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“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

“I want to have time. When you're doing a monthly book, you're like a man racing after a bus. You're breathless and red-faced. I want to build in quality control.”

Men Want Book Quality Red Bus Racing Breathless Quality Control

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“I am young in my energy because I really still believe that we can share who we are, and we can wipe off on each other. I see this huge tapestry when we're born, and this red blob that's your soul or your heart.”

Believe Heart Stills Soul Young Energy Born Share Huge Red Your Soul Who We Are Wipe Tapestry

Author:Chita Rivera

“I want to be up there, being lauded and applauded and given all these and on the red carpet, waving at the hordes of people.”

People Want Given Red Carpet Red Carpet Horde

Author:Morgan Freeman

“If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose you.”

Ifs Enemy Goodness Red Hot Good Friend Red Hot

Author:Diogenes

“I'm a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.”

Humans Made Opinion Personality Red Academic Traits Vague

Author:Woodrow Wilson

“Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. It is engend'red in the eyes, With gazing fed, and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies.”

Heart Eye Lying Dies Red Fancy Feds Cradle Gazing Shylock

Author:William Shakespeare

“Such a blush In the midst of brown was born, Like red poppies grown with corn.”

Born Red Brown Midst Corn Blushing Poppies

Book:The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood

Source: The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood

“With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.”

Inspirational Red Labor Fingers Heavy Sat Thread Worn Weary Needles Rags Eyelids Needle And Thread

Author:Thomas Hood

“The crisis is not an opportunity to change the character of Louisiana's political order. We must not use the crisis to turn Louisiana into a red state -- this is a rainbow state.”

States Character Use Political Order Turns Opportunity Red Crisis Rainbow Louisiana Opportunity To Change

Author:Jesse Jackson

“Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring.”

Way Middle Red Fishes Flesh Damn Steering Herring Middle Way Red Herrings

Book:The Duke of Guise. A tragedy. Acted by their Majesties Servants. Written by Mr. Dryden, and Mr. Lee

Source: The Duke of Guise. A tragedy. Acted by their Majesties Servants. Written by Mr. Dryden, and Mr. Lee

“I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly the sky became a bloody red... I stood there, trembling with fright. And I felt a loud, unending scream piercing nature.”

Two Felt Fear Sun Sky Walking Red Loud Melancholy Scream Bloody Trembling Fright Unending Piercings Two Friends Sun Set

Author:Edvard Munch

“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

“Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed as the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight O'er the ramplarts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?”

Doe Stills Home Light Lasts Night Fighting Stars Air Land Red Brave Wave Proof Dawn Bombs Broads Flags Twilight Rockets Banner Bursting Stripes Streaming Glare Land Of The Free Bright Star

Author:Francis Scott Key

“After a disaster strikes, it can be very devastating and very challenging. You're going to need a lot of strength and energy, and the American Red Cross suggests you go for the high protein items.”

Needs Energy Challenges Red Crosses Strikes Disaster Items Protein Red Cross American Red Cross

Author:Anne Sexton

“Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage War with the lines of Darkness; and the moon, Pale ghost of Night, comes haunting the cold earth After the sun's red sea-death--quietless.”

World War Earth Night Stars Lines Darkness Sun Sea Cold Moon Red Ghost Pale Haunting Red Sea

Book:Festus: a poem

Source: Festus: a poem

“Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over the dunes, a life in which you stop and watch how a red-tailed hawk circles over a pond and a stand of pines. Get a life in which you pay attention to the baby as she scowls with concentration when she tried to pick up a Cheerio with her thumb and first finger.”

Firsts Water Pay Attention Watches Baby Picks Red Fingers Smell Circles Pay Attention Concentration Pushing Salt Breeze Thumbs Ponds Hawks Salt Water

Author:Anna Quindlen

“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

“Painting it was hard graft... in addition red, yellow, brown ochre, black, terra sienna, bistre, and the result is a red-brown that varies from bistre to deep wine-red and to pale, blond reddish.”

Hard Black Results Painting Red Wine Brown Yellow Pale Vary Dissatisfaction

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“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

“It was so simple to paint things as I saw them; to put without special calculation a red close to a blue.”

