Orange Quotes - Page 18

• celebratin' New Year's Eve is like eatin' oranges. You got to let go your dignity t' really enjoy 'em.

  Edna Ferber

  Letting Go, New Year, Years

  Edna Ferber (2015). “Buttered Side Down”, p.53, Booklassic

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• I would stand transfixed before the windows of the confectioners' shops, fascinated by the luminous sparkle of candied fruits, the cloudy lustre of jellies, the kaleidoscope inflorescence of acidulated fruit drops - red, green, orange, violet: I coveted the colours themselves as much as the pleasure they promised me.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Food, Cooking, Jelly

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• She set about preparing her supper. It would have to be one of those classically simple meals, the sort that French peasants are said to eat and that enlightened English people sometimes enjoy rather self-consciously - a crusty French loaf, cheese, and lettuce and tomatoes from the garden. Of course there should have been wine and a lovingly prepared dressing of oil and vinegar, but Dulcie drank orange squash and ate mayonnaise that came from a bottle.

  Barbara Pym

  Food, Wine, Simple

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• Love you not, then, to list and hear
  The crackling of the gorse-flower near,
  Pouring an orange-scented tide
  Of fragrance o'er the desert wide?

  Alfred William Howitt

  Flower, Love You, Desert

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• In the time of Spanish rule, and for many years afterwards, the town of Sulaco--the luxuriant beauty of the orange gardens bears witness to its antiquity--had never been commercially anything more important than a coasting port with a fairly large local trade in ox-hides and indigo.

  Joseph Conrad

  Book, Garden, Years

  Joseph Conrad (2000). “Lord Jim and Nostromo: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.411, Modern Library

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• See the last orange roses, how they blow / Deeper and heavier than in their prime, / In one defiant flame before they go.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Blow, Flames, Rose

  Vita Sackville-West, Victoria Sackville-West (2004). “The Garden”, Frances Lincoln Limited

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• Beautiful isles! beneath the sunset skies tall, silver-shafted palm-trees rise, between full orange-trees that shade the living colonade.

  William C. Bryant

  Beautiful, Sunset, Orange Trees

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• Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Inspirational, Ideas, Roots

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• Sophisticated but at the same time dramatic and seductive, Tangerine Tango is an orange with a lot of depth to it.

  Leatrice Eiseman

  Seductive, Depth, Dramatic

  "Learning More About Tangerine Tango, Pantone's Color of the Year". PopSugar Interview, www.popsugar.com. December 8, 2011.

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• But there is only one person I blame for getting shafted, and that's myself. I went into the deal which I thought would secure the future of Orange Aids with culpable impetuosity. I had been used to doing business on a handshake and my work of honour, and I made the error of actually believing what the men in the pin-striped suits told me.

  Trevor Baylis

  Business, Believe, Men

  "Two Speed World: The Impact of Explosive and Gradual Change". Book by Terry Lloyd, 2010.

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• Knowledge is like the carrot, few know by looking at the green top that the best part, the orange part, is there. Like the carrot, if you don't work for it, it will wither away and rot. And finally, like the carrot, there are a great many donkeys and jackasses that are associated with it.

  Nasreddin

  Green, Great Men, Donkey

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• But there was escape, too, even in those days, for there was Whistler living in the grey mists with a faded orange moon. The nocturne transformed itself into dreamy rooms with Chopin's music creating a mood that softened the hard core of self.

  Mark Tobey

  Moon, Self, Creating

  "Reminiscence and Reverie" by Mark Tobey, Magazine of Art, 44, pp. 228, 231, October 1951.

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• The last mad throb of red just as it turns green; the ultimate shriek of orange calling all the blues of heaven for relief and support... each color almost regains the fun it must have felt within itself on forming the first rainbow.

  Charles Demuth

  Fun, Color, Mad

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• Did he just rip out the engine?" I asked. "Yes", Saiman said. "And now he is demolishing the Maserati with it." Ten seconds later Curran hurled the twisted wreck of black and orange that used to be the Maserati into the wall. The first melodic notes of an old song came from the computer. I glanced at Saiman. He shrugged. "It begged for a soundtrack.

