Orange Quotes - Page 8

• O Love! what hours were thine and mine, In lands of palm and southern pine; In lands of palm, of orange-blossom, Of olive, aloe, and maize and vine!

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Land, Southern

  'The Daisy' (1855) st. 1

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• From this height the sleeping city seems like a child's construction, a model which has refused to be constrained by imagination. The volcanic plug might be black Plasticine, the castle balanced solidly atop it a skewed rendition of crenellated building bricks. The orange street lamps are crumpled toffee-wrappers glued to lollipop sticks.

  Ian Rankin

  Children, Sleep, Cities

  Ian Rankin (2010). “Dead Souls: An Inspector Rebus Novel”, p.3, Macmillan

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• Speaking biologically, fruit in a slightly shriveled state is holding its respiration and energy consumption down to the lowest possible level. It is like a person in meditation: his metabolism, respiration, and calorie consumption reach an extremely low level. Even if he fasts, the energy within the body will be conserved. In the same way, when mandarin oranges grow wrinkled, when fruit shrivels, when vegetables wilt, they are in the state that will preserve their food value for the longest possible time.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Vegetables, Meditation, Energy

  Masanobu Fukuoka (2010). “The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming”, p.88, New York Review of Books

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• Early morning, the orange sun is slowly rising, shining forth in empty luminous clarity. The mind and the sky are one, the sun is rising in the vast space of primordial awareness, and there is just this. Yasutani Roshi once said, speaking of satori, that it was the most precious realization in the world, because all the great philosophers had tried to understand ultimate reality but had failed to do so, yet with satori or awakening all of your deepest questions are finally answered: it's just this.

  Ken Wilber

  Morning, Reality, Sky

  Ken Wilber (2000). “One Taste”, p.105, Shambhala Publications

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• My favorite Halloween candy is the candy corn. It comes in four colors: white, yellow, orange, brown. Those are also the stages of your teeth rotting after you eat it.

  Jay Leno

  Halloween, Color White, Yellow

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• Comparing Apple to Netflix is like comparing apples to oranges, especially if the oranges made so many mistakes that people stopped eating oranges and just went back to Blockbuster.

  Reed Hastings

  Mistake, Apples, People

  "Steve Jobs 'Saturday Night Live' Skit Hits Web" by Rebecca Ford, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 25, 2011.

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• If orange trees grew all over the country, you couldn't sell oranges.  Do you understand that?  So, all our decision making is based upon scarcity or the availability of resources.  If we have a shortage of any kind of resource, we put all the labs to work on making substitute materials.  People always worry about 'What if we run out of a certain material?', but we have enough technology today to make thousands of different substitutes.

  Jacque Fresco

  Running, Country, Technology

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• I love bowl games. I really do. I like it more than the kids do. I grew up a poor kid in western Pennsylvania, and I went to Nebraska because I saw them play in the Orange Bowl and I wanted to play in a bowl game. I cherish the memories.

  Barry Alvarez

  Memories, Kids, Games

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• Orange strengthens your emotional body, encouraging a general feeling of joy, well-being, and cheerfulness. Orange vibration foods are: oranges, tangerines, apricots, mangoes, peaches and carrots.

  Tae Yun Kim

  Emotional, Joy, Feelings

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• There is only a policeman in front of something you have need for and don't have access to, so you put a guard there... But if orange trees and apple trees grew all over the place, you couldn't sell them.

  Jacque Fresco

  Orange Trees, Apples, Needs

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• I was born in Orange County - in Santa Ana. My dad is from California. I was raised on the East Coast. My first two years were in California, but I claim East Coast. I'm sorry, I don't rep California.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Sorry, Dad, Years

  "Michael B. Jordan, ‘Fruitvale’ Star, Reveals His Early Tap Dancing Roots". Interview with Sasha Bronner, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 23, 2013.

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• The colors are stunning. In a single view, I see - looking out at the edge of the earth: red at the horizon line, blending to orange and yellow, followed by a thin white line, then light blue, gradually turning to dark blue and various gradually darker shades of gray, then black and a million stars above. It's breathtaking.

  William C. McCool

  Stars, Dark, Light

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• Irish tory employers hid[e] their sweatshops behind orange flags, and Irish home rule landlords us[e] the green sunburst of Erin to cloak their rack-renting in the festering slums of our Irish towns.

