When yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines.
Thomas Hardy
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Forty Shades of Blue
RIP TORN The tree burst into color and we all gasped at the red, yellow, green, white and the blue lights bol...
JEANNETTE WALLS She had never known that ice could take on so many shades of blue: sharp lines of indigo like the de...
MALINDA LO Remove all the traffic lights, yellow lines, one-way systems and road markings, and let blissful ana...
SADIE JONES I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow si...
OSCAR WILDE I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence.
SEAMUS HEANEY Yesterday, blue and yellow card holders were released.
ASTRID VAN GENDEREN STORT The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of ni...
HARUKI MURAKAMI There is no blue without yellow and without orange.
VINCENT VAN GOGH Mums are pretty hardy. They're nice, and look how healthy they are. Yellow is pretty easily seen fro...
HARRY THOMPSON Hardy was every loose-limbed cowboy in warn denim, every pair of blue eyes, every battered pickup, e...
LISA KLEYPAS People are going to think I'm morbid, loving all these sad books. I actually don't mind a happy endi...
JULIA L. ROBERTS I sort of half read Thomas Hardy's 'The Mayor of Casterbridge.' It was assigned in 10th ...
SUZANNE COLLINS A Blue Dog, you know, is the opposite of a yellow dog. And a yellow dog was somebody who was willing...
MIKE THOMPSON Several people toss and turn in their sleep, startled by the lines of the newspapers in their dreams...
H.C. ARTMANN I did have it. It just didn't stay between the yellow lines,
BARRY BONDS You better hit the yellow! I want to see you hit one into the lights.
BARRY LARKIN ... paint in blue and black...sometimes gray - the colors of night - occasionally I surprise you wit...
JOHN GEDDES Her suspense was terrible.
THOMAS HARDY Fancies find room in the strongest minds. Here, in a churchyard old as civilization, in the worst of...
THOMAS HARDY Tahiti's absolutely gorgeous. My favorite part of it is how blue the water gets. There's, like, 50 d...
FERNANDA MOTTA Error is a hardy plant; it flourisheth in every coil; In the heart of the wise and good, alike with ...
MARTIN FRAQUHAR TUPPER Math: the only place where you have to figure out the ratio of yellow candy to blue candy when all y...
ANONYMOUS We wanted color and lushness. We wanted a red, yellow and blue palette. It's very much a burst of co...
BRIAN FUN If she had not been imprudence incarnate, she would not have acted as she did when she met Henchard ...
THOMAS HARDY Eyeing her as a critic eyes a doubtful painting.
THOMAS HARDY Thomas Pynchon looks exactly like Thomas Pynchon should look. He is tall, he wears lumberjack shirts...
SALMAN RUSHDIE There are shades of buff, nude and lots of blue, ... I was thinking of eye-shadow colors and blush a...
CALVIN KLEIN Orange is what red and yellow can do when they combine efforts. If you paint only with red, you will...
REGGIE JOINER The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by every...
TOM STOPPARD Texans have in common with Australians, in that they are quite strong, hardy people.
JERRY HALL We made love like green is blue. That’s because we were only half into it, though for the record I...
DARK JAR TIN ZOO And all this while the subtle-souled girl asking herself why she was born, why sitting in a room, an...
THOMAS HARDY The Scotchman seemed hardly the same Farfrae who had danced with her, and walked with her, in a deli...
THOMAS HARDY When daisies pied and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It was a gutsy move to bring Thomas back with six minutes left in the game. Our press got us back in...
EVAN MASSEY There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.
ROD SERLING Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow -- red, yellow, brown, black and white ...
JESSE JACKSON There are not more than five primary colors (blue, yellow, red, white, and black), yet in combinatio...
PAUL KLEE Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow-red, yellow, brown, black and white-and...
JESSE JACKSON One soft humid early spring morning driving a winding road across Mount Tamalpais, the 2,500-foot mo...
REBECCA SOLNIT Nozy Cat lifted one sleepy eyelid, and his marble blue eye glared at her for interrupting his sacred...
LYN KEY Thomas Abrams is magic. He’s a wordsmith, a baby whisperer, a blue-eyed asshole, but most of all, ...
SAFFRON A. KENT When I tell her what I’m thinking and she tells me what she’s thinking, our each ideas jumping i...
EMMA DONOGHUE The fifties are a peaceful time, a quiet sleeping time between two noisy bursts of years, a blue and...
DAVID GERROLD When you break up & give up there is big question mark on your identity?Let your struggle becomes yo...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The sky inside my head never turns blue. It if forced to stay red. By the demon, who is yellow insid...
AKSHAY VASU When you are doing a show, it can get really dull. You are sitting so long while they set up the lig...
YVONNE CRAIG I'm very familiar with getting traffic lights. I'm very successful in getting traffic lights.
BRIAN MICHAELS When you overcome obstacles with making struggle a fighting tool, it brings great moment of success....
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Yet her experience had consisted less in a series of pure disappointments than in a series of substi...
THOMAS HARDY The curious double strands in Farfrae's thread of life - the commercial and the romantic - were very...
THOMAS HARDY Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now a...
THOMAS HARDY There is no shortage of well-known pirates, including: Henry Morgan, Captain Kidd, Blackbeard, Blue ...
CUTHBERT SOUP The T-shirts are yellow. The bull's-eyes on the back are dark blue. During those hot days, the playe...
DAMON WELLS We are violets blue,
For our sweetness found
Careless in the mossy shades,
Looking on th...
