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“Across the land a faint blue veil of mist Seems hung; the woods wear yet arrayment sober Till frost shall make them flame; silent and whist The drooping cherry orchards of October Like mournful pennons hang their shriveling leaves Russet and orange: all things now decay; Long since ye garnered in your autumn sheaves, And sad the robins pipe at set of day.”

Long Seems Land All Things Blue Silent Woods Flames Autumn Decay Hung Sober Orange Veils Mist Pipe October Frost Cherries Robins Orchard

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“I like to use really basic or classic colors, things that people have seen over and over and over again. Primary colors, at least in photography, have been around a lot longer than neon colors and really vibrant purples, hot pinks. Red, blue, yellow, orange - because of Kodachrome and the way that things were produced I think that those colors stood out more than any others.”

People Thinking Way Has Beens Use Color Photography Red Hot Blue Primaries Classic Yellow Orange Neon Primary Colors Hot Pink

Author:Alex Prager

“When I was a kid and I was being introduced to science fiction by watching movies with my Dad, Kubrick is one of those guys that we used to watch, you know, I watched Clockwork Orange at an age that was incredibly inappropriate, but he sat there with me and he explained what was going on and you know, I came to appreciate it even if I was terrified at the time.”

Ifs Knows Kids Age Used Guy Fiction Watches Dad Appreciate Science Fiction My Dad Sat Terrified Orange Inappropriate Clockwork

Author:Duncan Jones

“The majority of (painters), because they aren't colorists, do not see yellow, orange or sulphur in the South (of France) and they call a painter mad if he sees with eyes other than theirs”

Ifs Eye Mad Majority South Painter France Yellow Orange

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“There is no blue without yellow and without orange, and if you put in blue, then you must put in yellow, and orange too, mustn't you? Oh well, you will tell me that what I write to you are only banalities.”

Ifs Writing Wells Blue Colour Yellow Orange Oh Well Banality

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

“Such a slender moon, going up and up, Waxing so fast from night to night, And swelling like an orange flower-bud, bright, Fated, methought, to round as to a golden cup, And hold to my two lips life's best of wine.”

Two Night Flower Moon Wine Rounds Lips Golden Cups Orange Bud Slender Swelling Waxing

Book:The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

Source: The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

“Vermilion alone could render the brilliant red of the tiles on the opposite slope. The orange of the soil, the harsh crude colors of the walls and greenery, the ultramarine and cobalt of the sky achieved an extreme harmony that was sensually and musically ordered.”

Sky Color Wall Red Opposites Harmony Extremes Brilliant Soil Harsh Orange Crude Slopes Tiles Greenery Cobalt

Author:Maurice de Vlaminck

“To a lesser extent (they like) the whites and reds, but blues, yellows and oranges are the main bee flowers. Although there are very good white bee flowers - white sweet clover is the best honey plant in the world.”

World White Sweet Flower Plant Very Good Honey Bees Orange Clovers

Author:Chip Taylor

“Many people are deficient in vitamin D. A glass of milk, for example, has only 100 IU. Other foods, such as orange juice, yogurt and cheese, are now beginning to be fortified, but you have to work fairly hard to reach 1,000 IU a day.”

People Hard Example Glasses Milk Cheese Orange Juice Vitamins Yogurt Orange Juice Vitamin D

Author:Frank C. Garland

“I wear myself out trying to render the orange trees so that they're not stiff but like those I saw by Botticelli in Florence. It's a dream that won't come true.”

Trying Dream Saws Tree Obsession Orange Florence Orange Trees Botticelli

Book:Berthe Morisot

Source: Berthe Morisot

“Used throughout a room, orange can become surprisingly neutral, and yet it can be bright and mood-enhancing.”

Used Rooms Mood Colour Orange Neutrality

Author:Jonathan Adler

“I first saw the site for Disneyland back in 1953, In those days it was all flat land - no rivers, no mountains, no castles or rocket ships - just orange groves, and a few acres of walnut trees.”

