Purple Quotes

• Something traumatic happened to me when I was younger. I was with this old black woman, and she was very wise, very Alice Walker, The Color Purple...she looked at me and she says, 'Baby...you know I used to be able to fly but I can't fly no more, baby. But baby, you...? You too fat to fly.'

  

  Margaret Cho
  • She
  • Black
  • Wise

• 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.

  

  Daniel Johns Silverchair
  • Deep
  • Parent
  • Influence

• It was an amazing experience, a dream come true, to sing and act alongside Prince and become dear friends with all the members of The Revolution while filming 'Purple Rain.'

  

  Apollonia Kotero
  • Experience
  • Friends
  • True

• My hair gets very light in the summer, but the problem with using all these products and going into the pool a lot is that my hair gets very yellow. I love purple shampoo!

  

  Elsa Hosk
  • Light
  • Hair
  • Summer

• Still, still with Thee, when purple morning breaketh,When the bird waketh, and the shadows flee;Fairer than morning, lovelier than the daylight,Dawns the sweet consciousness, - I am with Thee.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Morning
  • Sweet
  • Bird

• I went to Northwestern. I bleed purple and white.

  

  Katrina Adams
  • Purple

• To stand out in the crowd I liked the color purple.

  

  Anna Sui
  • Color
  • Purple

• I was a loudmouth rock star when I was still in college. Purple hair this week, green hair next week, blond hair the week after. I was doing that fashion before it was really cool.

  

  Pepa DJ Spinderella
  • College
  • Fashion
  • Cool

• 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
  • Perfect
  • Rose
  • Purple

• I think I look great in pretty much everything... kidding! For the red carpet, I like to do really natural eyes and a nice sleek ponytail. Sometimes I'm into a really dark rouge, purple bold lip.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Great
  • Pretty
  • Nice

• I love purple because my name is Amethyst.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Name
  • Purple
  • Amethyst

• When I was a teenager in the '70s, I was really into those great bands like Led Zeppelin and Queen and Jethro Tull, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper.

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • Band
  • Teenager
  • Queens

• I think if you're president, color goes away completely: you're president and it doesn't matter if you're white, green or purple.

  

  Kathryn Stockett
  • Color
  • Green
  • Purple

• With gentle hand, as seeming oft to pause,The purple curtains of the morn she draws.

  

  Aurora
  • She
  • Hand
  • Purple

• Teacher, teacher, I declare, I see your purple underwear.

  

  Allan Sherman
  • Teacher
  • Purple
  • Underwear

• The POW camps of North Vietnam were packed with Air Force and Naval Academy graduates. The six midshipmen in my Naval Academy class of 1968 who served as liaisons between the Marine Corps and the Brigade of Midshipmen later suffered nine Purple Hearts in Vietnam, and one man killed in action.

  

  Jim Webb
  • Action
  • Air
  • Marine

• I painted the Astor-Victoria sign seven times, and it's 395 feet wide and 58 feet high. I dropped a gallon of purple paint on Seventh Avenue and 47th Street from 15 stories up and didn't kill anybody. I dropped a brush at Columbus Circle. It fell on a guy's camel-hair coat.

  

  James Rosenquist
  • Up
  • High
  • Guy

• For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a purple sea of adjectives about October.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Sea
  • Temptation
  • Autumn

• I remember taking my stabilisers off my bike with my dad in the back garden. It was a small little bike, and it was called Poppy, had balloons on it, and was purple.

  

  Lizzie Armitstead
  • Remember
  • Small
  • Dad

• 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.’

  

  Angus Young
  • Live
  • Money
  • Deep

• Deep Purple is a damn good band and we've made a niche in rock 'n' roll history. Maybe not a huge one but enough to be very proud of.

  

  Jon Lord
  • Good
  • History
  • Proud

• Tonight the lilacs magnify The easy passion, the ever-ready love Of the lover that lies within us and we breatheAn odor evoking nothing, absolute. We encounter in the dead middle of the night The purple odor, the abundant bloom.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Night
  • Passion
  • Lies

• We have a thousand hydrangea plants bordering the house, and they were all supposed to be pink, but a handful of them keep turning purple.

  

  Peter Marino
  • House
  • Pink
  • Purple

• I never want to get a job because I'm female. I want to get it because I earned it and I deserve it... Whether my hair is going to be blue or purple, people should be judged on how well they do the job and deliver results and whether they do it the right way. That's how I like to be judged; most people are like that.

  

  Mary Barra
  • People
  • Job
  • Hair

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