  Ilona Andrews

  Song, Wall, Rip

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.168, Penguin

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• It was like trying to break up with the color orange, or Wednesday, or silent e. It was the most passionate and tumultuous relationship I'd ever known.

  Rob Sheffield

  Color, Trying, Passionate

  Rob Sheffield (2010). “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut”, p.28, Penguin

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• What kind of shapeshifter has orange fur anyway?" "Weredingo." Now I'd seen everything. Well, at least he didn't steal my baby.

  Ilona Andrews

  Baby, Fur, Kind

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.82, Penguin

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• The woods were deserted that day. The stones stood still and silent, as though they were waiting for something. At the center of them all, a jagged piece of amber glowed in the growing darkness. Lights fizzed softly around it, turning pink, orange, purple, blue. No one saw it. No one ever did. Why would they? No one knoew about its magic, not anymore. They had forgotten all about such magic a long, long time ago. About the same time they stopped believing in faries. How foolish.

  Liz Kessler

  Believe, Light, Blue

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• Without Mona, Hanna felt like a great outfit without matching accessories, a screw-driver that was all orange juice and no vodka, and an iPod without headphones. She just felt wrong.

  Sara Shepard

  Orange Juice, Ipods, Accessories

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• Some think love can be measured by the amount of butterflies in their tummy. Others think love can be measured in bunches of flowers, or by using the words 'for ever.' But love can only truly be measured by actions. It can be a small thing, such as peeling an orange for a person you love because you know they don't like doing it.

  Marian Keyes

  Relationship, Flower, Butterfly

  "Ask a grown-up: how do we measure love?" by Marian Keyes, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2013.

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• At lunchtime I bought a huge orange The size of it made us all laugh. I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave— They got quarters and I had a half. And that orange it made me so happy, As ordinary things often do Just lately. The shopping. A walk in the park This is peace and contentment. It's new. The rest of the day was quite easy. I did all my jobs on my list And enjoyed them and had some time over. I love you. I'm glad I exist.

  Wendy Cope

  Jobs, Love You, Shopping

  Wendy Cope (2011). “Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems 1979-2006”, p.33, Faber & Faber

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• But the fascinating and unbelievable-but-true thing about Dr. Jefferson Jeffersonis that he was not a doctor of any kind. He was just an orange juice salesman named Jefferson Jefferson. When he became rich and powerful, he went to court, made "Jefferson" his middle name, and then changed his first name to "Dr." Capital D. Lowercase r. Period.

  John Green

  Powerful, Doctors, Orange Juice

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.8, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.

  John Grisham

  Apples, Genius, Serious

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• Nellie Gomez awoke to a splitting headache. Worse, she was still hungry. "Where's my croissant?" she demanded of the person leaning over her. "Dear child," came a strangely familiar voice. "Don't 'dear child' me!" she snapped. The twenty-two-year-old punk rocker ran black-polished fingernails through black-and-orange-dyed hair, which did nothing to soothe the pounding behind her black-shaded eyes. "Give me my croissant or I'll–" It was then that she suddenly realized she was threatening the venerable Alistair Oh. "Alistair, what are you doing here?

  Gordon Korman

  Children, Eye, Hair

  Gordon Korman, Scholastic Multi-Platform, (2011). “The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers Book 1: The Medusa Plot”, p.52, Scholastic Inc.

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• I was so unhealthy. I used to go to 'Cold Stone Creamery,' get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Ice Cream, Stones, Tubs

  "High School Musical Star Vanessa Hudgens on Cheetos, Working Out, and Breaking Up (with Zac Efron)". Interview with Claire Connors, www.shape.com.

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• Oh my God," Maddie whispered, horrified. "I rented him that boat. Does that make me a murderer?" Tara's heart clutched. "He's not dead yet." "Hurry," Maddie called to Ford. "I can't be the one who killed Tara's ex!" I look terrible in orange!

  Jill Shalvis

  Heart, Looks, Doe

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