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Quotes About Color

I went into this bar and sat down next to a pretty girl. She looked at me and said, "Hey, you have two different colored socks on." I said, "Yeah, I know, but to me they're the same because I go by thickness."
~ Steven Wright
Why is a carrot more orange than an orange?
~ Steven Wright
Looking at the wingless angel Harold firmly believed her shadow should be in color.
~ Steven Wright
The panaroma of life revolved about him in a swirl of color and feeling.
~ Storm Constantine
Blue is the colour of strong passion and creativity, while green associated with the heart is seen as representative of generosity and kindness.
~ Storm Constantine
Purple is not only the 'royal colour', but is linked to spirituality, and intuition.
~ Storm Constantine
The men, comparitively dull beings in this house of feminine finery, were dashing nonetheless in tight clothes of viridian and iron blue, gold earrings glittering among the oiled ringlets around their shoulders.
~ Storm Constantine
I felt heady in the swirl of colour, skirts of deep red, emerald green, peacock blue, the glint of yellow metal. Quick hands brushed our faces, and a blur of white-toothed smiles flashed around us. I couldn't help laughing aloud, batting these flapping creatures away from me. They were like soulscape harpies in plumage of white silk, who might carry us off to a final and exquisite devouring.
~ Storm Constantine
She had everything in there snow white. And that means work, believe me. In the dining room she had a blue set, she had sky-blue chairs. They had a bedroom with pink and blue. I look and say, "I know what this means." It means sho' 'nough — knees.
~ Studs Terkel
There was an end, and it colors everything, even the beginning.
~ Sue Halpern
in the world, it will be women, mostly colored and poor. women will have to bury children, and support themselves through grief.
~ Suheir Hammad
mats perfectly picks up the color of the chairs?" "Honey, it's my restaurant. I'm the one who
~ Sujata Massey
He stared at her. "How do chicks do that?" "We have uteruses- they give us magic color sense.
~ Susan Andersen
I wonder if I cry whether my tears would be gray.
~ Susan Beth Pfeffer
The snow lay thin and apologetic over the world. That wide grey sweep was the lawn, with the straggling trees of the orchard still dark beyond; the white squares were the roofs of the garage, the old barn, the rabbit hutches, the chicken coops. Further back there were only the flat fields of Dawson's farm, dimly white-striped. All the broad sky was grey, full of more snow that refused to fall. There was no colour anywhere.
~ Susan Cooper
I have a Pomeranian dog named Nutmeg - a combination of the soccer move and the colour. It's perfect.
~ Christine Sinclair
I'm all about my rugs. I don't like a lot of color. The apartment isn't exactly monotone, but it's full of very soft shades. So, really, the fun is with the carpets.
~ Nina Garcia
There is no off-roading to solve income inequality for people of color. They must have broadband.
~ Maya Wiley
Even colors were important to me. If it was a somber scene, the colors were muted and dark. If it was a happy or seductive scene, the colors were brighter.
~ Donna Mills
Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.
~ Pete Townshend
I always felt that a painted edge between two colors was a depiction somehow.
~ Ellsworth Kelly
For a nanosecond, I meet her gaze.Despite the dark, I can see her eye color—it's the prettiest, strangest shade of blue I've ever seen in my life—piercing, dark, and shiny. And then she is gone.
~ Anna B. Doe, Lost & Found
Your eyes have the colour of the moon,
~ Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
My eyes were drawn to him as if my world was black and white and he was a rainbow.
~ L S May