Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maya Angelou

The whites were really brutishly ignorant, blitheringly, so they killed people sometimes - just came into the African-American community and maimed people because they didn't agree with God's choice for the colors of the people's skin.

Matthew Williamson

Color is the thing I'm best known for. If people pigeonhole me, so what? Long live the pink dress!

Matt Smith

You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design.

Mason Cooley

Interpreting the dance: young women in white dancing in a ring can only be virgins; old women in black dancing in a ring can only be witches; but middle-aged women in colors, square dancing...?

Martina Hingis

Being black only helps them. Many times they get sponsors because they are black. And they have had a lot of advantages because they can always say, 'It's racism.' They can always come back and say, 'Because we are this color, things happen.'

Michael Freeman

Yellow is the brightest and lightest of all colors, and this brilliance is its most noticeable characteristic, which accounts for the way it is used practically and thought of symbolically.

Mick Fleetwood

I love wearing a lot of color, and I am majorly into scarves. I'm the Beau Brummell of Fleetwood Mac, no doubt.

Michel Gondry

You cannot do everything you want with the 3D camera, it's too big, and the digital quality of those cameras is a little bit limiting. With film, you have a lot more subtly, like with highlights and color. In terms of sharpness they (both formats) are very close; but in terms of nuance, of color and contrast, film is far superior.

Mark Rothko

If you are moved only by the color relationships, then you miss the point.

Mark Rothko

If you are only moved by color relationships, you are missing the point. I am interested in expressing the big emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, doom.

Theodore Dreiser

A thought will color a world for us.

Michelangelo

How wrong are those simpletons, of whom the world is full, who look more at... color than at the figures which show spirit and movement.

It has incredibly well -preserved orange-red coloring on the hair and eyes.

Desmond Morris

it has been shown off, concealed, styled, cut, trimmed, extended, straightened, waved, put up, let down, colored and decorated in a thousand ways.

I'm from Vermont and we did not have a lot of interest in Vermont. But you know what, Colorado and Vermont are alike, and we are a lot colder.

Neal Shusterman

I'm against solutions that are worse than the problem. Like old women who want their hair dyed the color of shoe polish to hide the gray.

Nate Parker

Far too often scripts are being written with race in mind, but the subject matter doesn't lend itself to any conversation on race. I applaud Jesse [Zwick] for having the courage to say, this [About Alex] just a story about friends, and they could be anyone. There's no specific color that forces a relationship to be discussed in any other manner.

Nate Berkus

I love linen in soothing colors for any room in the house.

Laini Taylor

I miss sunrise even more. The green scent of dawn in the forest? The color blushing back into the world, different every day.

James Frain

The problem with trying to make a film good and have it work for an audience is the problem of trying to tell a story well. The shape or the color of it doesn't matter.

Laura Esquivel

I like vibrant colors.

Kyle MacLachlan

1974 meant big cuffs, bell-bottoms, platform shoes with two-tone colors, and body-conscious shirts.

Libba Bray

We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of those lines are usually attacked, whether verbally or physically.

Marc Andreessen

The hardest part is deciding which color you want, ... and that's the way it should be.

The guy had the largest practice in Colorado after one and a half years of business. He's treated thousands of patients, and many thought he gave a miraculous cure. The so-called victims were referred by patients who were successfully treated.

William Faulkner

A hack writer who would not have been considered a fourth rate in Europe, who tricked out a few of the old proven "sure-fire" literary skeletons with sufficient local color to intrigue the superficial and the lazy.

Brendan Shanahan

a guy who spoke his mind, a colorful guy.

A great free joy surges through me when I work... with tense slashes and a few thrusts the beautiful white fields receive their color and the work is finished in a few minutes.

Henry Fuseli

Tintoretto attempted to fill the line of Michelangelo with color, without tracing its principle.

Henry Ford

You can get it in any color, as long as it is black

Mandy Patinkin

If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back, you can't see any of the detail.

Malcolm X

I, for one, will join in with anyone -- I don't care what color you are -- as long as you want to change this miserable condition that exists on this earth.

Malcolm X

You're living at a time of extremism, a time of revolution A time where there's got to be a change. People in power have misused it And now there has to be a change and a better world has to be built And the only way is going to be built is with extreme methods And I for one will join with anyone, don't care what color you are As long as you want change this miserable condition that exists on this earth