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Quotes About Red

They claim red meat is bad for you. But I never saw a sick-looking tiger.
~ Chi Chi Rodriguez, unverified
October is 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...
~ Author Unknown
The wallpaper was an ugly, dirty dark red, with tarnished gold designs, torn in places and hanging down, greasy and marred where chairs had rubbed against it and heads had apparently leaned. It certainly was not a charming interior. She curled her lip slightly as she took it all in. This was her home! And she a born artist and interior decorator!
~ Grace Livingston Hill
I drank a little California Mountain Red at home and thought--why not--wherever you turn someone is shouting give me liberty of I give you death. Perfectly sensible, thing-owning, Church-fearing neighbours flop their hands over their ears at the sound of a siren to keep fallout from taking hold of their internal organs. You have to be cockeyed to love, and blind in order to look out the window at your own ice-cold street.
~ Grace Paley
Entrava dia e saía dia. As noites cobriam a terra de chofre. A tampa anilada baixava, escurecia, quebrada apenas pelas vermelhidões do poente.
~ Graciliano Ramos
crimson and clover
~ Grant Hamilton
Lady in red, take my advice, you'd be better off dead.
~ Grateful Dead
since red is a signal for many vital things, most importantly danger (blood) and sex
~ Guy Deutscher
White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak.
~ James Joyce
Her hair, which was a coppery red, and her eyes, which were light blue like her mother's, were all the more vivid by contrast with the scramble of freckles and sunburn which formed her complexion.
~ James M. Cain
My first car was a 1976 Toyota Corolla Liftback in red, like the one in 'The Blues Brothers.' I painted a Union Jack on the roof. I was absolutely in love with it until I destroyed it, which broke my heart!
~ Richard Hammond
I want to change the color of Starbucks from green to red. Whose job was it to say, 'This is going to be green?' I want that to be my job.
~ Theophilus London
Objasnite nekome tko nikad nije iskusio osje?aj crvenog, objasnite mu kakva je to boja, uvaženi majstore. Da je promiješamo vrhom prsta, osjetili bismo je kao nešto izme?u željeza i bakra. Kapnemo li je na dlan, pekla bi nas. Da je liznemo, bila bi jaka kao zasoljeno meso. Kad bismo je stavili u usta, posve bi nas ispunila. Kad bismo je pomirisali, mirisala bi na konja. Da miriše kao cvijet, nalikovala bi kamilici, ne crvenoj ruži.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.
~ Oscar Wilde
the Palestinian colors. White our deeds, black our battles, green our fields, red our swords.
~ Colum McCann
Existe una roja hebra criminal en la madeja incolora de la vida, y nuestra misión consiste en desenredarla, aislarla, y poner al descubierto sus más insignificantes sinuosidades.
~ Conan Doyle
The sun was just down and to the west lay reefs of bloodred clouds up out of which rose little desert nighthawks like fugitives from some great fire at the earth's end.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The night was cold and clear and the sparks rising from the fire raced hot and red among the stars.
~ Cormac McCarthy
How about this: What's black and white and red all over? I cant begin to think. Trotsky in a tuxedo.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Where he walked the tideline at dusk the last red reaches of the sun flared slowly out along the sky to the west and the tidepools stood like spills of blood.
~ Cormac McCarthy
In the morning he sat with his feet crossed under him and watched the sun rise. It sat swagged and red in the smoke like a matrix of molten iron swung wobbling up out of a furnace.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The blue of my eyes was extinguished tonight The red gold of my heart Georg Trakl, 'By Night', Poems
~ Cornelia Funke
White as snow, red as blood, black as ebony.... White, Red, and Black, He said, wiping the blade clean on his sleeve. Snow white colors. That's what my brother use to call them. He liked that story a lot. But who would have thought they had such power.
~ Cornelia Funke
Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard. [ Give me the splendid silent sun ]
~ Walt Whitman