Famous Quotes & Sayings

That caller said when they came upon it, it looked like a pair of blue jeans and possibly a shirt,

My work with Terry Riley sparked all kinds of musical ideas, ... I wanted some vehicle that could encompass all the Indian elements as well as some of the jazz stuff. I also liked that earthy energy of the blues I was playing, and I wanted to see if there was a way to bring everything together.

Deborah Moggach

My parents were both writers - they would type their manuscripts sitting side by side on the veranda of our house near Watford - so I wanted to do something different. I wanted to be a bluegrass singer, an architect, a landscape gardener, or to do something with animals.

Marty really helped solidify our blue line. He's really helped calm everyone down back there. I would hate to have him out of the lineup for a long time.

Alice Hoffman

If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen what we'd come to see. The way to trick death. Breathe in. Breathe out. Watch as it all rises upwards, black and blue into the even bluer sky.

Anna Akhmatova

During the terrible years of the Yekhov terror I spent seventeen months in the prison queues in Leningrad. One day someone ‘identified’ me. Then a woman with lips blue with cold who was standing behind me, and of course had never heard of my name, came out of the numbness which affected us all and whispered in my ear—(we all spoke in whispers there): ‘Could you describe this?’ I said, ‘I can!’ Then something resembling a smile slipped over what had once been her face.

Annie Dillard

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

Annie Dillard

What have we been doing all these centuries but trying to call God back to the mountain, or, failing that, raise a peep out of anything that isn't us? What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab? Are not they both saying: Hello? We spy on whales and on interstellar radio objects; we starve ourselves and pray till we're blue.

Alexander Pope

With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears; The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.

Donald Glover

Kept looking for something to be in with. Follow someone's blueprint. But you have to be on your own.

E. B. White

I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.

Dave Hickey

Beauty is and always will be blue skies and open highway.

Dave Eggers

Up there we see everything, Oakland to the left, El Cerrito and Richmond to the right, Marin forward, over the Bay, Berkeley below, all red rooftops and trees of cauliflower and columbine, shaped like rockets and explosions, all those people below us, with humbler views; we see the Bay Bridge, clunkety, the Richmond Bridge, straight, low, the Golden Gate, red toothpicks and string, the blue between, the blue above, the gleaming white Land of the Lost/Superman's North Pole Getaway magic crystals that are San Francisco.

David Letterman

President Bush says he now wants to simplify the tax code. Only those in the blue states will pay.

Amish Tripathi

Don't turn blue all over now.

Chuck Palahniuk

Potassium cyanide," says the talent wrangler as she leans over to pick up a paper napkin off the floor. "Found naturally in the cassava or manioc roots native to Africa, used to tint architectural blueprints in the form of the deep-blue pigment known as Prussian blue. Hence the shade 'cyan' blue.

Chuck Palahniuk

Brandy is so attractive you could chop her head off and put it on blue velvet in the window at Tiffany's and somebody would buy it for a million dollars.

Christopher Paolini

Sword, I name thee Brisingr! And with a sound of rushing wind the blade burst into flame, an envelope of sapphire-blue fire writhing about the razor-sharp steel.

Anne Rice

But the sky was never quite the same shade of blue again.

Anita Diament

One of his tears fell in my mouth, where it became a blue sapphire, source of strength, source of strength and eternal hope.

Andrew Lang

There's a joy without canker or cark, There's a pleasure eternally new, 'T is to gloat on the glaze and the mark Of china that's ancient and blue.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

White pill, blue pill, yellow pill, purple pill; its like swallowing a rainbow every bedtime.

Amy Klobuchar

I understand now why Hillary Clinton always wore navy blue pantsuits. Remember, for four years? If you have one or two themes, then you have the same shoes, the same bag. Otherwise, it's a nightmare.

When it comes to the green, we are neither a red or a blue area.

We realized that there was no sign off the Blue Grass Parkway promoting the downtown district.

Craig Scott

We take lots of pride in putting lots of crab in our soup here. This is premium, large, jumbo, blue crab from the Chesapeake Bay.

What you have going on in this market is a flight to quality, which is the blue chips, as tech stocks are priced to perfection.

Emmylou Harris

Bluegrass has a very, very strict musical form. Once you start to dilute it, it disappears.

Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner.

Bryan Murray

We did not have enough depth on the blue line that we could let him go for the waiver price,

We did look at the powder blue road uniforms, but this time we did not go that far. I receive a lot of e-mails and calls about bringing back the power blues.

Jamie Moyer

I was raised in a very blue-collar family.

James Wright

In a pine tree,/ A few yards from my window sill,/ A brilliant blue jay is springing up and down, up and/ down./ On a branch./ I laugh, as I see him abandon himself/ To entire delight, for he knows as well as I do/ That the branch will not break.