Green Quotes - Page 35

• A lot of ideas don't translate very well into art. To say, "Oh my god, the grass is green ..." You're going to end up with a big green painting.

  John Baldessari

  Art, Ideas, Painting

  Interview with David Salle, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 09, 2013.

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• I really want to go to Ireland. It's really green I hear and very pretty. So I'd really like to go there and spend a nice amount of time because I always travel but for like a second. I never get to enjoy the places.

  Selena Gomez

  Nice, Want, Enjoy

  Interview with Miranda Clarke, cinemanerdz.com. July 4, 2011.

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• There has long been a bemoaning of the lack of opportunity to make films that are anything but explosions or the ladling on the pea soup or whatever you want to call it. You can hardly make a movie today where somebody isn't a murderer or a rapist or, if it's a "Fried Green Tomatoes" that isn't some wistful thing on this, that or the other thing.

  Jack Nicholson

  Opportunity, Long, Tomatoes

  "COVER STORY : Still Simmering Under the Shades : Jack Nicholson remains one of Hollywood's hottest actors and talkers. So, what, if anything, has changed? You might be surprised". Interview with Hilary de Vries, articles.latimes.com. December 6, 1992.

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• To be aroused in the dark by five feet of cold, green snake gliding over one's face is unpleasant.

  David Livingstone

  Dark, Snakes, Feet

  David Livingstone, Charles Livingstone (1865). “Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries: And of the Discovery of the Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa. 1858-1864”, p.152

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• A meter of green is greener than a centimeter.

  Paul Gauguin

  Meter, Greener

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• I'm the only one who can stop me.. I'm the one who's been sitting at the stoplight all these years, waiting for the light to turn green.

  Terry McMillan

  Light, Years, Waiting

  Terry McMillan (2006). “The Interruption of Everything”, p.414, Penguin

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• I've had watermelon hair where I had pink with green tips. From the age of 13 to about 19 or 20, I never had my real hair color.

  Natalia Tena

  Real, Hair, Color

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• I like my women very green; you know, eco-friendly.

  John Boyega

  Friendly, Eco, Knows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Why can't I believe? she asked the darkness. Behind her eyelids she saw an animal. It was golden colour, with gentle green eyes and canine teeth, and curly wool instead of fur. It opened its mouth, but it did not speak. Instead, it yawned.It gazed at her. She gazed at it. "You are the effect of a carefully calibrated blend of plant toxins," she told it.Then she fell asleep.

  Margaret Atwood

  Believe, Eye, Animal

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• My third grade teacher called my mother and said, 'Ms. Cox, your son is going to end up in New Orleans in a dress if we don't get him into therapy.' And wouldn't you know, just last week I spoke at Tulane University, and I wore a lovely green and black dress.

  Laverne Cox

  Mother, Teacher, Son

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• It is easier for a political party to attain national ballot status in Russia today than it is for the Libertarian party or the Green party to get on the ballot in, say, Pennsylvania.

  Justin Raimondo

  Party, Russia, Political

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• I've given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I've had prima donnas break $10,000 engagements to come to my smallest dinners. When you were still playing button back in Ohio, I entertained on a cruising trip that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Fun, Party, Home

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.171, New Directions Publishing

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• This world could not exist if it were not so simple. The ground has been tilled a thousand years, yet its powers remain ever the same; a little rain, a little sun, and each spring it grows green again.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Spring, Rain

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1839). “Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life”, p.209

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• The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.

  Jonathan Swift

  Trunks, Intemperance, Withered

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.874, Delphi Classics

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• Every green thing loves to die in bright colors. The vegetable cohorts march glowing out of the year in flaming dresses, as if to leave this earth were a triumph and not a sadness. It is never nature that is sad, but only we, that dare not look back on the past, and that have not its prophecy of the future in our bosoms.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Sadness, Past, Glowing

  Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star papers; or, Experiences of art and nature”, p.183

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• We have to wear clothes, a requirement of custom, but more time, temper, character, and peace of mind, not to mention money, have been sacrificed to them than to any other altar on this green earth, and for what?

  Kate Langley Bosher

  Character, Clothes, Mind

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• When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world and bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes.

  Charles Dickens

  Death, Tears, And Love

  Charles Dickens (1858). “The Old Curiosity Shop: And Reprinted Pieces”, p.138

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• A little madness in the Spring
  Is wholesome even for the King,
  But God be with the Clown,
  Who ponders this tremendous scene--
  This whole experiment in green,
  As if it were his own!

  Emily Dickinson

  Nature, Kings, Spring

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1613, Delphi Classics

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• Father, thy hand
  Hath reared these venerable columns, thou
  Didst weave this verdant roof. Thou didst look down
  Upon the naked earth, and, forthwith, rose
  All these fair ranks of trees. They, in thy sun,
  Budded, and shook their green leaves in thy breeze,
  And shot towards heaven.

  William C. Bryant

  Father, Hands, Rose

  William Cullen Bryant, “A Forest Hymn”

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• The green grass floweth like a stream
  Into the oceans's blue.

  James Russell Lowell

  Ocean, Blue, Grass

  James Russell Lowell, “The Sirens”

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• Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Here grow the wallflower and the violet. The squirrel will come and sit upon your knee, the logcock will wake you in the morning. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill. Of all the upness accessible to mortals, there is no upness comparable to the mountains.

  John Muir

  Nature, Morning, Sleep

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.235, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• A great acacia, with its slender trunk
  And overpoise of multitudinous leaves.
  (In which a hundred fields might spill their dew
  And intense verdure, yet find room enough)
  Stood reconciling all the place with green.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Dew, Might, Rooms

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.426

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• There was a time when the respect and trust my children had for me would have made you sick to your stomach. They believed I could blow on a red traffic light and turn it green.

  Erma Bombeck

  Children, Blow, Light

  Erma Bombeck, Bil Keane (2011). “Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own!”, p.139, Fawcett

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• In Africa, when you pick up a book worth reading, out of the deadly consignments which good ships are always being made to carry out all the way from Europe, you read it as an author would like his book to be read, praying to God that he may have it in him to go on as beautifully as he has begun. Your mind runs, transported, upon a fresh deep green track.

  Isak Dinesen

  Running, Book, Reading

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• Sir, when you have seen one green field, you have seen all green fields. Let us walk down Cheapside.

  Samuel Johnson

  Country, Green Fields, Walks

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