Purple Quotes

• Purple as tulips in May, mauve into lush velvet, purple as the stain blackberries leave on the lips, on the hands, the purple of ripe grapes sunlit and warm as flesh....

  

  Marge Piercy
  • May
  • Velvet
  • Ripe

• Some of my best friends have written Broadway shows. Allee Willis and Brenda Russell wrote The Color Purple which has been recently revived on Broadway. That to me is such a different hat that you have to wear, but music is music. A Broadway show is something I would love to have the opportunity to do.

  

  Dave Koz
  • Different
  • Opportunity
  • Shows

• 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.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Up
  • Weird
  • Red

• O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cool'd a long age in the deep-delved earth.Tasting of Flora and the country green,Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth!O for a beaker full of the warm South,Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene,With beaded bubbles winking at the brim,And purple-stained mouth.

  

  John Keats
  • Long
  • Country
  • True

• I had a band when I was 14, and we would play around in my hometown of Middlesbrough, and we'd go to the club afterwards, which was the Purple Onion then. There would be live bands playing, and in between that, the DJ would be playing records.

  

  Paul Rodgers Bad Company
  • Live
  • Band
  • Purple

• I want to produce the music to a movie that I'm working on, like what Prince did with 'Purple Rain.'

  

  The Weeknd
  • Music
  • Movie
  • Rain

• Mine the long night The secret place Where lovers meet In long embrace In purple dark In silvered kiss Forget the world And grasp your bliss

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Long
  • Night

• New York gave me hell for that 'Purple Swag,' man. They didn't respect me until 'Peso.'

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • Respect
  • New York
  • Swag

• 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

• Genius is talent provided with ideals. Genius starves while talent wears purple and fine linen. The man of genius of today will infifty years' time be in most cases no more than a man of talent.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Time
  • Men
  • Today

• 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
  • Music
  • Black
  • Hate

• Violet is the most soothing, tranquilizing and cooling color vibration. It encourages the healing of unbalanced mental conditions in people who are overly nervous or high-strung. Foods of the violet vibration are: purple broccoli, beetroot and purple grapes.

  

  Tae Yun Kim
  • People
  • High
  • Color

• The rites were just the husks left over from deeper things, no pith remaining and no mystery, nothing to lift up the soul or go to the brain like wine. And, as generally happens, the more truth the ritual lost the more they bolstered it with significance. There is a saying among the Moi: The chief is clad in gold and purple, only the god dares to go naked.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Up
  • God
  • Truth

• You neither can nor should understand what it means.Listen, it comes without guitar,Neither in rags nor in any purple fashion.And there is nothing in it to comfort you.

  

  Donald Justice
  • Fashion
  • Purple

• I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple.

  

  Bill Watterson
  • Purple

• My character was obnoxious, had stinky feet and wore things like purple tights and a yellow top. I hated the clothes.

  

  Andrea Barber
  • Character
  • Purple

• Jeeves lugged my purple socks out of the drawer as if he were a vegetarian fishing a caterpillar out of his salad.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Fishing
  • Purple

• 'Play It Again Sam's opening shot is the same as 'Purple Rose's final one: a close-up of a face, rapt in a movie house. I've certainly felt that in my life. I've been known to cry watching Gene Kelly.

  

  David Rakoff
  • Life
  • Up
  • Movie

• For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable - gave me a carton of albums like 'Blue Kentucky Girl,' by Emmylou Harris, and 'Off the Wall,' by Michael Jackson. It's all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can't have a music collection without Prince's 'Purple Rain' - it just can't be done!

  

  Connie Britton
  • Up
  • Music
  • Done

• At the moment we're trying to keep what we've learnt. Because we learnt a terrific amount with 'Deep Purple In Rock,' it took six months to make that album: we think it paid off, really. I can honestly say that it's the first album we've been 100 percent satisfied with; it gave us a hell of a lot of confidence.

  

  Jon Lord
  • Trying
  • Rock
  • Confidence

• The only medal that I am certain I deserved is the Purple Heart.

  

  Bob Kerrey
  • Heart
  • Purple

• My house really is purple and yellow and hot pink and light green and orange.

  

  Lisa Frank
  • House
  • Light
  • Green

• The only problem I have with American money is that it's all kind of the same color, so I'm always having to look. Whereas with Australian money, you have purple, blue, yellow... We keep it nice and simple.

  

  Emily Browning
  • Money
  • American
  • Nice

• Nature, when undisturbed, is never monotonous, you know. Even when using green, the most frequent color on her palette, she throws in contrasting tints by way of expression, and you will seldom see two sides of a leaf of the same hue, and the leaf stem frequently gives a good dash of bronze or purple.

  

  Mabel Osgood Wright
  • Good
  • She
  • Nature

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