence Bergreen
You understand that Mauve and turquois are not food items, but that they're colors.
~ Chad Eastham
Infatuation" Speak to me in colors– thus tinted are the windows to your soul. Might that I marvel in the mystery as it skirts 'cross their pond. And yet stilled are the words; they lie like copper upon my tongue–tarnished. For I cannot find them enough to say "I love you.
~ Charles
New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.
~ Charles Dickens
The disposition of everything in the rooms, from the largest object to the least; the arrangement of colours, the elegant variety and contrast obtained by thrift in trifles, by delicate hands, clear eyes, and good sense; were at once so pleasant in themselves, and so expressive of their originator, that, as Mr. Lorry stood looking about him, the very chairs and tables seemed to ask him, with something of that peculiar expression which he knew so well by this time, whether he approved?
~ Charles Dickens
There are worlds in an opal.
~ Terri Guillemets
Peacocks sweep the fairies' rooms; They use their folded tails for brooms; But fairy dust is brighter far Than any mortal colours are; And all about their tails it clings In strange designs of rounds and rings; And that is why they strut about And proudly spread their feathers out.
~ Rose Fyleman, "Peacocks," 1917