Best blue & two Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used ... as a counterpoise to an argument of such weight that it turns the scale of debate the wrong way. An interesting fact in the chemistry of international controversy is that at the point of contact of two patriotisms lead is precipitated in great quantities.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“The Bush administration, they had two blue ribbon commissions about infrastructure finance that recommended a lot more money, and additionally the gas tax being increased. We couldn't get them to accept being able to move forward. Since President Obama's been in office, there has been, to be charitable, a lack of enthusiasm for raising the gas tax.”

Has Beens Two Able Moving President Accepting Taxes Office Blue Moving Forward Finance Enthusiasm Administration Gas President Obama More Money Infrastructure Charitable Ribbons

Author:Ray LaHood

“We have two nations, and it's not black or white. It's red and blue. Under Republican leadership, cities tend to do better. Cities are destroyed under Democrats, because they don't know how to deal with the constituency; they're terrified.”

Knows Two Nations Black White Deals Cities Know How Republican Red Blue Democrat Destroyed Terrified Black Or White Two Nations Red And Blue

Author:Greg Gutfeld

“For two summers not a blue wing, not a blue warble. I seemed to miss something kindred and precious from my environment--the visible embodiment of the tender sky and wistful soil. What a loss, I said, to coming generations of dwellers in the country--no bluebird in spring!”

Said Two Country Loss Environment Generations Sky Missing Summer Spring Blue Wings Soil Visible Embodiment Kindred Dwellers Bluebird

Book:Bird Neighbors - An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifty Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods About Our Homes

Source: Bird Neighbors - An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifty Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods About Our Homes

“Most eyes have more than one color, but usually they're related. Blue eyes may have two shades of blue, or blue and gray, or blue and green, or even a fleck or two of brown. Most people don't notice that.”

People May Two Eye Color Blue Green Related Brown Gray Shade Blue Eyes Eye Color Blue And Green Shades Of Blue

Book:The Speed of Dark: A Novel

Source: The Speed of Dark: A Novel

“I need to have a quick wardrobe. Two or three blazers with dark gray pants, two pairs of jeans, two light blue shirts, a casual shirt, two pairs of shoes, one formal one not. Small accessories like Tod's Greca belt and our woven bracelets for a wild touch.”

Needs Two Light Three Dark Blue Shoes Shirts Pairs Gray Pants Formal Jeans Belts Casual Wardrobe Woven Accessories Pair Of Shoes Bracelet Blazers Light Blue

Author:Diego Della Valle

“Ah! In fact there are two moralities ... The petty one, the conventional one, the one devised by men, that keeps changing and bellows so loudly, making a commotion down here among us, in a perfectly pedestrian way ... But the other one, the eternal one, is all around and above us, like a landscape that surrounds us and the blue sky that gives us light.”

Men Way Giving Two Facts Light Sky Morality Eternal Blue Landscape Surround Conventional Petty Blue Sky Pedestrians

Book:Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Israel must remove the two blue stripes from its national flag. The stripes on the flag are symbols of occupation. They signify Israel's borders stretching from the River Euphrates to the River Nile.”

Two Rivers Blue Israel Symbols Borders Remove Occupation Flags Stretching Stripes Nile

Author:Mahmoud al-Zahar

“I confess to a rare problem - gynekinetophobia, or the fear of women falling on me - but this is a rather mild illness compared with many affluent suburbanites, who have developed an almost total zoophobia, or fear of anything that moves. It is, as any traveller can confirm, a complaint best developed in the affluent North American, and it seems to be part of blue toilet dyes, air fresheners, lots of paper tissues, and two showers a day.”

Two Problem Seems Moving Fall Air Paper Blue Illness Showers Complaints Toilets Traveller Tissues Permaculture Affluent

Author:Bill Mollison

“The ocean is a place of paradoxes. It is the home of the great white shark, two-thousand-pound killer of the seas, and of the hundred-foot blue whale, the largest animal that ever lived. It is also the home of living things so small that your two hands might scoop up as many of them as there are stars in the Milky Way.”

Way Two Home Hands Might Stars White Animal Sea Feet Thousand Ocean Hundred Blue Pounds Paradox Killers Living Things Sharks Whales Milky Way Two Hands

Book:Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson

Source: Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson

“Southward, two mighty ranges of the Appalachians shouldered their way into the blue distance like tremendous caravans marching across eternity.”