LEIGH HUNT (JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT) When I first went to Kmart, I was so excited that I could bring my kind of taste to the masses. They...
MARTHA STEWART But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came.
BIBLE Kiss me Hardy
HORATIO NELSON Fame stole my yellow. Yellow is the color you get when you're real and brutally honest. Yellow is wi...
ROSIE O'DONNELL Everybody is nicer to me when I'm in yellow.
CAM The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses behind the lines, in the gym and out there on th...
MUHAMMAD ALI The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym and out there on th...
MUHAMMAD ALI The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on th...
MUHAMMAD ALI The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym and out there on th...
MUHAMMAD ALI The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses — behind the lines, in the gym and out there on t...
MUHAMMAD ALI The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the...
MUHAMMAD ALI When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell ...
A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM They did a lot of the prep work for lights when they renovated the stadium the last time. There will...
DAVE HEEKE When he went out there, he was just lights-out. It was the combination of his stuff and the fact tha...
BILL STONEMAN [The colors on citrus-crate labels] went beyond nature and spoke directly to fantasy: apricot, purpl...
KEVIN STARR The engine got most of the attention, but the "little red caboose," which was also brown, green, blu...
DONALD DALE JACKSON Most Americans don't know a lot about Thomas Paine, but they carry Thomas Paine with them. Thomas Pa...
HARVEY KAYE What's interesting about Laurel and Hardy is that in most comedy teams, there's a straight m...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST When daisies pied and violets blue
And lady-smocks all silver-white
And cuckoo-buds of yellow ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All your life you're yellow. Then one day you brush up against something blue, the barest touch, and...
TESS CALLAHAN Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and...
THOMAS HARDY I agree completely with my son James when he says 'Internet is like electricity. The latter ligh...
KERRY PACKER I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all ha...
DOLLY PARTON Contrary to conventional wisdom, the blue blazer's a bit of a loose cannon. A suit decided long ...
WILLIE GEIST Even though it’s locked in a cage, my heart is a bird that flutters at the sound of her voice, as ...
JAROD KINTZ The great hall was shimmering in light, sun streaming from the open windows, and ablaze with colour,...
SHARON KAY PENMAN Kasha is the hardy starch of a Slavic winter - buckwheat, in fact - but when cooked properly, it get...
BILL BUFORD When I saw that yellow vase, I just knew that I had to paint it.
CLARK WILLIAMS When I lie where shades of darkness / Shall no more assail mine eyes.
WALTER DE LA MARE ...when you're hard and unyielding your words score me with lines - I hate lines - I want curves - c...
JOHN GEDDES When it was time for lights out, I realized just what sleeping in a place with no way out is like.
DEB SILVERMAN People often think of New York as a city, a concrete jungle with soaring skyscrapers and yellow taxi...
DANIEL HUMM When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them t...
DEEPAK CHOPRA The only problem I have with American money is that it's all kind of the same color, so I'm ...
EMILY BROWNING When I was small my mother tried to teach me the colors. "Blue," she said, pointing to the sky. And ...
ALLY CONDIE There are people that will give you time when it shines, then fade away when it shades.
ANTHONY LICCIONE That's when the book is good: the struggle part,
CLIFF FLOYD Yellow, blue and black -- the glittery things, you know, shiny, showy things. I hated it before, thi...
ISSEY MIYAKE The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The lustre of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The lustre of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture...
SAMUEL JOHNSON As a child, I loved being onstage. I loved singing, I loved the lights, I loved the adrenaline. I ev...
EMMA WATSON When they reached their ship, Ed gazed out at the bay. It was black. The sky was black, but the bay ...
CLARK ZLOTCHEW I love to be where you are, something in me lights up when I am with you and I just love it
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THOMAS HARDY The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses...
THOMAS HARDY Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks…
THOMAS HARDY Why didn’t you tell me there was danger? Why didn’t you warn me? Ladies know what to guard again...
THOMAS HARDY Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?"
"Yes."
"All like ours?"
"I don't know, but ...
THOMAS HARDY Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
THOMAS HARDY A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.
THOMAS HARDY You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. A...
THOMAS HARDY ...it is foreign to a man's nature to go on loving a person when he is told that he must and shall b...
THOMAS HARDY The purpose of a chronicler of moods and deeds does not require him to express his personal views up...
THOMAS HARDY My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial inte...
THOMAS HARDY you dear, sweet, tantalizing phantom--hardly flesh at all; so that when I put my arms round you I al...
THOMAS HARDY Had other aims than my delight.
THOMAS HARDY Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
THOMAS HARDY Indeed, he seemed to approach the grave as a hyperbolic curve approaches a straight line -- less dir...
THOMAS HARDY Many besides Angel have learnt that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements...
THOMAS HARDY On a Fine Morning”
in Poems of the Past and the Present (1901)
WHENCE comes Solac...
THOMAS HARDY The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of...
THOMAS HARDY Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or ...
THOMAS HARDY She had not heard him enter, and hardly realized his presence there. She was yawning, and he saw the...
THOMAS HARDY The beggarly question of parentage--what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to thi...
THOMAS HARDY My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
THOMAS HARDY He had just reached the time of life at which 'young' is ceasing to be the prefix of 'man' in speaki...
THOMAS HARDY But no one came. Because no one ever does.
THOMAS HARDY My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.
THOMAS HARDY The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the cou...
THOMAS HARDY And yet to every bad there is a worse.
THOMAS HARDY That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
THOMAS HARDY Love, though added emotion, is substracted capacity
THOMAS HARDY Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-relia...
THOMAS HARDY