Rainbow Quotes - Page 19

• Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter.

  Edward Abbey

  Giving, Matter, Lasts

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.13, RosettaBooks

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• How beautiful the yesterday that stood
  Over me like a rainbow! I am alone,
  The past is past. I see the future stretch
  All dark and barren as a rainy sea.

  Alexander Smith

  Beautiful, Dark, Past

  Alexander Smith (1858). “A Life-drama, and Other Poems”, p.69

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• I think love to another human can't be wrong in any way. And to show that by painting my nails in rainbow colours, is a simple way to hopefully spread a little joy.

  Emma Green Tregaro

  Simple, Thinking, Joy

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• Once you have the View, although the delusory perceptions of samsara may arise in your mind, you will be like the sky; when a rainbow appears in front of it, it’s not particularly flattered, and when the clouds appear, it’s not particularly disappointed either. There is a deep sense of contentment. You chuckle from inside as you see the facade of samsara and nirvana; the View will keep you constantly amused, with a little inner smile bubbling away all the time.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Sky, Clouds, Views

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• I'm obsessed with lighting. I'm constantly shopping for different lightbulbs. I love rainbow lightbulbs. And also, one should not live without dimmers. Life is all about lighting.

  Stevie Nicks

  Shopping, Different, Life Is

  "Jesse Ventura plays the blame game" by Leah Garchik, www.sfgate.com. May 16, 2001.

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• Can you know the mighty ocean? Can you lasso a star from the sky? Can you say to a rainbow... 'Hey, stop being a rainbow for a second'? No! Such is Mango!

  Chris Kattan

  Stars, Ocean, Sky

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• I was brought up on the books of The Wizard of Oz and my mother told me that these were great philosophies. It was a very simple philosophy, that everybody had a heart, that everybody had a brain, that everybody had courage. These were the gifts that are given to you when you come on this earth, and if you use them properly, you reach the pot at the end of the rainbow. And that pot of gold was a home. And home isn't just a house or an abode, its people, people who love you and that you love. That's a home.

  Ray Bolger

  Mother, Philosophy, Book

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• The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice.

  Henri Matisse

  Color, Choices, Historical

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.177, Univ of California Press

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• Among the several kinds of beauty, the eye takes most delight in colors.

  Joseph Addison

  Eye, Color, Delight

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1858). “The Spectator”, p.499

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• I remember opening my dad's closet and there were, like, 40 suits, every color of the rainbow, plaid and winter and summer. He had two jewelry boxes full of watches and lighters and cuff links. And just... he was that guy. He was probably unfulfilled in his life in many ways.

  Jon Hamm

  Summer, Dad, Winter

  "Jon Hamm Is a Capital-M Man" by Alex Postman, www.elle.com. August 21, 2009.

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  You will pass through storms and heavy rains, and at times you will suffer defeat. The essence of the creative life, however, is not to give up in the face of defeat but to follow the rainbow that exists within your heart.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Giving Up, Rain, Heart

  Daisaku Ikeda (1975*). “The tide toward the 21st century: addresses”

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• To reach the height of our ambition is like trying to reach the rainbow; as we advance it recedes.

  Edmund Burke

  Christian, Ambition, Trying

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• One of the deep mysteries to me is our logo, the symbol of lust and knowledge, bitten into, all crossed with the colors of the rainbow in the wrong order. You couldn't dream a more appropriate logo: lust, knowledge, hope and anarchy.

  Jean-Louis Gassee

  Dream, Order, Lust

  "Apple Confidential: The Real Story of Apple Computer, Inc". Book by Owen W. Linzmayer, 1999.

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• The idea of immortality, that like a sea has ebbed and flowed in the human heart, with its countless waves of hope and fear, beating against the shores and rocks of time and fate, was not born of any book, nor of any creed, nor of any religion. It was born of human affection, and it will continue to ebb and flow beneath the mists and clouds of doubt and darkness as long as love kisses the lips of death. It is the rainbow -- Hope shining upon the tears of grief.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Grief, Book, Heart

  Robert Green Ingersoll, Clinton P. Farrell (1900). “The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Discussions”

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• ... we banked around until we found a rainbow in the dark. It was on this occasion that I discovered that Granuaile had never heard of Ronnie James Dio. My shock at this news was such that I almost completely missed the fact that we were traveling on Bifrost, the rainbow bridge to Asgard.

