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“I'd been on a road trip right out of college, with a buddy of mine. It was uneventful. We didn't get laid. Although one time it was about 800 degrees and we were in Texas. We had shorts on and nothing else and somehow a motorcycle cop pulls up beside me and says, 'Come on, get on it, get on, go, go, go!' So I speeded up and it turns out we're in a huge state funeral. There are about 40 black Cadillacs in a row and then a green van called Mr Greenjeans, with two guys with no clothes in it.”

Two States Guy Turns Black Mines College Huge Degrees Clothes Green Texas Funeral One Time Cop Vans Buddy Motorcycle Shorts Road Trip Getting Laid Cadillacs Pull Ups Two Guys

Author:John Travolta

“You don't have your film finished when you have your director's cut finished. It's just a bunch of green screen.”

Film Cutting Directors Green Finished Screens Bunch

Author:M. Night Shyamalan

“My plan is to bring back like the Bracero Program from 1944 that ran for 20 years where the Mexican government vets these people. I mean, they pay for it, and they get green cards, and they're actually legitimate. And then seal the border.”

People Years Mean Government Pay Plans Program Green Cards Ran Borders Mexican Seals Vets Green Card

Author:Kinky Friedman

“My karate skills are very limited. I'm a green belt.”

Skills Green Belts Karate

Author:Molly Quinn

“The smell of violets, hidden in the green, Pour'd back into my empty soul and frame The times when I remembered to have been Joyful and free from blame.”

Has Beens Soul Empty Blame Green Smell Remembered Joyful Violet Empty Souls

Book:Fifty Poems

Source: Fifty Poems

“A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying, 'Of course I do not like green cheese. I am very fond of brown sherry.”

Men Courses Deals Criticism Green Contemporary Brown Cheese Sherry

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“A crier of green sauce.”

Green Sauce Cookery

Book:Gargantua and Pantagruel: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel

Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel

“That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,-- Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.”

Men Waste Ocean Green Rounds Melancholy Gray Solemn Tombs Meadows Decoration Quietness Pensive

Author:William C. Bryant

“The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives by idleness, and nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burrs, Losing both beauty and utility.”

Losing Green Rough Weed Idleness Utility Hateful Docks Clovers Mead Thistles Scythes Burrs

Author:William Shakespeare

“Oh, Brignall banks are wild and fair, And Greta woods are green, And you may gather garlands there Would grace a summer's queen.”

May Grace Summer Fairs Green Woods Queens Garlands

Author:Walter Scott

“Green little vaulter, in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June, Sole noise that's heard amidst the lazy noon, When ev'n the bees lag at the summoning brass.”

Feels Heart Littles Heard Green Noise Grass Lazy Sole Bees June Catching Sunny Noon Brass Lag Grasshoppers Summoning

Author:Leigh Hunt

“And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale.”

Book:The Works: With an Account of His Life and a Criticism on His Writings to which are Prefixed Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry : in Four Volumes

Source: The Works: With an Account of His Life and a Criticism on His Writings to which are Prefixed Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry : in Four Volumes

“Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise.”

Song Sweet Flow Rivers Praise Green Thee

Author:Robert Burns

“Yon rosebuds in the morning-dew, how pure amang the leaves sae green!”

Morning Pure Green Rose Royalty Dew Bud Morning Dew Rosebuds Rose Buds Sae

Book:The works of Robert Burns: containing his life, by John Lockhart, esq. ; the poetry and correspondence of Dr. Currie's edition ; biographical sketches of the poet by himself, Gilbert Burns, Professor Stewart, and others

Source: The works of Robert Burns: containing his life, by John Lockhart, esq. ; the poetry and correspondence of Dr. Currie's edition ; biographical sketches of the poet by himself, Gilbert Burns, Professor Stewart, and others

“I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into a picture. Green rules it. A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.”

Feelings Purpose Walks Vision Green Paint Forests Painter Sensations Indigestion

Book:Picasso on art: a selection of views

Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views

“Even if the painting is green, well then! The 'subject' is the green. There is always a subject; it's a joke to suppress the subject, it's impossible.”