Life Firsts Saws Tree Land Mountain Rivers Ships Flats Site Orange Castles Rockets Disneyland Acres Grove Walnuts Walnut Trees

Author:Walt Disney

“I know a fat girl, she wears an orange skirt. You give her twenty dollars and you can do your work.”

Knows Giving Girl Can Do Twenties Dollars Fats Orange Skirts Obesity Fat Girl

Author:LL Cool J

“I grew up in California, which was not - at least in the '50s and '60s - a cultural oasis by any means. Certainly not Orange County, anyway.”

Mean Grew Grew Up California Orange County Oasis Orange County

Author:Bob Gunton

“It's autumn in New York. The colors are changing yellow, the browns, the greens, the oranges. And that's just the tap water.”

Water New York Color Autumn Yellow Orange Tap Water

Author:David Letterman

“Years go by Will I still be waiting For somebody else to understand Years go by If I'm stripped of my beauty And the orange clouds Raining in head Years go by Will I choke on my tears Till finally there is nothing left One more casualty You know we're too easy Easy Easy”

Ifs Knows Years Stills Left Easy Waiting Tears Rain Clouds Orange Choke Casualties

Author:Tori Amos

“I would love to do orange and lemon trees silhouetted against the blue sea, but I cannot find them the way I want them.”

Way Want Tree Sea Blue Orange Lemons Blue Sea

Book:Monet: Nature Into Art

Source: Monet: Nature Into Art

“Do not adjust your sandals while passing through a melon-field, nor yet arrange your hat beneath an orange-tree.”

Tree Fields Passing Passings Hats Orange Passing Through Sandals Melons Orange Trees

Book:The Kai Lung Omnibus

Source: The Kai Lung Omnibus

“I grew up watching my Dad, Uncles Ciaran Murray and Brendan Murray, and cousin, Aedin Murray, who were all national caliber Gaelic football players in Ireland. I try to watch as much Gaelic football as I can, it is my first love. I bleed Green, White, and Orange. Gaelic football players don’t get paid to play, you play to represent your county that is more important than earning money.”

“My favorite Halloween candy is the candy corn. It comes in four colors: white, yellow, orange, brown. Those are also the stages of your teeth rotting after you eat it.”

White Four Stage Color My Favorite Teeth Brown Yellow Halloween Orange Candy Corn Rotting Color White Halloween Candy Candy Corn

Author:Jay Leno

“Let's be perfectly clear, shall we. The fox is not a little orange puppy dog with doe eyes and a waggly tail. It's a disease-ridden wolf with the morals of a psychopath and the teeth of a great white shark.”

Littles Doe Eye White Moral Clear Dog Disease Teeth Tails Foxes Orange Puppy Sharks Psychopath Puppy Dog

Author:Jeremy Clarkson

“In America, if a Democrat even thinks you're calling him liberal he grabs an orange vest and a rifle and heads into the woods to kill something.”

Ifs Thinking America Calling Democrat Woods Orange Rifles Vests

Book:The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

Source: The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

“Rays were blazing through the atmosphere of the earth, the horizon became bright orange, gradually passing into all the colors of the rainbow: from light blue to dark blue, to violet and then to black. What an indescribable gamut of colors! Just like the paintings of the artist Nicholas Roerich.”

Light Earth Artist Black Dark Color Painting Blue Passing Passings Atmosphere Horizon Rays Rainbow Orange Violet Blazing Indescribable Dark Blue Colors Of The Rainbow Light Blue

Author:Yuri Gagarin

“This house has been far out at sea all night, The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills, Winds stampeding the fields under the window Floundering black astride and blinding wet Till day rose; then under an orange sky The hills had new places, and wind wielded Blade-light, luminous black and emerald, Flexing like the lens of a mad eye.”

