Quotes with purple

  • Around the pillars of the palm-tree bower The orchids cling, in rose and purple spheres; Shield-broad the lily floats; the aloe flower Foredates its hundred years.

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  • Frank Gelett Burgess Ah, yes, I wrote the ''Purple Cow'' - I'm sorry, now, I wrote it! But I can tell you, anyhow, I'll kill you if you quote it.
    Frank Gelett Burgess
    American artist, art critic and poet
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  • Bayard Taylor Around the pillars of the palm-tree bower The orchids cling, in rose and purple spheres; Shield-broad the lily floats; the aloe flower Foredates its hundred years.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Bayard Taylor Bathed in the tenderest purple of distance, Tinted and shadowed by pencils of air, Thy battlements hang o'er the slopes and the forests, Seats of the gods in the limitless ether, Looming sublimely aloft and afar.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bud Grant First of all the name, and the color purple, I think those two things distinguish the Vikings as much as anything. You go anywhere in the country and say 'Vikings,' they know exactly where you are. You say 'Cardinals,' well, Cardinals who? There are a dozen Cardinals teams in the country in professional and amateur sports.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I struggle immensely with celebrities of all kinds. I get clammy hands and turn a little purple.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Alice Walker I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Becki Newton I've managed to get some beautiful bags. I have a great collection, and so does my mother. My favourite is a purple one by Gucci, which I take everywhere!
    Becki Newton
    American actress (1978 - )
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  • Bee Wilson Learning to cook in the 1990s, I thought 'proper olives' meant black. The benchmark was Kalamata from Greece: purple-black with an almost mushroomy depth of flavour. Other fine examples were tiny Coquilles from Nice and plump round Tanches from Nyons.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Bernard Barton Most glorious art thou! when from thy pavilion Thou lookest forth at morning; flinging wide Its curtain clouds of purple and vermillion, Dispensing life and light on every side.
    Bernard Barton
    English Quaker poet (1784 - )
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  • Carl Rogers One of the most satisfying experiences I know is fully to appreciate an individual in the same way I appreciate a sunset. When I look at a sunset... I don't find myself saying, 'Soften the orange a little more on the right hand corner, and put a bit more purple along the base, and use a little more pink in the cloud color...' I don't try to control a sunset. I watch it with awe as it unfolds.
    Carl Rogers
    American psychologist (1902 - 1987)
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  • Bayard Taylor The aquilegia sprinkled on the rocks A scarlet rain; the yellow violet Sat in the chariot of its leaves, the phlox Held spikes of purple flame in meadows wet, And all the streams with vernal-scented reed Were fringed, and streaky bellow of miskodeed.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Ben Shapiro The Left despises Texas, with its stellar record of job growth; Texas, with its strong support for traditional marriage and the sanctity of life; Texas, the root of the conservative tree. Should the Left succeed in its attempt to turn Texas purple, America could turn permanently blue.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Bobbi Brown The Lilac Rose Collection isn't just about purple. It features dusty pinks and heather grays, which are more natural shades of purple and are perfect for creating a feminine smoky eye.
    Bobbi Brown
    American professional makeup artist, author and public speaker
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  • Benjamin Rush The turgid style of Johnson, the purple glare of Gibbon, and even the studied and thickset metaphors of Junius are all equally unnatural, and should not be admitted into our company.
    Benjamin Rush
    American politician (1745 - 1813)
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  • Bayard Taylor When May, with cowslip-braided locks, Walks through the land in green attire. And burns in meadow-grass the phlox His torch of purple fire:... And when the punctual May arrives, With cowslip-garland on her brow, We know what once she gave our lives, And cannot give us now!
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Bert McCracken Whether the color of your skin is black, white, yellow, brown or purple -- the extent of this tragedy is so incredibly devastating that we had to do something.
    Bert McCracken
    American singer (1982 - )
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  • Alice Walker Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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