Simple Saws Special Red Blue Paint Simplicity Calculations

Book:Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal

Source: Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal

“If you told me to write a love song tonight, I'd have a lot of trouble. But if you tell me to write a love song about a girl with a red dress who goes into a bar and is on her fifth martini and is falling off her chair, that's a lot easier, and it makes me free to say anything I want.”

Ifs Want Writing Song Fall Girl Trouble Easier Red Dresses Bars Chairs Tonight Say Anything Fifth Martini Falling Off

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“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

“White rose in red rose-garden Is not so white; Snowdrops, that plead for pardon And pine for fright Because the hard East blows Over their maiden vows, Grow not as this face grows from pale to bright.”

Hard Faces Grows White Red Garden Rose Blow East Pale Vow Pardon Fright Maidens Rose Garden Red Rose White Rose Snowdrops

Author:Algernon Charles Swinburne

“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

“The 'pure' red of which certain abstractionists speak does not exist. Any red is rooted in blood, glass, wine, hunters' caps and a thousand other concrete phenomena. Otherwise we would have no feeling toward red and its relations.”

Doe Feelings Certain Speak Blood Thousand Pure Red Relation Wine Glasses Concrete Rooted Hunters Caps

Author:Robert Motherwell

“Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen Collect; with elbows idly press'd On hob, reclines the corner's guest, Reading the news to mark again The bankrupt lists or price of grain. Puffing the while his red-tipt pipe He dreams o'er troubles nearly ripe, Yet, winter's leisure to regale, Hopes better times, and sips his ale.”

Dream Reading Behinds Trouble Scene News Red Mark Presses Winter Corners Screens Lists Farmers Guests Leisure Grain Pipe Ripe Elbows Musings Inns Ale Taverns

Author:John Clare

“One must go through life, be it red or blue, stark naked and accompanied by the music of a subtle fisherman, prepared at all times for a celebration.”

Life Is Red Blue Prepared Naked All Time Subtle Celebration Starks Fisherman

Author:Francis Picabia

“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

“Perhaps blue, red, and yellow strike the mind more forcibly from there not being any great union between them, as martial music, which is intended to rouse the nobler passions.”

Mind Passion Red Blue Unions Strikes Yellow Red And Yellow

Book:The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

“What did Napolean do for relaxation? He read a book. What did Lincoln do for relaxation? He read a book. What does Congress do for relaxation? They book a red.”

Doe Book Red Congress Relaxation

Author:Jimmy Durante

“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

“I want a red to be sonorous, to sound like a bell. If it doesn't turn out that way, I add more reds and other colors until I get it.”

Ifs Way Want Turns Sound Color Red Add Bells

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine, See! cry'd they while, in red'ning tide, it gush'd, The bashful stream hath seen its God and blush'd.”

Christ Water Cry Divine Cold Red Wine Streams Warmth Tides Cold Water Pow Bashful

Author:Aaron Hill

“I saw a large, red dried swath that I immediately identified clearly as blood. I covered the war in Vietnam. I saw a lot of it [blood] there.”

War Saws Blood Red Covered Vietnam

Author:Sam Donaldson

“The red library is Sui's tribute to fashion maven Diana Vreeland, who served as editor for Harper's Bazaar (1939-1962) and Vogue (1963-1961). My most precious collection is my bound Vogue magazines, .. and they're kind of like my Bible. I look at them all the time when I'm trying to inspire myself for a collection.”

Trying Looks Kind Fashion Inspire Bible Red Bounds Library Magazines Collections Editors Tribute Vogue Diana Harper Bazaars Mavens Vogue Magazine

Author:Anna Sui

“Democratic Rep. Charles Schumer of New York made a plea to Livingston, the incoming speaker. These new hearings, these new subpoenas wave a red flag that common sense and common wisdom are not welcome here, .. Mr. Livingston, this may be the first and most important task you will ever face as speaker. Lead us out of this abyss.”

Firsts May Made Important Faces Common New York Red Tasks Democratic Wave Hearing Common Sense Welcome Flags Speakers Abyss Red Flags Subpoenas

Author:Charles Schumer

“Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut.”

