Blue Quotes

• I wouldn't call myself a synaesthete in the sense that Nabokov was. But I'll talk about a sound as being cold blue or dark brown. For descriptive purposes, yes, I often see colors when I'm listening to music and think, 'Oh, there's not enough sort of yellowy stuff in here, or not enough white.'

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Music
  • Dark
  • Listening

• We just think that there are all these different ways that people want to share, and that compressing them all into a single blue app is not the right format of the future.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • People
  • Different
  • Future

• At first, I was able to use a Bunsen burner attached to my mother's gas stove, but the use of the kitchen as a laboratory came to an abrupt end when a minor explosion involving hydrogen sulphide spattered the newly painted decor and changed the colour from blue to dirty green!

  

  John Vane
  • Mother
  • Green
  • Kitchen

• I was raised Catholic, and I remember in all the pamphlets and pictures we'd look at, Jesus was basically blonde with blue eyes. He kind of looked like Jared Leto.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Remember
  • Eyes
  • Jesus

• For the first time in my life I saw the horizon as a curved line. It was accentuated by a thin seam of dark blue light-our atmosphere. Obviously this was not the ocean of air I had been told it was so many times in my life. I was terrified by its fragile appearance.

  

  Ulf Merbold
  • Life
  • Time
  • Light

• I have just come down from my father.Higher and higher he liesAbove me in a blue lightShed by a tinted window.

  

  James Dickey
  • Father
  • Blue

• Illium, with his wings of silver-kissed blue and a face designed to seduce both males and females, not to mention his ability to do the most impossible acrobatics in the air, would provide a worthy diversion. The fact that he’d decided to ditch half his clothing was just icing on the cake.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Air
  • Blue
  • Cake

• Cryptochrome harnesses the energy of incoming blue light, but other molecules are probably needed to absorb light of other colors.

  

  Jeffrey C. Hall
  • Energy
  • Light
  • Blue

• I am a simple man and I use simple materials: Ivory Black, Vermilion, Prussian Blue, Yellow Ochre, Flake White and no medium. That’s all I’ve ever used in my paintings.

  

  L. S. Lowry
  • Men
  • Black
  • Simple

• The 2008 presidential election was a triumph of hope and unity over fear and divisiveness. Barack Obama's election reshapes America's political landscape and wipes away the false geography of 'red states' and 'blue states.'

  

  Amy Klobuchar
  • America
  • Hope
  • Political

• Humans will always babble. If someone wants to tweet that they can't decide whether to wear blue socks or brown socks, then fair enough. But when sharing becomes automated, I get the heebie-jeebies.

  

  Charlie Brooker
  • Blue

• America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols.

  

  Bill Shuster
  • War
  • America
  • Today

• My earliest memories are at the Blue Note here in New York or backstage at different theatres or different clubs, dressing rooms.

  

  Elisabeth Moss
  • Different
  • Memories
  • Blue

• If you look at 'Gnomeo & Juliet,' the movie's message essentially says it doesn't matter if you're a 'red' or a 'blue': at the end of the day, parents should love their children and want what's best for them.

  

  David Furnish
  • Children
  • Movie
  • Parents

• Yes, sir. I'm a real Southern boy. I got a red neck, white socks, and Blue Ribbon beer.

  

  Billy Carter
  • Real
  • Boy
  • Red

• A few days of idleness have completely sickened me, and given me what is called the blue-devils so severely, that I feel that the sooner I go to work and drive them off, the better.

  

  John James Audubon
  • Work
  • Blue

• They'll all pee blue for one week to ten days, for about the duration of the show. The first opening I've enjoyed!

  

  Jean Tinguely
  • Blue

• ...in any land, in any country under modern free competition, to lay any class of weak and despised people, be they white, black, or blue, at the political mercy of their stronger, richer, and more resourceful fellows, is a temptation which human nature seldom has withstood and seldom will withstand.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • People
  • Country
  • Nature

• If to serenade almost to man Is to miss, by that, things as they are, Say that it is the serenade Of a man that plays a blue guitar.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Blue

• I actually like getting up to blue skies.

  

  Marianne Jean-Baptiste
  • Up
  • Blue

• No radiant pearl which crested Fortune wears,No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty’s ears,Not the bright stars which Night’s blue arch adorn,Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn,Shine with such lustre as the tear that flowsDown Virtue’s manly cheek for others’ woes.

  

  Erasmus Darwin
  • Night
  • Blue
  • Shine

• I felt different born into a family with two sisters who are blonde and blue-eyed, with me being the only brunette.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Different
  • Family
  • Two

• Blue Moon,Now I'm no longer alone,Without a dream in my heart,Without a love of my own.

  

  Lorenz Hart
  • Heart
  • Dream
  • Alone

• She turned to Gansey.'Blue,' he warned, but his voice was chaotic. This close, his throat was scented with mint and wool sweater and vinyl car seat, and Gansey, just Gansey. She said, 'I just want to pretend. I want to pretend that I could.'

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • She
  • Car
  • Blue

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