Has Beens Light Eye Night House Black Darkness Sea Sky Fields Wind Window Mad Rose Woods Hills Wet Orange Lenses Blades All Night Luminous New Places Emeralds Flexing Floundering

Book:The Hawk in the Rain

Source: The Hawk in the Rain

“But as I see it, the most corrupt art is the sentimental the art of orange blossoms which make pale women swoon.”

Art Art Is Pale Sentimental Orange

Author:Camille Pissarro

“But there was escape, too, even in those days, for there was Whistler living in the grey mists with a faded orange moon. The nocturne transformed itself into dreamy rooms with Chopin's music creating a mood that softened the hard core of self.”

Self Hard Rooms Moon Creating Core Mood Transformed Grey Orange Mist Faded Dreamy Hard Core Whistler

Author:Mark Tobey

“The last mad throb of red just as it turns green; the ultimate shriek of orange calling all the blues of heaven for relief and support... each color almost regains the fun it must have felt within itself on forming the first rainbow.”

Firsts Lasts Turns Fun Heaven Felt Support Color Calling Red Ultimate Green Mad Colour Relief Rainbow Orange

Author:Charles Demuth

“Knowledge is like the carrot, few know by looking at the green top that the best part, the orange part, is there. Like the carrot, if you don't work for it, it will wither away and rot. And finally, like the carrot, there are a great many donkeys and jackasses that are associated with it.”

Ifs Knows Green Great Men Orange Carrots Donkey Jackasses

Author:Nasreddin

“There is no blue without yellow and without orange.”

Color Blue Colour Yellow Orange Color Blue Pale Yellow Blue And Yellow

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“Sophisticated but at the same time dramatic and seductive, Tangerine Tango is an orange with a lot of depth to it.”

Depth Dramatic Sophisticated Orange Seductive Tango Tangerines

Author:Leatrice Eiseman

“Wrapping Christmas presents is tough. Even peeling a Mandarin orange is tough. I have to get my kids to help me.”

Helping Kids Tough Help Me Hockey Orange Nhl Wrapping Peeling Christmas Present

Author:Brendan Morrison

“A golf ball is white, dimpled like a bishop's knees, and is the size of small mandarin oranges or those huge pills which vets blow down the throats of constipated cart-horses.”

White Huge Balls Horse Golf Size Blow Knees Throat Orange Pills Bishops Carts Vets Golf Ball

Author:Frank Muir

“Google is my best friend and my worst enemy. It's fabulous for research, but then it becomes addictive. I'll have a character eating an orange, and next thing I'm Googling types of oranges, I'm visiting chat rooms about oranges, I'm learning the history of the orange.”

Character Next Rooms Enemy Worst Type Eating Research Google Fabulous Orange My Best Friend Visiting Worst Enemy

Author:Liane Moriarty

“The achievements of past struggles and the aspirations of an entire nation are [being] undone and erased.... No Agent Orange or steel pellet bombs, no napalm, no toxic chemicals: a new phase of economic and social (rather than' physical) destruction has unfolded. The seemingly neutral and scientific tools of macro-economic policy constitute a non-violent instrument of recolonization and impoverishment.”

“In November, the smell of food is different. It is an orange smell. A squash and pumpkin smell. It tastes like cinnamon and can fill up a house in the morning, can pull everyone from bed in a fog. Food is better in November than any other time of the year.”

Years Different House Morning Taste Bed Smell Orange Fog November Pumpkin Squash Cinnamon

Book:In November

Source: In November

“Beautiful isles! beneath the sunset skies tall, silver-shafted palm-trees rise, between full orange-trees that shade the living colonade.”

Beautiful Tree Sky Sunset Silver Tall Shade Orange Palms Isle Palm Trees Orange Trees

Author:William C. Bryant

“See the last orange roses, how they blow / Deeper and heavier than in their prime, / In one defiant flame before they go.”

Lasts Rose Blow Deeper Flames Prime Orange

Book:The Garden

Source: The Garden

“In the time of Spanish rule, and for many years afterwards, the town of Sulaco--the luxuriant beauty of the orange gardens bears witness to its antiquity--had never been commercially anything more important than a coasting port with a fairly large local trade in ox-hides and indigo.”