Way Two Book Eternity Blue Distance Range Caravans

Author:Hervey Allen

“And in between the two, in between the sky and the sea, were all the winds. And there were all the nights and all the moons. To be a castaway is to be a point perpetually at the centre of a circle. However much things may appear to change-the sea may shift from whisper to rage, the sky might go from fresh blue to blinding white to darkest black-the geometry never changes. Your gaze is always a radius. The circumference is ever great. In fact, the circles multiply. To be a castaway is to be caught in a harrowing ballet of circles.”

May Two Facts Might Night Black White Sea Sky Wind Moon Blue Caught Rage Circles Ballet Centre Never Change Geometry Radius Castaway

Author:Yann Martel

“The old brown hen and the old blue sky, Between the two we live and die The broken cartwheel on the hill.”

Life Two Country Humanity Dies Sky Broken Blue Hills Brown Blue Sky Hens Country Life Cartwheels

Book:The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

“Now we may have more preachers out there than we have drinkers. But a fellow told me a story one time about a man down in Kentuckywhere they make bourbon. And he said you can take a jigger or two jiggers and get by all right. But if you try to take the whole bottle why you have lost what you started with. So don't try to take it too quick. And don't try to do all of it at once. I don't do much promising. I tell what my goals are and then I try to wrap it up and put a blue ribbon on it and get it delivered. We say put the coonskin on the wall.”

Ifs Men Trying May Said Two Whole Character Stories Lost Goal Wall Blue Fellows Drinking Ideology Bottles One Time Preacher Wraps Ribbons Drinkers Bourbon

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“It was dark and misty for 2 weeks, and I didn't come up with a thing. Suddenly the sun shone and it was, 'Wow, look at those beautiful Alps.' I wrote 'Mr. Blue Sky' and 13 other songs in the next two weeks.”

Looks Two Beautiful Song Next Dark Sun Week Sky Blue Come Up Wow Two Weeks Blue Sky Misty Alps

Author:Jeff Lynne

“I don't leave my neighborhood. I don't go anywhere. There are four blocks I live in and there are two coffee shops, one at each end of the block... so I don't do much driving... Some people would say they never see me because I don't go anywhere. I stay in the blue state of Nashville, in my bubble.”

People Two Ends States Four Blue Coffee Driving Block Shops Neighborhood Bubbles Nashville Coffee Shop

Author:Ben Folds

“There are, broadly speaking, two types of drinkers. There is the man whom we all know, stupid, unimaginative, whose brain is bitten numbly by numb maggots; who walks generously with wide-spread, tentative legs, falls frequently in the gutter, and who sees, in the extremity of his ecstasy, blue mice and pink elephants.... The other type of drinker has imagination, vision. Even when most pleasantly jingled he walks straight and naturally, never staggers nor falls, and knows just where he is and what he is doing. It is not his body but his brain that is drunken.”

Knows Men Two Body Fall Imagination Walks Brain Vision Stupid He Man Type Blue Legs Spread Wide Ecstasy Mice Elephants Numb Drinkers Gutters Extremity Maggots

Author:Jack London

“Russell's books should be bound in two colours, those dealing with mathematical logic in red - and all students of philosophy should read them; those dealing with ethics and politics in blue - and no one should be allowed to read them.”

Should Two Book Philosophy Students Ethics Red Logic Blue Bounds Mathematical Colour Mathematical Logic

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“[ Blue is the Warmest Color ] was really a film about two people having to go through a relationship which everyone knew would lead to a breakup and the pain that that entails. Anybody can see that story, what leads to that, and identify with it. As a filmmaker, I wanted to construct this identification process with the characters so that you fully connect to their emotions and what their breakup [represents].”

People Two Character Stories Wanted Pain Film Process Emotion Color Blue Filmmaker Breakup Constructs Identification

Author:Abdellatif Kechiche

“The chords in 'Light My Fire' are based on [John] Coltrane's version of this song. He just solos over A minor and B minor, which is exactly what we did. Coltrane had played with Miles on Kind of Blue and took the idea of modal soloing over one or two chords farther out than anybody. He was a real pioneer - he just kept evolving, going where no one had ever gone. He could always attain this state of ecstasy when he played. Live, there was so much energy, you couldn't believe it. He would play for hours. It was indescribable.”

Believe Kind Two Ideas Real States Play Light Song Energy Hours Gone Fire Blue Miles Versions Evolve Ecstasy Minors Solo Chords Pioneers Indescribable Coltrane Kind Of Blue

Author:Robby Krieger

“In Vienna, when I was a year-and-a-half or two years-old. I remember it because I remember the little blue raincoat I used to wear, and how the buttons felt. I liked to walk on the street in front of our house when it was raining, and jump into all the puddles. That's weird, but that's my earliest memory.”

