Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet.

David Sedaris

At the morgue, people were so desensitized that they would eat lunch in the glass walled room adjacent to the autopsy room. A viewing room. Because it had the best air conditioning in the building. So they would eat in there and maybe somebody would come in who had been found after being dead for three days and they would say: That is the exact purple I want for those drapes in the study. They didn't miss a beat. They could eat through anything.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.

Charles Dickens

Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

Bill Watterson

I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple.

Alexei Navalny

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev can no longer attend concerts by his favorite group Deep Purple without having to fear that the musicians will wear T-shirts with Pussy Riot written on them.

James Whistler

Mauve is just pink trying to be purple.

Juvenal

The grape gains its purple tinge by looking at another grape. [Lat., Uvaque conspecta livorem ducit ab uva.]

Charles Bukowski

purple does something strange to me

Angus Young

You should hear me on my own. It's horrendous.I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, Geez, this is ridiculous.

Alfred Noyes

Oh, grown-ups cannot understand, And grown-ups never will, How short the way to fairyland Across the purple hill.

Charles Churchill

Though folly, robed in purple, shines, Though vice exhausts Peruvian mines, Yet shall they tremble and turn pale When satire wields her mighty flail.

Edmund Spenser

So furiously each other did assayle, As if their soules they would attonce haue rent Out of their brests, that streames of bloud did rayle Adowne, as if their springes of life were spent; That all the ground with purple bloud was sprent, And all their armours staynd with bloudie gore, Yet scarcely once to breath would they relent, So mortall was their malice and so sore, Become of fayned friendship which they vow'd afore.

Amanda Hocking

Yeah, but they're PURPLE pants," Bobby said as if that made some kind of distinction. "Hence, I'm awesome.

Daniel Johns

When we first began and I was 14, my influences were the stuff that was in my parent's record collection like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin.

Alice Walker

Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.

Alice Walker

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

Dolly Parton

God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone's sexual preferences are or if they're black, brown or purple.

Dave Grohl

I once received a cape that was made from the little purple bags that Crown Royal Whisky comes in.

To see the sea of all of the purple shirts coming, you just stand there in awe.

I'm still wearing the purple and gold. And I'm still having fun.

Kesha

I grew up in the Bible Belt and I made my own clothes and dyed my hair purple. Nobody ever knew what to do with me.

But that wasn't fancy enough for Lord Byron, oh dear me no, he had to invent a lot of figures of speech and then interpolate them, With the result that whenever you mention Old Testament soldiers to people they say Oh yes, they're the ones that a lot of wolves dressed up in gold and purple ate them.

Epictetus

If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple.

Epictetus

Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown.

Emily Dickinson

Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition So clear of victory, As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Break agonized and clear.

Dan Castellaneta

This donut has purple in the middle, purple is a fruit.

Herman Melville

There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.

Henry David Thoreau

When a soldier is hit by a cannonball, rags are as becoming as purple.

The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour.

Jim Butcher

Your face looks like a sack of purple potatoes

Jay Leno

Over in Iraq after you vote they paint your finger purple so you can't vote again. It's a flawless system. It works perfectly unless, of course, someone has paint remover.

Herbert Hoover

No prosaic description can portray the grandeur of 40 miles of rugged mountains rising beyond a placid lake in which each shadowy precipice and each purple gorge is reflected with a vividness that rivals the original.