Ifs Wells Impossible Subjects Painting Jokes Green

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Any number of holier-than-thou honorable realists walk around in the belief that they have accomplished something, simply because they tell you for the hundredth time that a field is green and a red-painted house is painted red.”

House Belief Walks Numbers Fields Red Green Accomplished Realism Honorable Realist Holier Than Thou

Author:Edvard Munch

“Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul, Each choosing each through all the weary hours, And meeting strangely at one sudden goal, Then blend they, like green leaves with golden flowers, Into one beautiful and perfect whole; And life's long night is ended, and the way Lies open onward to eternal day.”

World Way Love Long Soul Whole Beautiful Lying Night Goal Hours Perfect This World Flower Eternal Lonely Green Meetings Golden Weary Lone Long Nights Green Leaves

Author:Edwin Arnold

“Sprinkled along the waste of years Full many a soft green isle appears: Pause where we may upon the desert road, Some shelter is in sight, some sacred safe abode.”

Years May Safe Waste Sight Sacred Green Desert Islands Shelter Pauses Abode Isle

Book:The Christian year, thoughts in verse for the Sundays and holydays throughout the year [by J. Keble]. [Another]

Source: The Christian year, thoughts in verse for the Sundays and holydays throughout the year [by J. Keble]. [Another]

“And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The Holly leaes a sober hue display Less bright than they, But when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the Holly-tree?”

Tree Summer Green Woods Display Sober Cheerful Hue Hollies

Book:The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume

Source: The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume

“Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale.”

Green Shells Echoes Unseen Violet Sweetest Airy Nymphs

Author:John Milton

“We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten our former states, except in early spring when we slightly recall being green again.”

Humans States Animal Spring Green Plant Forgotten Former Recalls Being Human Minerals Plant Life Early Spring

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across The gray-green oaks; and catching, By its soft brown beard, the moss.”

Sun Gold Green Brown Sunshine Gray Catching Beard Oaks Moss Streaming

Book:Festus: a poem

Source: Festus: a poem

“Spring was running in a thin green flame over the valley.”

Running Spring Green Flames Valleys

Book:Works

Source: Works

“Twilight's soft dews steal o'er the village-green, With magic tints to harmonize the scene. Stilled is the hum that through the hamlet broke When round the ruins of their ancient oak The peasants flocked to hear the minstrel play, And games and carols closed the busy day.”

Source: The complete poetical works of Samuel Rogers: with a biographical sketch, and notes

“Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors... for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for instance.”

Black White Color Red Green Instance Colour Contrast Black And White Simultaneous

Book:Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings

Source: Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings

“I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity.”

Humanity Passion Terrible Red Green Red And Green

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“The scenery of mountains painted on the ever-changing azure canvas of the sky, the mysterious mechanism of the human body, the rose, the green grass carpet, the magnanimity of souls, the loftiness of minds, the depth of love - all these things remind us of a God who is beautiful and noble.”

Mind Humans Soul Body Beautiful Sky Mountain Green Rose Depth Noble Mysterious Grass Mechanism Canvas Carpet Human Body Scenery Magnanimity Azure Green Grass Depth Of Love

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“All green was anished sae of pine and yew, That still displayed their melancholy hue; Sae the green holly with its berries red, And the green moss that o'er the grael spread.”

Stills Red Green Spread Melancholy Berries Hue Moss Hollies Yew Sae

Author:George Crabbe

“For winter's rains and ruins are over... And in Green under wood and cover Blossum by blossom the spring begins.”

Spring Rain Green Winter Woods Ruins

Author:Algernon Charles Swinburne

“In spring, nature is like a thrifty housewife ... taking up the white carpets and putting down the green ones.”

Nature White Spring Green Carpet Housewife Thrifty

Book:Miscellaneous Writings: 1883-1896

Source: Miscellaneous Writings: 1883-1896

“Green how I love you green. Green wind. Green boughs. The ship on the sea And the horse on the mountain.”

Sea Love You Wind Mountain Horse Green Ships

Author:Federico Garcia Lorca

“When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four jewels and the seven treasures are used. Rice-cakes are painted in the same manner. When a person is painted, the four great elements and five skandhas are used.”

