Blue Quotes - Page 8

• They said, 'You have a blue guitar, / You do not play things as they are.' / The man replied, 'Things as they are / Are changed upon the blue guitar.'

  Wallace Stevens

  Men, Play, Guitar

  'The Man with the Blue Guitar' (1937)

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• And immediately Rather than words comes the thought of high windows: The sun-comprehending glass, And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless.

  Philip Larkin

  Glasses, Air, Sun

  High Windows (1974) "High Windows"

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Roger, Tranquility. We copy you on the ground. You've got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're breathing again. Thanks a lot.

  Charles Duke

  Breathing, Guy, Apollo

  7 Copy quote

• I looked up and all I saw was blue lights. If I die tonight, I'm dying in a gun fight.

  Tupac Shakur

  Fighting, Gun, Light

  Song: Violent, Album: 2Pacalypse Now

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• for Christ's sake, were the mountains blue, then chuck on some blue and don't go telling me that it was a blue a bit like this or like that, it was blue wasn't it? Good - make them blue and that's enough!

  Paul Gauguin

  Perfection, Mountain, Sake

  26 Copy quote

• The man has a curious inborn conviction of his own superiority which is quite unshakeable. All his life he has bullied and browbeaten those around him by his high-and-mightiness and his atrocious temper. As a boy he terrorized his entire family by his tantrums, when, if thwarted, he would throw himself on the floor and yell till he went blue in the face. It has been much the same ever since. Everyone's terrified of his rages. He has only to start grinding his teeth, and people fall flat before him.

  Anna Kavan

  Fall, Boys, Men

  7 Copy quote

• We're just recycled history machines, cavemen in faded blue jeans.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Philosophy, Jeans, Cavemen

  Song: Don't Chu-Know, Album: Barometer Soup, 1995

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• I would recommend if you come to Ocean Grove and you're not from around here, don't wear rubber pants, a pink shirt and a blue jacket. Leave that for Asbury Park.

  Peter Noone

  Ocean, Rubber, Pants

  6 Copy quote

• How do you see those tree?... They are yellow. Well then put down yellow. And that shadow is rather blue. So render it with pure ultramarine. Those red leaves? Use vermillion.

  Paul Gauguin

  Yellow, Tree, Shadow

  12 Copy quote

• I saw in a blue haze all the world poured flat and pale between the mountains

  Annie Dillard

  Mountain, World, Saws

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.41, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A blue-stocking is the scourge of her husband, children, friends, servants, and every one.
  [Fr., Une femme bel-esprit est le fleau de son mari, de ses enfants, de ses amis, de ses valets, et tout le monde.]

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Husband, Children, Women

  11 Copy quote

• He looked at a world of incredible loveliness. Old distaff Celt's blood in some back chamber of his brain moved him to discourse with the birches, with the oaks. A cool green fire kept breaking in the woods and he could hear the footsteps of the dead. Everything had fallen from him. He scarce could tell where his being ended or the world began nor did he care. He lay on his back in the gravel, the earth's core sucking his bones, a moment's giddy vertigo with this illusion of falling outward through blue and windy space, over the offside of the planet, hurtling through the high thin cirrus.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Fall, Blood, Space

  4 Copy quote

• I'm a bit of an M&M nut. I like the blue ones. I pick them out.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Nuts, Picks, Bits

  9 Copy quote

• I decided the moment I graduated from college that I would never wear blue jeans again. And I have never worn blue jeans again.

  Whit Stillman

  College, Jeans, Moments

  4 Copy quote

• Caleb and Tris exchange a look. The skin on his face and on her knuckles is nearly the same colour, purple-blue-green, as if drawn with ink. This is what happens when siblings collide - they injure each other in the same way.

  Veronica Roth

  Sibling, Purple, Skins

  4 Copy quote

• The Constitution is like my old blue dress ... it doesn't fit anymore.

  Ellen Tauscher

  Blue Dress, Dresses, Politics

  9 Copy quote

• Her fingers moved among barnacles and mussels, blue-black, sharp-edged. Neon red starfish were limp Dalis on the rocks, surrounded by bouquets of stinging anemones and purple bursts of spiny sea urchins.

  Janet Fitch

  Rocks, Sea, Purple

  11 Copy quote

• I love this place; I love mountains and big skies and forests. And the weather is still supremely beautiful even though the lower peaks are powdered with fresh snow. But Heavens! What sun. It never has an ending. I am basking at this minute - half past four - too hot without a hat, & the sky is that transparent blue only to be seen in autumn - the forest trees steeped in light.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Beautiful, Autumn, Past

  Katherine Mansfield (1996). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume IV: 1920-1921”, p.313, Clarendon Press

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Remember with your heart. Go back, go back and go back. The skies of this world were always meant to have dragons. When they are not here, humans miss them. Some never think of them, of course. But some children, from the time they are small, they look up at the blue summer sky and watch for something that never comes. Because they know. Something that was supposed to be there faded and vanished. Something that we must bring back, you and I.

  Robin Hobb

  Summer, Children, Heart

  9 Copy quote

• The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident to happen-somebody who comes in out of the blue and says the truth. Everything else is table manners.

  Philip Roth

  Funeral, Waiting, Tables

  Philip Roth, Ross Miller (2008). “Novels & other narratives, 1986-1991”

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you're dead

  Tom Waits

  Men, Car, Coats

  Song: Telephone Call from Istanbul, Album: Franks Wild Years

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky.

  Albert Camus

  Believe, Sky, World

  Albert Camus (1960). “The plague: translated from the French”

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Internet is like closing time at a blue-collar bar in Boston. Everyone’s drunk and ugly and they’re going to pass out in a few minutes.

  Leon Wieseltier

  Boston, Drunk, Ugly

  "Stung by the Perfect Sting" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. August 25, 2009.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Summer, Mother, Thinking

  5 Copy quote

• There's no theme, no moral to be learned, except for the knowledge that lightning can strike from a clear blue sky one morning and take away everything you've built, everything you've counted on, leaving wreckage and no meaning behind. It can happen to anyone, it can happen to you.

  Damon Galgut

  Morning, Sky, Leaving

  5 Copy quote