Years Important Book Bears Garden Towns Trade Locals Witness Orange Port Antiquity Indigo

Book:Lord Jim and Nostromo: (A Modern Library E-Book)

Source: Lord Jim and Nostromo: (A Modern Library E-Book)

“An audience proves its discipline by its capacity for stillness. Those who have never practiced continuous application to an exacting process cannot settle down to simple watching; they must chew gum, they must dig the peel off their oranges, they must shift from foot to foot, from buttock to buttock.”

Process Simple Audience Feet Discipline Prove Capacity Settling Application Stillness Orange Prove It Settling Down Gum Buttocks

Book:Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia

Source: Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia

“celebratin' New Year's Eve is like eatin' oranges. You got to let go your dignity t' really enjoy 'em.”

Years Enjoy Letting Go Dignity Ems New Year Orange New Years Eve

Book:Buttered Side Down

Source: Buttered Side Down

“And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.”

Food Cooking Culinary Orange

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“I would stand transfixed before the windows of the confectioners' shops, fascinated by the luminous sparkle of candied fruits, the cloudy lustre of jellies, the kaleidoscope inflorescence of acidulated fruit drops - red, green, orange, violet: I coveted the colours themselves as much as the pleasure they promised me.”

Pleasure Food Red Window Green Cooking Fruit Colour Shops Culinary Fascinated Orange Violet Luminous Sparkle Jelly Cloudy Kaleidoscope Red Green

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“She set about preparing her supper. It would have to be one of those classically simple meals, the sort that French peasants are said to eat and that enlightened English people sometimes enjoy rather self-consciously - a crusty French loaf, cheese, and lettuce and tomatoes from the garden. Of course there should have been wine and a lovingly prepared dressing of oil and vinegar, but Dulcie drank orange squash and ate mayonnaise that came from a bottle.”

“I love meetings with suits. I live for meetings with suits. I love them because I know they had a really boring week and I walk in there with my orange velvet leggings and drop popcorn in my cleavage and then fish it out and eat it. I like that. I know I'm entertaining them and I know that they know.”

Knows Whole Walks Levels Week Intelligent Meetings Fishes Boring Suits Entertaining Orange Velvet Popcorn Cleavage Leggings

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“You know who Boehner is, right? He's that orange looking guy. See, for Republicans that counts as diversity.”

Knows Guy Republican Diversity Orange

Author:Jay Leno

“I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.”

I Can Serious Genius Compare Apples Orange Can't Change Apples And Oranges Great Literary

Author:John Grisham

“Love you not, then, to list and hear The crackling of the gorse-flower near, Pouring an orange-scented tide Of fragrance o'er the desert wide?”

Love You Flower Wide Lists Desert Tides Orange Fragrance Pouring

Author:Alfred William Howitt

“My favorite TV shows are Orange Is the New Black, House of Cards, Modern Family, and Veep.”

Shows House Black Modern Tvs My Favorite Cards Tv Shows Orange House Of Cards Modern Family Favorite Tv Shows

Author:Danai Gurira

“One of my biggest inspirations growing up was Whitney Houston, so I was devastated to hear about her passing. I'm from East Orange, New Jersey, and started singing at New Hope Baptist Church, so she was like my fellow Jersey girl.”

Inspiration Girl Church Growing Up Growing Singing Fellows East Passing Passings Orange Jersey Baptists New Jersey Devastated Houston Whitney New Hope Jersey Girl

Author:Naturi Naughton

“The alarm rings 4:45, again at 5, but I wake up 4:30 naturally. Shower, shave, orange juice, perk my own coffee, hear the news, and the CBS car arrives 5:30.”

My Own Car News Wake Up Coffee Rings Showers Orange Juice Alarms Perks Orange Juice

Author:Charlie Rose

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