Years Littles Two Remember Used House Felt Memories Walks Half Streets Fronts Rain Blue Two Years Buttons Puddles Vienna Two Year Olds

Author:Boris Kodjoe

“I had one line. My two larger scenes had gone fine, and then on that day I screwed up that line over and over and over again. And every time I screwed it up, they can't use the whole thing because they're only using the one shot [in Blue Jasmin]. That was my last day.”

Two Whole Use Lasts Lines Gone Fine Scene Shots Blue Last Day Screwed Up One Line

Author:Alden Ehrenreich

“I understand now why Hillary Clinton always wore navy blue pantsuits. Remember, for four years? If you have one or two themes, then you have the same shoes, the same bag. Otherwise, it's a nightmare.”

Ifs Years Two Remember Four Blue Clinton Shoes Theme Bags Nightmare Four Years Navy Navy Blue

Author:Amy Klobuchar

“Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two.”

Two Matter Spiritual Principles Red Female Blue Males Heavy Sensual Gentle Colour Yellow Brutal Cheerful Red And Yellow Blue And Yellow

Book:Marc

Source: Marc

“John Boehner is the ultimate Beltway hack, a man whose unmatched and self-serving skill at political survival has made him, after two decades in Washington, the hairy blue mold on the American congressional sandwich.”

Men Made Two Self Political Skills Survival Ultimate Blue Decades Serving Sandwiches Mold Hacks Self Serving

Author:Matt Taibbi

“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.”

“Her face was fair and pretty, with eyes like two bits of night sky, each with a star dissolved in the blue.”

Two Eye Faces Night Stars Bits Sky Fairs Blue Night Sky Two Bit

Book:MacDonalds’ Fairy-Tale Treasure Chest

Source: MacDonalds’ Fairy-Tale Treasure Chest

“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.”

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts

“After two hours it stopped raining and in the same moment the spell broke, which Peroquet and the Admiral and Captain Jumeau knew by a curious twist of their senses, as if they had tasted a string quartet, or been, for a moment, deafened by the sight of colour blue.”

Ifs Two Moments Hours Rain Sight Blue Senses Curious Broke Colour Strings Spells Captains Twists Quartets Admiral String Quartets

Book:Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

Source: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

“The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours. Against the blue candlewick bedspread the white pages of my open book, illuminated by a circle of lamplight, were the gateway to another world.”

World Two Book Hours White Morning Magic Pages Blue Eight Circles Evening Another World Gateways Open Book Magic Hour

Book:The Thirteenth Tale

Source: The Thirteenth Tale

“There are four simple ways for the observant to tell Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar apart: first, Mr. Vandemar is two and a half heads taller than Mr. Croup; second, Mr. Croup has eyes of a faded china blue, while Mr. Vandemar's eyes are brown; third, while Mr. Vandemar fashioned the rings he wears on his right hand out of the skulls of four ravens, Mr. Croup has no obvious jewelery; fourth, Mr. Croup likes words, while Mr. Vandemar is always hungry. Also, they look nothing at all alike.”

Way Firsts Looks Two Hands Eye Simple Half Four Thirds Blue Obvious China Rings Hungry Likes Brown Fourth Skulls Faded Ravens Observant Simple Ways

Book:Neverwhere: A Novel

Source: Neverwhere: A Novel

“The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with unimaginable friendliness upon him, and said: "Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends. There is none easier. That is a fine thing. I hope you and I shall remain friends. Perhaps you too will learn how to make fugues, Joseph.”

People Men Way Said Two Eye Together Fine Easier Blue Raised Best Way Piano Fixed Old Man Cheerful Blue Eyes Unimaginable Friendliness Stools Fine Things Fugue

Book:The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel

Source: The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel

“There are stars in the night sky that look brighter than the others, and when you look at them through a telescope you realize you are looking at twins. The two stars rotate around each other, sometimes taking nearly a hundred years to do it. They create so much gravitational pull there's no room around for anything else. You might see a blue star, for example, and realize only later that it has a white dwarf as a companion - that first one shines so bright, by the time you notice the second one, it's too late.”

Source: My Sister's Keeper: A Novel

“Memories are like a still life painted by ten different student artists: some will be blue-based; others red; some will be as stark as Picasso and others as rich as Rembrandt; some will be foreshortened and others distant. Recollections are in the eye of the beholder; no two held up side by side will ever quite match.”

