Stevie Smith Quotes

Colours are what drive me most strongly.

Stevie Smith

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• I always have my Laura Mercier foundation and concealer with me, and I love the Rimmel Kate Moss lipsticks. My favourite is shade 08, because it's just such a lovely natural colour with just a bit of pink to it.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Natural
  • Pink
  • Lovely

• 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.

  

  Nathalie Kelley
  • Girl
  • Design
  • Colour

• Romania strongly supports Turkey's E.U. accession.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Turkey
  • Strongly
  • Romania

• I am very strongly paternal. My paternal instincts need to be acted upon. My love needs a release. I love everyone. I don't express my love enough, but the love within me needs a platform as a parent.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Needs
  • Parent
  • Instincts

• When I was a teenager, I experimented a lot with hair colour, and the result was just awful.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Hair
  • Teenager
  • Result

• Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and the late F. R. Higgins pursue Irishness as a poetic end, they are merely exploiting incidental local colour.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Poetry
  • End
  • Irish

• Political disagreements have the colour and fragrance that normally is seen and felt in a political bouquet, while remaining united on one issue that democracy is the future of Pakistan.

  

  Asif Ali Zardari
  • Future
  • Political
  • Democracy

• Colour is, on the evidence of language alone, very bound up with the feelings.

  

  Marion Milner
  • Up
  • Alone
  • Language

• The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Red

• When you say to a person of colour, 'When I see you, I don't see you Black; I just see everybody the same' think about that. You don't have the right to say to a person, 'I do not see you as you are; I want to see you as I would be more comfortable seeing you.'

  

  Jane Elliott
  • Person
  • Colour

• The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Ugly
  • Poor
  • Nasty

• I have played hell somewhat with the truthfulness of the colours.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Truth
  • Hell
  • Colour

• You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the colour goes out of my life.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Thinking
  • Depends
  • Colour

• My decision to come to Bell Telephone Laboratories immediately after obtaining my Ph.D. in 1936 was strongly influenced by the fact that my supervisor would be C. J. Davisson.

  

  William Bradford Shockley Jr.
  • Influenced
  • Bell
  • Strongly

• The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer.

  

  George Eliot
  • Truth
  • Colour
  • Disposition

• Winter solitude - in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.

  

  Matsuo Basho
  • Wind
  • Sound
  • Solitude

• Allah made us all a different shade and colour. Nations and tribes recognize one another! 'Cause every single person is your sister and brother.

  

  Dawud Wharnsby Ali
  • Different
  • Brother
  • Causes

• I think if you're going to wear a red lip, you don't want it wearing you, so it's about finding the right colour.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Finding
  • Wear
  • Colour

• One arranges flowers as the spirit moves you; to obey some inner prompting to put this colour with that, to have brilliance here, line there, a sense of opulence in this place or sparseness in that; to suit your surroundings, your mood, the weather, the occasion. In a word, to do as you please, just as, if you could, you might paint a picture.

  

  Constance Spry
  • Moving
  • Spirit
  • Flower

• I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • Trying
  • History
  • Pretty

• I've dated the sweet mama's boy, the musician rocker, the struggling artist - basically a lot of people without jobs.

  

  Alyssa Milano
  • People
  • Artist
  • Boy

• . . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker . . .

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Minds
  • Influences
  • Reverse

• We are vanishing from the earth, yet I cannot think we are useless or else Usen would not have created us. He created all tribes of men and certainly had a righteous purpose in creating each.

  

  Geronimo
  • Creating
  • Useless
  • Vanishing

• Colours are what drive me most strongly.

  

  Stevie Smith
  • Colour
  • Strongly