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“The distinct blue, red, and yellow colors... though they have not the kind of harmony which is produced by a variety of broken and transparent colors, have the effect of grandeur.”

Kind Effects Color Broken Red Harmony Blue Variety Yellow Transparent Grandeur Red And Yellow

Author:Joshua Reynolds

“Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking! ... I begin to feel, think, and be myself again. Instead of an awkward silence, broken by attempts at wit or dull common-places, mine is that undisturbed silence of the heart which alone is perfect eloquence.”

Source: Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners

“Where I lived - winter and hard earth.I sat in my cold stone roomchoosing tough words, granite, flint,to break the ice. My broken heart -I tried that, but it skimmed,flat, over the frozen lake.She came from a long, long way,but I saw her at last, walking,my daughter, my girl, across the fields,In bare feet, bringing all spring's flowersto her mother's house. I swearthe air softened and warmed as she moved,the blue sky smiling, none too soon,with the small shy mouth of a new moon.”

“Royal blood isn't blue, it is a jaundiced shade of red and riddled with broken chromosomes”

Blood Broken Red Blue Shade Royal Chromosomes Royal Blood

Author:Dean Cavanagh

“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

“You!" he cried. "You never hated because you never lived. I know what you are all of you, from first to last--you are the people in power! You are the police--the great, fat smiling men in blue and buttons! You are the Law, and you have never been broken. But is there a free soul alive that does not long to break you, only because you have never been broken?”

People Knows Men Firsts Long Doe Soul Lasts Law Break Alive Broken Police Blue Fats Hated Cried Buttons

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“It was the month of May and there was warm sunshine dripping through the holes between the clouds, like the sky was a broken blue bowl and a child was trying to keep honey in it.”

Trying May Children Sky Broken Months Blue Clouds Warm Holes Sunshine Honey Bowls Dripping

Book:Little Bee: A Novel

Source: Little Bee: A Novel

“Here I came to the very edge where nothing at all needs saying, everything is absorbed through weather and the sea, and the moon swam back, its rays all silvered, and time and again the darkness would be broken by the crash of a wave, and every day on the balcony of the sea, wings open, fire is born, and everything is blue again like morning.”

Love Needs Would Be Born Morning Darkness Fire Sea Broken Moon Blue Wings Wave Edges Weather Rays Crash Balconies

Book:The Poetry of Pablo Neruda

Source: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda

“Have I mentioned that I expect death around every turn, that every blue sky has a safe sailing out of it, that every bus runs me over, that every low, mean syllable uttered in my direction seems to intimate the violence of murder, that every family seems like an opportunity for ruin and every marriage a ceremony into which calamity will fall and hearts will be broken and lives destroyed and people branded by the mortifications of love?”

“Young Sally Owens: He will hear my call a mile away. He will whistle my favorite song. He can ride a pony backwards. Young Gillian Owens: What are you doing? Young Sally Owens: Summoning up a true love spell called Amas Veritas. He can flip pancakes in the air. He'll be marvelously kind. And his favorite shape will be a star. And he'll have one green eye and one blue. Young Gillian Owens: Thought you never wanted to fall in love. Young Sally Owens: That's the point. The guy I dreamed of doesn't exist. And if he doesn't exist I'll never die of a broken heart.”

“George had turned at the sound of her arrival. For a moment he contemplated her, as one who had fallen out of heaven. He saw radiant joy in her face, he saw the flowers beat against her dress in blue waves. The bushes above them closed. He stepped quickly forward and kissed her. Before she could speak, almost before she could feel, a voice called 'Lucy! Lucy! Lucy!' The silence of life had been broken by Miss Bartlett, who stood brown against the view.”

Feels Moments Faces Joy Speak Heaven Sound Voice Views Silence Saws Missing Flower Broken Beats Dresses Blue Wave Fallen Brown Arrivals Radiant Lucy Room With A View

Book:A Room With A View: England Literature

Source: A Room With A View: England Literature

“She took off her dark glasses and squinted at me. It was as though her eyes were shattered prisms, the dots of blue and gray and green like broken bits of sparkle.”

Eye Bits Dark Broken Blue Green Glasses Gray Her Eyes Shattered Dots Sparkle Prisms Dark Glasses

Book:Breakfast at Tiffany's

Source: Breakfast at Tiffany's

“He was tall, thin, and very old, judging by the silver of his hair and beard, which were both long enough to tuck into his belt. He was wearing long robes, a purple cloak that swept the ground, and high-heeled, buckled boots. His blue eyes were light, bright, and sparkling behind half-moon spectacles and his nose was very long and crooked, as though it had been broken at least twice. This man's name was Albus Dumbledore.”

Men Long Enough Light Eye Names Behinds Half Judging Hair Broken Moon Blue Noses Silver Tall Boots Purple Belts Beard Crooked Blue Eyes Cloaks Robes Sparkling Spectacles Half Moon

Author:J. K. Rowling