Persons Used Water Five Four Rocks Strange Materials Mountain Elements Red Stones Blue Green Paint Seven Treasure Cake Jewels Rice Wondrous Rice Cakes

Author:Dogen

“If the fruit is green it will not fall to the ground even if you beat it with a sharp stick. When it is ripe it falls of its own accord in the silence of the night.”

Ifs Night Fall Silence Beats Green Sticks Fruit Accord Ripe

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“O lovely lily clean, O lily springing green, O lily bursting white, Dear lily of delight, Spring in my heart agen That I may flower to men.”

Men Heart May White Flower My Heart Spring Green Clean Dear Delight Lovely Lilies Bursting May Flowers

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“The owl and the pussycat went to sea, / In a beautiful pea green boat. / They took some honey, and plenty of money, / Wrapped up in a five pound note.”

Beautiful Five Sea Humour Green Notes Boat Plenty Pounds Honey Owl Peas Lear

Author:Edward Lear

“Creativity is the life force that Dylan Thomas called 'the force that through the green fuse drives the flower.”

Force Creativity Flower Green Dylan Fuse

Book:The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition

Source: The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition

“The hard thing when you get old is to keep your horizons open. The first part of your life everything is in front of you, all your potential and promise. But over the years, you make decisions; you carve yourself into a given shape. Then the challenge is to keep discovering the green growing edge.”

Years Firsts Hard Given Challenges Decision Growing Fronts Promise Shapes Green Edges Horizon Discovering Hard Things

Author:Howard Thurman

“Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by cities provides us with name and nation.”

Home Earth Names Nations Chance Cities Skins Praise Green Here And There Workshops Green Earth

Book:The Poems of Basil Bunting

Source: The Poems of Basil Bunting

“Heavens, how charming it is! There is now in the sky only the soft vaporous color of pale citron - the last reflection of the sun which plunges into the dark blue of the night, going from green tones to a pale turquoise of an unheard-of fineness and a fluid delicacy quite indescribable.”

Lasts Night Heaven Dark Sun Sky Color Reflection Blue Green Tone Colour Pale Charming Fluid Plunge Delicacy Unheard Indescribable Turquoise Dark Blue

Author:Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

“I'm an illegal alien and have been for many years. If you rub my skin, I go green.”

Ifs Years Has Beens Skins Green Aliens Illegal Illegal Aliens Go Green

Author:Claire Forlani

“I have been very careful to put forward new ideas - on tackling inequality, extending democratic reform and the green agenda, because I think these are all absolutely fundamental to a successful next period of office for Labour”

Thinking Has Beens Ideas Next Successful Periods Office Fundamentals Green Democratic Careful Inequality Reform Labour Agendas New Ideas Extending Tackling

Author:Peter Hain

“In the hierarchy of colors, green represents the social middle class, self-satisfied, immovable, narrow.”

Self Social Class Middle Color Green Satisfied Middle Class Hierarchy

Book:Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular

Source: Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular

“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

“Suddenly a mist of green on the trees, as quiet as thought.”

Tree Quiet Green Mist

Author:Dorothy Richardson

“We calculate the amount spent [by Brethren and other anti- Green groups] was between $500,000 and $1 million - that's a huge amount for a state election campaign in Tasmania.”

States Millions Groups Huge Amount Election Green Campaigns Brethren Tasmania

Author:Bob Brown

“I do wear lipstick because when I suddenly get pale or green, it seems whole blood goes away.”

Whole Seems Blood Green Pale Lipstick

Author:Nastassja Kinski

“Every one of us sees 'green' differently. So everything is an approximation of understanding.”

Understanding Green Approximation

Author:Nick Bantock

“We should be active leaders in the fight for civil liberties which adequately reflect present social realities. Furthermore the left as a movement must appropriate the green agenda. Sustainability has to become the foundation of all our pursuits. This movement is my dream and vision. The left remains strong in Malta, but stronger it will become if we have the courage to unite and dream.”

“The green is so narrow that if you over-club, you've got an impossible bunker shot. If you're short, you're pretty much dead.”

Ifs Impossible Shots Green Clubs Impossibility Bunkers You Re Pretty

Author:Vijay Singh