Bigs Eye Courses Clear Fate Pride Shots Red Boxes Studios Wide Storytelling Censorship Avoided Covering

Author:Todd Solondz

“The summer day is closed, the sun is set: Well they have done their office, those bright hours, The latest of whose train goes softly out In the red west.”

Wells Done Hours Sun Office Summer Red Train West Evening Twilight Summer Days

Author:Bear Bryant

“Did the poet use red to symbolize blood? Anger? Lust? Or is the wheelbarrow simply red because red sounded better than black?”

Use Black Blood Poet Red Lust Colour Wheelbarrows

Book:Thirteen Reasons Why

Source: Thirteen Reasons Why

“I think the silhouette of the kimono costume will become engraved in people's minds. I do think there'll be lots of red accents in the near future. For me personally, I can't see myself flaunting around in a geisha uniform but it'll make me smile when I see what others do with it.”

People Thinking Mind I Can Red Uniforms Accents Costumes Silhouettes Engraved Make Me Smile Geisha Flaunting Kimonos

Author:Colleen Atwood

“If you don't feel comfortable with the Red Cross, anything that you feel comfortable sending money to -- that you know is going to get to the hurricane victims -- send money. Because that's what you can do to help. And a lot of prayers. Lots of prayers.”

Ifs Knows Feels Helping Can Do Prayer Comfort Comfortable Red Crosses Victim Hurricanes Red Cross

Author:Tim McGraw

“There's no comparison to me. There's nothing like Yankees- Red Sox to me.”

Red Comparison Yankees

Author:Willie Randolph

“Forget the state concerns -- we think this is bad for churches. Most churches are small and not ready to handle 500 pages of government red tape.”

Thinking States Government Church Forget Ready Pages Red Concern Handle Tape Not Ready Red Tape

Author:Michael Tanner

“You've probably heard the term, 'red flag warning.' That means there are extreme conditions. Low humidity, high temperatures. The fuels are extremely dry and volatile. We classify those in East Tennessee as 'fire days' so if your fire class day is a 1, it's relatively low. A class 5 day would be an extremely high danger day. A day like Sunday would be a 4 or a 5.”

Ifs Mean Would Be Term Class Fire Heard Conditions Danger Lows Red Extremes East Dry Fuel Sunday Warning Flags Temperature Tennessee Red Flags Humidity East Tennessee

Author:Bruce Miller

“It is difficult batting in artificial light with a red ball but it's a horrible task for umpires to make a judgment.”

Ifs Light Difficult Red Tasks Balls Horrible Judgement Artificial Umpires Meter Batting Artificial Light

Author:Adam Gilchrist

“The generosity and compassion of Red Sox Nation, our players and the Red Sox Wives never cease to amaze, We were touched and inspired by the eagerness our fans showed to assist the victims of Hurricane Katrina.”

Nations Compassion Wife Player Fans Red Victim Inspired Cease Generosity Touched Hurricanes Katrina Eagerness Hurricane Katrina

Author:Larry Lucchino

“Images of burning Red Cross and UN buildings struck by US bombs contrasted with images of thousands of desperately poor Afghan women carrying sickly and starving children out of Afghanistan as they flee the might of the US military is tearing at international public confidence in our war against terrorism.”

Children War Might Poor Military Building Red Crosses International Terrorism Burning Bombs Afghanistan Contrast Starving Afghan Us Military Red Cross

Author:Cynthia McKinney

“I didn't know anything until December 2004 when I went to purchase a vehicle and was told there was a foreclosure on my credit and I wouldn't be able to get the car. I've still got a red flag on my credit.”

Knows Stills Able Car Red Credit Flags Vehicle December Red Flags Foreclosure

Author:Claude Brown

“The artist, busy and unsettled, can find a moment's peace - and even whole-being rejuvenation - by quietly attuning to a red sky, a gray sky, a black sky, a blue sky.”

Whole Moments Artist Black Sky Red Blue Busy Gray Blue Sky Rejuvenation Gray Skies

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists