Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. L. Konigsburg

They are saying that if life has a structure, a staff, a sensible scaffold, we hang our nonsense on it. And they are saying that broken parts add color and music to the staff of life.

Douglas Trumbull

My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn't change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or miniatures.

Donna Karan

I was so overwhelmed by India when I first came - it still inspires me because I still go for the culture, I still go for the colors.

Donna Karan

Its really easy to get colors right. Its really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but its also an illusion.

Doug Stanhope

Don't eat a mushroom stem and see colors, eat the whole bag and see GOD

Dr. John

The specter of color is apparent even when it goes unmentioned, and it is all too often the unseen force that influences public policy as well as private relationships. There is nothing more remarkable than the ingenuity that the various demarcations of the color line reflect. If only the same creative energy could be used to eradicate the color line; then its days would indeed be numbered.

Douglas Wilson

What people respond to in my room makeovers is the daring design - fearless colors, bold fabrics and occasionally outlandish decor.

Dalai Lama

The colors of light are infinite through refraction, yet they all come from the same source. Thus I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul, nor fail to identify with the most virtuous.

Dean Karnazes

Toeing the starting line of a marathon, regardless of the language you speak, the God you worship or the color of your skin, we all stand as equal. Perhaps the world would be a better place if more people ran.

Amber Riley

So I want to let women of all sizes out there know, you can do whatever you put your mind to. It doesn't matter what size you are, what color you are, you can do whatever, whatever, whatever you put your mind to!

Andres Serrano

Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself.

Andres Segovia

Every guitarist has a special quality of sound. The best ones will use a good ear, much sensitivity and a thorough knowledge of music to prepare the nuances and colors of sound.

Chuck Close

I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings.

Chuck Close

At the same time that I'm finding the color world I want, I'm also trying to make the imagery, you know, by the nature of the strokes themselves.

Chuck D.

I encourage more blacks and people of color to get a passport. That's one way to help put people on an equal platform.

Ann Sothern

I finally realized the happy medium, 'honey blonde' was the correct color and line for me.

Alveda King

Many people who voted for Mr. Obama in the last election did so based on skin color.

Angela Davis

Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

Alvin Ailey

I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.

Anne Sexton

The fish are naked. The fish are always awake. They are the color of old spoons and caramels.

Anna Deavere Smith

Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.

Anita Diament

They sang the words in unison, yet somehow created a web of sounds with their voices. It was like hearing a piece of fabric woven with all the colors of a rainbow. I did not know that such beauty could be formed by the human mouth. I had never heard harmony before.

Daniel Inouye

Americanism is not a matter of skin or color.

Cristobal Balenciaga

A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a philosopher for temperance.

Conrad Hall

To me, the camera is like a musical instrument. You use it to control the flow, shape, size and colors of images.

Clancy Brown

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

Danny Glover

It's also important for those who promote those issues within the white community - the somewhat privileged community - to talk about issues affecting people of color

David Lynch

Transcendental Meditation is not a religion, it's not against any religion, it's for human beings, no matter what color, what religion, what walk of life. If you're a human being, it will work for you. And you will be very glad you found this technique and took advantage of it.

Anthony Horowitz

McCain might have suffered hardships in his life, but what had happened to him had nothing to do with his background or his color; they were convenient excuses now. He had been a psychopath from the start.

Alice Walker

America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see.

Alber Elbaz

Almost every collection I do has 200 different references. I don't have two of the same coat, two of the same dress. I have it in one color, in one fabric. I've tried to adapt the culture of couture, and the know-how and the heritage, but I try to update it.

Amanda Palmer

The pattern's laid out on the bed With dozens of colors of thread But you've got the needle I guess that's the point in the end

Angelique Kidjo

As far as I'm concerned, no human being should be, absolutely not, put in the category of color.