Famous Quotes & Sayings

Man needs colour to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.

Nicola Sturgeon

Men - the colour of their tie is the most difficult decision they have to make every day.

Lynn Nottage

I am interested in people living in the margins of society, and I do have a mission to tell the stories of women of colour in particular. I feel we've been present throughout history, but our voices have been neglected.

Fay Godwin

After Land I wanted to continue exploring the theme but I needed a new challenge so turned to colour. I explored Bradford and produced a series of urban landscapes that I liked, but because Land had made such an impact on the general public my colour work wasn't reviewed.

William Eggleston

Everything must work in concert. Composition is important, but so are many other things, from content to the way colours work with or against each other.

Giles Foden

It's the swirling river of time that makes our identities, not the monochromatic simplicity of skin colour or the definitive lines of international borders.

Gemma Arterton

The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.

Stan Brakhage

How many colours are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'green'? How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye?

James Wolfensohn

We regret that there were those whose sole purpose was destruction, which coloured the currents outside these buildings.

Dieter Rams

Having small touches of colour makes it more colourful than having the whole thing in colour.

Isabella Bird

I was heartily sorry to leave Leh, with its dazzling skies and abounding colour and movement, its stirring topics of talk, and the culture and exceeding kindness of the Moravian missionaries. Helpfulness was the rule.

Spike Jonze

You can go on Nike's website and choose exactly what fabrics and colours and shapes you want your sneakers to come in.

Paloma Picasso

I've heard my work called 'bold' and 'graffiti-like,' but for me it is always instinctual. I start with a shape or a colour and go from there.

Tony McCoy

I was determined my 4,000th winner would be in the green and gold colours of J. P. McManus and trained by Jonjo O'Neill, who have been my greatest supporters.

A. E. Housman

Here of a Sunday morning / My love and I would lie, / And see the coloured counties, / And hear the larks so high / About us in the sky.

Nathan Lane

On a personal level, I don't immediately open up to anybody, even about what colours I like, much less something like this. I am my mother, OK?

Daniel Tammet

It was a gradual process, realising I was different. I remember at primary school getting a worksheet with sums printed on it. I thought that they must have run out of the right colour inks and sizes for the numbers, because they were all the same, which isn't how I experienced numbers at all. To me, nine is big and blue.

Nathalie Kelley

I'm such a girl because all the guys go for cars because of their engines or something like that. I like the colour and the design.

Stevie Smith

Colours are what drive me most strongly.

James M. Barrie

astonishing splashes of colour

Roxane Gay

Pink is my favourite colour. I used to say my favourite colour was black to be cool, but it is pink - all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink.

Pierre Coubertin

The six colours, including the white background, represent the colours of all the world's flags... this is a true international emblem.

Colm Feore

I've worked on all sorts of things, like the sci-fi stuff for Vin Diesel, where the script is numbered and is in unphotocopy-able colours and your name is stamped into every page. And it doesn't really help because it creates a false sense of specialness about the thing.

Roger Penrose

The idea is if you use those two shapes and try to colour the plane with them so the colours match, then the only way that you can do this is to produce a pattern which never repeats itself.

The ladies of St James's! They're painted to the eyes, Their white it stays for ever, Their red it never dies: But Phyllida, my Phyllida! Her colour comes and goes; It trembles to a lily, It wavers to a rose.

David McCandless

In an endless jungle of websites with text-based content, a beautiful image with a lot of space and colour can be like walking into a clearing. It's a relief.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

My greatest vanity is my skin. It is the colour of gingerbread and, thanks to my mother's genes, smooth and mostly blemish-free.

Elizabeth Jagger

My parents have influenced my fashion choices. I inherited many of their older garments, and I like their style. I love my mother's elegant and dramatic couture dresses and the feeling for colour my father has.