Purple Quotes

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

  

  Anna Sui
  • Color
  • Purple

• The fact that women are very young in obtaining their civil rights and African-Americans are young in obtaining their civil rights, I think it's about time that we extend that to all Americans, whether straight, gay, purple, green, black, brown.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Women
  • Black

• Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or a moaning dove.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Hope
  • Picture
  • Purple

• The worst gig story I have is from a club in Alabama that I think is still up and running, so I won't name the name of the club. We got hired in there to play, and the owner was pretty annoying. He kept coming up to me during the show and asking me to play 'Purple Rain.'

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Running

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

  

  Aurora
  • She
  • Hand
  • Purple

• We want Iowa to remain red. We have worked so hard to get here. We will not be a purple state: we will be a red state.

  

  Joni Ernst
  • Red
  • Purple

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Katrina Adams
  • Purple

• When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game.

  

  Fuzzy Zoeller
  • Family
  • Game
  • Black

• I think that the first book that made me think that I could try to be a writer - or that made me aware that a young black woman from the South could write about the South - was Alice Walker's 'The Color Purple,' which I read for the first time when I was in junior high.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • Time
  • Book
  • High

• 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

• 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

• 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 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

• I love purple because my name is Amethyst.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Name
  • Purple
  • Amethyst

• There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Wings
  • Evening
  • Midnight

• My view is that musicals are love stories with great final scenes. It's just that simple. Musicals are also conflicts between two worlds. And by those criteria, 'The Color Purple' is actually exactly the kind of story that makes for a great musical. Yes, it's got hard stuff in it, but so does 'Les Miserables' and 'Phantom of the Opera.'

  

  Marsha Norman
  • Great
  • Simple
  • Color

• 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

• I never called him Prince because I wanted him to be a person to me, not the man behind 'Purple Rain'. Plus, technically, I was married to the Symbol... When we got married, it was much easier. If someone else was there, I could say, 'Could I speak to my husband, please?'

  

  Mayte Garcia
  • Husband
  • Rain
  • Prince

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

  

  Allan Sherman
  • Teacher
  • Purple
  • Underwear

• When I'm with Purple, I'm totally with Purple; when I'm doing my thing, I'm totally doing my own thing.

  

  Tommy Bolin
  • Purple

• 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

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