Blue Quotes

• Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest, Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar and soaring ever singest.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Earth
  • Singing
  • Deep

• The little wind-flower, whose just opened eye Is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Heaven
  • Eye
  • Spring

• It's a blue-collar city Manchester that's transitioning into a white collar place and people are getting priced out.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Blue
  • Cities
  • Collars

• 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
  • Pool
  • Purple

• First, he realized that the sea was blue and that there was an enormous quantity of it, and that it roared and roared-really all the banalities about the ocean that one could realize, but if any one had told him then that these things were banalities, he would have gaped in wonder.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Wonder
  • Sea
  • Ocean

• It's a black Southern belief that blue glass keeps out bad spirits.

  

  Kevin Young
  • Bad
  • Black
  • Blue

• Already in 1915, Sophie Taeuber his wife divides the surface of her aquarelle into squares and rectangles which she then juxtaposes horizontally and perpendicularly as Mondrian, Itten and Paul Klee did in the same period. She constructs them as if they were masonry work. The colors are luminous, ranging from the raw yellow to deep red or blue.

  

  Jean Arp
  • Work
  • She
  • Wife

• I'm not a green like most Democrats would be. I have a blue-collar district.

  

  Gene Green
  • Green
  • Blue

• My mother and I were born in Mieres, Asturias, the most beautiful region you'll ever see in Europe and the home of Cabrales, a great blue cheese made in the Asturian mountains. When I was young, we moved to Barcelona. Whenever my mother was homesick for Asturias, she'd eat a little piece of Cabrales to bring her closer to Mieres.

  

  Jose Andres
  • Great
  • Home
  • She

• It might be easier To fail with land in sight, Than gain my blue peninsula To perish of delight.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Blue

• After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics; as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through.

  

  Dee Dee Myers
  • Business
  • American
  • House

• I remember when we had to pick our major freshman year, I chose comparative religion. It came to me out of the blue. I am amazed at how interested I still am in those ideas, especially the way spirituality is expressed in the world and in art.

  

  Amy Brenneman
  • World
  • Art
  • Remember

• Blue. My God! I'm so blue that if I were a dog, I'd sit on my haunches and howl and howl and howl...

  

  Alice Dunbar Nelson
  • Dog
  • Blue
  • Howl

• It's true I've got no shirts to wear;

  

  W. S. Gilbert
  • True
  • Looks
  • Bills

• In blue Light nature space the whole world, wide grazing land, the open spaces wind across the land and the sky, blue, high.

  

  Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa
  • World
  • Space
  • Sky

• I sell blue sky and coloured air.

  

  James Turrell
  • Air
  • Sky
  • Blue

• I don't want you to cook my bread, I don't want you to make my bed. I don't want you to because I'm sad and blue, I just want to make love to you.

  

  Willie Dixon
  • Bed
  • Bread
  • Cooks

• Being in the studio, it's more of a controlled environment, where you can be Salvador Dali and sit back and look at the painting. And you can go, 'Ah, you know what? Maybe a little bit more red over here...maybe add some blue over here.' You can sit back and look at the painting.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Environment
  • Painting
  • Red

• While yonder, wild and blue,the wild blue yonder looms.'Till we are wracked with rheum,by roads, by songs entombed.

  

  Joanna Newsom
  • Blue

• My essentials are skinny jeans, loose-fitting tees, big jumpers, and the leather jacket. Everything is black or blue - I don't own anything colorful.

  

  Jamie Campbell Bower
  • Black
  • Blue

• Phillip Harrison was the production designer, though, I think he's uncredited. He's done most of my films like Blue Thunder. Lots and lots over the years.

  

  John Badham
  • Done
  • Blue

• We had no idea what we were in for when we started Blue Sky. We just had an idea of what we wanted to do. When we got to a point where it seemed impossible, we just kept doing it. After 18 years, we have a lot of it done.

  

  Chris Wedge
  • Done
  • Sky
  • Blue

• Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lull'd by the coil of his crystalline streams Beside a pumice isle in Baiæ's bay, And saw in sleep old palaces and towers Quivering within the wave's intenser day, All overgrown with azure moss and flowers So sweet, the sense faints picturing them.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Sleep
  • Sweet
  • Summer

• In age of consumerism and materialism, I traffic in blue sky and colored air.

  

  James Turrell
  • Age
  • Air
  • Sky

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