Purple Quotes

You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own — What are you when the rose is blown?

The range in brightness from the purple glow [of the sunset] to the dark sky above is too great for most films, and naturally it is beyond the range of printed pictures.

In Indiana, I wasn't anything special. But in New York, I've gone out with girls with purple hair who go out with me because I'm exotic!

Day-colored wine, night-colored wine, wine with purple feet or wine with topaz blood, wine, starry child of earth.

The whole campfire idea freaked Piper out. It made her think of that huge purple bonfire in the dreams, and her father tied to a stake. What she got instead was almost as terrifying: a sing-along.

I wouldn't have filmed The Color Purple if the book had been a big fat novel. The reason I read it is because it is thin.

I came in with a completely new perspective. I would write songs and they would pick tunes they felt were in the Purple vein.

Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.

To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.

I struggle immensely with celebrities of all kinds. I get clammy hands and turn a little purple.

I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.

You're a black belt in the 1st round but sometimes you're a purple belt in the 5th.

I can't stand purple. It doesn't suit me.

Deep Purple is a damn good band and we've made a niche in rock 'n' roll history. Maybe not a huge one but enough to be very proud of.

I am happy to be a role model for anybody - whether they are black, white, yellow, pink or purple.

As a kid, I always had a super vivid imagination, like "Man, I like those shoes, but they should've made them in purple" or like, "Man, I wonder how people make songs."

I think purple is the only color that suits me most.

I served two tours of duty in Vietnam. I won the Bronze Star. I won the Purple Heart.

There are purple grapes in the Land of Git-Thare.

Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled “enemy?

I once received a cape that was made from the little purple bags that Crown Royal Whisky comes in.

God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone's sexual preferences are or if they're black, brown or purple.

Each day the storm clouds were opening like great purple flowers and pouring out their dark thunder. Each nightfall, the storm was laid down on their houses like a burden the day had carried.

May you and your triple cursed wash water turn purple with orange spots and fall down a bottomless pit!

I love The Purple Book. It continually helps reinforce the only foundation worth building upon— a biblical one.

Take the wonder drug that cures all your ills, take Jeremiah Peabody's polyunsaturated, quick dissolving, fast acting, pleasant tasting, green and purple pills.

Not to be purple, but I've never been a 'bad boy' kind of girl. I like manners.

My life growing up was a twisted Bronx version of The Color Purple. It had a much different soundtrack and no trees, but that desperation was the same.

Mine the long night The secret place Where lovers meet In long embrace In purple dark In silvered kiss Forget the world And grasp your bliss

And o'er the hills, and far away Beyond their utmost purple rim, Beyond the night, across the day, Thro' all the world she follow'd him.

Teacher, teacher, I declare, I see your purple underwear.

Yeah, but they're PURPLE pants," Bobby said as if that made some kind of distinction. "Hence, I'm awesome.

When I write after dark", observed Cyril Connolly, "the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose

The only medal that I am certain I deserved is the Purple Heart.

I went through this phase where I thought pink and purple matched. To dance class, I'd wear purple tights and pink leg warmers and paint my shoes purple. It was really odd.

With Whitesnake it would have been inappropriate for me to have played Deep Purple songs, although I did at the beginning because I didn't have enough Whitesnake songs.

The poet who does not revere his art, and believe in its sovereignty, is not born to wear the purple.

Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light.

If I'm feeling tired, I just say, 'I'm going to paint my nails purple and put some lipstick on!'

Ah, yes! I wrote the "Purple Cow" - I'm sorry, now, I wrote it! But I can tell you anyhow, I'll kill you if you quote it!

For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a purple sea of adjectives about October.

My husband is very supportive and is there for the kids, especially when I'm in projects such as The Color Purple.

When people tell you to walk a certain way, it's like not thinking of a purple tomato. You can't not do it.

I've named a couple things after Edgar Allan Poe: the cat, and my garden upstate, where I only planted black flowers and purple flowers - and there's a raven statue.

Long hours trail in their purple and long years are lost in just this moment while our souls are near, our mouths separate.

Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.

Over in Iraq after you vote they paint your finger purple so you can't vote again. It's a flawless system. It works perfectly unless, of course, someone has paint remover.

Your face looks like a sack of purple potatoes

I always wear blue shirts and I like wine or purple ties.

I want purple trews, lass," Drustan called over the door. "No," she said irritably. "And a purple shirt.