  James Connolly

  Home, Sweatshops, Flags

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• Buying a pair of shoes is one of the most optimistic acts I know, next to falling in love. I like nothing better than to see an old man wearing a brand new pair of brogues or cap-toed oxfords, preferably jaunty orange-brown, unscuffed, heels unworn. We want to be here tomorrow, but buying new shoes, like falling in love, says I plan on being here tomorrow.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Falling In Love, Optimistic, Men

  Jonathan Carroll (2005). “Outside the Dog Museum”, p.126, Macmillan

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• To exaggerate the fairness of hair, I come even to orange tones, chromes and pale yellow ... I make a plain background of the richest, intensest blue that I can contrive, and by this simple combination of the bright head against the rich blue background, I get a mysterious effect, like a star in the depths of an azure sky.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Stars, Simple, Pale Yellow

  Vincent van Gogh (1929). “Further Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1886-1889”

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• What Zidane can do with a football, Maradona could do with an orange.

  Michel Patini

  Football, Zidane, Maradona

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• I began reading Harper Lee's novel in the skimpy shade of a pine outside my grandmother's house, fat beagles pressing against me, begging for attention, ignored. At dark, I kept reading, first on the couch, a bologna sandwich in one hand, then in my bed, by the light of a 60-watt bulb hanging from the ceiling on an orange drop cord. When my mother came in from her job as a maid and unplugged my chandelier, I replayed the story in my head until it was crowded out by dreams. I woke the next morning, smelling biscuits, and reached for the book again.

  Rick Bragg

  Mother, Dream, Morning

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• Everyone knows that yellow, orange, and red suggest ideas of joy and plenty. I can paint you the skin of Venus with mud, provided you let me surround it as I will.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Ideas, Yellow, Joy

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• The moon is bland in color. I call it shades of gray. You know, the only color we see is what we bring or the Earth, which is looking down upon us all the time. And to find orange soil on the moon was a surprise.

  Gene Cernan

  Moon, Color, Earth

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• The firelight magnified our shadows, glinted off the silver, flickered high upon the walls; its reflection roared orange in the windowpanes as if a city were burning outside. The whoosh of the flames was like a flock of birds, trapped and beating in a whirlwind near the ceiling. And I wouldn't have been at all surprised if the long mahogany banquet table, draped in linen, laden with china and candles and fruit and flowers, had simply vanished into thin air, like a magic casket in a fairy story.

  Donna Tartt

  Wall, Flower, Reflection

  Donna Tartt (2011). “The Secret History”, p.85, Vintage

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• Just a rock, a dome of snow, the deep blue sky, and a hunk of orange-painted metal from which a shredded American flag cracked in the wind. Nothing more. Except two tiny figures walking together those last few feet to the top of the Earth.

  Tom Hornbein

  Nature, Travel, Rocks

  Peter Potterfield, Tom Hornbein (2003). “Everest”, p.141, The Mountaineers Books

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• My mum taught me that redheads shouldn't wear pink, red or orange, but if you choose the right shade, such as a bright orange or a cherry red, it can look fabulous.

  Jane Asher

  Looks, Shade, Red

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• If you have a problem or desire a healing, try this exercise before falling asleep. Catch yourself at that point just before you fall asleep - between waking and sleep. Imagine bathing yourself with the healing orange light. You then can ask the Inner Master to help you regain spiritual balance by saying, "If it's for the good of all concerned and doesn't interfere with my spiritual growth, would you please heal me?" Then holding that thought, drift into sleep.

  Harold Klemp

  Spiritual, Fall, Sleep

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• One is quite astonished to find how many things there are in the landscape, and in every object in it, one never noticed before. And this is a tremendous new pleasure and interest which invests every walk or drive with an added object. So many colours on the hillside, each different in shadow and in sunlight; such brilliant reflections in the pool, each a key lower than what they repeat; such lovely lights gilding or silvering surface or outline, all tinted exquisitely with pale colour, rose, orange, green or violet.

  Winston Churchill

  Reflection, Keys, Light

  Winston Churchill (2009). “Thoughts and Adventures: Churchill Reflects on Spies, Cartoons, Flying, and the Future”, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

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• So many people know about the dangers of sunbeds but when you have a busy active lifestyle you need a product that you can use quickly and doesn't streak or leave you with orange hands.

  Peter Andre

  Hands, People, Needs

  "Peter Andre strips to talk Fake Bake but does this kind of man-tanning turn you on or off?". Interview with Gilly Ferguson, www.mirror.co.uk. April 17, 2012.

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