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Famous Colorless Quotes

God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color. — James McBride

It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, applied over a white ground with the light shining through the color. — Maxfield Parrish

Just as the pure crystal takes color from the object which is nearest to it, so the mind, when it is cleared of thought-waves, achieves sameness or identity with the object of its concentration. — Patanjali

The more basic the color, the more inward, the more pure. — Piet Mondrian

Type well used is invisible as type, just as the perfect talking voice is the unnoticed vehicle for the transmission of words, ideas. — Beatrice Warde

But nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency. — Margaret Atwood

The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green. — Francis Bacon

Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane. — George Orwell

Yellow usually means it's not that serious. - Bobby Unser

Yellow usually means it's not that serious. — Bobby Unser

Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power. — Paul Gauguin

Beige is the color of indecision. - Paula Scher

Beige is the color of indecision. — Paula Scher

Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold — Aristotle

Lucidity is the first purpose of color in music. — Arnold Schoenberg

No water, no life. No blue, no green. - Sylvia Earle

No water, no life. No blue, no green. — Sylvia Earle

As a picture painted in yellow always radiates spiritual warmth, or as one in blue has apparently a cooling effect, so green is only boring. — Wassily Kandinsky

Short Colorless Quotes

  • You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them. — Haruki Murakami
  • Love is the force that leaves you colorless — Ovid
  • The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. — Noam Chomsky
  • I never knew how empty the world could be, how colorless, until I tried to live in it without you — Diana Palmer
  • Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language. — Haruki Murakami
  • Music is colorless. It's for everybody, it's for the world, it's for everybody to enjoy. — Michael Jackson
  • Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language. — William Strunk, Jr.

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More Colorless Quotes

Life gives to all the choice. You can satisfy yourself with mediocrity if you wish. You can be common, ordinary, dull, colorless, or yyou can channel your life so that it will be clean, vibrant, useful, progressive, colorful, and rich. — Spencer W. Kimball

Of course, errors are not good for a chess game, but errors are unavoidable and in any case, a game without ant errors, or as they say 'flawless game' is colorless. — Mikhail Tal

How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop music is made from Black, brown, yellow, red and white. — Afrika Bambaataa

Life is too short to leave your walls bare or colorless. Unless you like bare and colorless then it is fine. — Mary Engelbreit

As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves. — Haruki Murakami

First of all there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of the colorless light of Emptiness, and that will surround you on all sides. ...Try to submerge yourself in that light, giving up all belief in a separate self, all attachment to your illusory ego. — Buddha

If you are weak, dependent upon others, inclined to allow yourself to be dominated by opinion, to take root wherever you see a little soil, make for yourself a shield that will resist everything, for if you yield to your weaker nature you will not grow, you will dry up like a dead plant, and you will bear neither fruit nor flowers. — Alfred De Musset

She was moved by a kind of commiseration... a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment, in which no moment of anguish ever visited her soul, in which she would never have the taste of life's delirium. — Kate Chopin

Walking on the moon is now something that people used to do, in the distant past, like macramé, decoupage and the Hustle.... There will just be the pictures, then, as we saw them in the summer of '69, ghostly and blurry, colorless and incomprehensible, an infant's glimpse of a new world. — Robert Lloyd

One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds — Haruki Murakami

Scott-there's nothing in the world I want but you-and your precious love. All the material things are nothing. I'd just hate to live in a sordid, colorless existence-because you'd soon love less-and less-and I'd do anything-anything-to keep your heart for my own-I don't want to live-I want to love first and live incidentally. — Zelda Fitzgerald

It should surprise no one that the life of the writer - such as it is - is colorless to the point of sensory deprivation. Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world. — Annie Dillard

Colors are primordial ideas, children of the aboriginal colorless light and its counterpart, colorless darkness Light, that first phenomenon of the world, reveals to us the spirit and the living soul of the world through colors. — Johannes Itten

One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister. — Alex Cox

Even for the people who are color-blind to any degree, I believe their experience would also be affected [ in Lords of Rainbow ] if everyone else too only perceived the world in colorless monochrome. — Vera Nazarian

This is an area where North Carolina does excel. I have known more colorful North Carolina political figures than I have colorless ones. — Jesse Helms

If you go through any newspaper or magazine and look for active, kicking verbs in the sentences, you will realize that this lack of well used verbs is the main trouble with modern English writing. Almost all nonfiction nowadays is written in a sort of pale, colorless sauce of passives and infinitives, motionless and flat as paper. — Rudolf Flesch

When I sing, I don't want them to see that my face is black. I don't want them to see that my face is white. I want them to see my soul. And that is colorless. — Marian Anderson

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, - always do what you are afraid to do. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn, / Unseen, this colorless sky of folded showers, / And folded winds... — Alice Meynell

But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had spent talking about my soul, had left me with the impression of a colorless swirling river that was making me dizzy. — Albert Camus

It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else. — Don Marquis

What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity Sin increases the experience of the race. Through its intensified assertion of individualism it saves us from monotony of type. In its rejection of the current notions about morality, it is one with the higher ethics. — Oscar Wilde

When man has come to the Turnstiles of Night, all the creeds in the world seem to him wonderfully alike and colorless. — Rudyard Kipling

Girls like you are responsible for all the tiresome colorless marriages; all those ghastly inefficiencies that pass as feminine qualities. What a blow it must be when a man with imagination marries the beautiful bundle of clothes that he's been building ideals around, and finds that she's just a weak, whining, cowardly mass of affectations! — F. Scott Fitzgerald

Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end. It flung them like stones. — Kurt Vonnegut

I had a very colorless background, and when I left Ohio and moved to England, nobody knew who I was and I had a real freedom. I could be free to experiment and experience things and I liked that a lot. — Chrissie Hynde

New York is one of those places people tend to derive a sense of identity from - as if, were to you to remove them from the City, they'd turn limp and colorless. — Cate Marvin

Language became a colorless and as indistinct as the business suit which is now worm by everyone, by the scholar, by the businessman, by the professional killer. Being accustomed to a dry and dreary norm and sees in it an obvious sign of arrogance and aggression; viewing authority with almost religious awe he gets into a frenzy when he sees someone pluck the beard of his favorite prophet. — Paul Feyerabend

I speak without reservation, from what I know and who I am. I do so with the understanding that all people should have the right to offer their voices to the chorus whether the result is harmony or dissonance. The worldsong is a colorless dirge without the differences that distinguish us, and it is that difference which should be celebrated not condemned. — Ani Difranco

The word 'christian' means different things to different people. To one person it means a stiff, upright, inflexible way of life, colorless and unbending. To another it means a risky, surprised-filled adventure, lived tiptoe at the edge of expectation...If we get our information from the biblical material, there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life. — Eugene H. Peterson

I want to be black, to know black, to luxuriate in whatever I might be calling blackness at any particular time, but to do so in order to come out on the other side, to experience a humanity that is neither colorless nor reducible to color. — Henry Louis Gates

Water and oil, simply considered, are capable of giving some pleasure to the taste. Water, when simple, is insipid, inodorous, colorless, and smooth; it is found, when not cold, to be a great resolver of spasms, and lubricator of the fibres; this power it probably owes to its smoothness. — Edmund Burke

All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and the corners he'd cut in Night City, and still he'd see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void. — William Gibson

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