Quotes and Sayings About Purple
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If I were a buyer today in one of the American department stores, I would go with extremes-the most beautiful, the more expensive, the more eccentric. I would take risks. The worst thing would be to buy only the little black dress. You know why? Because everyone has it already. I would go with a purple dress, something different
-- Alber Elbaz -
Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable; A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.
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Oh, grown-ups cannot understand, And grown-ups never will, How short the way to fairyland Across the purple hill.
-- Alfred NoyesSource : Alfred Noyes (2008). “The Flower of Old Japan”, p.81, Wildside Press LLC
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The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world.
-- Alice Hoffman -
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Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.
-- Alice Walker -
Teacher, teacher, I declare, I see your purple underwear.
-- Allan ShermanSource : Song: Turn Back the Clock
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White pill, blue pill, yellow pill, purple pill; its like swallowing a rainbow every bedtime.
-- Amelia Atwater-RhodesSource : Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2008). “Persistence of Memory”, p.19, Delacorte Press
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My character was obnoxious, had stinky feet and wore things like purple tights and a yellow top. I hated the clothes.
-- Andrea Barber -
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It's all or nothing with my makeup. If I get dressed up, I'll go to an extreme. I'll wear foundation, bright blue or bright red lipstick with one of my weird purple wigs.
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I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, 'Geez, this is ridiculous.' You just see through all that sort of stuff. I never liked those Deep Purples or those sort of things. I always hated it. I always thought it was a poor man's Led Zeppelin.
-- Angus YoungSource : "Angus Young of AC/DC Opens Up in His First Guitar World Interview from 1984". Interview with Steven Rosen, www.guitarworld.com. August 23, 2011.
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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.
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When I write after dark", observed Cyril Connolly, "the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose
-- Anne FadimanSource : Anne Fadiman (2008). “At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays”, p.64, Macmillan
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Purple lipstick? Naw, that looks stupid on all girls!
-- ASAP RockySource : "ASAP Rocky’s Misguided Beauty Advice, Rapper Says Dark Skin Girls Shouldn’t Wear Red Lipstick" by Julee Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2013.
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parents needn't bother driving small children around to see the purple mountains' majesties; the children will go right on duking it out in the back seat and whining for food as if you were showing them Cincinnati. No one under twenty really wants to look at scenery.
-- Barbara Holland -
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!
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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 McCrackenSource : "Rockers Plug In for Katrina". Ventura County Star, September 10, 2005.
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I have been 130 lbs. as well as 215 lbs. I have had blond, strawberry blond, green, pink and purple hair, and none of that has ever exempted me from having lewd comments flung at me in the street.
-- Beth Ditto -
The only medal that I am certain I deserved is the Purple Heart.
-- Bob KerreySource : Interview with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com.
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I struggle immensely with celebrities of all kinds. I get clammy hands and turn a little purple.
-- Bryce Dallas Howard -
I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
-- Buzz Bissinger -
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Purple puts us in touch with the part of ourselves that is regal. Purple is the queen in all women; it helps us keep our backs straight and heads held high.
-- Byllye Avery -
Avoid restaurants with names that are improbable descriptions, such as the Purple Goose, the Blue Kangaroo or the Quilted Orangutan.
-- Calvin Trillin -
Punch a black belt in the face, he becomes a brown belt. Punch him again, purple...
-- Carlson Gracie -
It's like The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat, about the discovery of penicillin. Out of these strange accidents come huge discoveries. A certain purple bleeds into red and all of a sudden you have something unexpected.
-- Carly Simon -
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I went through this phase where I thought pink and purple matched. To dance class, I'd wear purple tights and pink leg warmers and paint my shoes purple. It was really odd.
-- Carrie Ann Inaba -
Let me give you a piece of advice. The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideous fate is never wrong. Not even if he says the sky is purple and made of hedgehogs.
-- Cassandra Clare -
Though folly, robed in purple, shines, Though vice exhausts Peruvian mines, Yet shall they tremble and turn pale When satire wields her mighty flail.
-- Charles Churchill -
Homosexuality is a psychological and psychiatric disorder, there is no question about it. It is a purple menace that is threatening the proper design of gender distinctions in society.
-- Charles W. Socarides -
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I see music in colours. I love music that's black, pink, purple or red - but I hate music that's green, yellow or brown.
-- Charli XCX -
Atom bombs, something's wrong. D.E.A sent to Guam. Acid Trips, big fat chics. Purple Finstone Vitamins.All the needy rich are greedy. I find out you don't need me. Berlin wall starts to fall. I trip out to the wall. Hooray Horrah
-- Chester Bennington