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Quotes About Red

The rug was turning red. --- The smell of fresh blood was heavy in the air, like wet, hot metal. Like those scrubbing pads Mom used to clean the frying pans when stuff was really stuck on.
~ Holly Black
in the mortal world, there are such things as backyards. Here, there are forest and sea, rocks and mazes, flowers that are red only when they get fresh blood.
~ Holly Black
You know what the sun looks like?" Kaye asked. There was only a little more than a slice of red where the sea met the sky. "No, what?" Janet said, holding the lipgloss out to Kaye. "Like he slit his wrists in a bathtub and the blood is all over the water." "That's gross, Kaye." "And the moon is just watching. She's just watching him die. She must have driven him to it.
~ Holly Black
Roses are red, and here is something new, violets are violet not really blue.
~ Unknown
Perry's rage was an illness. A mental illness. She saw the way it took hold of him, how he tried his best to resist. When he was in the throes of it, his eyes became red and glassy, as if he were drugged. The things he said didn't even make sense. It wasn't him. The rage wasn't him.
~ Liane Moriarty
The red scarf at her wrist was joined by others, knotted up her arm to the elbow. A dozey, sicksweet fuming of harvest incense followed her steps, rippling in her wake.
~ Lilith Saintcrow
The politics of judges is getting to be red hot.
~ Lindsey Graham
Urfa chillies are a Turkish variety that are mild on heat but big on aroma. They're sweet, smoky, a lovely dark red, and go with just about anything.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
These mountains appear to be almost entirely composed of stratas of rock of various colours (mostly red) and are partially covered with a dwarfish growth of pine and cedar, which are the only species of timber to be seen.
~ William Henry Ashley
Nearly all edible seaweeds - or 'sea vegetables,' as they ought technically to be called - belong to one of three broad groups: green, red and brown algae.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round the earth. It has taught me about the flow, energy and life that connects one place with another.
~ Andy Goldsworthy
Still a monster, of course, but I cleaned up nicely afterwards, and I was OUR monster, dressed in red, white, and blue 100 percent synthetic virtue.
~ Jeff Lindsay
They were brightly colored, their gold rims vivid. From a distance, they looked like flowers, pinks and creams, reds and golds, unfolding in the sun.
~ Jennifer Weiner
If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red.
~ Randall Terry
Wrap me up in the reddest cloak, in that flight of your tendons, and lead me into another kingdom, into the heroic ability to love, into the combination to every safe, into the wild dice you feel in your sad fingers when roses shipwreck next to the bridge of salvation. When there's nothing you can do.
~ Vicente Aleixandre
Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on.
~ William Shakespeare
The red sole was born from red nail polish. I am giving back to beauty what the shoes took from the nails many years ago.
~ Christian Louboutin
When I did red, it was nine, and that was it for me. I said, "Here I am - nine is my number and red is my color, and I'm in business now."
~ Sammy Hagar
One fish. Two fish. Red fish. Blue fish. Black fish. Blue fish. Old fish. New fish. This one has a little star. This one has a little car. Say! What a lot of fish there are.
~ Dr. Seuss
Berlin Stays Red
~ Unknown
I asked for a half bottle of white wine to go with the first course, and some red to follow. "No," he said, "you're wrong." He told us what to drink, and it was a red Côtes du Rhône from Visan. Good wine and good women came from Visan, he said. He got up and fetched a bottle from a vast dark cupboard. "There. You'll like that." (Later, we noticed that everybody had the same wine on their table.)
~ Peter Mayle
I am putting out the brown suit, sir.' 'No, I think I'll wear the blue with the faint red stripe.' 'Not the blue with the faint red stripe, sir.' 'But I rather fancy myself in it.' 'Not the blue with the faint red stripe, sir.' 'Oh, all right, have it your own way.' 'Very good, sir. Thank you, sir.
~ Unknown
But I feel a unity between the force which changed me and the red and gold energy which I saw. From within me, as part of me, it looked out and saw itself.
~ Philip K. Dick
I have to tell you, man, that my stalker meter is kind of registering in the red zone right now.
~ David Levithan