  Kevin Hearne

  Dark, Bridges, Dio

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.1504, Del Rey

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• But, in truth, it had not exactly been gold, or even the promise of gold, but more like the fantasy of gold, the fairy dream that the gold is there, at the end of the rainbow, and will continue to be there forever - provided, naturally, that you don't go and look. This is known as finance.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dream, Forever, Promise

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• The farther a man follows the rainbow, the harder it is for him to get back to the life which he left starving like an old dog.

  Jane Bowles

  Dog, Men, Starving

  Jane Auer Bowles (1978). “My sister's hand in mine: an expanded edition of the collected works of Jane Bowles”, Ecco Pr

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• My chest tightens: seeing him so upset breaks my own heart. 'Don't you ever wish you could make that bit go away?" I say, feeling angry at the past. 'That you could erase those painful memories, forget they every happened, just remember the happy times you had together?' 'You must never say that,' he reprimands sternly. 'But why not?' I look at him in surprise. 'Because it's the bad memories that makes you appreciate the good ones. Don't ever wish them away. it's like your nan always used to say, "You need both the sun and the rain to make a rainbow".

  Alexandra Potter

  Memories, Rain, Heart

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• Astronomy says: the sun will rise tomorrow,
  Zoology says: on rainbow-fish and lithe gazelle,
  Psychology says: but first it has to be night, so
  Biology says: the body-clocks are stopped all over town
  and
  History says: here are the blankets, layer on layer, down and down.

  Albert Goldbarth

  Night, Psychology, Body

  Albert Goldbarth (1991). “Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology : Poems”, p.118, University of Georgia Press

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• Journey through the Power of the Rainbow represents a condensed compendium of literary efforts from a life dedicated to transforming the themes of injustice, grief, and despair that we all encounter during some unavoidable point of our existence into a sustainable life-affirming poetics of passionate creativity, empowered spiritual vision, and inspired commitment.

  Aberjhani

  Spiritual, Grief, Creativity

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.27, Lulu.com

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• You are the sunshine of my life, you take the clouds away and make me a rainbow every day. You're in my heart where you'll forever stay. I love you, sweetheart.

  Stephanie

  I Love You, Heart, Sunshine

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• Let us fill a cup and drink to that most noble, ridiculous, laughable, sublime figure in our lives... The Young Man Who Was. Let us drink to his dreams, for they were rainbow-colored; to his appetites, for they were strong; to his blunders, for they were huge; to his pains for they were sharp; to his time for it was brief; and to his end, for it was to become one of us.

  Herman Wouk

  Dream, Strong, Pain

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• In the spangled sky, the rainbow, the woodland hung with diamonds, the sward sown with pearly dew, the rosy dawn, the golden clouds of even, the purple mountains, the hoary rock, the blue boundless main, Nature's simplest flower, or some fair form of laughing child or lovely maiden, we cannot see the beautiful without admiring it.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Beautiful, Nature, Children

  Thomas Guthrie (1862). “The Way to Life: Sermons”, p.161

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• The people who visit the [Lincoln] memorial always look like an advertisement for democracy, so bizarrely, suspiciously diverse that one time I actually saw a man in a cowboy hat standing there reading the Gettysburg Address next to a Hasidic Jew. I wouldn’t have been surprised if they had linked arms with a woman in a burka and a Masai warrior, to belt out ‘It’s a Small World After All,’ flanked by a chorus line of nuns and field-tripping, rainbow-skinned schoolchildren

  Sarah Vowell

  Reading, Warrior, Men

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• When he looks back, the critic sees a eunuch's shadow. Who would be a critic if he could be a writer? Who would hammer out the subtlest insight into Dostoevsky if he could weld an inch of the Karamazovs, or argue the poise of Lawrence if he could shape the free gust of life in The Rainbow?

  George Steiner

  Shadow, Would Be, Hammers

  George Steiner (1967). “Language and silence: essays on language, literature, and the inhuman”, Macmillan Pub Co

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