Purple Quotes

• The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold;And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea,When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Deep
  • Sea
  • Gold

• There's room for everyone, and everyone is wanted and needed. Whoopi showed me that. When I first saw 'The Color Purple,' it was so huge. That was the first time I had seen myself, my mother, my aunts, women that I had known my whole life on-screen. It gives us hope, and it gives us confidence.

  

  Anna Diop
  • Life
  • Time
  • Women

• I saw what Purple meant to people and I still hear it now when I'm in Europe. I'm always shocked that I'm still asked about Purple because it was such a long time ago.

  

  David Coverdale Whitesnake
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• For me, it's about making art that's not good but phenomenal. James Baldwin didn't want to just stay above the fray. Prince didn't think, 'I wonder what the industry is gonna think about 'Purple Rain.'' It's just, is this honest? Is this real? Does this move me? The rest is icing.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • Good
  • Real
  • Art

• A typical 'Larry King Live' is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his trademark suspenders and purple shirts, he looks as if he's strapped to the chair with vertical seat belts, unable to eject.

  

  James Wolcott
  • Live
  • King
  • Purple

• It was a still afternoon - the golden light was lingering languidly among the upper boughs, only glancing down here and there on the purple pathway and its edge of faintly sprinkled moss: an afternoon in which destiny disguises her cold awful face behind a hazy radiant veil, encloses us in warm downy wings, and poisons us with violet-scented breath.

  

  George Eliot
  • Light
  • Cold
  • Destiny

• The key to success is to find a way to stand out--to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Keys
  • Fields
  • Monochrome

• I do quite a lot of art, with a small 'a'. I guess that is how I was dredged up, with paints and crayons. Even when I was at nursery, I knew instinctively how to mix colours, how to make purple or orange.

  

  Amanda Harlech
  • Up
  • Art
  • Small

• I grew up in the Bible Belt and I made my own clothes and dyed my hair purple. Nobody ever knew what to do with me.

  

  Kesha
  • Up
  • Hair
  • Bible

• I was someone who wore bright purple sweatsuits with tall Doc Martens boots. I would iron Hanson decals on my sweatshirt. I was extremely flamboyant as a child.

  

  Jonathan Van Ness
  • Purple

• I grew up watching foreign programs - American, English, Mexican, and very little Kenyan. 'The Color Purple' was the first time I saw people who looked like me.

  

  Lupita Nyong'o
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• The foxglove, with it's stately bells Of purple, shall adorn thy dells.

  

  David Macbeth Moir
  • Purple
  • Bells
  • Adorn

• Lunch is a big huge salad with every color in it. From leafy greens to purple to herbs, fresh cut herbs mixed into it for flavors. I vary what I toss into it. Sometimes it might be lentils and chopped tomatoes, other days it could be garbanzo beans, some days I might have just a salad and have some lentil soup on the side.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • Color
  • Purple

• Calum offered to paint my nails but I said no because he always uses the wrong shade of purple.

  

  Luke Hemmings
  • Paint
  • Purple
  • Nails

• I had the misfortune of getting what skateboarders call hippers. It's when you fall on your hip again and again and again, just the same spot. It turns into like a blue purple bruise and it's just torture because I had to keep on doing the same move, going around in the pool again.

  

  Emile Hirsch
  • Fall
  • Blue
  • Pool

• Green clovers. Blue diamonds. Orange Stars. Pink hearts. Purple horseshoes. Man, I never know if I'm looking at a bowl of cereal or having another acid flashback.

  

  David Henry
  • Hearts
  • Cereal
  • Flashback

• Purple lipstick? Naw, that looks stupid on all girls!

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • Stupid
  • Girls
  • Lipstick

• Thomas Raith: An errand is getting a tank of gas or picking up a carton of milk or something. It is not getting chased by flying purple pyromaniac gorillas hurling incendiary poo.

  

  Jim Butcher
  • Up
  • Flying
  • Purple

• Take the wonder drug that cures all your ills, take Jeremiah Peabody's polyunsaturated, quick dissolving, fast acting, pleasant tasting, green and purple pills.

  

  Ray Stevens
  • Wonder
  • Pleasant
  • Jeremiah

• 'Ernest Borgnine' is sort of my version of Woody Allen's 'Purple Rose Of Cairo' in that it's about the occasional difficulty of coming to terms with the cold hard facts and the temptation to escape into another world - like movies, for example. I'm a pro at escaping.

  

  John Grant
  • World
  • Cold
  • Rose

• Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose,Flushing his brow, and in his pained heartMade purple riot.

  

  John Keats
  • Rose
  • Purple

• Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

  

  Regina Brett
  • Age
  • Wait
  • Eccentric

• ' Shoes' is very pink and yellow, and maybe orange, very bright, whereas 'Midnight Moonlight' is purple and blue and - I don't know - gray.

  

  Ravyn Lenae
  • Know
  • Orange
  • Midnight

• 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 McCracken
  • Black
  • Color
  • Tragedy

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