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Quotes About Red

The beaches were overrun with jellyfish these days, the monstrous red stinging kind that that looked like wounds along the shoreline.
~ Ruth Ozeki
in the midst of too much incident, Baby Saleem fell ill. As if incapable of assimilating so many goings-on, he closed his eyes and became red and flushed.
~ Salman Rushdie
His beard was thick and red—and annoyed his mother, who said only Hajis, men who had made the pilgrimage to Mecca, should grow red beards. His hair, however, was rather darker. His sky-eyes you know about. Ingrid had said, "They went mad with the colors when they made your face.
~ Salman Rushdie
a creature with white skin and green hair and bright, bright red lips
~ Salman Rushdie
I got a pair of red, synthetic satin women's pants through the post the other day with a phone number on. That was quite strange. I haven't tried the phone number. In times of stress I may.
~ Jarvis Cocker
Language is like poppies. It just takes something to churn the earth round them up, and when it does up come the sleeping words, bright red, fresh, blowing about.
~ Ali Smith
Love ambushed you, it lay in wait, dormant for days or years. It was the red thread, the peach stone, the kiss, the forgiveness. It came after you, it escaped you, it was invisible, it was everything.
~ Alice Hoffman
But the best stories were about their mother, how her hair was as red as blood, how she had seventy-four freckles on her face, how she was a ferryboat captain's daughter who believed that people could fly.
~ Alice Hoffman
Even with her failing vision, Violet West could see the scars. They had turned purple, almost red, from the icy cold, the color of the pears on the tree in the yard, the color of blood that can't be washed away and of things that can never be undone.
~ Alice Hoffman
I eat a catfish sandwich with onions and red sauce 20c. (Havana 1953)
~ Allen Ginsberg
Red Flannel Hash
~ Alton Brown
Let the red dawn surmise What we shall do, When this blue starlight dies And all is through.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Perhaps he should have fallen to his knees and given thanks to the gods for their unlikely victory but the red harvest sword-hacked and arrow-stuck about the ruin did not look like a thing to give thanks for.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Already a minute crack had appeared, and it was clear that when that crack split and widened, out into that utter Blackness would crawl a Gorkling whose eyes would burn red.
~ Joe Boyle
She was completely soaked in blood. Her hair swung in red tangles around her shoulders, and her face was a gleaming mask, her eyes like hard diamonds. I am Death.
~ Joe Schreiber
O May, sweet-voice one, going thus before, Forever June may pour her warm red wine Of life and passions,--sweeter days are thine!
~ Helen Hunt Jackson
The bright red shame of being unloved soaked the grass in front of our house,
~ E. Lockhart
It tasted like salt and failure. The bright red shame of being unloved soaked the grass in front of our house, the bricks of the path, the steps to the porch.
~ E. Lockhart
All night there isn't a train goes by, Though the night is still for sleep and dreaming, But I see its cinders red on the sky, And hear its engine steaming.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Vendado con un pañuelo rojo y tambaleándose en la claridad, el hombre juega a
~ Ednodio Quintero
My patriotic heart beats red, white, and blue.
~ Anonymous
October's the month When the smallest breeze Gives us a shower Of autumn leaves. Bonfires and pumpkins, Leaves sailing down — October is red And golden and brown.
~ Anonymous
Arizona looks like a battle on Mars.
~ Anonymous
Remember the Red River ValleyAnd the cowboy that loves you so true.
~ Anonymous: Cowboy Songs