Color Quotes

• You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw in seashells, branches and various types of rock, so our walls ended up looking like cave paintings!

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Red

• I remember once being told by a casting person, years ago, that I shouldn't pursue a career in the business because of the color of my skin. The fact that I remember it today means it stuck with me. I thought that was really stupid advice and advice nobody should ever give someone.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Business
  • Remember
  • Today

• As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Important
  • American
  • Couple

• I really love color.

  

  Marissa Mayer
  • Color

• Red, electric blue - the only color I don't wear is green, which I still don't wear. I wear certain color greens, but I have such yellow skin so I always like to wear bold colors.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Red
  • Green
  • Blue

• Black is not a color.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Black
  • Color

• I like hair each and every way. I like to give scalp massages - to pull and tug on it. But my favorite style is long, real hair in a dusty blonde-brown color.

  

  Trey Songz
  • Long
  • Real
  • Style

• It's also important for those who promote those issues within the white community - the somewhat privileged community - to talk about issues affecting people of color.

  

  Danny Glover
  • People
  • Important
  • Community

• We are not generally included in that narrative - people of color - definitely, women of color don't normally fit that narrative that has been built around the whole image and the whole story of the Silicon Valley.

  

  Kimberly Bryant
  • People
  • Women
  • Color

• You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Character
  • Friends
  • Socks

• Oh yes! He loved yellow, did good Vincent...When the two of us were together in Arles, both of us insane, and constantly at war over beautiful colors, I adored red; where could I find a perfect vermilion?

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • War
  • Together
  • Beautiful

• I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
  • Dream
  • Black

• Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance.

  

  Galina Vishnevskaya
  • Know
  • Color
  • Voice

• I have broken the blue boundary of color limits, come out into the white, besides me comrade-pilots swim in this infinity. I have established the semaphore of Suprematism. I have beaten the lining of the colored sky, torn it away and in the sack that formed itself, I have put color and knotted it. Swim! The free white sea lies before you.

  

  Kazimir Malevich
  • Free
  • Lies
  • Sea

• GATHERING LEAVES Spades take up leaves No better than spoons, And bags full of leaves Are light as balloons. I make a great noise Of rustling all day Like rabbit and deer Running away. But the mountains I raise Elude my embrace, Flowing over my arms And into my face. I may load and unload Again and again Till I fill the whole shed, And what have I then? Next to nothing for weight, And since they grew duller From contact with earth, Next to nothing for color. Next to nothing for use. But a crop is a crop, And who's to say where The harvest shall stop?

  

  Robert Frost
  • Up
  • Great
  • May

• Anything with the title 'Breaking The Barriers' means a lot to us, and to myself in particular, because if it wasn't for those who broke the barrier of color before me, I would not have the opportunity to live the life I'm leading right now.

  

  Katrina Adams
  • Life
  • Live
  • Opportunity

• I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Believe
  • Color
  • Human

• Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Color
  • Matter
  • Taste

• Adele ultimately did well in such a large way because she affects everybody, and the way that she writes seems to be popular music, not because of her skin color but because she writes great music, and it's popular in that way.

  

  Babyface
  • Great
  • Music
  • She

• Voting for Romney after the train wreck of that was the eight years of W. Bush is like losing your pay check playing a rigged game of three-card monte and then playing the same game again a week later 'cause the cards are a different color.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Different
  • Game
  • Week

• I dream in color; it's always a movie and sometimes I'm in it, as myself.

  

  Kit Reed
  • Movie
  • Dream
  • Color

• I come from a time when people like Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby told stories that were devastatingly funny without being off-color.

  

  Bill Engvall
  • People
  • Time
  • Funny

• I've been identified with pink throughout my career, but I'm not as crazy about it as I've led people to believe. My favorite colors are actually neutrals—black and white—but then who thinks of a movie queen in black and white? Everything has to be in living color.

  

  Jayne Mansfield
  • People
  • Believe
  • Movie

• Being a woman, we talk about equal pay all the time. We're not talking about if you're black or if you are Latina. I would like to get back to that and improving the relationship between the police community and the community of color. I don't know exactly all the right things to say, but I want to engage in that conversation.

  

  Megan Rapinoe
  • Time
  • Black
  • Community

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