Stills Two Different Eye Artist Sides Memories Rich Students Ten Red Blue Recollection Starks Beholder Still Life Eye Of The Beholder

Book:Vanishing Acts

Source: Vanishing Acts

“Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose, and the sapphire shall be as blue as the great sea.”

Two Beautiful Next Given Forget Sea Spring Red Blue Rose Dear Never Forget Jewels Forget You Rubies Red Rose Sapphires

Book:The Happy Prince and Other Stories (Illustrated Edition)

Source: The Happy Prince and Other Stories (Illustrated Edition)

“Mother Mary of Anabolic Grace, we got Teras incoming?” He levels angry blue eyes on me. “You’re a hex, lady, dark luck, powerful bad juju, ken?” “Only to people who try to kidnap me,” I tell him sweetly, and March snorts, so I feel obliged to add, “Or rescue me…” And then Dina makes a pfft sound. “Or who travel with me…” My gaze sweeps around the darkened interior, trying to find an ally, but nobody will hold my eyes more than two seconds, it seems. “Fine, frag you all, I’m dark juju, bad luck, and you’re all doomed.”

“Most eyes have more than one color, but usually they're related. Blue eyes may have two shades of blue, or blue and gray, or blue and green, or even a fleck or two of brown. Most people don't notice that. When I first went to get my state ID card, the form asked for eye color. I tried to write in all the colors in my own eyes, but the space wasnt big enough. They told me to put 'brown'. I put 'brown', but that is not the only color in my eyes. It is just the color that people see because they do not really look atr other people's eyes.”

People Writing Firsts Looks May Two States Enough Bigs Eye Form My Own Space Color Blue Green Cards Related Brown Gray Shade Blue Eyes Eye Color Blue And Green Shades Of Blue

Book:The Speed of Dark: A Novel

Source: The Speed of Dark: A Novel

“Blue does not go with everything," Will told her. "It does not go with red, for instance." "I have a red and blue striped waistcoat," Henry interjected, reaching for the peas. "And if that isn't proof that those two colors should never be seen together under Heaven, I don't know what is.”

Ifs Knows Should Doe Two Together Heaven Color Red Blue Proof Instance Reaching Peas Clockwork Angel Red And Blue

Book:The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

“Now, I'm not very vain. If I'd ever been, making my living covered in various grease and dirt mixtures would have cured me quickly. Still, I wasn't up to facing two sexy men when I had one eye swollen mostly shut and half of my face black and blue.”

Ifs Men Stills Two Eye Faces Black Half Blue Various Sexy Vain Covered Dirt Mixtures Grease Swollen Sexy Man

Book:Blood Bound

Source: Blood Bound

“Any messages for me?" Usually I got one or two, but mostly people who wanted my help preferred to talk in person. "Yes. Hold on." She pulled out a handful of pink tickets and recited from memory, without checking the paper. "Seven forty-two a.m., Mr. Gasparian: I curse you. I curse your arms so they wither and die and fall off your body. I curse your eyeballs to explode. I curse your feet to swell until blue. I curse your spine to crack. I curse you. I curse you. I curse you.”

People Persons Two Helping Body Wanted Dies Fall Memories Feet Arms Paper Messages Blue Seven Your Body Curse Forty Cracks Tickets Handful Spine Eyeballs

Book:Magic Bleeds

Source: Magic Bleeds

“I was walking along a path with two friends - the sun was setting - suddenly the sky turned blood red - I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence - there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city - my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety - and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature.”

“Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.”

Two Lying Night Magic Blue Two Things Yellow

Book:The Onion Girl

Source: The Onion Girl

“And sometimes through the mirror blue The knights come riding two and two.”

Two Sometimes Mirrors Blue Riding Knights

Book:Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition

Source: Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition

“Wear that scarf," he said, pointing to a blue cashmere scarf hanging on a peg. "It matches your eyes." Alec looked at it. Suddenly he was filled with hate - for the scarf, for Magnus, and most of all for himself. "Don't tell me," he said. "The scarf's a hundred years old, and it was given to you by Queen Victoria right before she died, for special services to the Crown or something." Magnus sat up. "What's gotten into you?" Alec stared at him. "Am I the newest thing in this apartment?" "I think that honor goes to Chairman Meow. He's only two." "I said newest, not youngest," Alec snapped.”

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

“In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue and discovered America. Now, some have argued Columbus actually discovered the West Indies, or that Norsemen had discovered America centuries earlier, or that you really can't get credit for discovering a land already populated by indigenous people with a developed civilization. Those people are communists. Columbus discovered America.”